The role played by the southern armed forces in purging Abyan Governorate from terrorism 2011-2021

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 The southern popular movement in the southern governorates, which began on July 7, 2007, and its beginning was with the Association of Military and Security Retired Persons who were dismissed from their work after the war to invade the south on 7/7/1994, constituted a painful blow to the northern occupation regime in Sana'a.
 As soon as the demands of the Southern Movement exceeded equality and restore the demobilized military and civilians, to demand independence and the restoration of the state for southern Yemen.
  The northern occupation regime tried with all kinds of force to extinguish the fire of the Southern Movement, which expanded in all the southern governorates. Despite the occupation regime's use of military force, arrests, torture, chases, and assassinations, it failed miserably to extinguish the fire of the Southern Movement.
 Here, the northern occupation regime began using the Arab Afghans, who participated with the occupation regime in the war to invade the south in 1994 AD. The occupation regime included all the Arab Afghans in the northern armed forces and then ordered them to invade the south, but this time using the name Al-Qaeda.
 And the northern military brigades in southern Yemen turned into warehouses for terrorism in the name of al-Qaeda. From these camps, the northern soldiers used to carry al-Qaeda banners and would like to see them. From here, the occupation regime in Sanaa began handing over the southern provinces to al-Qaeda, and the first province to be handed over was Abyan, after the speech of the occupation president  Al-Shamali Ali Abdullah Saleh, who said that terrorism is the alternative and that the first provinces to fall into the hands of al-Qaeda is Abyan province.
 Al-Qaeda occupation of Lauder district:
 Al-Qaeda was present in the city of Lawdar before the events of Ramadan 2010, and it remained in the city until 2011, when the popular committees expelled it.
  Then Al-Qaeda returned to the occupation of Lauder for the second time in April 2012 and lasted for a month and a half until mid-June 2012 AD, then returned for the third time to occupy Lauder after the 2015 war against Al-Houthi and left Lauder after the arrival of the security belt led by the martyr Rushdi Al-Alwani.
 * Formation of the Southern People's Committees "Southern Armed Forces"
 A sporadic resistance began in the Abyan governorate against al-Qaeda members, and then soon the formation of what was called at the time by the popular committees, "the Southern Forces now", was not a new experience created by the state of insecurity in these areas, but rather existed previously in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen under the name "The Militia".  The People's Republic, which was able to protect the security of the governorate in light of the collapse of the northern occupation authority, the Sana'a regime.
 After the Al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Sharia occupied the city of Lawdar on April 9, 2010 AD, a group of Lawdar’s sons gathered in the form of an armed group called “People’s Committees” that rejected the presence of al-Qaeda and entered into a war with it for a month and managed on May 16, 2011 AD to liberate the city of Lawdar from al-Qaeda.  month and was able on May 16, 2012 AD to liberate the city of Lauder from al-Qaeda.
 Baluder's People's Committees were the first nucleus in the formation of popular committees in the directorates of the Abyan Delta "Zanzibar and Khanfar", in which officers, soldiers, and non-commissioned officers from the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen were involved.
 ** The Southern People’s Committees in Abyan Governorate proved strength and ingenuity in the street and hit-and-run wars against Al-Qaeda, and they gained great skill in it and outperformed the organization and were able to defeat it with the fewest number and number and with limited capabilities.
 In addition to protecting the security of the governorate, the people's committees took care of citizens' complaints and disputes, separated the litigants, organized traffic and organized markets, including the market for khat, vegetables, fish and street vendors.  Between quarrels, traffic regulation, and market regulation, including the market for khat, vegetables, fish, and street vendors.***
 *:The strategic importance of Zanzibar and Khanfar:
 Zanzibar is located on the Gulf of Aden, about 54 kilometers from Aden, east of the "strategic" Bab al-Mandab strait. "About three million barrels of oil pass through the strait daily."
 Capturing Jaar would make it easier for AQAP to bring in supplies from its former stronghold of Mukalla in Hadramawt province to attack Aden.
 Reasons for Al-Qaeda's occupation of Abyan Zanzibar and Khanfar delta:
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 The occupation regime in Sana’a tried to present a presentation to the people’s committees in Abyan in order to make it a means to strike the southern movement in the governorate, as it was intended to:
 1- Withdrawal of weapons from all the Southern Movement factions.
