Al-Qaiti, Al-Awlaqi and Captain Jaber .. 3 victims, one killer
English - Tuesday 02 June 2020 الساعة 10:31 pm
Aden, Newsyemen, Hani Ali:
The regions of southern Yemen witnessed three separate assassinations in a matter of days, one of which targeted a security official in Hadramout governorate, opposing the Muslim Brotherhood organization, and the second targeted militarily in the Shabwa elite forces, while the third targeted, photojournalist Nabil Al-Qaiti, in Aden.
On Tuesday noon, masked gunmen assassinated the photographer, Nabil Al-Qaiti, in the Dar Saad district, north of the capital, Aden. They shot him near his home and died while on his way to the "Doctors Without Borders" hospital.
He is one of the most prominent photojournalists during the battle to liberate Aden from the Houthis in 2015, and he is one of the photographers accredited to the agency "AFP".
In 2016, Al-Qaiti won the Rory Peak Award in London, an annual award given to the best independent video journalists around the world.
The assassination of cameraman Nabil Al-Qaiti came after he played a pivotal role in covering the battles of the southern forces with the Brotherhood's militia in the Abyan governorate east of Aden, where he unilaterally formed a media front to cope with the confrontations on the ground, and exposed the allegations of the interim president's alliance, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the Brotherhood.
The fingers of accusation in the assassination of photojournalist Nabil Al-Qaiti indicate the alliance of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda and the presidential protection brigades led by the son of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi (Nasser).
In this context, the political writer, Nabil Al-Soufi, commenting on the assassination of Al-Qaiti, said in his Facebook account, “In Shuqra, what was left of the coalition of Al-Qaeda, the Brotherhood, Ali Mohsen and Nasser Abd Rabuh was gathered.”
Al-Sufi added: "Al-Qaeda is the most honest of them in its war there and the rest are villain investors , it is the same coalition that controls Shabwa, and the Hadhramaut valley, and it has its dominance in Marib, had it not been for the Marbi tribe retaining some of its influence and harassing them."
He continued: "The assassination of Nabil Al-Qaiti is similar to the same assassinations that target elite soldiers in Shabwa and targeted the director of Shibam Hadramout security."
The Sufi concluded by saying: "The south faces a great challenge, as it won a military victory and political cohesion ... and now it faces the slaughter of assassinations and it is the basest security threat."
Three crimes and one perpetrator
The assassination of Al-Qaiti came just days after the assassination of Captain Saleh bin Ali Jaber, director of security for the Shibam Directorate in Hadramout Governorate, southeast of Yemen, after he revealed information about the forces of the first military region loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar to release members of al-Qaeda from the private prison located in the headquarters the leadership of the region in the Hadramout valley.
Accusations escalated for the leadership of the First Military Region, after the assassination of Captain Saleh bin Ali Jaber, Director of Security of the "Shibam" Directorate, along with two of his companions, by an explosive device in the Al-Adi area near the checkpoint of the Red Forces.
Political and tribal figures in Hadhramaut Governorate accused the leadership of the First Military Zone of being behind the assassination of the Shibam security director.
The assassination of Captain Saleh bin Ali Jaber came weeks after he was subjected to an assassination attempt shot by soldiers belonging to the first military region working in the khat trade, because they were prevented from selling in the downtown markets.
It also came after his disclosure, in a letter addressed to the Director General of Security in Wadi and Hadramaut desert, that the leadership of the First Military Region released prisoners from al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists who had been arrested on terrorism-related issues during the period of Lieutenant-Colonel Bandar al-Otaibi’s command of the Arab Coalition Forces in Hadhramaut, and their statements and confessions were taken to join terrorist groups.
In the letter, the head of the Shibam Hadramout security forces held the command of the First Military Zone responsible for the possible consequences of the release of those terrorist elements, and it appears that this was the reason for his physical assassination.
Revenge for the defeats
Earlier, the Special Security Forces loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood in the Shabwa governorate, southeast of Yemen, assassinated the elite forces militarily.
The Brotherhood's militia installed an armed ambush of Soldier Talal Farid al-Awlaqi in the Nassab district market, and the ambush resulted in his death.
Commenting on the crime, political activist Ali Al-Aslami wrote on Twitter: “In retaliation for the defeats the militias of Akab al-Ikhunji in Shakra executed, Talal Farid Muhammad al-Awlaqi, the soldier in the Shabwani Elite,” was executed.
He added: "There is no justification for the youth of Shabwah to keep silent about this crime. The blood of this peaceful hero is a shame for all my youth, and he will not be outdated."
While a member of the Presidency Council for the Southern Transitional Council, Salem Thabet Al-Awlaqi, said that legitimacy fell in Abyan militarily, politically, morally and humanly.
Al-Awlaqi tweeted on his account on Twitter: “The fall of the Brotherhood’s legitimacy in the Abyan front is not only military, but political, moral and human in the eyes of the whole world, and that is why it is natural to search for an outlet to get it out of this impasse in which it has set itself based on false ideological calculations.”
Al-Awlaqi added: "Today south is not south of the year 1994”
Member of the Presidency Council of the Southern Transitional Council, Fadl Al-Jadi, confirmed that the people of the south will not accept that they be governed or dominated by the tools of terrorism.
