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[Music] [Applause] The
[Applause] The
age of the earth and we will strike them in the heat wherever they are found [Music] And
I call on the leader Ali Abdullah Saleh to be
more sensible and to be more intelligent and more learned than those
reckless and foolish militias [Music]
They have wronged the Houthis during the three
years, three more than the era of Imam Yahya and Imam Ahmed. The
leader’s car continued to move, but we were
taking refuge in the strike until we reached the Al-Jahshin area [Music] A
[Music] A
court in which there were more than 35 followers. There were
followers. There were
betrayals and infiltrations. [Music]
[Music]
If I get this torch, then I am in my home and in
my country, not an agent. [ Music]
[Applause]
Ali Abdullah Saleh, one of the most controversial Arab presidents,
ruled Yemen for a period exceeding three decades
during which he witnessed political and social changes and several internal wars.
[Applause]
Saleh rose from the second level as a military commander
in the army to his seat of power at a time when Yemen, in its
northern and southern parts, was
experiencing bloody conflicts at the top of the power pyramid,
during which three presidents were deceived in less than A year ago, two
at that time, I met with them in the exhibition
on the head of Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar. He said, “
You may be the prime minister and commander-in-chief and
everything, but the presidency of the republic means we
fear for you.” I told him, “Sheikh, I dug the grave and
July 6, 1978,
Saleh was elected president of the Yemen Arab Republic,
meaning North Yemen. He had no record of
any political role or activity
before that date. I
swear by God Almighty that I will adhere to the Book of
God and the Sunnah of His Messenger, faithful to my religion, my country and my nation, and that I will
preserve the republican system and the principles of the revolution.
revolution.
On May 2, 1990,
Saleh became the first president of the Republic of Yemen after the
unification of the northern and southern parts of the country.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s position is based on his
protection and his will to protect Yemeni unity. The
Houthis’ position is based on their protection and will to protect Yemeni unity. They do not care about
Yemeni unity as much as they care about regional expansion.
Saleh fought six wars against the Houthi group from 2004
until 2010. As an armed rebel movement outside the
system, the first war ended with the killing of its leader,
was not an ordinary war, but a fierce war, a guerrilla war,
not a war of a regular army, if it had been a regular army. The
Houthi group was founded in 1998
as a sectarian intellectual movement called the Believing Youth,
claiming injustice and marginalization. It received indirect support
from Saleh in confronting the
Muslim Brotherhood. It quickly linked up with Iran and turned
into an armed rebel movement that raised slogans against the
Saleh regime,
accusing it of working for America. Its six wars ended in
2010 with the extension of its control over
Saada Governorate, the far north of Yemen, and its expansion into
several areas in the governorates of Amran, Hajjah, and Sana’a. The
Houthis took a military approach and a deceptive popular approach,
raising slogans that they were against in reality, and they
overthrew one region after another, without
any reaction being recorded. The
negative results of Saleh’s wars against the Houthis
caused dangerous repercussions. Within his ruling regime in
Sana’a, coinciding with the escalation of the
political crisis with the opposition parties and accusing Saleh
all of this paved the way for the outbreak of widespread popular protests
against Saleh in 2011, known as the youth revolution,
demanding his departure and ending with his resignation from the presidency. The
people want Saleh and
handed over the presidency to his deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi,
into the safe hands of his colleague, His Excellency President Abdul- Munther.
Munther. [Applause] I
hope that after two years,
I will stand in Ali Abdullah Saleh’s place and the
new president will stand in my place, and
granted immunity from legal prosecution and
kept the presidency of the General People’s Congress Party, which he
founded in 1982.
He moved to practice the role of the opposition for the first time.
We are the ones who said that power will
not be transferred by the sit-ins
in the university district and the alliances
Yemen entered a transitional phase full of
unrest, political resentment, and competition to
establish new alliances in which the map of alliances changed, so that the
ally became an enemy and the enemy The
political scene from 2011 to 2017
witnessed many changes and shifts, and even
negative bias towards the political forces
most of which were due to political intrigue.
Ali Abdullah Saleh had a
pragmatic personality and was a man of tactics without restrictions, establishing
secret relationships with all contradictions.
After leaving power, he established a gradual alliance
with the Houthis to confront his opponents, yesterday’s allies, and take
revenge on them.
