Yemen confessed to hosting eight families, most of them children and women, belonging to the former Iraqi regime. It said Yemen is the homeland of all Arabs and entertaining these families comes out of the fraternal, nationalistic and humanitarian feelings.
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And it expressed its surprise over what it called "Zionist" media campaign about this issue. The state-run newspaper, 26 September, which is close to Presidential Office, quoted a senior official as saying "This campaign is administrated by Zionist forces malicious and hostile to Yemen and its nationalistic and pan-Arab positions that support the Palestinian issue." The official denied the news reports that Saddam's family had taken refuge in Yemen clarifying that the country did not receive a request thereof, as President Ali Abdullah Saleh told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Ray Al Am, last week. |