Aden after coup .. UAE allies storm homes and loot weapons

Yemeni-backed security forces raided the homes of officials in the Yemeni government in Aden province over the past two days after the government was ousted in the interim capital with Saudi complicity and Saudi silence, local sources said.

It reported that the gunmen stormed the house of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Ahmed al-Maisari, and looted its contents, as they stormed the house of Oil Minister Aws al-Oud.

The incursions by security belt gunmen included the homes of a number of military commanders and officials of the legitimate government.

In the same context, clashes erupted yesterday evening between the security belt gunmen and guarding the house of Suleiman al-Zamki, adviser to the Minister of Interior, when the security belt tried to storm the house before intervening tribal mediation to stop the clashes between the parties.

Witnesses said that the security belt forces looted the weapons of the Presidential Protection Brigades and the facilities of the presidential palace in the area of ​​Maashiq after the clashes stopped.

He likened al-Maysari to the looting of the southern transitional gunmen houses of the leaders of their opponents in Aden to what the Houthis in Sanaa.

Hours before the UAE-backed Transitional Council offensive began on Wednesday, members of the government at the Maasheq Palace had to leave, and in the final moments of fighting some ministers were driven out of Aden under the protection of Saudi forces.

After the coup
The talk of raids in Aden comes at a time when the forces of the UAE-backed Transitional Council have taken full control of Aden.

Saudi television spoke of the start of the withdrawal of the Council's forces yesterday from government positions that it took control after the recent bloody battles, but showed no signs of a withdrawal.

Saudi Arabia had set a deadline for a ceasefire in the city shortly after the southern council took control of Aden, saying its planes had bombed a target that posed a threat to a Yemeni government post, but it was unclear where or what the target was.

Yemeni officials accused Abu Dhabi of supporting what they called a coup against legitimacy in Aden, and Saudi Arabia of being silent on what happened to government forces there for four days.

In a recorded speech before his deportation from Aden to Riyadh, al-Maisari said that what he described as the government's partner "slaughtered it from vein to vein," adding that the silence of the Yemeni presidency on what happened in Aden was suspicious and unsuccessful.

He pointed out that more than 400 Emirati vehicles led by what he described as mercenaries participated in the battle against legitimacy in Aden.

The pretext of terrorism
For his part, said the President of the Southern Transitional Council Aidrous al-Zubaidi that the recent events in Aden imposed on his forces, forcing them to secure the city from camps that were harboring what he described as terrorist elements.

In a recorded speech, Zubaidi expressed the council's readiness to work responsibly with the leadership of the Saudi-UAE alliance in managing the current crisis and its consequences in Aden.

His deputy, Hani Ben Brik, said the negotiations were neither under threat nor under bombardment, and he was commenting on Saudi Arabia's position.

After Saudi Arabia summoned the parties to the conflict in Aden to meet on its territory, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz met with Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi in Mecca and discussed the latest developments.

The official Saba news agency reported that King Salman expressed his rejection of the coup of the UAE-backed southern transitional council against the Yemeni government in Aden.

According to the agency, the Salman "expressed his rejection of the practices of the Transitional Council, which targets the institutions of the military, security and civilian, and his rejection of all that would undermine the institutions of the state."

The separatists of the south launched the latest attack after accusing the government of submitting to Islah, using the pretext of terrorism to justify their operations.

According to the Associated Press that the fighting that took place in Aden during the four days left about seventy people were killed.