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Eight suspected armed rebels captured in Aden
A group of eight Yemeni men accused of supporting Al Houthi armed rebellion have been detained in the southern harbour city of Aden, official sources said yesterday.
- By Nasser Arrabyee, Correspondent
- Published: 00:07 July 4, 2008
Sana'a: A group of eight Yemeni men accused of supporting Al Houthi armed rebellion have been detained in the southern harbour city of Aden, official sources said yesterday.
"The eight-member cell was running a printing press to distribute leaflets promoting their dark, backward and terrorist ideas," a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said in a statement. The printing press has been seized by the authorities, the spokesman added.
Extremism
The men were allegedly planning to distribute publications promoting the extremist ideology of the Shiite Ithna-Ashari sect.
The eight men were among a group of men wanted by security forces suspected of supporting Al Houthi rebellion. Their pictures and names were handed to security checkpoints.
In June eight leading rebellion supporters were arrested in Al Jawaf, Sana'a, and Amran provinces as part of a crackdown by the government on supporters of the rebel leader Abdul Malek Al Houthi.
Meanwhile, the US embassy in Sana'a has refused to classify Al Houthi rebels as terrorists, saying the classification of terrorist groups is a very complicated process which is based on hard evidence. "Until now, such evidence does not exist in this issue," read an embassy statement yesterday.
In the statement the embassy expressed concerns over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Sa'ada because of the armed conflict between Al Houthi rebels and government troops.
The embassy urged the two warring parties to secure food, water, and fuel supplies for civilians affected by the war.
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