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In August 2012, Yemeni Oil Minister Hisham Sharaf was sacked after being appointed for less than six months under unclear pretexts. It is not known to many that the minister tried to start his period with a number of reforms. He focused on re-evaluation of the work of the group of international oil companies operating under different names, but in fact they were working in coordination with military leaders and tribal Sheikhs  in exchange for quotas and percentages agreed upon in advance through local mediators. It had been a clear corruption.

OMV, an Austrian oil company whose local broker was a Yemeni company called Al-Hathaily Transport and Oilfield Services. It is owned by Sheikh Hussein Ahmed Al-Huthaily, one of the trade arms of the current Vice President, Major General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar. The minister Hisham Sharaf threatened to stop the Austrian company's contract in Yemen due to their refusal to extend an oil pipeline to bump oil from the province of Shabwa to the province of Marib east of Yemen asking them to stop using oil trucks for shipping crude oil. The powerful military leader Major General Ali Al-Ahmar had met the Yemeni president  Hadi asking him  to sack the minister  under the pretext, accusing Hisham as one of the loyalist  of  former President Saleh. President Hadi issued his decision dismissing Hisham  appointing  the deputy minister of oil to carry out the work instead . At that time the Yemeni government was run by the Islamic Reform Party or the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen through Prime Minister Bassendawa, who was nominated for this post after the events of 2011, by  Major General Al-Ahmar himself  and Sheikh Hamid Al-Ahmar, one of the whales of oil and commercial corruption and the well-known leader of the Islah Party in Yemen.

 After the Houthi coup in September 2014 most of the leaders belonged to Islamic party (Muslims Brotherhood) had escaped from Yemen to Saudi Arabia including the current vice president Al-Ahmer him self.

The Austrian OMV was the first oil company returned back to work in Shabwa province under the protection of the Major general Ali Al-Ahmar  and his army (So called national army) stationed in Marib, east of the Yemeni capital Sana'a. despite the instability in a number of southern areas which was under attack by al-Qaeda , Al-Ahmar Army has never been attacked by the terrorists. Those terrorists only attack soldiers and some civilians as infidels and atheists as well as the Shabwa troops which called elite forces that have largely succeeded in repelling the terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda .

It is clear that legitimacy ( Yemeni government) has re-produced the former corruption system, but worse than in the past, benefiting from the monopoly of the political decision of President Hadi alone, which is under the influence of his deputy and the leaders of the Islamic Islah Party.

As a result of the organized looting of oil resources by the protection of forces and figures operating under the umbrella of government and vice-president Military troops,  the dignitaries, activists and the southern resistance in Shabwa called the Yemeni governor of Sahbwa province  to start removing the corrupted officials and to hand over the oil sectors to local authorities of Shabwa . 

These demands has troubled the vice president and its corrupted allies in Marib. Then many mysterious attacks of al-Qaeda  began against  the security belt in Shabwa, but the belt forces were able to repel them, strike them in their strongholds.

After the failure of the terrorist acts and the siege of its elements, military forces affiliated with the military leadership in Maribe , moved in direct confrontation with the tribes of Shabwa and the security belt forces for the purpose of repression and facing the just demands of the people of the governorate of Shabwa who suffered for many years before and after the war from  corruption and the terrorist elements. 

Some leaked images  by some activists in Shabwa province showed big oil trucks is pumping crude oil  through plastic pipes into unknown ships on  Shabwa coast, which many saw as clear corruption and smuggling.

The area is now heading for armed confrontations between Shabwa tribes and Red Army military forces to regain control of the oil and gas fields in Shabwa.

Many questions about the nature of the relationship between the major generqal Al-Ahmer and the leaders of al-Qaeda, which settled a number of areas of Marib as safe haven since the killing of Al-Harthi  the leader of Al-Qaeda , by US drone   in 2001 until the killing of terrorist Jamal Badawi in Marib province eastern of Yemen last  January 2019 , he also wanted by the United States for the preparation, planning and participation in the attack on the USS Cole 2000 in the Gulf of Aden.

Currently,  Marib province is  under control of  the troops of the vice-president al-Ahmer him self and 90% of the troops are members of the Islah Islamic Party. Many ocal sources talk about  secret prisons and detention centers that use violence and torture against detainees.

Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout province overlooking the Arabian Sea witnessed  the smuggling of oil and selling it after it controlled by Al-Qaeda in 2015.  The joint military operations carried out by the southern resistance supported  by the UAE  and in cooperation with the United States had  liberated of the coastal city from the control of the terrorist organization in 2015.

Local sources indicate that the Islamic Islah Party, who represents  Muslim Brotherhood movement in Yemen is building a full-fledged army in the Yemeni province of Marib after being defeated and dispersed by the Huthi militias in September 2014. Many strategic experts considerd emergence new institutes  in eastern Yemen supporting extremism  as a new threat to the countries in the gulf region, especially as this institutes that  adopt  Islamic jihadists is  run by one of the extremists called Abu Anas al-Masri who  attracted  many young people from within and outside the province.

According to experts, the role of the Qatari role is emerged   to promote and finance these movements in coordination with the leaders of the Islah Party  who live in Turkey and in Mareb eastern Yemen controlling the national army in the province. especially as the religious leaders as well as t Abdul Majid al-Zindani who was close to the former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who restricted his moves within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after fleeing to it  from Huthis' crackdown after the 2015 .

According to Western intelligence sources, the military leadership in the Yemeni province of Marib is under the US microscope and the process of targeting Jamal al-Badawi is only a message that may be followed by other stricter messages.

It is very known that the former first Armored Division, commanded by the  Major general  Al-Ahmar  , embraced all the Yemeni and Arab Mujahideen, or what they called the "Afghan Arabs" returning from Afghanistan in the mid-1990s, and that most of the Arab Mujahideen whom their countries refused to received them becomes a Yemeni citizenship and remained in Yemen.