Saleh’s alliance with his historical enemy, Abdul-Malik al-
Houthi, went through several stages, starting with collusion to
take revenge on the common opponents, Saleh’s allies of
yesterday, such as the Al-Ahmar family, the sheikhs of the Hashid tribes, the Islah Party, the
Muslim Brotherhood,
and General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who was
Saleh’s strongest arm throughout his rule. This
alliance facilitated the fall of the capital, Sana’a, under the control of the
Houthis in September 2014,
2014,
amid political and military inaction from all parties.
After their participation in the government, the Houthis worked
With indirect support from Saleh to get rid of the
last common opponent, President Abd Rabbu Mansour
Hadi, and push him to resign
and then flee to Aden in February 2015,
2015,
people did not expect that the Houthis had reached the
strength sufficient to overthrow Sana’a, but as a result of the presence of
presence of
certain factors that
enabled them to overthrow Sana’a, the first of these factors
is the division that existed between the
Yemeni political forces. This factor is the
main and most prominent factor that flourished and enabled the Houthis to
overthrow Sana’a. On the other hand, there are some
embassies that intervened in the matter directly and
based on agreements with the Houthi group
that they would enter Sana’a to fight terrorism
and so on, in addition to what was called the neutralization of the army
After Hadi’s resignation, the relationship between the two
arch-allies, Saleh and the Houthis, moved to the stage of
competition to seize power. Saleh sought to
transfer the president’s authority constitutionally to the Presidency of the
House of Representatives, where his party enjoys a majority of
seats, but the Houthis thwarted this plan
and issued a constitutional declaration on the sixth From
February 2015, by dissolving parliament and
partially suspending the constitution and forming a presidential council
and a national council and granting absolute power to the revolutionary committee. The
presidency of the republic is assumed in the
transitional phase by a presidential council consisting of five members
elected by the national council and their
elections are approved by the revolutionary committee. The
Houthis announced what was called the constitutional declaration. A
direct rejection of it was announced and a statement was issued by the
General People’s Congress rejecting it.
Parliament was dissolved and members of parliament were invited
to register for what they called at the time the
national council or whatever it was called. The
General People’s Congress bloc rejected that and foiled it. I
mean our rejection of the
revolutionary committees. We rejected the authority of the supervisors [music]
Under the pressure of the war that the Houthis ignited
across Yemen after the coup against legitimacy
and the exit of President Hadi from Aden to Saudi Arabia,
Saleh revealed on May 7, 2015, his
official alliance with the Houthis.
I will not have allied with Ansar Allah, but I
will announce today and from this place that the
entire Yemeni people will ally
with everyone who Defending the
nation’s capabilities, the
arena was empty
of all the political forces
that were
displaced and fled outside Yemen, and
we, the Houthis, were the only ones left in the arena.
All the circumstances, even the regional and
international ones, were against Saleh. That is, the alliance
with the Houthis was the minimum or an extension of the period
only. There was no real alliance, and
all the people know this talk, or at least something internally.
internally.
Saleh remained an ally of the Houthis in the coup against
legitimacy, but outside of power until
July 8, 2016, when his party, the General People’s Congress, signed a
partnership agreement with the Houthis to share
power. According to it, he formed what is known as the
Supreme Political Council to replace the Houthi Revolutionary Committee,
restore the constitution, and activate the
House of Representatives.
I swear by God Almighty that I will adhere to the Book of
God and the Sunnah of His Messenger, that I will faithfully preserve the
republican system, that I will respect the constitution
and the law, that I will fully protect the interests of the people and their freedoms, that I will
preserve the unity,
independence, and territorial integrity of the nation. God is witness to what I say
say
if it is necessary for us to We signed this agreement
with Ansar Allah and their allies
to fill the political vacuum. It was
not an alliance. It was not an alliance, but it is a
reality. A militia group took control of the
state institutions, forcing the General People’s Congress and the leader to
coexist and adapt to the situation and not leave
Sana’a. We can say because it is a step to impose a reality,
reality,
Israel.
