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Special Report<\/strong><\/p>\n The Yemeni American News<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Many accounts were given on the place of Saleh\u2019s death near Al-Jahshy Village in his tribal domain of Sanhan to the Mareb Road and to nearby Dhabwah Military Base, other sources, however, contend that Saleh was killed in his house in Sana\u2019a and was later moved to the Sanhan Road, in order to reduce the impact of his loss by his adversaries, to show that he was killed while fleeing, whereas these sources contend he was killed in combat against his adversaries in his house.<\/p>\n Saleh\u2019s son, Ahmed Ali Saleh said in a eulogy for his father:\u00a0 \u201cMy father was martyred in his house bearing his weapon of combat along with his comrades.\u00a0 As he was strong in his life, he was as such when confronting God as a martyr of the enemies of God, the country, and the religion.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a journalist close to the leadership of the GPC stated to the Yemeni American News\u00a0 that \u201cthe Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed in his home when the Houthis stormed the house, and with him was the Secretary General of the GPC Aref\u00a0 Al-Zouka..\u201d<\/p>\n Dr.\u00a0 Mohammed Jumeih, a well known Yemeni journalist based in Liverpool, UK wrote an article, which circulated in social media, titled:\u00a0 For God\u2019s sake, for the truth and for history\u2019s Sake.\u00a0 Jumeih therein said:\u00a0 \u201cthe obvious truth \u2013 for those who love or hate the former President \u2013 is that he was in his house at the time the house was assaulted, carrying his weapon; and he was \u2013 notwithstanding our position vis a vis his policies \u2013 steadfast in Sana\u2019a and bravely fought with his weapon in his hand until the last moment.\u00a0 The Houthis resorted to fabricating an escape scenario.\u00a0 They used a recorded tape of a conversation between Saleh and Vice President (of Hadi), in which the former requested the help of the Saudis, and they also used other fabrication tools, in order to belie the truth\u201d.<\/p>\n In other similar news, activists on social media channels circulated a report, which they said was a diagnosis of a coroner, whose name was not given.\u00a0 They said the coroner relied on the pictures and videos of \u201cSaleh\u2019s corpse\u201d, and he put out, based on them a preliminary \u201ccriminal analysis\u201d accordingly.<\/p>\n The report concluded that all the clinical marks on the corpse and the site of the crime \u2013 from the video and photos \u2013 confirm that the victim was in a defensive posture, and the photography took place five hours earlier at least.\u00a0 The corpse was subjected preliminary steps to confirm the death and the identity of the deceased, and arrangements after the fatality.\u00a0 The corpse was moved to more than one place and in more than one method.<\/p>\n The report also said:\u00a0 the time of the mortifying wound of Saleh occurred five hours prior to the photography, based on the dry clotted blood.\u00a0 The report indicated that there were no blood stains in the area of the brain which touched the blanket.\u00a0 This only confirms that the man was placed in the blanket after the bleeding of the head has stopped.\u00a0 The report also referred to the shrapnel effects on the face area, which show the man to have been killed while in a defensive posture.<\/p>\n On the severe wound on the back of the head, the report pointed out that the head was subjected to a medium caliber bullet on the skull, from very close range.<\/p>\n As the face and head were bloodless in the photos, according to the report the blood was cleaned prior to the photography.\u00a0 The report also cited the gauze in the stomach area, which evidenced the stomach being hit in the left half, stating this as the likely reason for the dearth, which the report cites as evidence that the head wound was after the death, which was for the purpose of \u201cdesecrating the corpse\u201d.\u00a0 The report also pointed to the appearance of \u201cwear and tear\u201d to the clothes, as if the corpse was covered by something for a while, and the corpse was moved between more than one place, and by different means, not to mention the existence of signs of \u201ctugging\u201d on the clothes of the corpse.<\/p>\n The killing of Saleh was a big shock throughout Yemen, which Saleh ruled for more than 33 years and continued to prevail in the political arena for nearly four decades. His killing has raised many possible scenarios that the country will enter amid more war and destruction in an era of the unknown.<\/p>\n