http://www.english.hadhramaut.info 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.