MIDDLE EAST-AFRICA-SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A002400080001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 22, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Middle East -Africa -South Asia
Secret
No. 1036/75
December 22, 1975
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North Yemen
Foes of Hamdi Stirring
Opponents of Command Covncil Chairman Lieutenant
Colonel Ibrahim Hamdi, who have been quiescent in
recent weeks, have begun to cause new problems for
A former command council member, Lieutenant
Colonel Mujahid Abu Shuwarrib, has holed up in his
home in tribal areas in the northern part of the
country and is attempting to provoke clashes between
tribesmen and government troops. A few exchanges of
gunfire have occurred. Two soldiers were killed
recently, but government forces have not taken any
retaliator action
Abu Shuwarrib, brother-in-law of al-Ahmar--leader
of North Yemen's largest tribal federation--has
authored and distributed anti-Hamdi broadsides to
tribesmen and military officers. The North Yemeni
leader is accused of bringing "democracy" in the
country to an end by not preparing the country
for the election of a new consultative assembly.
Meanwhile, another old opponent of Hamdi,
Sheikh Sinan Abu Luhum, has recently returned to North
Yemen from his exile in Cairo. He went there earlier
this year following Hamdi's successful purge of
Abu Luhum family members from key military posts.
Security officials have recently uncovered
evidence of other anti-regime activity in the southern
part of the country. Investigation of a murder in a
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small village near Taiz led to the discovery of
documents dealing with the distribuation of money,
arms, and propaganda material from South Yemen
to North Yemeni political groups opposed to Hamdi's
rule. The documents indicated that a new organization
called the "Resistors" has been created by Aden
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