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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

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.

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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وثائقي "العربية" يكشف كواليس المعركة الأخيرة بين الحوثيين وعلي عبد الله صالح