War Without Mercy in Yemen
Towards the End of Saudi Arabia?
By Sayed Hasan
Translated from French by Jenny Bright
The Saudi-American war against
Yemen, led by a coalition of the richest Gulf monarchies (Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, etc. along with their
servants like Egypt and Morocco) against the poorest Arab
country, enters its fourth month. According
to the United Nations, it has killed more than
3,100 and wounded 15,000, displaced 1 million and created
245,000 refugees, and created an unprecedented humanitarian
crisis which the United Nations has declared to be on the level
of maximum humanitarian alert. Ruthless and indiscriminate
strikes target all civilian infrastructure, up to residential
areas, markets, granaries, water tanks, hospitals, schools,
mosques, and even
archaeological remains
and
tombs– which recalls that the destructive ideology of the
Islamic State takes its roots in Saudi Arabia – without sparing
civilian convoys fleeing
violence. A merciless siege has been imposed in Yemen, a country
which imports 90% of its food, and Relief Organizations are
prevented from delivering supplies to the country, and even see
their workers
targeted while providing humanitarian assistance. More than
21 million people (80% of Yemen's population) are without
adequate access to staples and essential services such as food,
clean water, medical care, electricity and fuel. Already, it
appears that Saudi Arabia has used unconventional weapons (cluster
munitions, and perhaps even
chemical weapons) and
has committed
war crimes and perhaps even crimes
against humanity.
However, this war remains
largely ignored by the mainstream media, both in the West and in
the Arab-Muslim world (with the exception of Iran and the media
close to Hezbollah in Lebanon). The US sponsors this illegal and
criminal military intervention that they provide full support
for, putting all their resources at the service of the Gulf
monarchies who have acquired the most modern weapons to the tune
of
$115 billion for the
single year 2014: they can therefore destabilise the region
without sending their armed forces, conforming to the Obama
no-boots-on-the-ground doctrine that favours proxy wars. It is
the same for the other NATO member countries –
United Kingdom,
France, etc., which is
not surprising coming from the supporters and apologists of
terrorism in Syria. Regarding Riyadh, Wikileaks has recently
unveiled the procedure of Saudi censorship of the entire
Arab world, between corruption and intimidation. All these
actors provide direct support to Al Qaeda and to the Islamic
state, which has appeared on the Yemeni scene and is now on the
border of Saudi Arabia,
their long-time goal.
The Saudi blindness seems to know no bounds.
The Saudi assault was not to
repel
an alleged advance of Iran and/or
Shiism, but to break the attempts towards
independence of this country that historically has been a vassal
of Riyadh. So far, this war has not realised any of its stated
objectives. On the contrary, the Yemeni resistance has taken
hold of most major Yemen cities, and it takes more and more
initiative by carrying the war into the territory of Saudi
Arabia, bombing its border towns and attacking its military
bases and convoys, and causing dozens of casualties among the
Saudi forces – of which the extent of the losses is inviolable
military secret. Moreover, the attacks resulted in uniting the
country – the regular armed forces of former President Ali
Abdullah Saleh, Houthi rebels and other popular committees –
behind the slogan “Death to the House of Saud”, an unprecedented
development in the Middle East, and revealed both the barbarism
of the Wahhabi regime and its vulnerability and powerlessness on
the purely military field. Held in check despite the benefit of
the steady stream of Western weaponry, Riyadh already sees its
influence wane in the Middle East.
In a
message to
the combatants dated 1st July 2015 – that evokes
those of Hassan Nasrallah to
Hezbollah fighters during the 2006 war–, Abd-al-Malik al-Houthi, head of the Yemeni
resistance, denounced the collusion of the Washington-Tel Aviv-Riyad
Axis, denouncing the war and the siege imposed in Yemen as even
more barbaric than the Israeli crimes in Gaza. He agrees with
the analysis of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan
Nasrallah, who recalled that even the Zionists did not have a
systematic policy of targeting hospitals, tombs and
archaeological remains. Abd-al-Malik al-Houthi brandished
nothing less than the slogan of the holy war against the cradle
of Islam, equated to the “devil's horn”, which is, according to
a famous prophetic tradition, an evil heresy called to arise in
the Najd region – where Wahhabism emerged. Again, this is an
unprecedented development: Saudi Arabia, which, since March
2015, broke with its policy of underground action and now acts
without cover, has never been so violently shaken.