 2- Paralyzing the Southern Resistance Movement.
 3- Implementation of a campaign of arrests of southern leaders and symbols.
 4- Leaving the naming of the Southern Resistance, and adopting the naming of the Popular Resistance.
 5- Declaring allegiance to Yemeni unity and legitimacy.
 In return, all members of the People's Committees will be granted to the Yemeni army, in addition to granting its leadership all the privileges they request.
 
 * The first occupation of the Abyan Zanzibar and Khanfar delta by Al-Qaeda:
 Al-Qaeda seized the Abyan, Zanzibar and Khanfar delta in March 2011 until May 2012.
 * The second occupation of the delta of Abyan, Zanzibar and Khanfar by Al-Qaeda:
 In early December 2015 to June 2016, 300 militants belonging to Al-Qaeda attacked and captured Zanzibar.
 The looting of Zanzibar and Khanfar:
 Al-Qaeda looted the National Bank of Yemen and the Central Bank of Yemen in full, as well as looted Zanzibar Post and Jaar Post, and looted all government facilities with everything in it in a wave of looting and looting that was not witnessed in Zanzibar and Khanfar except in the war of the invasion of the south in 94AD by North Yemen.
 * Destruction of Zanzibar:
 After the occupation of the city of Zanzibar, al-Qaeda members spread in buildings, between citizens' homes, government facilities, and mosques, and exchanged artillery shelling with the 15 Meca Brigade, to which the organization's members belong. They destroyed the city, in addition to the bombing of the city, which destroyed the city in an unprecedented way.
 The People’s Committees “Southern Forces” were formed in 2012, and the People’s Committees fought a guerrilla war with Ansar al-Sharia, where the members of the People’s Committees used rough roads because the organization controlled the main roads in the governorate towards the east, and they walked on foot for long distances from  The news of Al-Marrakesh goes to Jamis and then to Batis, on a journey that takes about 18 hours on foot, then they carry out their attack against the Ansar al-Sharia organization points and return to their places.
 * Food insurance
 Members of the People's Committees were hiding food, bread, dates and water in the cracks of the mountains in anticipation of any siege or chase with Ansar al-Sharia.
 Weapon Transfer:
 Members of the People's Committees were transporting weapons and equipment on donkeys and camels to their locations.
 The first battle against Ansar al-Sharia:
 The first battle between the popular committees and Ansar al-Sharia was on 15 Ramadan 8/15/2011 AD.
 The battle began when the martyr Abdullah Sanad Atef and his brother, Alawi Sanad, created a point at the entrance to the Mashrou’ neighborhood, so al-Qaeda attacked the point and the battle began in the traditional irrigation project neighborhood.
 The People's Committees "Southern Forces" also had a major and pivotal role in the Battle of the Golden Swords and achieving a great victory over Ansar al-Sharia, affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
 Where the people’s committees drained the organization from the inside through lightning attacks on the organization’s points in the streets of Zanzibar and Jaar and on the main lines, which are the Zanzibar Jaar line and the Jaar Al-Hosn Bates line, which the popular committees were able to kill important elements in the organization, including foreign experts in the manufacture of explosives.
 At the beginning of the Houthi war, the popular committees participated with the southern resistance in protecting the port of Aden and the government, military and security offices in the governorate of Aden.
 In 2015, under the pretext of fighting Al-Houthi, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula returned and seized Zanzibar and Jaar.
 Security belt:
 In March 2016, the Southern People's Committees turned into the Security Belt and Rapid Intervention Forces, led by Abdul Latif al-Sayed, who was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
 The Security Belt, also known as the Support and Support Forces, is affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council, led by President Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and the Southern Resistance. It helped maintain security and stability in the southern governorates, in Aden, Lahj and Abyan.
 The Security Belt forces fought against the Brotherhood militias, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Islamic State (ISIS), then the Islamic State - Yemen Province, and the Houthi militias.
 The total number of the Security Belt forces in Aden, Lahj and Abyan is 13,000 thirteen thousand fighters, of which 3,000 three thousand fighters are in Abyan governorate.
 The liberation of the security belt forces of the cities of Zanzibar and Jaar from al-Qaeda:
 The Security Belt forces managed to recapture the cities of Zanzibar and Jaar from the Ansar al-Sharia organization affiliated with al-Qaeda in 2017.
