the finger at. my grandfather s nephew, lutfi, has been asking who killed mohamed noman since he was eight years old. military rule was against everything my grandfather had worked for, but he wasn t the type to give up. general al masswari is the only yemeni official from that period who agreed to speak to me on the record about my grandfather s assassination. after al hamdi s coup, he was one of the last people to meet with my grandfather.
with delivering this letter with one other colleague. general al masswari believes that al hamdi and others made up a story about iraqi meddling to distract from their own coup. the third theory points at the man who ruled south yemen. my grandfather, who stood on the other side of the socialist ideology,