Alwaght- Recent ISIS bomb attack in Yemeni city of Aden targeted forces preparing to fight Yemeni Ansarullah Movement, which is ISIS' enemy too, so the attack was actually an attack on allies, Lebanese analyst told RT.
At least 54 people have been killed, when a suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden car into a compound used by Saudi-backed militia in Aden on Monday.
Speaking to RT, Marwa Osma, a Lebanese analyst, said “They targeted a school compound which consists of the Popular Committee Forces who are allied with Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who was the president who resigned twice before the war in Yemen. So, they targeted these people who are already in war with “Ansar Allah” also known as the Houthis in the mainstream media. So, they are now targeting supposedly their own allies”.
Calling it a “personal vendetta”, the Lebanon-based Marwa believes the attack shows kind of gang problem since Saudis have been supporting and arming both the pro-Hadi forces and ISIS everywhere in west Asia.
“It is not a fight of fighting ISIS or fighting people who are there to try and liberate Yemen. No, because the actual thing is that both groups, these popular movements which are Hadi’s supporters and ISIS – they are both fighting “Ansarullah” which is also getting beaten by the Saudi-led coalition. So, this is more of who is going to control the area” She said.
In response to a question about the possibility of ISIS being used by Saudi Arabia as a “proxy army”, Marwa said “it is the only fact on the ground because up until now, since March 25, 2015 when the US coalition led by the Saudis ran… all over Yemen, they have never - not even once - targeted all of the Al-Qaeda-ISIS wilayat”.
ISIS is active in eight Walayats in Yemen, none of which have been targeted by Saudi forces since 25 March 2015 when the Kingdom initiated its airstrikes against Yemen to restore the refugee president Mansour Hadi, who currently lives in Riyadh.
“They [ISIS] are actually there to run the on-ground incursion for the Saudis. And up until now they have not been able to do that; they were not able to go to Sana’a or to Saada for that matter. They only have been targeting Aden as we just saw today”, she told RT.
Pointing to Saudi funding and support for ISIS groups in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria, Osma adds “that is what we have been saying since the beginning of 2010 and all 2011 when Al-Qaeda was changing into ISIS based on the ideology of Wahhabism, which is diffused and brought upon us by the monarchy of Al-Saud. Where they have got their weapons from, where they were funded from? It was obvious; we had all the reports and also the statements from both Qatar and Saudi Arabia”.
Riyadh's 500-day-old aggression has so far claimed lives of about 10,000 and injured over 16,000. The indiscriminate Saudi strikes have displaced more than 2.5 million and caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the Arab state
