Английская Википедия:Fares Manaa
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Fares Mohammed Manaa (Шаблон:Lang-ar; born February 8, 1965)[1][2] is a top Yemeni arms-dealer,[1][2] businessman,[3] rebel commander and politician.[4] He is said to be Yemen's most famous arms-dealer.[5] Manaa was born on February 8, 1965, in the northern city of Saada.[2] He was an ally of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and member of his ruling GPC party[4] and served as head of his presidential committee and as head of a local council tasked with mediating a peace-deal between the Yemeni government and Houthis during the Shia insurgency in Yemen. His brother was the governor of Saada Governorate at the time.[3][6]
His name was put on a UN Security Council list of people accused of trafficking arms to Somali Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab,[1][2] which is considered as a terrorist organisation by the United States[7] and is accused of with al-Qaeda.[8] This led to his assets being frozen by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.[9][10] He was also accused of receiving millions in funds from the then Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi,[11] spying for Libya and supplying arms to the Houthis.[10] Manaa denied these charges claiming that arms had been stolen by Houthis from an arms deposit he owned. In October 2009[12] was put at the top of a blacklist of Yemeni arms-dealers, after which he was put under surveillance.[1][2][10]
In late January 2010, Manaa was arrested by Yemeni authorities[12] leading to protests in Sa'dah by tribal chiefs and the resignation of his brother, Hassan Manaa, as governor.[13] In May, a mini-bus driver was killed and a policeman and a civilian woman were injured[12] as a group of Manaa's men attacked the car in which he was being transported to a penal court. This resulted in his trial being delayed by 25 days.[10][12] He was eventually released on June 4,[12] after which his relations with President Saleh soured.[4]
On March 19, Houthis attacked the city of Sa'dah,[14] starting a battle with pro-government al-Abdin tribesmen,[4] led by Yemeni lawmaker Sheikh Othman Majali.[15] During the battle, rebels joined forces with Fares Manaa[10] and after their victory,[4][15] set up a local committee, composed of rebels, residents and defected military commanders,[16] which appointed him as the new governor of Sa'dah on 26 March, after the pro-Saleh governor Taha Hajer fled to the capital Sanaa.[4][15] He led the Houthis independent administration in Saada governorate[15] until December 2014.[17]
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 EUR-Lex REGULATIONS: COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 956/2011, 26 September 2011
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 United Nations Security Council SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON SOMALIA AND ERITREA ISSUES LIST OF INDIVIDUALS: IDENTIFIED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH 8 OF RESOLUTION 1844 (2008), 12 April 2010
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Sa'ada tribal leaders protest "weapons dealer" imprisonment Шаблон:Webarchive, February 20, 2010
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 4,4 4,5 Houthis Control Sa'ada, Help Appoint Governor Шаблон:Webarchive, 29 March 2011
- ↑ Al-Ahram Saleh stalls as Yemen unravels Шаблон:Webarchive, March 30, 2011
- ↑ Sana'a Cards to Pressurize Houthis to Enter New Dialogue Rounds, 10 April 2010
- ↑ United States Department of State Foreign Terrorist Organizations, September 15, 2011
- ↑ allafrica Who's Backing Al Shabaab? - Al Qaeda, Eritrea?, October 31, 2011
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 10,2 10,3 10,4 Yemeni weapons dealer releasedШаблон:Dead link, 21-06-2010
- ↑ Mana'a and al-Ahmar received money from Gaddafi to shake security of KSA, Yemen
- ↑ 12,0 12,1 12,2 12,3 12,4 Google News Driver killed in Sanaa hit on police convoy, May 11, 2010
- ↑ Sa'ada tribal leaders protest "weapons dealer" imprisonment Шаблон:Webarchive, 20 February 2010
- ↑ Sa'ada: A Cry for Help
- ↑ 15,0 15,1 15,2 15,3 Houthi Group Appoints Arms Dealer as Governor of Sa'ada province
- ↑ The Washington Post Yemen crisis intensifies with factory explosion, March 29, 2011
- ↑ United Nations Security Council Final report of the Panel of Experts on Yemen established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2140 (2014) paragraph 75
