Almotamar.net - The Yemeni Deputy Premier for Defence and Security Affairs Rashad al-Alimi has called on the parliament on Monday to finalise the draft law for regulating carrying weapons and fighting terror, indicating that the government suffers from the problem of weapons spread phenomenon among the citizens.
Al-Alimi said, "If we leave the phenomenon armament it lead to political, social and economic problems." He added that the government has a plan for disarming people of medium weapons based on giving a grace period of six months to all citizens to give up their weapons and to confiscate them after the end of the grace period.
Al-Alimi summed up the challenges facing Yemen with al-Qaeda organization, al-Houthi insurgency and acts of sabotage in some eastern and western areas. Against that the head of the General People's Congress GPC bloc in the parliament Sultan al-Barakani said that the problem that all must admit is that in Yemen there part of the Yemenis that is not of the Yemeni state, they are who can be described as outlaws, querying the reasons why the state does not practice its authorities against the outlaws.
Commenting on the phenomenon of carrying weapons al-Barakani said a merchant has brought 300 million bullets into Yemen , and attributed the problems in the south to the economic crisis but he queried about the role of the crisis in relation to the issue of kidnapping he wondered how someone carrying a gun is considered as violating the law whereas a person moving with ten cars full of gunmen as not violating the law , saying ," We want to walk putting on our suits not carrying out rifles ," refusing what he called as deeming issues as superficial.
The ministers of interior Mutahar al-Masri and the defence Mohammed Nasser Ahmed held Tareq al-Fadli as responsible for the killing of two of security men and the injury of ten others , among them deputy director of Zunjibar , Abyan , in addition to 12 persons killed or wounded on last Thursday . He indicated that an arrest warrant would be issued by the prosecution against al-Fadli.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
Call for walking without guns 
