Saleh: President al-Hamdi murder was supervised directly by the Saudi military attache

Yemen President Saleh for the first time reveals that Saudi regime killed President al-Hamdi, confirming that there are evidences

The death of Ex Yemen president Ibrahim al-Hamdi in October 1977 was a murder. For the 1st time, I now reveal that it was the Saudis who murdered him. They conspired against him, and his murder was supervised directly by the Saudi military attache Saleh Al-Hadyan, who carried out Riyadh's instructions

president Ibrahim al-Hamdi
president Ibrahim al-Hamdi
Yemen President Saleh confirmed that war on Yemen - Apart from all allegations and justifications that were given recently to promote intervention and aggression - has been prepared and conspired since the Tenth National Day celebration of the Re-unification that (held in May 22, 2000)

In a televised speech with RT (TV) published on Satarday, he said that since Arab leaders, including ones in Saudi Arabia atteneded and saw the vast and orderly crowd, whether military or popular in the Tenth National Day celebration of the Re-unification, they began to weave the plot against the Yemeni people

"A plot has been made against the Yemeni people. An unreasonable aggression against us has been prepared. Strikes at military, economic, cultural and social targets have been conducted, the whole infrastructure [has been targeted]. A total destruction of everything is taking place... I'm talking about Saudi aggression," Ali Abdullah Saleh told RT Arabic in an exclusive interview this week

In the aftermath of thousands of Yemeni civilians’ deaths at the hands of the Saudi-led coalition, Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh told RT that there is no difference between the Saudi regime and terror groups like Islamic State and Al-Qaeda

The former Yemeni president, said that his nation has no conflict with any country in the world, but Saudi Arabia

"They attacked us, we didn't attack them. They are killing our women, our elderly and children. Why? We've never had any religious disputes. Why have they appeared now? We have our religious views, you have yours. Why are you [Saudis] killing the Yemeni people, who are your neighbors and brothers?" President Saleh said

The major terror groups are all derived from the Muslim Brotherhood organization, which itself, according to him, "is an invention of the Saudis
"Al-Qaeda, ISIL [Islamic State, IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] and Al-Nusra are all derivatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was invented and raised in Saudi Arabia. These organizations also operate in Russia and in Europe. All of them are Saudi Arabia's invention. Later Qatar and Turkey have also started using them, and finance them to achieve their own goals. There were none of them in Yemen for a long while, and everything that then appeared came from Saudi Arabia under different names, [such as] Salafis, Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda" president Saleh added

The former president, told RT that the damage to his country "amounts to billions" of dollars

"More than 8,000 people have been killed. There were a lot of children, women and elderly among them. And I'm talking only about the number of casualties among the civilian population. Furthermore, 27,000 people have been injured. All of these people are casualties of the Saudi regime," Saleh said

The former president said that his country has been devastated, with no income from tax, very little from customs, and no money from oil or gas. The latter is only produced for domestic needs, he said

"And if there is some oil, it's being controlled and sold by Al-Qaeda in Hadramaut [a region in Yemen on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula] and Shabwah [a governorate in central Yemen]. They sell it on the market within the country. Al-Qaeda gets all the money from it. And this all happens in full view of the Saudi regime. They tell the world, which doesn't want to understand anything: 'We are against Al-Qaeda.' What Al-Qaeda, what ISIL? They are ISIL. They are Al-Qaeda. Everyone knows what this regime is about. It buys people's conscience by making buy and sell deals on weapons, as well as inking political deals by paying money to influential people in different countries of the world... Saudi Arabia pursues only its own interests, he confirmed

Yemen's ex-leader also said that while Saudi Arabia uses claims that there are Iran's forces in Yemen "to justify its aggression," no such support is coming from Tehran

"We would like to receive some military and other aid from Iran. But it's not helping us," Saleh said, calling Iran's presence in his country a "fiction." Saying that the US "has the most powerful intelligence services working in all countries and knowing and seeing everything," not a single Iranian military and no Iranian weapon has been discovered in Yemen. "Should they have found anything, it would long have been put on UN's agenda," president told RT

Saleh says that the exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, whose forces are based in Aden and who is supported by Saudi Arabia, "has no legitimacy.” He should "render himself to the international tribunal as a war criminal," Saleh said, adding that opposition forces only support dialogue with the people of Yemen

The future of Yemen "should not be discussed neither in Geneva, nor in Kuwait," the president said, adding that he and his supporters only recognize the unity of the country in accordance with its constitution and people's referendum on the matter

"A government of national unity with participation of various political forces should be formed in the first place," Saleh said, adding that new parliamentary and presidential elections should be prepared in Yemen in accordance with its constitution. "But not the constitution of Hadi, which has divided Yemen," he added

Saying that he now heads an opposition party which is "in opposition to any power in principle," but is in coalition with other forces "to fight the aggressors," the former president told RT that he would never again agree to be in power himself.

"I've been part of the political process for 45 years. Enough for me," he said