Saleh failed again to contain the Houthis. A
year after the partnership agreement, he realized that the
Houthis are working diligently
to restructure the state entity according to a
sectarian ideological and political vision. They practice
exclusion and abuse against his supporters, civilians
and military personnel, and all those whose loyalty is doubted, removing them
from their jobs, seizing the army, security, and
Revolutionary Committee, whose
mission we agreed would end with the formation of the
Political Council and a government. Now we have agreed on this
basis, but what is being
practiced is
that the Revolutionary Committee controls the
Supreme Political Council
in the field. Any decisions it receives, and if we do not agree with the
Revolutionary Committee, they are cancelled, and the government is
government is
headed by Bin Habtoor, and
it is the one who, as well Abdulmalik said that it is a government that
we interacted with in a government above the government, which is the
executive office affiliated with our brothers in
Ansar Allah. The
Houthis, before targeting Saleh personally, targeted
Saleh’s tribes, and in Saleh’s name, the Bani Matar tribes, the
Sanhan tribes, the Hamdan tribes, the Khawlan tribes, most of the
tribes in Yemen that are specifically called the
ring tribes, targeted them with Saleh
and the restructuring of the army that President Abd al-
Mansour Hadi did at the time, which created the vacuum
because it destroyed the Republican Guard and dismissed thousands of
officers and thousands of soldiers. This allowed the Houthis to
exploit the situation and attract many of them, and
made it easy for the Houthis to
control the institutions of the military establishment.
During the preparation phase for the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the
founding of the General People’s Congress,
tensions escalated and accusations were exchanged between the two
arch-allies, Saleh and the Houthis.
The Houthis accused Saleh of planning a coup against them and
exerted pressure that reached the point of preventing him from attending the
celebration and threatening to liquidate him if he attacked them
or incited against them. On the eve of the celebration, their snipers were stationed
on the roofs of the buildings surrounding Al-Sabeen Square.
Saleh attended the celebration. Amidst tight security, he gave a
short speech, unlike his family, and the
celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the General People's Congress Party turned into the
beginning of a bloody conflict and a deadly end.
Patience and steadfastness will foil all these conspiracies.
conspiracies.
We are ready, and from now on, to support the fronts. We will
support them, not with thousands or hundreds, but with tens of
thousands of fighters. The masses
on August 24, 2017 were ready for
any call for any uprising and to restore the country
and any revolution they would carry out. They came ready for that, so the ceiling
was the ceiling of
the ambition of the masses, not that they were
ready for any position.
position.
President Abdullah Saleh exceeded that, so
many returned angry from his day, and I
was saying that this was the strongest opportunity for us to get
rid of them, these were the
days of this Friday, but it happened and the leaders did not
leaders did not
stop. What is our right to shed blood, nor was it the strongest
opportunity and the best opportunity for us to finish them off. This evening,
the crowd was large and the result was disappointing.
This is how Saleh’s supporters considered it. As for Saleh, he
left the celebration platform, and I am certain that the
worst is yet to come and that the decision to liquidate him has been made and all that
remains is to determine the date and how to implement it.
After the anniversary of the founding of the Congress in 2017, the
level of
provocations increased and the targeting became direct for the
president’s relatives, his sons and the homes of his relatives. It seems that
orders were received from Iran to get rid of or the
green light to get rid of the leader Ali Abdullah Saleh. Preparations and
Saleh. Preparations and
arrangements for the assassination of the leader Ali
Abdullah Saleh began on August 23,
meaning one day before the General People’s Congress celebration. The
decision to assassinate the leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was not
taken in Sana’a, meaning in Sana’a, but in Tehran, and
the Houthis do not have the tools to implement it. [Music]
[Music]
On August 6, only two days after the
Congress Party celebration, the
first spark between the Houthis and Saleh was ignited by an armed ambush
set up by the Houthis for his son Salah in Al-Misbah Roundabout in the
center of the capital, Sana’a. Khaled Al-Radhi, one of the
officers close to Saleh, was killed in the ambush.
Yes, my brother Salah was the target and it changed
about three days after the founding anniversary. The
escalation was clear by the Houthis by targeting the
person of the leader, his family and his relatives. The
president was very upset and knew that the Houthis had They
reached the end, meaning that they did not remain, they have
and before igniting the second spark by detonating the
battle in the Saleh Mosque, the Houthis worked to
neutralize the tribes loyal to Saleh and tighten their grip on the
camps and weapons stores and mobilize their
fighters to the squares and neighborhoods where the
homes of Saleh and his relatives are located and
threaten with the intention of eliminating him.
