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Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar
Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar was paramount sheikh of the Hashid tribal confederation, the most powerful tribal leader in Yemen. A supporter of the republic in the civil war of the 1960s, he founded the Islamist Islah party in 1990 and was speaker of parliament from 1993 until his death. His alliance with President Ali Abdullah Saleh was a pillar of the political order.
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