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| Three Yemeni soldiers killed in checkpoint attack |
| 2010-01-25 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Three Yemeni soldiers were killed in an attack at a Yemeni checkpoint by suspected southern separatists, a government official said on Sunday, in a province where the state is also hunting a resurgent al-Qaeda. "Three soldiers were killed and one was injured when unknown armed people believed to belong to the southern movement attacked a checkpoint at the entrance to the city of Ataq," the official told Reuters. "Unknown assailants opened fire from a car on a checkpoint in Ataq" another local official added. He said the assailants escaped after the attack in Shabwa province, southeast of Sanaa. Elsewhere in south Yemen, two protesters were injured in clashes with security forces in the southern city of Dhaleh. Southern secessionists represents a potent threat for President Ali Abdullah Saleh, already struggling with a Shiite revolt in the north and a resurgent al-Qaeda network which drew world attention after it said it was behind a failed Dec. 25 attack on a U.S. airliner. North and south Yemen united in 1990 under Saleh, who had been president of the north since 1978. The bumpy merger led to a brief 1994 civil war won by the north. Southerners say state jobs and resources have gone to the north ever since. President Saleh, an ally of the West in the fight against al-Qaeda, has said he is open for dialogue with separatists if they renounce violence, but diplomats see no movement toward this. Yemen, following the failed plane attack, declared an open war on al-Qaeda and launched air strikes that it said killed six al-Qaeda militants including top leaders of the Yemen-based wing. Al-Qaeda said none were killed. Yemen also sent troops on a manhunt for militants in several provinces, including Shabwa. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Yemeni Militants have repor offered a truce deal to SAUDI ARABIA, ostensibly on the pretext of avoiding unecessary civiloian casualties. * NEWS KERALA > WATER WOES [Sanaa] COULD UNDERMINE YEMEN'S DRIVE AGZ AL-QAEDA. Yemen's natural groundwater systems could be exhausted come 2015-2017??? ARTIC > CARNEGIE FOUNDATION > Approxi 80% of all Yemeni water is directly or indir used for local forms of agriculture, but EURO PERT > claims that 1/2 of this is used to grow QAT, A MILD NARCOTIC PLANT USED IN YEMENI CULTURE-SOCIETY AS A "CHEW" [e.g. similar to "chewing tobacco" in the US]. IOW QAT > SOCIO-RECREATIONAL PURPOSES, NOT GROWING EDIBLE FOOD PER SE. * ION SAME > CHINESE COUPLES CAN NOW HAVE TWO CHILDREN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-25 20:53 |