Haaretz has published details of another communication from the Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen which exposes an al Qaeda in Yemen training manual sent to terrorists in Gaza about how to build a light airplane for a terror attack.
In several earlier communications, a person identifying himself as Ali Hussein and representing himself as a member of the Houthi rebels sent scanned copies of intercepted communications from al Qaeda in Yemen to an anti-Hamas Salafi group in Gaza.
Al Qaeda in Yemen is planning to send Somalis refugees from Yemen to Gaza through Egypt for attacks. The terror group also discussed launching a rocket from Saudi Arabia on a nuclear reactor in Israel. The Houthis, in sending the letters, are trying to demonstrate the difference between their ideology and al Qaeda's in a bid to elicit support for their cause, which they say is an end to discrimination by the Yemeni government.
Haaretz previously quoted from an al Qaeda in Yemen letter to their counterparts in Gaza. "We made great efforts to dispatch fighters from [Yemen] to the Gaza Strip but the Hamas government returned them, claiming that they do not need fighters. We did not know then that you [the Salafist group] are in Gaza but thank God we now have a link. Regarding what you mentioned in your message about us, we would like to emphasize an important issue, that your brothers in Yemen do not forget the cause of Al-Aqsa and our brethren in Palestine, all of Palestine, and there is no difference in our eyes between one and another area... We ask you for details on a number of things," the letter is quoted as saying.
In another letter from Yemen, Yemen’s al Qaeda ask that Gaza Al-Qaida targets Jews and Hamas activists, because “the group has completed the work of the Jews by killing members of our group and we would like to deter Jews around the world through you by asking you to kill Yemenite Jews or do anything that you consider right, especially not allowing the representatives of the Hamas government to move about Yemen.”
The most recent communication names Sami al Mutairi as financier and coordinator of al Qaeda operations in the Palestinian territories. Several issues of the Al Qaeda in Yemen magazine, Sada al Malahim, addressed the centrality of Gaza to the groups goals. But while al Qaeda in Yemen maintains a high media visibility, there are several other al Qaeda groupings and individuals in Yemen, associated with external cells, that operate under the radar.
The Houthi rebels’ ideology is diametrically opposed to al Qaeda and overtly condemns attacks on civilians. Jewish people lived in Sa'ada alongside the Yemenis of the Shia Zaidi sect for centuries without incident. Wahabbi extremists in Yemen were responsible for the recent targeting of Yemen's Jews and the murder of the Rabbi Masha al-Nahari in 2009.
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