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Yemen's Houthi militia close in on president's Aden base
BY MOHAMMED MUKHASHEF
ADEN Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:56am EDT
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Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi take
positions on the frontline of fighting against Houthi fighters in the country's southern province of Lahej
March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Nabeel Quaiti
Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi take
positions on the frontline of fighting against Houthi fighters in the country's southern province of Lahej
March 24, 2015.
CREDIT: REUTERS/NABEEL QUAITI
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(Reuters) - Houthi militia forces in Yemen backed by allied army units seized an air base on Wednesday
and appeared poised to capture the southern port of Aden from defenders loyal to President Abd-Rabbu
Mansour Hadi, local residents said.
After taking al-Anad air base, the Houthis and their military allies, supported by heavy armor, advanced
to within 20 km (12 miles) of Aden, where Hadi has been holed up since fleeing the Houthi-controled
capital Sanaa last month.
Soldiers at Aden's Jabal al-Hadeed barracks fired into the air to prevent residents from entering the base
and arming themselves, witnesses said, suggesting that Hadi's control over the city was fraying.
Houthi fighters and allied military units had advanced to Dar Saad, a village a half-hour's drive from
central Aden, residents there said.
Earlier, unidentified warplanes fired missiles at the Aden neighborhood where Hadi's compound is
located, residents said. Anti-aircraft batteries opened fire on the planes.
The city's airport was closed and all flights were canceled for security reasons, guards at the facility told
Reuters.
Yemen's slide towards civil war has made the country a crucial front in mostly Sunni Saudi Arabia's
rivalry with Shi'ite Iran, which Riyadh accuses of stirring up sectarian strife through its support for the
Houthis.
Sunni Arab monarchies around Yemen have condemned the Shi'ite Houthi takeover as a coup and have
mooted a military intervention in favor of Hadi in recent days.
U.S. officials say Saudi Arabia is moving heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its
border with Yemen, raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the
worsening Yemeni conflict.
Saudi sources said the build-up, which also included tanks, was purely defensive.
While the battle for Aden is publicly being waged by the Houthi movement, many there believe that the
real instigator of the campaign is former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a fierce critic of Hadi.
It was Saleh who was the author of Aden's previous humiliation in 1994, when as president he crushed a
southern secessionist uprising in a short but brutal war.
Unlike other regional leaders deposed in the Arab Spring, Saleh was allowed to remain in the country.
HOUTHI ADVANCE
Army loyalists close to Saleh on Wednesday warned against foreign interference, saying on his party
website that Yemen would confront such a move "with all its strength".
Diplomats say they suspect the Houthis want to take Aden before an Arab summit this weekend, to
preempt an expected attempt by Hadi ally Saudi Arabia to rally Arab support at the gathering for
military intervention in Yemen.
Yemeni officials denied reports that Hadi had fled Aden.
The Arab League will on Thursday discuss a proposal by Yemen's foreign minister, who called on Arab
states to intervene militarily to halt the Houthi advance, the regional body's deputy secretary general
said.
The Houthi advance was taking its toll. The bodies of fighters from both sides lay on the streets of the
outskirts of Houta, capital of Lahej province north of Aden, residents said.
In Houta, storefronts were shuttered and residents reported hearing bursts of machine gun fire and saw
the bodies of fighters from both sides lying in the streets.
Eyewitnesses said Houthi fighters and allied soldiers largely bypassed the city center and traveled by dirt
roads to the southern suburbs facing Aden.
In Aden, heavy traffic clogged Aden as parents brought schoolchildren home and public sector
employees obeyed orders to leave work. Eyewitnesses said pro-Hadi militiamen and tribal gunmen were
out in force throughout the city.
"The war is imminent and there is no escape from it," said 21-year-old Mohammed Ahmed, standing
outside a security compound in Aden's Khor Maksar district, where hundreds of young men have been
signing up to fight the advancing Shi'ite fighters.
"And we are ready for it.
The northern Houthi militia alongside army units loyal to Saleh have driven back an array of tribal
fighters, army units and southern separatist militiamen loyal to Hadi.
Houthi militants took control of Sanaa in September and seized the central city of Taiz at the weekend as
they moved closer to Aden.
Houthi leaders have said their advance is a revolution against Hadi and his corrupt government, and Iran
has blessed their rise as part of an "Islamic awakening" in the region.
While Hadi has vowed to check the Houthi push south and called for Arab military support, his reversals
have multiplied since heavy fighting first broke out in south Yemen on Thursday and the Houthis began
making rapid advances southward.
(Reporting By Mohammed Mukhashaf, Sami Aboudi, Mohammed Ghobari and Noah Browning; Editing
by Giles Elgood)
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