How the Houthis Built Their Arsenal: Defense and Intelligence Procurement

This report will cover both the Ministry of Defense (MoD) as well as the Ministry of Interior because in the Houthi regime, as in many authoritarian Arab governments, the Ministry of Interior is one of the most powerful ministries which oversees the state’s premier intelligence and security services. [...] He is well positioned to work in these fields as he served as the Ministry of Interior’s chief of the Directorate of Logistics and Supply until 2018, and since 2019, he served as chairman of the regime’s asset management company Shibam Holding Company and numerous other major corporations.45 Yemen Armored In July 2019, Abdullah was appointed to the role of director of the private security company. [...] Left: Deputy Director of the Directorate of Logistics and Supply Fahd Ali Taher (first row, center).74 Right: Ghamdan Haji (right), the chief of staff of al-Moayyed during his tenure at the Directorate.75 During al-Moayyed’s tenure as chief of the Directorate of Logistics and Supply, Col. [...] Presumably al-Durra was one of the Saleh loyalists who followed former president of Yemen into an alliance with the Houthis, and one of the very few Saleh loyalists who have achieved and maintained positions of significant authority despite the 2017 fallout between Saleh and the Houthis which resulted in the former’s demise. [...] Since then, al-Durra served in the Houthi regime as Director of Logistics and Supply and then Deputy Director of the Logistics Support Agency in the Ministry of Defense.92 In his current role in the Logistics Support Agency, he is a deputy to U.