Jaafar Mohammed Saad

Major General Jaafar Mohammed Saad was a Yemeni politician and soldier.

Biography

Saad was a soldier for South Yemen before unification with North Yemen in 1990. Local officials said he fought for South Yemen in the Yemeni Civil War of 1994 and later lived in exile in Egypt and the United Kingdom.
Saad, who held the rank of Major-General, helped government forces defend the city of Aden from Houthis in the Yemeni Civil War of 2015. He was appointed as Governor of Aden Governorate on 9 October 2015.

Death

Jaafar Mohammed Saad was assassinated on 6 December 2015 when a car bomb targeted his convoy in the Tawahi district of Aden. The attack resulted in his death along with five of his bodyguards. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the bombing.
However, the circumstances surrounding the assassination, as well as the political and security developments that followed in Aden, have led some observers and analysts to question the official account and point to alternative interpretations regarding the parties that may have benefited from the attack.