The Houthi militias affiliated with Iran commented on the report of the United Nations Group of Experts, submitted to the Security Council on October 11, 2024, which confirmed the alliance of the Houthi militias with Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
The head of the so-called militia prisoners’ committee, Al-Salali Abdul Qadir Al-Murtada, said, “The report issued by the United Nations committee on Yemen is horribly politicized and aggressive,”
The Houthi leader responsible for torturing abductees in his militia’s prisons added that the UN report “is as if it came from Tel Aviv,” claiming that its aim is to distort the role played by his group with claims of “supporting the people of Palestine in Gaza.”
He also claimed that the goal of the report was to pressure his group to dissuade it from “stopping this work, especially in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab,”
The Houthi group, according to Al-Murtada, considered the report “a prelude to launching a broad American aggression against Yemen in support of Israel, and in retaliation for the great embarrassment caused by the Yemeni position to the largest military force in the world, in addition to the military and economic losses to Israel, America, and those with them,” as he put it.< /p>
The Minister of Information in the legitimate government, Muammar Al-Eryani, said earlier today, “The information revealed in the report of the United Nations team of experts, submitted to the Security Council on October 11, 2024, about the relationship between the terrorist Houthi militia affiliated with Iran, and the two Al-Qaeda organizations.” “ISIS confirms the credibility of our warnings about the level and dangers of coordination and service existing between the two parties under Iranian auspices to regional and international security and peace.”
Muammar Al-Eryani explained in a press statement that the existing alliance between the Houthi militia and the terrorist organizations "Al-Qaeda and ISIS", with the support of Tehran, aims to achieve common goals, which are to weaken the Yemeni state, destabilize security and stability in the liberated areas, and expand the scope of chaos, which It threatens neighboring countries and poses a threat to international trade and maritime shipping lines, and a threat to regional and international security.
Al-Iryani pointed out that the report of the expert group confirmed that “the opportunistic alliance between the two parties is characterized by cooperation in the security and intelligence fields, and that they provide safe havens for each other’s individuals, strengthen their strongholds and coordinate efforts to target government forces,” and warned of the resurgence of Al-Qaeda with the support of From the Houthi militia after the organization appointed a new leader named Saad bin Atef Al-Awlaki, according to the official Saba agency.
Al-Eryani explained that the report talks about the two parties coordinating their operations directly since the beginning of the year 2024, and the Houthis transporting drones in addition to thermal missiles and explosive devices and providing training to Al-Qaeda fighters. The organization has used drones, including long-range ones, and improvised explosive devices. To carry out (49) attacks on government forces in Abyan and Shabwa during the period 2023 - July 2024.
He added, “The report reveals an agreement between the two parties to stop hostilities and exchange prisoners, as the Al-Qaeda front against the Houthi militia in Al-Bayda Governorate was dissolved, and the Houthis released the leader of the organization, “Sami Dayan,” who was serving a 15-year prison sentence. In 2014, the two sides also discussed the possibility of the organization providing support in attacks on international shipping lines.
Al-Eryani pointed out that government reports had previously revealed that the Houthi militia had released (252) Al-Qaeda members who were detained in the prisons of the Political and National Security agencies, including the release of twenty terrorist elements in November 2018, including 16 from the organization and four from