Dozens of Saudi military and armored vehicles left on Wednesday Al-Wadiah border crossing towards Yemeni territory.
Sources familiar with the matter said that the countless vehicles left the Al-Wadiah crossing, likely heading towards the city of Aden, and Seiyun, the capital of the districts of Wadi Hadhramaut.
The sources pointed out the Saudi reinforcements towards Yemen indicates dangerous developments in the southern military scene, after Riyadh established the forces of the so-called “Dera Al-Watan forces” (Shield of the Homeland) belonging to extremist Salafist groups from the southern provinces.
On Tuesday, Mohammed Taher Anam, a leader of the “Salafi Rashad Party” and an advisor to the Supreme Political Council in Sanaa, confirmed that Saudi Arabia’s formation of those Salafi-jihadi forces a studied intelligence step to complicate political solutions in Yemen.
Earlier, The head of the UAE’s Center for Political Studies, Khalid al-Shamiri, confirmed that the forces established by Saudi Arabia “Dera Al-Watan forces” (Shield of the Homeland) are composed out of extremist Salafist group linked to al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
