Newly released documents show extensive US role in war against Ansarullah since 2004

Newly released documents show extensive US role in war against Ansarullah since 2004

The National Salvation Government of Yemen has published on Friday the second series of secret documents revealing the direct role of the US in leading the war against the Yemeni revolutionary movement led by Sayyid Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi from 2004 onwards.

The documents affirmed that US reconnaissance planes made aerial maps and determined coordinates in the war on the Ansarullah movement and allied revolutionaries since the first war in 2004, and continued to do so during the conflicts that followed until the end of 2010.

The documents included a number of letters and minutes of meetings between the Ali Abdullah Saleh government, represented by the Defence Ministry and the General Staff, and the American side represented by the US military attache to Yemen at that time.

The conflict originally erupted in 2004, when the then government of Yemen, led by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, issued a bounty against Sayyid Hussein al-Houthi, who was an elected member of parliament at the time. Even though Sayyid Hussein al-Houthi was murdered soon after, the US-backed puppet government failed in defeating the revolutionary movement, in a conflict that would eventually result in the victory of the September 21 Revolution of 2014.