Riyadh Building Wall at Borders with Yemen to Prevent Spread of Revolution
to S. Arabia
News number: 9101140995 12:40 | 2012-04-09
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9101140995

TEHRAN (FNA - FARS news agency)- Saudi Arabia is building a long wall along
its borders with Yemen to prevent the trembles of the Yemeni revolution from
spreading deep into the Arab peninsula.

According to sources close to the al-Saud dynasty, Riyadh is building the
wall to prevent a spread of the Yemenis' revolutionary feelings to Saudi
Arabia, specially considering the growing Shiite protests in the Eastern
parts of the country.

Last week, informed sources in Yemen's Army announced that 6,000 Saudi
militaries had crossed the borders and entered Northern to suppress the
al-Houthi Shiites who live in the Northwestern parts of the country.

Meantime, Yemenis say that Saudi Arabia should return the three provinces
that it occupied and annexed to its territories long ago. The Saudi-backed
regime of former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh never protested at Riyadh for
occupying and annexing the three provinces, but the Al-Saud dynasty feels
the fear that post-Saleh Yemen might start reclaiming this vast land.

Earlier a leader of Yemen's revolutionary youths had said that Riyadh is
deeply fearful of the spread of the popular uprising in Yemen to Saudi
Arabia and is trying hard to end this revolution at any cost.

"Saudi Arabia wants to end Yemen's revolution by any means and at any cost,"
member of Shabab al-Smood (Youth Withstand) movement Faris Abu-Bare'a told
FNA in March.

"Saudi Arabia is fearing the success of Yemen's revolution more than any
other revolution because it knows very well that in case this revolution
succeeds, the Yemenis will be freed from the claws of the tyranny of the
Saudi kingdom and the Saudis' hand will be cut off Yemen's affairs," he
stated.

"Moreover, Saudi Arabia is afraid of the influence of Yemen's revolution on
its own people because it is ruled by a tyrannical royal regime," he added.

Yemen is witnessing continued protests as opposition leaders say the
country's newly-elected president, Abed Rabu Mansour Hadi, is not able to
materialize the goals of Yemen's revolution since he is one of the remnants
of the former regime.

Yemen's revolution leaders blast the country's authorities for holding a
superficial single-candidate presidential election, saying that people want
a full annihilation of Abdollah Saleh's regime and trial of all his allies
and affiliates.

Yemen has witnessed a popular uprising against the regime of Abdullah Saleh
since January 2011.

Anti-regime demonstrators hold Saleh responsible for the killing of hundreds
of protesters during the uprising. The Yemeni people urge that Saleh and his
allies should stand trial for their massive crimes and massacre of the
people.

Yemen's new president Mansour Hadi took the oath of office before the
country's parliament last month. He replaced Saleh, who ruled the country
for 33 years before leaving office in a power transfer deal after over a
year of political turmoil.

Mansour Hadi, who was Saleh's vice-president, was formally inaugurated
following a single-candidate presidential election. The election was
arranged as part of a US and Persian Gulf Cooperation Council-backed power
transfer deal signed in November.

But, people continue protests across the country, saying that they want
Saleh and his allies and companions to stand on trial. They also protest
that part of the cabinet is still formed of Saleh ministers and affiliates
who should be tried instead of being given a post in the cabinet.