The issue of the Prophet opens a field for the people and opens a field and bids
farewell and incites and expands in Sana’a in its
streets. It is forbidden for him,
forbidden for him. If the men of God had not smelled
after the statements of
Abdullah Ali al-Hakim towards the leader, the
face of the leader would have been that they intend evil and that
we should be prepared for any confrontation with the Houthis. We were
expecting that the
leader’s house would be attacked
before the battle in particular. Abu Ali al-Hakim and
other Houthi leaders were going to
the sheikhs who were supporting the leader Ali
Abdullah Saleh and paying them huge sums of money,
cars and large sums of money,
large sums of money. They were on the basis that they stopped in
your homes and left the matter between us and you and I will
I will
enter for you on the limit of all the tribes that is your need
or I mean all the people say the ring of Sana’a the ring of
Sana’a the ring of Sana’a where did you
turn to God Almighty to
write your reward for this great honorable presence
on the 9th of November the Houthis suddenly decided to hold a
celebration of the birth of the Prophet in Al-Sabeen Square for the
first time since they entered Sana’a they attacked Al-
Saleh Mosque overlooking the square with what it represents as a
symbol for Saleh and his supporters under the pretext of securing the celebration
then they stormed it after clashes with his guards
loyal to Saleh in which the guard commander
and a number of others from both sides were killed Tribal mediation intervened
Houthis held their celebration the next day
one of the Houthi leaders came to
the house of the second and it was the last attempt to calm
the situation after the situation exploded in Al-Saleh Mosque
the event ended they began to withdraw from the mosque
they withdrew from the mosque and during their withdrawal they began to
clash with the
guards of the homes of the president’s relatives on Algeria Street
including Brigadier General Tariq Saleh so President Saleh
Saleh
was in his house hearing the clashes after the
mosque left What happened? We had already agreed and they withdrew.
they withdrew.
Brigadier General Tariq came to President Saleh and explained to him
that the group was trying to storm the houses, meaning
in Algeria Street. The
mediation failed again to contain the
situation, but it seems that the
Houthi militias had already planned to do so.
After the situation exploded in the Saleh Mosque and the
Houthis headed towards the
house, we were able to take security measures
to control the squares and the entrances leading
to the house of the leader. There were
squares and the Houthis controlled them.
I am talking about the cities and Sana’a and so on. It
was not that all of Sana’a was under control. We controlled it from one
house to another, the Permanent Committee,
Saleh University, Ahmed Ali’s house, and Tariq’s house. I mean, squares.
These are the squares where the fighting took place
on December 2nd. Sana’a woke up to a
large Houthi siege and people took to the
streets, tearing up pictures of the Houthis
and aiming against them.
From the 29th, it is considered a battle, a
battle in which a very great victory was achieved. I will take you
into the continuity of the battle until December 3rd, and the
victory was very excellent, from morning to morning. December 3rd
was really a text. The signs of victory were very strong and we were in
control. That’s it. If you see how they closed their
homes, even the civilians who were with them,
and the people closed and fled, we couldn’t find a
single one of them. And the ones who remained were just dung beets.
They ran to their homes and washed their cars, as
everyone knows, because they were painted green.
Before that, it was the Prophet’s birthday. [Applause]
[Applause]
On the morning of the same day,
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, unlike his usual habit, gave a speech in which
he called on Saleh
to be reasonable and stop what he called sedition. He called on the head of the General People’s Congress, leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, to be more rational, more fed
up and more guided than those reckless and foolish militias,
and to interact positively with
all efforts aimed at stopping this recklessness
and sedition.
At noon on the same day, Saleh gave a speech
on his Yemen Today channel in which he announced the
end of his alliance with the Houthis and called for a
popular uprising against them. We are
in this, on this second day of
December, I call on all the masses of our great people in all the
governorates, in all the districts, in all the districts, in
all the neighborhoods in Everywhere until they rise up as
one man to defend the revolution, the republic, unity and freedom
freedom
from these elements that have carried out this
irresponsible act for three years, tampering with the
people’s capabilities, looting institutions and storming
government interests and ministries for no reason other than to take
revenge on the revolution and the republic from the
republican system. I call on the Shiites
in the neighboring countries to open a new page with them
to deal with them. By virtue of our neighborliness, we will deal with them positively.
positively.
