Forbidden money gathers Brotherhood, al-Qaeda in south of Yemen

Mouaz Mohammad

The Yemeni south is currently witnessing joint cooperation between the militia of the Muslim Brotherhood and the terrorist Al Qaeda organization, in light of the presence of Qatari financial support.

That is what some consider an attempt by the legitimate government to impose its control on the region, through a coalition consisting of terrorist organizations, in new violations of the Riyadh Agreement 2019.

Military reinforcements of the Brotherhood’s militia affiliated with the Sharia government arrived, on Monday 20 April 2020, in a military convoy, in the town of Shakra in the Yemeni governorate of Abyan, in the presence of elements affiliated with Al Qaeda, headed by the prominent terrorist Mustafa Mahdi.

According to Yemeni media, training camps in the city of Taiz, led by Brotherhood Hammoud al-Mikhlafi, serve as a platform to implement the agendas of Qatari money, especially as they mainly targeted the training of terrorist elements, and then sent them to the south, rather than directing them north to confront the Houthi militias.

The newspaper el-Mashhad el-Arabi, quoted observers as saying that after the terrorist elements receive training in the Al-Mikhlafi camps, they are pushed to the south, considering that there is Iranian-Iranian coordination and cooperation on escalation in the region. That strengthens Tehran’s situation in facing the pressures it faces from the international community.

For his part, Fahd Al-Debaji, a Saudi political analyst, said that Qatar’s hatred of Yemen is well known and undeniable, stressing in a tweet through his personal page on the social networking site Twitter on Monday 20 April 2020, that this hatred is increasing and exaggerating with severe hatred for the people of the South, stressing that “the current events confirm that.”

Cooperating with al-Qaeda

After the murder of Qasim Al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in a US raid, announced by US President Donald Trump, in February 2020, the organization announced the appointment of Khaled Batarfi, as his successor, and he is known for his proximity to Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani, a leader in the party Brotherhood reform.

It appears that the results of this choice are beginning to appear to the public, through serious cooperation between the two sides in the south of Yemen. According to Yemeni media, quoting sources, the Brotherhood militia led by Louay al-Zamki, commander of the brigade’s third forces, was assigned by the terrorist leader of al-Qaeda, Mustafa Mahdi, to command one of the brigades.

The sources also confirmed the use of Al-Zamaki by Al-Qaeda terrorists to launch suicide operations against the southern forces’ sites in Abyan Governorate.