Over 13 al-Houthi rebels killed in Saada
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 28/12/2009
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More than 13 al-Houthi followers were killed as Yemeni security flattened several hideouts of al-Houthi rebels in Aqab district of Saada province, north Yemen.
Security sources said on Monday that Aqab district had witnessed tough confrontations between the al-Houthi rebels and government troops. The army troops have thwarted an infiltration by al-Houthi members into several areas of Saada.
Tens of the al-Houthi rebels surrendered themselves to the local authorities in Saada.
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.Sunni Muslims are about 55 percent of Yemen's population of 23 million people and reside in the coastal plains and southwestern part of the country while Shiites are about 42 percent of the population and live in the highlands.
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