SANAA, 14 Oct — President Ali Abdullah Saleh Thursday promised to crush the Shiite rebels in north Yemen.  “We promise you that victory is coming soon,” Saleh told a rally in Sanaa held to mark the uprising in 1963 against Britain in the southern port city of Aden.  He said “the Huthi rebels are living their worst days after they were surrounded and after their fuel, food supplies, arms and ammunitions began to run out.”  Meanwhile, the President told the Saudi TV channel, MBC that he is bent on ending the rebellion in north Yemen saying “we are determined to make this war the first and last one and the armed forces are making great victories at all levels and in all fronts.”  “The citizens regained their breath and began supporting the army which led to besieging the rebels and pushing them into a limited area,” said the President.  As the President was speaking in the capital, thousands in the opposition southern movement were holding a rally in the town of Radfan.  The opposition website Aden Press said the exiled former president of south Yemen, Ali Salem al-Beidh, addressed the rally by telephone from Germany.  “We will not retreat from the aim of realizing our second independence, whatever the sacrifices are and however long it takes,” al-Beidh said, adding “the British occupation came from overseas, while the current one was the result of a coup by the Sanaa regime.”