TEHRAN, Sept 13 -The Yemeni Interior Ministry says security forces have eliminated the assassin of Ibrahim Badreddin al-Houthi, the brother of the leader of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, during a delicate intelligence operation in the country’s central province of Ma’rib.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_“Thank God, security services carried out at 7:24 p.m. local time (1624 GMT) on Tuesday a successful intelligence and security operation deep inside the areas controlled by the Saudi-led coalition of aggression, and managed to eliminate Mohammed Ali Qaid Dhawi in the city of Ma’rib,” Arabic-language al-Masirah television network cited a statement released by the ministry late on Wednesday.
The statement added that the operation was conducted following a close investigation and accurate information about those responsible for the targeted killing of Houthi and his companion Mohammed al-Ayani last month, stressing that probes revealed that 54-year-old Dhawi was linked to Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Directorate.
“We assure the Yemeni people that security forces are able to reach the depth of all occupied territories and areas controlled by the Saudi-led coalition, which criminals and hired hit men believed to be safe to stay away from the hands of (Yemeni) security services,” the Yemeni Interior Ministry pointed out.
Informed Yemeni sources, requesting not to be named, told Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on August 10 that Yemeni security forces had managed to capture 80 percent of the members of the cell behind the assassination of Ibrahim Badreddin al-Houthi and his close aide, adding that they were undergoing an in-depth investigation.
The sources further noted that the detainees had confessed to having affiliation with the Saudi intelligence agency, and said they had received orders from a militia leader when former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was in power.
The Yemeni Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by al-Masirah television network on August 8 that Ibrahim Badreddin al-Houthi was killed by “treacherous hands affiliated with the US-Saudi-Israeli aggression.”
source:presstv
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