Yemeni security source:

KSA seeks to blame Ansarullah for own assassination attempt on Sunni scholar

Rasa – A security source in Yemen has said that Saudi Arabia has repeatedly tried to assassinate a prominent Yemeni Sunni scholar in order to blame it on Ansarullah, as part of a plot to damage the movement.

News ID: 2612

Date: 29 May 2015 - 19:27

RNA – In a statement released, a security source in Yemen has announced that Saudi Arabian intelligence forces (the General Intelligence Directorate) have placed Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, a famous Yemeni Sunni scholar, under strict supervision.

al-Zindani is “a leading member” of Yemen’s al-Islah Party (the Yemeni Congregation for Reform), and the founder and head of the Iman University in Yemen, the head of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood political movement and founder of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah, which is based in Saudi Arabia.

He previously had good relations with Saudi Arabia, but for the past two years, the relationship between al-Zindani and the Saudi regime has changed dramatically.

The statement released states that due to al-Zindani’s high position in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has tried to assassinate him several times and blame it on the Yemeni Islamic Resistance movement, Ansarullah, to damage the movement’s reputation.

The source stated that Saudi Arabia, in addition to its attempts to introduce the Ansarullah movement as a group of "illegitimate coup plotters against the legitimate and democratic government of Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi" in the media, also seeks to link Ansarullah to terrorist attacks in war-torn Arab country in order to tarnish the image of the movement and to turn public opinion against the movement.

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