When the party supported , it became a target of the government, and he fled, allegedly, to Syria and then to Iran | His brothers , , and Abdul-Karim are leaders of the rebels as were his late brothers Ibrahim and Abdulkhalik |
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Preceded by Post-Created June 2004 — September 2004 Succeeded by | 2627, , 2 November 2009• The took his name after his assassination in 2004 |
The new Yemeni government had turned over his remains to his family on 28 December 2012 as a goodwill gesture to bolster national reconciliation talks | The disciple also claimed that al-Houthi had close relationships with , Supreme Leader of Iran, and , 's leader |
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According to a disciple, al-Houthi lived part of his life with his family, including his father and his younger brother, Abd al-Malik, in , | Early life [ ] Al-Houthi was born in 1956 in the Marran area of Sada'a region |
Al-Houthi, who was a one-time rising political aspirant in Yemen, had wide religious and tribal backing in northern Yemen's mountainous regions.
4His father, , was a prominent Zaydi cleric who briefly took control of the Houthi movement after his son's death | |
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Iris Glosemeyer and Don Reneau, "Local Conflict, Global Spin: An Uprising in the Yemen Highlands," Middle East Report, No | "The al Houthi Insurgency in the North of Yemen: An Analysis of the Shabab al Moumineen" |
Legacy [ ] On 5 June 2013, tens of thousands of Yemeni Shias attended the reburial of the remains of al-Houthi in , where armed rebels were deployed in large numbers.
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