What happened in Yemen and what happened to them is enough. We
pledge to our Shiites and neighbors that after a
ceasefire, stopping
movements on the ground, opening the airports and
batteries and lifting the siege, we will engage in direct dialogue when
when
the situation exploded in Sana’a. The
leader realized that the Houthis would not accept any
efforts to calm things down or mediate, and that they intended to
liquidate him. He decided to record this speech, the
goal of which was to encourage the
encourage the
Yemeni masses to stand against these
militias. He was certain
that the masses were the ones who would save Yemen from the
Houthi militias.
After the uprising speech, several governorates fell and the
capital, Sanaa, was almost emptied of the Houthis. Their
leader, Abdulmalik, came out with a second speech in the evening of the
same day, in which he accused Saleh of treason and rebellion. The
rebellion. The
Republic of Yemen is a regime in Sanaa. Its
president today is Saleh al-Samad. Today
you are rebelling against this state
and today you are rebelling against this legitimacy that
The Houthis regained the initiative in the capital and
brought in thousands of their fighters, expanded
their deployment, and intensified their attacks on the homes of
Saleh’s relatives. They focused the attack heavily on his home, which is
known as the Thaniya House in the Al-Kamim neighborhood in Hadda. They began storming the
Yemen Today channel, which is affiliated
with Saleh, and silencing it. First, at
ten o’clock in the morning, they brought down the
radio station. After that, they headed towards the channel from all
sides. They attacked us with various types of weapons, first with
light weapons. We had heroic soldiers who
resisted them fiercely and fiercely until they were able, at three and a
three and a
half minutes
in the afternoon, to bring down the channel.
People blocked the streets like this. They didn’t continue for the
second day. If they had continued, there wouldn’t have been a coup.
I told you that after sunset, people felt
safe and left. As soon as they left and the streets were
opened, the Houthis returned with their elements and took control. They
withdrew all their forces from the fronts and from the
other governorates. Therefore, the other governorates fell easily
because all the Houthi militants withdrew to
Sanaa and the situation became that they concentrated all their forces around the
leader in particular after they were sure
[Music] There are
no people inside the second axe. There are about 120 people.
Even inside, we didn’t have our armament.
Our biggest weapon inside the second axe was the
106 caliber 106 rifle. We didn’t have
anything else with us. And the 82 mortars. We didn’t have anything
else with us. Our weapon is what we allow.
While the Houthis were attacking with
howitzer cannons and attacking with
heavy artillery, which are howitzer cannons, Katyushas and
Katyushas and
mortars, they rained down on the house from all directions. The
directions. The Houthis
Houthis
also used drones and infiltrated the ranks of
Saleh’s fighters and individuals. His guards threatened them and demanded that they withdraw. They
withdraw. They
were calling each member of the guard and
trying to shake them up or threaten them with their families. They were
calling some of the individuals who were next to me.
National security called them and said to them, “
You are so-and-so, your house is in such-and-such place, your family is so-and-so, so-and-so, and so-and-so.” It
was a clear threat to the individuals,
trying to shake the people up and make them leave the leader and flee. We
and flee. We
found messages like this: “This is 5 million. Withdraw or
he will show up and send a picture of your son.”
This was part of the blackmail that happened. In fact, it was intimidation, terror, and
terror, and
blackmail. More than 20
fighters withdrew.
We cannot blame him because the issue of
Echester. Protecting his children is not a difficult
battle in terms of numbers, equipment, and
scope of movement. The Houthis reinforced their fighters with tanks. They
tanks. They
were attacking in groups.
You see them attacking in groups. A group from Mujahid Street, a
group coming from the Ruwayshan roundabout, a group from
Zero Street, and thousands of fighters inside Al-Thaniyah. They attacked
them with all heroism despite their small number, and whenever they
repelled a regiment, the second regiment would be ready to attack.
attack.
After that, the Houthis said that they could not
storm the house. We fought for four or five days. The
fighting was continuous from the 29th to the 4th without eating. There was no food,
food,
no sleep, and this is the most dangerous weapon that the
Houthis used to overcome. They fought
us in our sleep because they were much more numerous and we were very
limited in number, so their casualties were many.
But in the end, the state’s weapons were the decisive factor that
decided the battle: tanks, artillery, and others. The
others. The
leader was the one who led all the events. Saleh, may God have mercy
on him, was a direct leader.
