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By Fatik Al-Rodaini
Sana'a, March 2, 2012 -
Sa'ada province, in Yemen's northern province witnessed
on Friday a bomb blast hit an anti-U.S. protest, wounding at least 22 people.
No one claims its responsibility for the attack,
but Houthi group accused in a statement the United States of standing behind
the attack, without elaborating further details.
However, Houthis who control much of the north
of the country, on Yemen's northwestern border with Saudi Arabia, have their real
enemies and they are prime targets for AQAP and Sunni groups, who have a
difference ideological, intellectual and doctrinal with Houthis.
Houthis always accuse the U.S intelligence
agencies of carrying out attack against Shi'ite group. According to analysts
the attack was intended to provoke sectarian divisions between Yemenis, and
bore the hallmarks of the resurgent Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),
because the AQAP carried out three similar attacks against the Houthi Group in
Saada and Jawf provinces last the two years.
The Shiite rebels led by Saada-based Abdulmalik
al-Houthi opposed the political-settlement deal that swore in the country's
consensus President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and ended almost a year of protests
against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In recent months, the region has seen bouts of
fighting between the Houthis and Sunni Muslims espousing puritanical Salafi
doctrines influential in Saudi Arabia. The Houthis have accused Riyadh of
arming their foes.
The Houthi-led rebels have been engaging in
severe sectarian conflicts for several months with Sunni fundamentalists in
Saada and neighboring provinces of Hajja and Jawf that left hundreds of people
killed and forced thousands of residents to flee their villages.
Yemen has witnessed sporadic battles since 2004
between government troops and rebels. The government has been accusing the
rebels of seeking to re-establish the clerical rule overthrown by the Yemeni
revolution in 1962 that created the Yemeni republic.
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