Outcome of confrontation reached 300 killings; Saleh: evidences on al-Houthi links to outside

The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday renewed his accusations for "foreign forces" to be behind the armed rebellion led by the Zeidi clergy Hussein Bader Eddine al-Houthi in Marran mountain in Sadaah province to the north of Yemen, at a time when Yemeni military sources said that 90 of al-Houthi supporters were killed during the past three days in addition to scores of policemen and thereby the number of one month of killings tolled 300.

In a meeting with former members of the people's assembly on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of assuming power, he said " I directly accuse foreign forces and this Houthi is just one element of the foreign forces." He indicated that al-Houthi's rebellion is " part if the foreign hirelings, rather than a thinking, sectarianism or a Zeidi sect." He added it is a foreign intelligence act which harassed " development, investment and undermine national unity."

He said " Evidences have cleared out and will be announced to the public, " stressing " we will not accept on our lands a foreign feet. We will never give up."

Meantime, a military source said that " some 90 fighters of al-Houthi supporters were killed in clashes in the three past days in violent confrontations with the Yemeni forces at the plain of al-Hakmi mountain, one of Marran's most important mountains. Other military sources confirmed this outcome. The sources said that scores of " victims fell killed or wounded in the lines of the army forces which are launching violent fighting since last Thursday to progress towards the last resorts of al-Houthi clergy."