Intelligence sources revealed that the investigation records of the Houthi cells, which were overthrown in Lawdar, Abyan, Al-Dhalea, Radfan, and Yafa, during the past two weeks, included serious confessions by the cells’ members, especially those who received training in Houthi camps and met with Houthi leaders responsible for What they called the Preventive Security Service.
The sources indicated that five of the research leaders, who are responsible for attracting 300 southern youth, were arrested after their return from Sana’a, and confessed to receiving financial funding and promises of military funding, especially guerrilla weapons, such as Kalashnikovs, snipers, mines, explosive devices, and aircraft. The path is similar to that obtained by members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
Intelligence sources reported that the leaders of the "five" cells provided serious information, including their admission that they had received promises from senior Houthi leaders to facilitate their mission through other Houthi cells present in the south, who were assigned the task of assassinating and targeting the southern military and security leaders who pose a threat to them. Death sentences were previously issued against them in absentia, such as Major General Shalal Ali Shaye, Major General Fadl Hassan Al-Omari, Major General Faraj Salmeen Al-Bahsani, and the Governor of Shabwa Governorate, Sheikh Awad Muhammad Ibn Al-Wazir.
The sources confirmed that the leadership of the Houthi militias promised the leaders of the southern cells investigated to carry out the death sentence for Major General Faraj Salmeen Al-Bahsani and Major General Fadl Hassan Al-Omari in the same manner in which Major General Thabet Muthana Jawas was assassinated. It also promised them to secure the scene of the first mission entrusted to them, which was to destabilize the security of supplies. The Karsh, Tharrah, Al-Dhale’ and Yafa’ fronts, by liquidating a list of field military commanders, headed by Major General Fadl Hassan, Commander of the Fourth Military Region, Brigadier General Mukhtar Al-Nubi, Brigadier Mahmoud Sayel Al-Subaihi, Brigadier Akram Al-Hanashi, Brigadier Sanad Al-Rahwa, and Brigadier Ahmed Al-Qubba.
On the political and media side, the leaders of the research cells admitted that they presented four southern military leaders that must be weakened and occupied with inflammatory media campaigns within the scope of their responsibilities and tasks and at the level of the south in general, and they are: Major General Fadl Hassan, being the first field military commander to devote his attention to the fronts, and Major General Shalal Shaye’i, as well as Brigadier General Mohsen Al-Wali, Brigadier General Wajdi Baoum, and Brigadier Mukhtar Al-Noubi.
The cells revealed in their confessions that the Houthi militias had attracted a southern media cell for the same mission, noting that the media cell is located outside the south, specifically in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and others in the Netherlands and Turkey.