Riyadh is now in an impasse:
its air campaign is a bitter failure, as was predictable given
the six previous offensives since 2004 by the forces of
President Saleh (yesterday supported by Saudi Arabia and now
allied with the Houthi rebels), which all ended up in a failure,
as well as
the Israeli experiences in Lebanon
and Gaza, which constitutes the perfect model of the
Saudi aggression. As for the option of a ground operation, all
data indicates that it would be absolutely disastrous and would
end with a rout of Saudi forces. But there is no question for
the House of Saud, blinded beyond any possible return, of
accepting a cease-fire that would be a victory for Yemen; rather
it must continue this fanatic war of terror at all costs, by
torpedoing all attempts of agreement or truce, at the risk of
rushing towards the abyss. As for the forces of the Yemeni
resistance, they are far from having exhausted all their
possibilities, and multiply the incursions into enemy territory.
They could even question its territorial integrity by claiming
Yemeni provinces formerly annexed by Saudi Arabia. And as a last
resort, they could close the strategic Strait of Bab al-Mandeb –
which they are quite capable of –, one of the largest global
maritime passages, especially for hydrocarbons, which would have
severe global repercussions. If, like Syria, Iraq and Libya,
Yemen is threatened with disintegration, Saudi Arabia itself is
now on the way to becoming destabilised, and even dismantling.
Will the Saudi crusade push
into the Axis of Resistance a new country, Yemen – about which
Hassan Nasrallah declared that the awakening and resistant
spirit of its people were such that he could without hesitation
send 100,000 or 200,000 men to fight Israel? Whatever the case
may be, already the Ansarallah movement has reached the extent
of a new Hezbollah, and the Saudi war is doomed to failure. It
announces with certainty
the inevitable fall of the House of
Saud, whose Wahhabi ideology and foreign policy have
been
the cancer of Islam and
of the Arab world for decades, and ultimately, the end of the
US-Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. More than one of the
region’s peoples will rejoice.
In the name of God, the
Compassionate, the Merciful.
Praise be to God, Lord of the
Worlds, and the greetings of God be upon the Seal of His
Prophets, Muhammad b. Abdillah, and on his pure and noble
family, and may God be pleased with his chosen and faithful
companions.
Oh, my very dear brothers, the
heroes of Yemen and its honourable and worthy men, who you hold
firmly in the forefront of the fighting, belonging to the army
or the people's committees and to all of the sons of our dear
Yemeni people! O Yemen of faith and wisdom, Yemen of
perseverance and heroism, Yemen of patience and determination,
Yemen of greatness and pride, peace of God be upon you and His
mercy and blessings.
Please accept my
congratulations on the coming of the holy and blessed month of
Ramadan.
O dear honourable (fighters),
persevering and steadfast in the way of God, in the way of God
the Most High, and for the defence of your beloved people, of
your beautiful country and precious homeland which is beset by
the forces of evil and tyranny, who attacked with all their
strength and all their abilities, with all the evils and crimes
of which they are capable, headed by the US and Israel, and the
devil’s horn [Saudi Arabia; a hadith of the Prophet foretold the
birth of the horn of the devil in the Najd, where Wahhabism
appeared], the very heart of hypocrisy, embodied in the criminal
Saudi regime, and the movement of mercenaries and foreign agents
between traitors and criminals, who have neither religion nor
country, nor humanity. They rallied to the criminal abuser of
their country and their people, the aggressor who perpetrated
the vilest and the most heinous crimes against the people, and
who kills hundreds of children, women, adults and young people,
and destroys the whole country and everything in it necessary
for life, with the imposition of a state of siege unprecedented
throughout the Arab world, far more ruthless than the siege
imposed by the Israeli criminals in Gaza and to the people of
Palestine.
That's why you have to feel,
oh my dear ones, very proud and honoured, and consider it
sufficient a glory and dignity to face the worst criminals that
be, as evidenced by their most heinous and most atrocious crimes
that shame humanity, and defend a dear and oppressed Muslim
people of whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and
his family) has certified, as evidenced by the reality, the
faith, the noble manners, and that it counts among the most
worthy and noble peoples.
This oppressed people against
whom the evil forces have committed crimes of injustice and
oppression, so indescribable and unspeakable as they are, with
all their hatred and their arrogance leading them to despise all
that is sacred and to trample all human values, and which
exceeds with its barbarism, tyranny and crimes the wild beasts
and monsters, under the banner of the accursed Satan and the
standard of oppression and aggression, may God preserve us of
them.
