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![[Flag of Yemeni President]](../images/y/ye_pres.gif) image by Zoltan Horvath, 30 December 2024
 image by Zoltan Horvath, 30 December 2024
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
Image of flag: 
https://presidentalalimi.net/news1150.html 
 Zoltan Horvath, 30 December 2024