 When the Security Belt forces entered the cities of Zanzibar and Jaar, they did not meet any resistance from Ansar al-Sharia, which fled to the central Abyan districts.
 Campaigns carried out by the security belts of the southern forces against terrorist groups in Abyan:
 September 13, 2017
 October 2017
 March 2018
 August 2019
 The plan of terrorist operations in Abyan governorate targeted the southern forces only
 Terrorist groups did not stop targeting the southern armed forces with terrorist operations, which varied between attacks on points, assassinations, explosive devices, kidnappings, or shelling with mortars.
 As the number of terrorist operations carried out against the southern armed forces in 2019, for example, twenty-four terrorist operations, 24 operations.
 Despite the scarcity of capabilities and the failure to receive salaries regularly, the southern armed forces carried out their duty to the fullest, as they arrested many criminals, murderers and terrorists in less than 24 hours for committing crimes.
 Reducing the spread of drugs:
 In the field of drug control, the southern forces represented by the security belts were able to limit the spread and promotion of drugs in the governorate by arresting drug traffickers and their distributors and striking those networks, as well as thwarting many drug smuggling operations to the governorate and to the capital, Aden, through the Dofus and Hassan points of the Abyan security belt.  .The role played by the southern armed forces in purging Abyan Governorate from terrorism 2011-2021
 The southern popular movement in the southern governorates, which began on July 7, 2007, and its beginning was with the Association of Military and Security Retired Persons who were dismissed from their work after the war to invade the south on 7/7/1994, constituted a painful blow to the northern occupation regime in Sana'a.
 As soon as the demands of the Southern Movement exceeded equality and restore the demobilized military and civilians, to demand independence and the restoration of the state for southern Yemen.
  The northern occupation regime tried with all kinds of force to extinguish the fire of the Southern Movement, which expanded in all the southern governorates. Despite the occupation regime's use of military force, arrests, torture, chases, and assassinations, it failed miserably to extinguish the fire of the Southern Movement.
 Here, the northern occupation regime began using the Arab Afghans, who participated with the occupation regime in the war to invade the south in 1994 AD. The occupation regime included all the Arab Afghans in the northern armed forces and then ordered them to invade the south, but this time using the name Al-Qaeda.
 And the northern military brigades in southern Yemen turned into warehouses for terrorism in the name of al-Qaeda. From these camps, the northern soldiers used to carry al-Qaeda banners and would like to see them. From here, the occupation regime in Sanaa began handing over the southern provinces to al-Qaeda, and the first province to be handed over was Abyan, after the speech of the occupation president  Al-Shamali Ali Abdullah Saleh, who said that terrorism is the alternative and that the first provinces to fall into the hands of al-Qaeda is Abyan province.
 Al-Qaeda occupation of Lauder district:
 Al-Qaeda was present in the city of Lawdar before the events of Ramadan 2010, and it remained in the city until 2011, when the popular committees expelled it.
  Then Al-Qaeda returned to the occupation of Lauder for the second time in April 2012 and lasted for a month and a half until mid-June 2012 AD, then returned for the third time to occupy Lauder after the 2015 war against Al-Houthi and left Lauder after the arrival of the security belt led by the martyr Rushdi Al-Alwani.
 * Formation of the Southern People's Committees "Southern Armed Forces"
 A sporadic resistance began in the Abyan governorate against al-Qaeda members, and then soon the formation of what was called at the time by the popular committees, "the Southern Forces now", was not a new experience created by the state of insecurity in these areas, but rather existed previously in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen under the name "The Militia".  The People's Republic, which was able to protect the security of the governorate in light of the collapse of the northern occupation authority, the Sana'a regime.
 After the Al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Sharia occupied the city of Lawdar on April 9, 2010 AD, a group of Lawdar’s sons gathered in the form of an armed group called “People’s Committees” that rejected the presence of al-Qaeda and entered into a war with it for a month and managed on May 16, 2011 AD to liberate the city of Lawdar from al-Qaeda.  month and was able on May 16, 2012 AD to liberate the city of Lauder from al-Qaeda.
 Baluder's People's Committees were the first nucleus in the formation of popular committees in the directorates of the Abyan Delta "Zanzibar and Khanfar", in which officers, soldiers, and non-commissioned officers from the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen were involved.