Yes, Ali Abdullah, it is true. He was carrying his weapon, and the Secretary-
General was beside him with his weapon.
We faced attacks and he fought with his personal weapon. We were
from the remaining members of the leader’s family, beside him,
me and my brother Salah,
who preferred to remain
beside the leader, the father, and to face
what he would face. Of course, the leader, Ali Abdullah
Saleh, addressed everyone who was present, security
and military, and we, his sons, whoever wants me to
leave and go, there is
no blame or blame on me. He took my hand and said to me,
They want me, and if you want to leave them, if they
reach me they will not
pursue you. I mean,
there were some mediators
and offered my father a
safe exit, but my
father refused categorically and told them, “Either
we live together or we die together.”
From the date of
November 29, the mediation did not stop for a moment,
but the mediation had a role. I mean, the Houthis
exploited that mediation for a matter that was bigger than the
mediation itself, which was monitoring the location of President Saleh and
determining his location.
There was mediation and attempts by the brothers in the
Sultanate of Oman to intervene to stop the clashes in the
capital, Sana’a. I learned from some of the brothers that they
presented to my father an opinion that they should propose to him a
safe exit outside the capital, Sana’a,
for the leader, for my father, and for the leaders of the conference who were
with them, to arrange for them a safe exit outside the country.
This was a refusal, so he faced refusal and he said, and they said
their famous words, “This exit from Yemen is a
red line, a red line, a red line.” The
leader did not open any way for anyone to discuss the
issue of his exit from Sana’a, and it was not and was not
proposed to him. The launch was
approximately 2:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m. on
December 4th, or before, or
hours before, Sunday evening. We can
say that mediation came from one of the Yemeni leaders
at the conference, we don’t remember, we don’t remember, and he
told him that we and the Houthis communicated that he should
hand over all his external sites,
hand over everyone at the gates, and that
he and his internal group, which is
about less than 20 people, should remain inside, and we would
take over the guards of the house. President
Saleh knew that it was a kind of
humiliation to him, and he refused categorically and said, “I will fight
until the last moment.”
At 3:00 a.m., while the
Houthi tanks were approaching the walls of the house and explosions
were filling the space, Saleh recorded his last speech on his mobile phone,
known as the farewell speech. The
president realized that the matter was settled at
3:00 a.m., and he took a photo. There were no
photographers, and there were no photographers, but the ones who took the photo were
those around him. They took the
last photo, which was published approximately eight months after the martyrdom of the leader.
Oh, great Yemeni people.
Bull, bull, bull, in order to preserve
democracy and freedom and to preserve the
great principles and goals of September and October,
O great Yemeni people, men and women,
enough injustice
during the era of the Imams before September 26, enough
injustice for us. They wronged the Houthis during the three years
more than the era of Imam Yahya and Imam Ahmed. I
say this as an acquittal from my conscience to you, O
Yemeni people. As for me, and my pledge to you, O people, I am as I
was and I am a servant to you, O people, and I will remain if God writes for me
safety and life, I will remain a
servant with you, not authoritarian, I will not be in power and I do not
love power, and if
God writes for me martyrdom, then praise be to God, Lord of the
Worlds, that I meet my Lord in my
home, in my home now, which is frowning at these moments and meters away, if I attain this martyrdom, then I am in my home and in my country, not an agent.
On the morning of
December 4,
after the battle reached the walls of the house and the
heavy weapons entered and the Houthis brought out the
tanks and began to strike with
drones and animals, the
leader decided to
change the location from the second To the village of Hassan Afash,
Afash,
Afash's fortress is located in the Sanhan area, south of Sanaa,
and is about 37 km from the center of the capital.
Perhaps Saleh wanted to move the battle to a place that would allow
him to move, and the army possesses many weapons and ammunition stores,
which might enable him to continue fighting and change the
equation on the ground, but the journey was full of risks and challenges.
challenges.
He is a military man and he saw that he did not know that it was in our interest to
remain inside. We are besieged. I said that all types of
weapons harm those inside, and his
remaining is death, so he wanted, on the
basis that there are normal people who stand firm and fight, to move
from the battle to another place. So they
formed some cars and vehicles. I am one of the
people who were with the time. The calls were made until the last moment
moment
after the call with the escort at
eight o'clock in the morning. Communication with the leader's house was cut off,
and I was not able to know any details at the time
about my father, the leader, or their fate until
Monday afternoon
at eight o'clock.