O my very dear and noble
brothers, your proud and magnificent resistance in all arenas
and battlefields, on the home front, in the struggle against the
enemy agents and mercenaries who have sold their souls, their
country and their people, their religion and their lowly world
to the foreign criminal aggressor, and on the fronts at the
border, in the direct struggle against the forces of the devil’s
horn and all criminal offenders who support them, is truly a
holy jihad towards God the Almighty and to the aid of the
oppressed among His servants. And without your resistance, the
forces of evil and crime of the United States, Israel and
Al-Qaeda, as well as the mercenaries and agents of the enemy,
would have managed to occupy the country and take total control,
and then they would have perpetrated anything they wanted
against the noble people of Yemen, in fact crimes, genocide and
massacres, rape of sanctities and honour, seizure of the
territory and looting of property.
They revealed, by their
statements and the actions they have committed, that they are
the vilest of God's creations, and the most evil of His
servants, and they will hesitate at no crime, so great and
terrible as it may be, unless we face them and prevent them from
the perpetration. That is why nobody can imagine what they will
do if they manage to achieve their evil aims, nor the extent of
their hate, their arrogance, their barbarism and tyranny, nor
the oppression, humiliation, domination, enslavement, dishonour
and evil they wanted to inflict on Yemen and its people, and God
is our protector.
O men and heroes of Yemen, O noble and free men
of Yemen, O proud and faithful men, you are blessed by the
honour and grace of closeness to God through jihad on His way,
with all the blessings and grandiose rewards which follow. God
the Almighty said: “Truly God loves those who fight in His Cause
in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.”
(Qur'an 61: 4). And the Most High said: “But those who strive
and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by
a special reward, / Ranks specially bestowed by Him, and
Forgiveness and Mercy. For God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.”
(Quran, 4, 95-96). And the Most High said: “Let those fight in
the cause of God Who sell the life of this world for the
hereafter. To him who fighteth in the cause of God,- whether he
is slain or gets victory - Soon shall We give him a reward of
great (value).” (Quran, 4, 74).
And you are blessed by the
honour of loyalty to your dearest oppressed people, and you are
really in the situation of the faithful in the hour of trial
where the faithful are distinguished from the traitors, the
liars from the truthful, the enemy agents from the genuine
patriots. And thanks to your loyalty to your people, the hopes
of its enemies to inflict us defeat and submission were
disappointed, and you are blessed by your noble defence of our
honour and our sanctities. And were it not for your loyalty and
perseverance, strength and pride with which God has endowed you,
but for your patience, your honour and greatness, Yemen would be
in the same situation as Mosul and Anbar, where women are
captured and their honour violated.
And you are blessed by your
protection of our territory and our possessions, your
steadfastness and glory, and your active presence on all
terrains. Thanks to your stance, Yemen has always been, is, and
will never cease to be the cemetery of invaders, the death of
enemy agents and traitors, and the stick that will break the
backs of bloodthirsty criminals and arrogant tyrants.
And know well that you are on
the front of good against evil, of legitimate defence against
illegal aggression, the front of humanity faced with barbaric
forces of evil, the front of nobility and loyalty faced with
collaborationism and betrayal, and the front of faith in the
face of hypocrisy.
You are the Yemen of faith,
the Yemen of Aws and Khazraj [tribes who supported the Prophet
against the Meccans], the Yemen of 'Ammar [b. Yasir, companion
of the Prophet] and [Malik Al-] Ashtar [companion and military
chief of Imam Ali], the Yemen of humanity, the Yemen of
morality, the Yemen of civilization, the Yemen of dignity, the
Yemen of glory, the Yemen of magnanimity, the Yemen of
perseverance facing the devil’s horn and the heart of hypocrisy
[Saudi Arabia], which is a puppet of Israel and a cheap slave to
the US.
The front of the assault,
headed by the US, the Great Satan, who have blackened the pages
of humanity by their crimes around the world where they spread
death, destruction and looting, going as far as the violation of
honour and violation of human dignity, the symbol of evil and
tyranny they embody with all they have perpetrated in every
corner of the Earth, from Hiroshima to Vietnam, through Iraq and
many other countries of the Earth, and its actions in [the
Prison of] Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and in many other places which
we could discuss at length.
And Israel, a criminal entity
founded from the beginning on barbarism, tyranny and plunder,
which played their role in this aggression, side by side with
the devil’s horn, when they considered the attack as being in
the direction of their interests, and encouraged it, bringing
their help, support and blessing, then worked and participated
as this was discovered and revealed, the role of Israel ceased
to be secret and hidden.
