🇾🇪 YEMINI TRIBES TURNING AGAINST HOUTHIS
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Tribes in al-Jawf are turning against the Houthis terrorists after the arrest of a Sana’a woman known as “Mira,” who says she is Saddam Hussein’s daughter.
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🇾🇪 YEMINI TRIBES TURNING AGAINST HOUTHIS
Tribes in al-Jawf are turning against the Houthis terrorists after the arrest of a Sana’a woman known as “Mira,” who says she is Saddam Hussein’s daughter.
The al-Yatma tribes, historically neutral or supportive of the Houthis terrorists, are now threatening armed action if she is not freed. According to reports, she entered Yemen in 2003 and was concealed under a different identity by the Saleh regime.
A Woman Claiming to Be Saddam's Daughter Is Threatening to Topple Houthi
[Jfeed] The arrest of a woman known only as "Mira," who says she is the secret youngest daughter of Saddam Hussein, has ignited a tribal uprising that could become the most serious internal challenge to Houthi rule in years.
Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
is rarely short of drama. But even by its turbulent standards, the story convulsing the country this week reads like something stranger than fiction, and it may have real consequences for the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militia's grip on the country's north.
At its centre is a woman in her thirties who goes by the name "Mira," living in the Houthi-controlled capital Sana'a. She claims that in 2003, as Baghdad fell to US forces, Saddam Hussein secretly smuggled her to Yemen to save her life, placing her under the protection of then-Yemeni President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it. He was eventually tossed from office and the Hadi goverment installed. When the Houthis rebeled he and his multiple son thought he could claw back to power. Then he saw the way the land actually lay and struck out on his own, briefly, until the Houthis caught him at a checkpoint and murdered him. It was all very sad...., who had maintained close ties with the Iraqi dictator. She lived there under the alias "Sumaya Ahmed al-Zubaidi" with a family close to the Yemeni presidency, her true identity concealed.
Her case came to light when she accused Houthi leaders of seizing her home in the upscale Hadda district of Sana'a, along with money, jewellery, cars, and sensitive personal documents, including what she says is an Iraqi diplomatic passport bearing the name "Mira Saddam Hussein."
She says she was secretly detained and transferred to a central prison, where she served a year before being released.
A TRIBAL GESTURE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
What transformed a murky personal dispute into a potential political earthquake was a single act rooted in ancient Arab custom. In a video that spread rapidly across social media, Mira cut off her braid, a traditional plea for help and protection in Yemeni and Arab tribal culture, one that carries enormous symbolic weight and obligates tribes to respond.
The tribes of al-Jawf province entered the fray almost immediately. On Saturday, a tribal meeting was held at the home of Sheikh Hamad bin Rashid bin Daghm, attended by sheikhs and members of the Dahm tribe, to discuss their next steps. A tribal delegation then travelled to Sana'a to meet with Naji Abdulaziz al-Shaif, the chief of the Bakil sheikhs.
Sheikh Hamad affirmed that supporting Mira is a duty "regardless of the validity of her claim to be Saddam Hussein's daughter." For the tribes of al-Jawf — Sunni Arab communities with deep ties to pan-Arab identity, geographically and culturally closer to the broader Arab world than much of Yemen — the arrest of a woman claiming the bloodline of one of the Arab world's most iconic, if deeply divisive
...politicians call things
divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never
divisive,they're
principled...
, leaders is an affront they say they cannot ignore.
THE HOUTHIS' PROBLEM
Until now, the tribes of al-Jawf have maintained a careful neutrality under Houthi rule, which has controlled the region since 2020. That posture now appears to be crumbling, over the arrest of one woman, and a story whose truth has yet to be established.
The Houthi authorities in Sana'a categorically reject Mira's claims, accusing her of impersonating Saddam Hussein's daughter and forging official documents for financial gain. A court affiliated with the group convicted her and confiscated the documents in her possession.
Mira, for her part, says she possesses a DNA test from Egypt that proves her lineage, and has publicly called on Saddam's publicly known daughters, Raghad, Hala, and Rana, to come forward and either confirm or deny her claims. None has responded.
| They may not know. But a DNA test done in Egypt should be redone in a more reputable country, just so there’s no question. |