Three convoys of cars and armored vehicles were prepared and
left Saleh's house in Sanaa at three
Different directions for camouflage We
decided to move towards the
village of Al-Hisn Hafash.
When we left the house, there was a
heavy bombardment that greeted us. The Houthi ambushes were all along the
road, so many cars were
damaged and many of them were lost during this bombardment.
We left with the force of weapons and machinery, but we were
more than enough. If we hadn’t reached Al-Sael, we left
in a convoy. Another direction, which is Haws, was that there were only two
When we reached the dirt road,
Sanhan, the village of
Hassan Afash, there were only two
cars left, so we took a dirt road to
avoid other ambushes. We reached the
We reached the
Sian area. The
line we were giving in was all
good. We penetrated the first ambush and the second ambush, and then we
removed the bomb from itself. It entered the land and entered the
streets of Talabiyah.
We took the wrong dirt road that led us to a
Houthi ambush in the Sian area. There were about hundreds of
of
Houthi fighters prepared for this ambush. We entered this
ambush. We were met by the first car that
contained the leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, two officers,
officers,
and three individuals. We received some of the
beating, but the car behind us, which was
carrying Salah Ali Abdullah Saleh, Amr Abu
Shawarib, some of the Secretary General’s guards, and some
other individuals,
their car was damaged in the ambush and they were caught in the
same ambush, a tight ambush with more than 35
people following them.
As soon as we got out of the car, we were trying to stop the
group. Imagine more than 25 cars
armed with weapons and all of them were beating
us. They said it is better for you to surrender yourselves
than to kill the son of the time, Ali Abdullah
Saleh. They tied us up
and they were looking for where the leader was because this was the leader’s car, the
leader’s car, which had the Secretary
General in it, me, some of the guards, and the officers. It
continued walking, but we were receiving beatings until we
reached the Al-Jahshi area, so the car was damaged and
we got out of the car, the leader with his weapons, the Secretary
General, and all of us with our weapons. The
Houthi vehicles that were chasing us arrived.
The first vehicle to arrive opened
fire on us. One of the individuals
who was next to me was martyred, so we responded to them by
beating them all, me and the army. The
Secretary General and the remaining guards,
we were able to eliminate whoever was on this
vehicle, so the Secretary General, the leader,
and the two officers who were there headed towards the
village of Al-Jahshi, and I remained one of the remaining individuals,
confronting and engaging with any of the vehicles that
reached us. The
leader would withdraw and head towards the village to search for a
car to take them to the
village of Hassan Afash. I continued to confront them on the
line, and when I saw them, they were 200 meters away
from me. They started heading towards the village of Al-Jahshi, but
the shelling was coming from everywhere, and the Houthis began to
surround us. I was seeing the effects of the ammunition and the bullets hitting
and the bullets hitting
the ground, and I was seeing their effects. I was trying to engage with the
forces attacking us, so
I was hit by a shelling that came from the village itself,
from the village of Al-Jahshi. The Houthis began to descend from
this height, so
I saw the leader. It
seemed that he was injured. I later learned that he was hit by a
bullet in the leg and a bullet in the lower part of the rib cage.
So
he told them to leave me here and go, so the
Secretary The year continued towards the village and we did not
see him after that and the
two officers remained
behind the rocks, the rocks, about 20 meters 15
meters between them and the leader. I was able to find a
guard. I was on guard trying to see where the
leader was.
I saw the armed men coming down and striking at the place of the
rocks where he was, so I knew that the situation was
situation was over and
over and
[Music] A
very few moments and they were shouting at the whole place,
Saleh was killed, Saleh was killed. Then the
Houthis followed them and took the body of Al-Hindam, the leader, and took us to places in Al-Murtaqeb. [Music] We demanded that the leader’s body be handed over, and the Houthis refused to
hand over the leader’s body under the pretext that this might provoke
their followers or
a segment of their followers and might
lead to chaotic acts inside Sana’a, and this is a
weak pretext. [Music] I
[Music] I
teach you
leadership and I teach you command and
leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed in the village of Al-
Jahshi in Sanhan, near the village of Hassan Saleh. He was
not killed in Sana’a and it was not as the
Houthis claimed about his location.
He was in Khayanaat and he was in
Houthis' attacks on some of those around them [music]
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