Scene 1 — The Road to the Houthi Headquarters in Yemen… Abu Malik’s Shock
The desert winds lashed against the men’s faces as the four‑wheel‑drive vehicle crept forward along a branching dirt path leading toward a remote mountainous area on the Yemeni coast.
Behind them, the Red Sea grew more and more distant, while the night stretched across the sky in its deep darkness. In the far horizon, the faint lights of the Houthi compound appeared—like tiny beehives flickering in the mountain’s gloom.
The moment the vehicle approached, heavy security sprang into action.
Armed men with stern faces, fingers never far from the trigger.
One of them opened the door, and out stepped Sheikh Bakathir, dressed in his traditional garments, his white beard swaying in the wind. Behind him stood two men fr
