Chewed some extraordinary Qat last week, freshly plucked from the fields of Wadi Dhar. Was promised the best sleep of my life. Indeed, i was out for about 13 hours.

Subject of the chew was mainly to do with Iran elections and the Saa’da kidnapping.

The latest theories on the kidnapping – in which actually only 3 bodies have been discovered not known publically what has happened to the other people – are as follows:

1. Jihadist freelancers funded by Saudis popped over the border from a camp in Saudi and did it

2. Known sunni mercenaries – used by the Yemen government to help out in the battle with (shia) Houti – who have jihadist Al Qaeda sympathies, were inspired to do the kidnapping by a ‘radical cleric’ (hate that phrase as it is so western media, but had to use it as i am being lazy) during Friday prayers in Saa’da.

3. Al Houti kidnapped them, Yemen military bungled a rescue and shot 3 of the group – the 2 germans and the Korean.

More gossip from Qat chews next month.