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Iranian-made weapons in al-Houthi stores seized
[The Source: sabaanews.net - 21/08/2009]
The Armed and security forces have found out six weapon stores
belonging to al-Houthi's loyalists containing short-range missiles,
shells and light machine guns some of them are made in Iran, security
sources have told the GPC-run almotamar.net.
The stores were found after the armed forces have managed to take
control completely in Haraf Sufian of Amran governorate and al-Mahathir
and al-Malahith areas of Sa'ada governorate,Worth to mention is that
some of al-Houthi's supporters, who are being
appeared in court currently, have confessed using Iranian weapons,
while others admitted imitating movies on the Iranian revolution during
their confrontations with the government's troops in Bani
Hushaish.Since the fighting erupted in 2004, thousands of people,
soldiers and
insurgents have been killed in Saada, which lies close to border with
Saudi Arabia, after the rebel group was founded by Shiite rebel leader
Hussein al-Houthi.Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group
leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by the army in September 2004.The Yemeni
government accuses the al-Houthi group of trying to
reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican
revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.
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