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Thursday, April 16, 2015
Coalition Forces now focus on attacking the pro-Houthi militia brigades, spokesman says

Coalition Forces now focus on attacking the pro-Houthi militia brigades,
spokesman says
http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/print.php?id=1350756

Riyadh, Jumada II 27, 1436, Apr 16, 2015, SPA -- Brig. Gen. Ahmed bin Hasan
Asiri, Consultant at the Minister of Defense's Office and Spokesman of the
Coalition Forces, said that the Coalition Forces are now focusing on
attacking the pro-Houthi militia brigades, noting that, at the same time,
many brigades, once joining the Houthi militias, have abandoned their ranks,
citing brigade 90 marines, and reiterated his call for other brigade
commanders to come back to the support for legitimacy to evade the coalition
airstrikes.

In his daily press briefing held this evening at Riyadh Airbase, Asiri said
the Houthi militias are now lacking command and control and that the leading
hierarchy associated with the deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh has
turned to be cut off leaving the Houthi militias to launch random individual
operations to achieve personal gains at the expense of the security and
safety of Yemen and its citizens.

Brig. Gen. Asiri explained that the coalition forces have become more
accurate in targeting vehicles, camps, ordnance warehouses and fuel tanks
captured by the Houthis through robbery, in order to use them, later on,
indicating that the airstrikes have carried a quantum operation, in Abeen,
as solid information were received on mobilizing military vehicles and
equipment there, hence the coalition forces hit them.

Having been informed of Houthis plan to launch attack on the Saudi border,
Coalition forces consequently targeted spots of ammunition and fuels, alike,
in addition to their military concentrations, he added.

On the situation, in Aden, he disclosed that there is communication between
the coalition forces, the People's Committees and resistance units, in order
to pinpoint Houthi targets, pointing to yesterday's tasks of air dropping of
foodstuffs and ammunition for that end in Aden.

In the surroundings of Sana'a, the operations have become less fierce,
despite vivid movement to get the Scud missiles out of it, in a move that
expose the Houthis retreat to Northern Yemen, however, the coalition
airstrikes have targeted
and destroyed equipment, rocket launching pads, which were destined to be
moved to the North of Yemen, he remarked.

He asserted that the operations of the Houthis have been raging for along
the whole Southern border of the Kingdom, especially in the sectors of
Najran and Jazan, as daily skirmishes continue with sporadic mortar, while
the Land Forces, directly, deal with them, to guarantee the safety along the
Saudi border.

Naval tasks, Asiri said that the number of battleships will increase, within
coming few days, as new battleships will join the coalition navy, while the
people committees, tribesmen and other forces loyal to the Yemeni Army will
assist in
deliverance of provisions to the needy citizena, commenting that checking up
operations, on board of all ships, will also continue.

Answering a question on the Coalition forces plan to attack Al-Qaeda sites
in Yemen, Asiri said the overall plan does not specify Al-Qaeda or ISIS but
has specified scheduled targets on the ground to achieve the goals of
restoring the legitimacy in Yemen, led by President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi.

Asked about the so-called initiative of a special envoy of the deposed
president Ali Saleh to secure a safe haven for his boss and find a possible
settlement to the determination storm operation, or have it ended or
stopped, Asiri said the operation never deals with individuals but is
committed to solve the whole issue absolutely, noting that the situation
before the start of the operation would never come back again.

He noted that the militias were controlling most of the Yemeni territories
of the north and southwards at the beginning of the storm, but now they have
lost control and scattering on the ground in isolated spots.

He drew the attention to the fact that the militias are now on the defensive
and more vulnerable to coalition forces airstrikes which became more
accurate, vowing that they would achieve their goals very soon.

He said fighting in Taiz is taking place between Brigade 35 which supports
legitimacy and some militia elements and popular army supporters, drawing
the attention that over the last 24 hours, the operations were continuing
and that the
airstrikes are providing a strong back up, describing the situation inside
Taiz as stable.

He noted that the militias are taking refuge in residential cities and
inside schools, hotels and hospitals with strict instructions for the
coalition airplanes not to attack them unless a rare definite chance arises,
citing the attack on the vocational institute and adding that yesterday
targets in Loder and Abeen were attacked as they were seized by the
militias.

Asiri said that the aid dropped inside Aden is a military logistics to back
up the resistance, in order to carry out with their tasks, pointing that a
great number of ships is heading to Yemeni ports of Aden and Hodeida, in
coordination with the Yemeni government.

He confirmed arrival of medical appliances, throughout last week, by the Red
Cross, pointing to the difficulty of traffic for the committees and relief
agencies, from the ports of Aden and Hodeida as well, towards hospitals and
needy areas, as the Houthi militias wage guerilla war, within the cities.

The presence of People's Committees inside the Yemeni society and inside the
government, in collaboration with the coalition forces, to be reassured of
the delivery of relief to the citizenry but not for those killers among the
Houthi militias and their loyalists, who killed the needy, drawing the
attention to a work that takes a patience and more coordination, lest those
stuffs fall in the wrong hands, he stated.

Asiri remarked that the operations of the coalition came in response to the
call of the elected president who felt that the motherland and the citizen,
alike, were kidnapped by these militias, hence came the Operation
Determination Storm, confirming that all walks of life, in Yemen, are
calling asking to be saved of the militias and their deeds, adding that as
soon as the operation completes its goals, security and peace will return to
Yemen and all its citizenry, with no
exception, at all.

The operation of the coalition has loosen the relationship between the
deposed president and Houthi militias, indicating that declaration of
commanders of some brigades and military units their loyalty to the
legitimacy, was but a response to the military work on the ground, as they
felt that they are under pressured, Asiri said.

He explained their situation, pointing to two main factors: military
operations that weaken them and late feeling of some commanders of their
responsibility, asserting that their gains would not be achieved and that
their relationships have now become more stressed.

Sewing discord among them, in orientation as well as in coordination, is a
main objective, which we attempted to achieve, form the very beginning of
the operation, he concluded.

-- SPA
23:00 LOCAL TIME 20:00 GMT

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