Yemeni Assassination Craze Moves to Sana’a

Attacks in Yemen moved north, specifically targeting Sana’a, after a series of attacks that had already ripped through the Southern city of Aden despite it being freed, with militants being driven out ridding it from insurgency.

Only 24 hours after assassinating Bashar al-Moayed, Houthi field leader, in the middle of the Capital Sana’a at al-Zubaire St, an anonymous gunmen assassinatedColonel Mohammed Radman on Sunday, the coordination and information director in the administration of private special security forces (previously known as Central Security),

Moreover, during last week, Sana’a witnessed two other assassinations of Houthi leaders and combatants of Al Jawf Governorate, East of Yemen.

Masked gunmen have also, last month, assassinated the field Army commander’s brother (Supporter of Ali Abdullah Saleh), abu Ali al-Hakem, in al-Asbahi neighborhood south of Sana’a using an (IED) bomb attack that targeted his convoy.

However, neither parties have adopted any of the assassinations; local sources stated that the assassinations are a result of a hidden dispute rising between former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthi militia.

In sight of that, Aden’s security director Colonel Shalal Ali Shayea’ survived an attack on his house in Tawahi neighborhood South of Aden.

A security source told Asharq Al-Awsat that a car filled with explosives driven by a suicide bomber exploded near the front gates of the house located in a mountainous area looking over the sea.

According to information, few house guards have lost their lives and others injured, in the explosion that was distinctive in its method of targeting security officials’ houses.

In the ballpark, indicators of the dispute rising among the partners in Yemen’s insurgency at Sana’a started off last week when the Houthis refused to broadcast

over the governmental media stations and newspapers they control; a speech for the deposed President Saleh on current developments.

The Houthis refusing to broadcast depicts them isolating Saleh from their media, a move that was followed with Houthi media publishing news reports accusing followers close to Saleh of plunder and robbing the public treasury of millions of Yemeni Rials.