 ** The Southern People’s Committees in Abyan Governorate proved strength and ingenuity in the street and hit-and-run wars against Al-Qaeda, and they gained great skill in it and outperformed the organization and were able to defeat it with the fewest number and number and with limited capabilities.
 In addition to protecting the security of the governorate, the people's committees took care of citizens' complaints and disputes, separated the litigants, organized traffic and organized markets, including the market for khat, vegetables, fish and street vendors.  Between quarrels, traffic regulation, and market regulation, including the market for khat, vegetables, fish, and street vendors.***
 *:The strategic importance of Zanzibar and Khanfar:
 Zanzibar is located on the Gulf of Aden, about 54 kilometers from Aden, east of the "strategic" Bab al-Mandab strait. "About three million barrels of oil pass through the strait daily."
 Capturing Jaar would make it easier for AQAP to bring in supplies from its former stronghold of Mukalla in Hadramawt province to attack Aden.
 Reasons for Al-Qaeda's occupation of Abyan Zanzibar and Khanfar delta:
                         .
 The occupation regime in Sana’a tried to present a presentation to the people’s committees in Abyan in order to make it a means to strike the southern movement in the governorate, as it was intended to:
 1- Withdrawal of weapons from all the Southern Movement factions.
 2- Paralyzing the Southern Resistance Movement.
 3- Implementation of a campaign of arrests of southern leaders and symbols.
 4- Leaving the naming of the Southern Resistance, and adopting the naming of the Popular Resistance.
 5- Declaring allegiance to Yemeni unity and legitimacy.
 In return, all members of the People's Committees will be granted to the Yemeni army, in addition to granting its leadership all the privileges they request.
 
 * The first occupation of the Abyan Zanzibar and Khanfar delta by Al-Qaeda:
 Al-Qaeda seized the Abyan, Zanzibar and Khanfar delta in March 2011 until May 2012.
 * The second occupation of the delta of Abyan, Zanzibar and Khanfar by Al-Qaeda:
 In early December 2015 to June 2016, 300 militants belonging to Al-Qaeda attacked and captured Zanzibar.
 The looting of Zanzibar and Khanfar:
 Al-Qaeda looted the National Bank of Yemen and the Central Bank of Yemen in full, as well as looted Zanzibar Post and Jaar Post, and looted all government facilities with everything in it in a wave of looting and looting that was not witnessed in Zanzibar and Khanfar except in the war of the invasion of the south in 94AD by North Yemen.
 * Destruction of Zanzibar:
 After the occupation of the city of Zanzibar, al-Qaeda members spread in buildings, between citizens' homes, government facilities, and mosques, and exchanged artillery shelling with the 15 Meca Brigade, to which the organization's members belong. They destroyed the city, in addition to the bombing of the city, which destroyed the city in an unprecedented way.
 The People’s Committees “Southern Forces” were formed in 2012, and the People’s Committees fought a guerrilla war with Ansar al-Sharia, where the members of the People’s Committees used rough roads because the organization controlled the main roads in the governorate towards the east, and they walked on foot for long distances from  The news of Al-Marrakesh goes to Jamis and then to Batis, on a journey that takes about 18 hours on foot, then they carry out their attack against the Ansar al-Sharia organization points and return to their places.
 * Food insurance
 Members of the People's Committees were hiding food, bread, dates and water in the cracks of the mountains in anticipation of any siege or chase with Ansar al-Sharia.
 Weapon Transfer:
 Members of the People's Committees were transporting weapons and equipment on donkeys and camels to their locations.
 The first battle against Ansar al-Sharia:
 The first battle between the popular committees and Ansar al-Sharia was on 15 Ramadan 8/15/2011 AD.
 The battle began when the martyr Abdullah Sanad Atef and his brother, Alawi Sanad, created a point at the entrance to the Mashrou’ neighborhood, so al-Qaeda attacked the point and the battle began in the traditional irrigation project neighborhood.
 The People's Committees "Southern Forces" also had a major and pivotal role in the Battle of the Golden Swords and achieving a great victory over Ansar al-Sharia, affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
 Where the people’s committees drained the organization from the inside through lightning attacks on the organization’s points in the streets of Zanzibar and Jaar and on the main lines, which are the Zanzibar J