Al-Nahar [Archives:2005/837/Press Review]

21 Apr.2005
Main headlines

– Death sentence to killer of the Russian doctor in Hodeidah

– Police storm offices of YSP newspaper

– Journalists Syndicate demands an independent fact-finding committee about situations in Jaashin

– Official report demands trial of officials contributed to dissemination of sectarian education

– Committee for reconstruction and reparation of those damaged from Saada war

– Defendant killed at the courtroom

– Yemen seeks help of Germany in fighting corruption

Columnist Faisal al-Soufi queries about the external element or factor in the events seen in Saada.

In June 2004, president of the republic affirmed to the Lebanese newspaper al-Mustaqbal that there wee external sides offered financial support to Hussein al-Houthi and his followers. After that, the accusation is repeated in person of the president, head of the government and the foreign minister and other officials on different occasions. He latest f those accusations came by the Yemeni ambassador to Algeria, saying that foreign forces offered support and funding to the “Believing Youth”.

The officials did not name that foreign side up till now. They have always said at present we do not accuse a certain side but would announce that after the end of investigation.

The supposition of the existence of a foreign side supporting al-Houthi depends on that he had been paying his followers salaries in dollars and he managed to build strongholds, digging trenches and buying weapons and carrying out other activities, such as establishment of religious institutes and centers in addition to organizing symposiums, trips and movable summer camps.

Due to hugeness of expenses, those constituents require and because local potentials are unable to provide this means that the source of those expenses is a foreign side. That side could be a state or society or non-governmental organisation, this is not clear.

I personally refuse the theory of conspiracy and accept the idea that that there is always a foreign enemy. This enemy could be possible while the genuine enemy may be present inside, i.e. we and that the problems that happen in our reality are mostly of our own making and we have to find a solution for them from inside.
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