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Insurgency (2004-2010) [also known as the
al-Houthi Rebellion]---The Sa'dah
insurgency began in June of 2004 with a rebellion
led by the Shiite cleric Hussein Badreddin
al-Houthi, head of the Shi‘a Zaidiyyah sect.
Most of the fighting has taken place in Sa'dah
Governorate (province) in northwesternmost
Yemen. The Yemeni government claims that Shiite rebels
seek to overthrow the government and to implement
Shi‘a religious law over the whole nation. The
rebels deny this and say that they are protecting
themselves agains government persecution and
discrimination . The Yemeni government has accused
the Shiite government of Iran of aiding and
financing the rebels. From June to August 2004, government troops
battled supporters of al-Houthi in the north.
Estimates of the dead range from 80 to more than
600. In September of 2004, Yemeni forces killed
al-Houthi. After his death, his brother,
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi assumed leadership of the
rebellion. On May 21, 2005, the government released
estimates on the cost of the war, announcing that
552 deaths, 2,708 injures, and over $270 million in
economic damages had occurred. In February of 2007, the Yemeni military began a
major offensive against the al-Houthi rebels. This
offensive involved nearly 30,000 government troops,
and by February 19, casualties included nearly 200
members of the security forces and over 100 rebel
dead. Within the next two weeks, the government
claims to have killed another 160 rebels in
fighting. A ceasefire agreement was reached on June 16,
2007, but it did not last, as fighting continued in
April 2008, when seven Yemeni soldiers died in a
rebel ambush on April 29. On May 2, 15 worshippers
were killed and 55 wounded in an explosion at a
mosque in Sa'adah. The blast occurred as crowds of
people left Friday prayers at the Bin Salman
Mosque. The government blamed the rebels for the
bombing, but Houthi's group denied being
responsible. Al-Qaida in Arabia, the local branch of Osama
bin Laden's world-wide Jihadist organization, is
also active in northern Yemen, and some analysts
believe some of the more terrorist-like attacks,
such as mosque bombings, and killings of
foreigners, are likely the work of the Sunni
al-Qaida group. The Yemeni government began a major offensive
against the al-Houthi rebels in August, 2009, in an
operation called Operation Scorched Earth. While
the al-Houthi rebels do not possess aircraft or
armored vehicles, they do enjoy a tactical
advantage in their war against the government. With
an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 armed fighters, and a
training system eminiscent of Hezballah training
regimen in Lebanon, the rebels are a potent
fighting force, especially as they are fighting on
their home territory. They also show a skillful use
of land mines, which exact a painful toll on
government forces and makes army ground movement
difficult and dangerous. In November of 2009, the Sa'ada insurgency took
on an alarming new dimension, as Saudi Arabia
openly intervened to aid the Yemeni government with
air strikes and artillery barrages on Shiite
rebels. Analysts see the Saudi participation partly
as a pre-emptive strike to prevent the war from
actually spreading into Saudi territory, but also
as a move against Iran, which is believed to be
aiding the rebels. Saudi Arabia and Iran have
engaged in a long-running proxy conflict in the
Gulf region, in the Iraqi civil war, and also in
Lebanon, where Iran backs Hezbollah, and the Saudis
support the Lebanese government. In November of 2009, the al-Houthi rebels moved
across the border into Saudi Arabia, thereby
provoking Saudi military intervention. See
Saudi-Yemen
Border Conflict (2009) for more information on
the Saudi intervention. Negotiations between the rebels and the
government, along with continued military pressure
from Yemeni and Saudi forces, led to a cease-fire
in the north, and in March, 2010, President Ali
Abdullah Saleh declared that the war was over.
Evidence of this included the removal of land mines
by the rebels, as well as mutual prisoner
releases. Yemen
war with Shi'ite rebels is over:
president--Washington Post, March 20,
2010 Small
War or Big Problem? Fighting on the Yemeni-Saudi
Border--The Washington Institute for Near
East Policy, Nov. 11, 2009 Yemen
Conflict Triggers Flood of Refugees, UN Says
(Update1) --Bloomberg, Nov. 11, 2009 Saudi
Arabian fighter jets resume pounding Shia
rebels' positions in Yemen --The Times of
India, Nov. 6, 2009 Displacement
mounting amid Yemeni conflict--UPI.com, June
17, 2009 Yemeni
Rebels Kill Baptist Hospital Workers--War
and Conflict Journal, June 16, 2009 3
foreign hostages found dead in
Yemen, LA Times, June 15,
2009 British
engineer among nine foreigners feared murdered
in
Yemen—Telegraph.co.uk,
June 15, 2009 Hostages
in Yemen Found Dead??!! Update: Six
Alive??!!----Armies of
Liberation, June 15, 2009 YEMEN:
Rebellion in north causing psychological
problems, say aid
workers
--IRIN, Sept. 27, 2007 Lee, R.
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