Then the devil’s horn [Saudi
Arabia], which serves the two greatest criminals in the world,
America and Israel, a docile and malleable puppet in their hands
that revealed its wrongdoing and expressed its cruelty and
barbarism by its heinous crimes. They did not hesitate to
violate all principles of morality and humanity by targeting
children and women, and did not respect the rights of civilians,
but were quick to destroy crops and livestock, and worked on
inflicting suffering on all children of the country, in all
cities and villages. Water tanks and deposits of food stocks,
petrol stations, hospitals, mosques, schools, airports and
ports, roads and bridges, residential areas and rural villages,
economic structures, all that has been targeted by bombs and
missiles, because they want to harm all Yemenis in the country,
and force suffering on everybody. Similarly, they impose a
ruthless and unjust siege that strives to leverage their
suffering, and they revealed their unprecedented atrocity, their
true nature as monstrous criminals, strangers to humanity.
O noble and dear ones (resistants),
the fight you lead today is a struggle for independence and
freedom, against those who want to occupy the country and
enslave its people. This is a fight for dignity and for honour,
facing those who want to vilify and humiliate a Muslim people.
And this is a decisive battle for our future and our history:
your victory lays the foundations for a real future for your
country and for the freedom of your people, and protection of
their dignity and independence, of its territory and its honour,
and your defeat, God forbid, would lay the foundations of an
enslavement to the vilest creatures of God, an unprecedented
humiliation, and pave the way to evils that have no equal from
these evil criminals who are a danger to all humanity.
This is why you must persevere
in your resistance, your heroism and your great tenacity, by
which you have submitted the most vivid image of the faith,
manners, nobility and pride of the Yemenis and the resistance of
believers. Continue to obstruct criminal forces, whether the
forces of treason and collaboration in the interior, or the
forces of the devil’s horn at the borders of the country. Ask
for the help of God, who is The Best of Assistants, the Mighty
and the Noble.
He said, Glory be to Him, “To
those against whom war is made, permission is given (to fight),
because they are wronged; and verily, God is most powerful for
their aid.” (Quran, 22, 39). Count on Him, for He is Enough an
ally and Relief. And He said, “And if any one puts his trust in
God, sufficient is (God) for him." (Qur'an 65: 3). Trust in His
Help, for He said, “ If God helps you, none can overcome you”
(Qur'an, 3, 160). Do not fear the forces of tyranny and crime,
the horn of the devil, because “Feeble indeed is the cunning of
Satan”" (Quran, 4, 76). You may hold your commitment to God
through the use of endurance, as He said, Glory be to Him: “O ye
who believe! When ye meet a force, be firm, and call God in
remembrance much (and often); that ye may prosper.”" (Qur'an, 8,
45). And help one another, as directs God the Almighty: “Help ye
one another in righteousness and piety” (Qur'an, 5: 2). And one
of the main applications of this verse is union and resistance
against the forces of aggression and crime. And beware of
discord, according to the injunction of the Most High: “And fall
into no disputes, lest ye lose heart and your power depart.”
(Qur'an, 8, 46). And it is sufficient injunction against discord
to know that this is an act of disobedience to God the Most
High, and a source of weakness and defeat, so be very careful
not yield to it. And be in your mutual assistance, your
camaraderie and your brotherhood in arms like a compact edifice,
“Truly God loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array,
as if they were a solid cemented structure. (Qur'an 61: 4). And
patiently endure all the burdens and difficulties, because the
promise of God and His gospel are for the patient, as the Most
High says: "Give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere."
(Qur'an 2, 155). And the Most High said, “For God is with those
who patiently persevere.” (Qur'an, 8, 46). And the Most High
said: “And God Loves those who are firm and steadfast." (Qur'an,
3, 146). And by patience, endurance and placing his trust in
God, through perseverance and sincerity, the victory will be for
you, and “Be sure that Allah is your Protector - the best to
protect and the best to help.” (Qur'an, 8, 40)
I ask God to grant Mercy,
Glory and Immortality to the martyrs, healing to the wounded and
salvation to the prisoners and to grant you a great victory and
a resounding success in all fronts and in all fields, and for
evils to go to the aggressors, the arrogant tyrants and
oppressors.
I send you all my love, all my
affection and my esteem, and I constantly pray to God for you
day and night.
May
God's peace be upon you and His mercy and blessings.
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