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![[Flag of Yemeni President]](../images/y/ye_pres.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 21 March 2011
There is a picture of a Yemeni flag with coat of arms placed at hoist part of
red stripe. It was taken when top Yemeni General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar said he was
backing the protest movement against the regime. Image:
http://static4.origos.hu/i/1103/20110321jemenszan4.jpg
Zoltan Horvath, 21 March 2011
This is the Presidential flag as State Flag with Coat of Arms in golden colors in
the jack = Commander-in-Chief
Jens Pattke, 24 March 2011
In the picture, General Ali
Mohsen Saleh al-Ahmar,
as commander of the
1st Armoured Division is seen on March 21, 2011, saying he would protect the
anti-government Yemeni protesters, along with other top Yemeni army commanders (see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12804552 and
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011320180579476.html ), in
a move that was later condemned as 'mutinous' by President Saleh. On December
19, 2012, al-Ahmar was effectively fired from his position by President Hadi as
part of Hadi's efforts to restructure the military and remove the political and
military elite remnant from former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule. The
forces previously under al-Ahmar's command, most notably the First Armoured
Division, will be absorbed into the Defence Ministry. Also, General Ali Mohsen
Saleh al-Ahmar has been linked with the
al-Islah party and
the militias that fought during the 2011-2012 Yemeni
revolution.
In fact, the image
of the flag reported by Zoltán Horvath on March 21, 2011 can be seen in the
embedded video in the Al Jazeera news report
here.
Esteban Rivera, 20 February 2015
