Yemeni military sources unfold Qatari efforts to form a parallel army, southern Yemen, which works in favor of Doha hostile policies toward Arab coalition and its forces battling to restore legitmacy in this war-torn country.
Speaking to Al-Ain News, Yemeni sources explained that Doha is actually organizing a transfer of experts, trainers, and mercenary fighters, working by proxy for Turkey, to form parallel military forces in Yemen, with an army that focuses on the southern Taiz, and Bab al-Mandab regions, where the Muslim Brotherhood controls.
The sources added that mercenaries are deployed in camps run by the Brotherhood and Qatar in the city of Taiz, south of Yemen.
The plan includes attracting thousands of young men and soldiers in the Yemeni army to training camps in exchange for huge salaries, in a scheme that is facilitated by Brotherhood leaders that penetrate the military and security establishment, and others residing in Turkey and Qatar.
Al-Ain News exclusively obtained information from military sources that the Yemeni Brothers facilitated the entry of some of the foreign mercenaries as "students" and "academics" to work and study in private universities they established in Taiz.
According to the information, arrangements are being made to return a number of Yemeni fighters who were recruited by the Brotherhood years ago, to fight in Syria alongside the Turkish mercenaries, and to absorb them in the Doha camps spread in the town of Al-Hajriya.
This is a town located south of Taiz, known for its mountains which overlook the port of Mokha and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, as well as on the southern national borders.
The town was fallen into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar militias, last August, after a war that affected the 35 armored brigade of the Yemeni army.
Al-Ain News quoted the military sources saying that Doha began equipping the fourth camp in the town of "Rasan" in the Al-Hajriyah area of Taiz months after the completion of the construction of 3 other camps, namely: Al-Sunnah and "Al-fawada" and "Yevres". The latter is the oldest of them.
Qatar finances the camps in Taiz through its arm, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sheikh residing in Turkey, Hamoud Saeed Al-Mikhlafi, who is the de facto leader of these illigitimate camps.
Meanwhile, a Brotherhood leader who recently returned from Turkey, called Azzam al-Sanawi, directly supervises the Doha camps and takes over the leadership of the “Sunnah” camp, while Shawqi al-Mikhlafi, Hamoud al-Mikhlafi's brother, takes command of the Yevres camp, while the Al-Fawada camp is led by a third Brotherhood leader named “Adnan Al-Foudai”, all of them are terrorist leaders, according to the sources.
According to the sources, the number of elements that were recruited amounted to about 12 thousand, in addition to other groups funded by Qatar and bearing the name "Popular Mobilization" that received training, as a parallel army force and planned to get integrated into Qatari camps in Taiz, which are called the "Hamad bin Khalifa" brigades.
Doha attracted dozens of commanders and soldiers from the Yemeni army brigades in the "Saada" fronts, the stronghold of the Iran- backed Houthis, upon directions by the Brotherhood leader Hammoud Saeed Al-Mikhlafi.
These militias are trained and armed, according to the sources, to be summoned if needed to reinforce any battle, as happened in the battle against military sites in Taiz last August.
The sources pointed out that the Doha camps in Taiz have been active in purchasing heavy and medium weapons from the Yemeni army camps, including an advanced artillery that was owned by the leadership of the Fourth Mountain Infantry Brigade of the Taiz Axis, which announced in the past two days the loss of a heavy artillery from its sites in Al-Hajriya where the Qatar militia is stationed.
Yemeni experts believe that the Qatari militia in Taiz is the most important and dangerous challenge for the new government, as they are only like Houthis militia. Those illigitimate forces are located outside the joint defense system of the Arab coalition and the Yemeni Ministry of Defense. Those are also preparing to control the southern governorates and the Bab al-Mandab strait. This came within a pre-studied plan by Turkey and with Qatari funding involving hostile policies to the Arab coalition countries and the region in general.
The Yemeni expert, Adel Al-Barti, said that a large part of Taiz has become completely outside the framework of the internationally recognized government.
Al-Barti told Al-Ain News that the military leaderships in Taiz are now implementing Qatar’s decisions. Rather, the headquarters of the Islah Party (the political arm of the terrorist Brotherhood organization) in Taiz has turned into an embassy of the Qatari regime.
He added that the information about the equipment of these camps shows that they are being trained on all kinds of weapons and tactics of "street war" and "ambushes" and the use of "bombs and explosive belts". They are also brainwashed with inflammatory and expiatory speech against the coalition.
Al-Bartti confirmed that citizens report state of horror, after hearing inciting religious discourse, many of them by the extremist Brotherhood preacher, Abdul Majid Al-Zindani, who recently fled to reside in Turkey, speculating a new generation of Al-Qaeda and ISIS fighters.
He warned that "military and security leaders in Taiz are attacking the Arab coalition openly, and announce that they are waiting for the arrival of "Caliph Recep Tayyip Erdogan" and his forces to liberate Yemen from the coalition, which confirms that these military formations do not follow the legitimate government but rather the Qatari-Turkish axis hostile to the Arab project to restore ligitimacy in Yemen.