IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: The Hindu, India Atul Aneja Yemen, like Afghanistan, could emerge as a flashpoint, and that can have far-reaching regional and global consequences. As fighting in the rugged Sa’ada mountains draws rapid speed, a variety of conflicting forces, internal and external, are posing a serious threat to the very survival of the Yemeni state, and to the region as a whole. This is a region that...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
"Yemen's Houthi rebels have released what they say is new footage showing Saudi troops engaged in cross-border raids. Riyadh, however, has denied any incursion into neighbouring Yemen. Saudi Arabia began bombarding suspected Houthi positions earlier this month after they apparently crossed into Saudi territory and seized control of a small area. The Houthis say that the Saudis have been allowing...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"Indeed, Saudi Arabia has fought every "ism" that has sought to dominate the Middle East, including Nasser's pan-Arabism, communism, and today's Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the terrorism of al-Qaida and the Shi'ism of Iran. The tools it relied upon were oil money and Wahhabi Islam. During the 1980s, Saudi Arabia spent more than $75bn on the propagation of Wahhabi doctrine,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
By attacking the Houthi rebels of Yemen, Riyadh is ill-advisedly turning up the heat on the region's cold war A crucially important conflict, woefully under-reported in the west, has now come to a head in the Middle East. In response to an ongoing fight that could spill out beyond the Arabian peninsula, Saudi Arabia has entered into direct war with the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. Saudi military...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A meeting between the Yemeni president and a US delegation led by John McCain instigated the new round of fighting in northern Yemen, a report says. At the time of the meeting, back in August, it was announced that the former US presidential candidate was meeting with Ali Abdullah Saleh to discuss the possibility of recruiting al-Qaeda forces for the Yemeni army, the Al-Minbar website reported. According...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Yemen began exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its newly built LNG plant in Balhaf on the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, with the first shipment destined for South Korea. In a hillside ceremony overlooking the coast, President Ali Abdullah Saleh inaugurated exports by pushing a button giving the order to start pumping LNG from the terminal to a vessel anchored offshore.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has affirmed its support to Yemen to conserve its unity, security and sovereignty on its territories, Yemen news agency SABA reported. OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu expressed the support to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh at their official talks on Saturday. Ihsanoglu said the organization rejects violence and religion politicization for...
France24 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
A Yemeni court on Saturday sentenced to jail the managing editor of an independent newspaper and one of his journalists for libeling President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a judicial official said. Samir Jibran was given a one-year suspended sentence and banned from running the Al-Masdar newspaper for one year. Correspondent Munir al-Marawi was given a two-year sentence and banned for life from journalism....
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The New York Times manages to dig deeper than a lot of the analysis about Sa’ada and brings out an important concept: aspects of the Yemeni military are beyond Saleh’s control, which has serious implications. Many see the war in Sa’ada as a strategic maneuver on Saleh’s part to weaken General Ali Mohsen [...]
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
NY Times: For almost seven weeks, Khasan Muhammad Abdullah and his family cowered in their house in northern Yemen while a war raged outside and their food slowly ran out. He could hear government fighter jets screaming across the sky, and he knew the Houthi rebels by their distinctive logos and headbands. But he could not understand what the two sides were fighting about. “What do they want,...
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
With an end to the conflict between government forces and the Al-Houthi rebels only days away, according to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, humanitarian costs are still rising, writes Nasser Arrabyee
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed The Al-Qaeda organization was viewed in the beginning as a problem that concerned the Americans. Nine years ago when Osama Bin Laden and his sons started their activities in Africa and in the Arab region, many people insisted that Al-Qaeda was an American problem as was the Irish Republic Army to Britain, and so the Americans should themselves handle their problem with that...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The conflict, or should one say, the conflicts in Yemen arise from a mosaic of reasons. On the surface, the ongoing armed conflict in the country was sparked by a clash in 2004 between government security forces and a group of students protesting the war in Iraq and the deployment of US forces there. The protesters were led by a Zeidi cleric by the name of Hussain al-Huthi, who was also a member of...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Yemen's crisis may be reaching new heights. The multiple factors affecting the country are a concern that should be noted not only on a regional level but also globally. Yemen, to some, may already be a failed state that harbors terrorist and criminal elements that promote a serious danger to regional governments, economies--including energy supply chains--and populations. President Ali Abdullah Saleh's...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Separatists in south Yemen used the anniversary of an uprising against colonial power Britain to press their claim for independence, while President Ali Abdullah Saleh promised to crush rebels in the north
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