The Yemeni military leader in Yemen Adel Al-Hassani said that the Saudis provided the leaders of the Yemeni resistance with a secret file containing the secret agenda of the UAE in Yemen, such as its quest to control all vital facilities and ports in the south and the formation of militias outside the state to assassinate the opponents of the UAE, including leaders of Islah (reform) party at the top of the list.
Al-Hassani said in an exclusive interview with Al-Jazeera in the program “Without Borders” broadcast by the channel on Saturday evening that Saudi Arabia has specific information about the names of the figures that the UAE wants to liquidate. Pointing out that what he called “gangs bin Zayed” in the south of Yemen has so far killed one hundred Islamic personalities between Imam and preacher and military commander in the resistance, and that what is happening now in southern Yemen is what he saw in the Saudi secret file.
Brutal prisons
He said that he was arrested in August 2016 after he refused a request for Emiratis to work with them in a plan to assassinate Sheikh Ahmed Saleh al-Eisy, deputy director of the office of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, when he visited Aden. Where Emiratis see him as the responsible of the presidential brigades who have been able to prevent the UAE militias from taking control of the city.
Al-Hassani said that all those in secret prisons are Emirati and Colombian and there is no Yemeni there. He explained the brutal methods in these prisons of beatings, electrocution and threats of rape, and that some prisoners were brought to the cells while bleeding after the insertion of iron machines in them . He confirmed that 42 people had been killed under torture, including Saeed al-Dobahi and Shukri al-Saqqaf.
Al-Hassani added that the Saudi officers expressed to them that they are very upset by the practices of the UAE in the south of Yemen, and that they do not support these militias because they are outside the legitimate authorities.
UAE proxies in Yemen
Al-Hassani revealed number of Yemeni personalities who carry out the UAE agenda in Yemen, including Hani Brik, who he described as the first UAE policeman in Yemen, Shallal Shaia, Munir al-Yamamah, Saleh al-Sayyid and Abdullah al-Fadhli. He said that an Emirati intelligence officer named Abu Khalifa Saeed al- Muhairy is the superviser of assassinations file, arrests, looting, and drug trafficking in southern Yemen.
Al-Hassani is the first leader in the southern resistance and the first detainee released from the prisons of the Emirates in Aden who provide statements about the events there, and who provide information for the first time about the hidden role of the UAE in Aden and southern Yemen, and details of what is going on inside the UAE secret prisons and the role of foreign mercenaries there.