The son of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Brigadier General Ahmed Ali arrested officers from the Republican Guards in an attempt to suppress a rebellion.
The Associated Press said on Saturday, quoting a Yemeni military official as saying that the Ahmed arrested officers from the Republican Guards in an attempt to suppresses a rebellion to clean Republican Guards led by him from the dissidents.
The source said that said the Ahmed Ali Saleh has arrested dozens of officers so far, and the purpose of suppressing the rebellion is to prevent the officers from joining the demonstrations against the Yemeni regime.
Adding that he had been warned in a meeting with the Republican Guards this week from any protest among his forces or any one try to imitate the protests that swept a lot of institutions all over Yemen.
Yemeni press sources said last Wednesday that Brigadier General Ahmed Ali Saleh addressed the Republican Guards about the protests that occur in some of the civil and military institutions.
«You hear and you see what is happening and we know that there are those who send you messages inciting protests by."Saleh said.
According to the source, who preferred anonymity, Ahmed Ali Saleh threatened to crush any protests and to punish anyone wishing to incite the same or, adding that the Republican Guards is not any other institution.
He also asked his forces in Sobaha camp on Tuesday not to follow the news of the protests that occur in different institutions, addressing them that such protest act will be treated as a military rebellion.