Security authorities capture 11 Faithful Youth members Including a lady [Archives:2005/840/Local News]

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May 9 2005

September 26 Newspaper, mouthpiece of the army, mentioned in its Thursday's issue May 5 that security forces captured 11 people including a woman, who belong to the Faithful Youth, the organization of cleric Hussein Badraddine al-Houthi who was killed last September by the army.

The 11 people were charged with committing a series of vandalistic acts and terrorist operations in Sana”a.

A military official at the newspaper explained that the arrested people formed a gang and hurled many grenades at military vehicles and other public places in Sana'a leading to the death and wounding of several civilians.

The newspaper added, while their investigation, the security forces explored that they are some of Badraddine al-Houthi supporters who led the latest rebellion against the government in Sa'ada, north of the country.

It clarified these people were arrested and their grenades were seized along with other weapons inside an apartment taken on lease in one of Sana'a zones. The gang was accused of masterminding and carrying out a series of vandalistic operations against the regime.

The newspaper said the security apparatuses arrested a lady who was living with the gang in the same apartment, and that this lady was exploited in the distribution of leaflets and pamphlets that attack the regime of the state and instigate people to carry out violent acts.
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