Armies of Liberation

from Jafariya News the largest Shia news website in the world.

Sayyed Assam Al-Imad, Chief of Supreme Shiia Council in Yemen, has revealed to Iranian news agency IRNA the crimes that were committed against Shiias in the country and the Yemeni government-imposed complete media darkness over this.

According to Sayyed Al-Imad, elements of ousted Saddam regime that fled from Iraq are working in the Yemeni military, and that they began their work as military advisors in the army one year back.

He added that these military men advised Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh to kill Shiias in the country as did Saddam in Iraq. He said the Yemeni government acting upon this advice issued orders to tear and burn all Shiia books including Nahj-ol Balagha – a compilation of sermons and sayings of holy Prophet (p)’s cousin and son-in-law and caliph of Muslims Imam Ali bin Abi Talib (p) – and As-Sahifah As-Sajjadiyah – a collection of supplications of holy Prophet (p)’s fourth infallible descendant Al-Imam Ali bin Al-Hussein Zain-ol Abideen (p) which is also known as Psalms of Aal-i-Muhammad (p).

Then they go on to quote extensively my World Press.org article, (Yemen 11) without using my name. It was funny I started reading and thinking : oh good somebody else is finally figuring it out. Then I realize its me. So I sent them Yemen 12 and all the footnotes for both. And good regards from the American conservatives. Update: They published the footnotes as a letter to the editor. Good. I want somebody bigger than me to steal the story. Im very happy they did that.

Hopefully they’ll get up to speed on the al-Qaeda sponsored Ba’athist training camps in Yemen for terrorists to back to Iraq and target Shia civilians and US troops.

Perfect together: Yemen and North Korea are to sign a memo of understanding to improve trade between the two countries.

I figured I’d put this here and hope somebody will steal it and use it. Maybe one of those lefty journalists. I have to update it though and include the newest research. But anyone who “borrows” this list has to know that the Yemenis are a nice people who want a real democracy not that pathetic shell that covers up the tyranny now.

islamists: http://www.iric.org/f3t5.asp

144 terrorist bank accounts: http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2005/vol2/html/42395.htm

reformer arrested: http://www.yobserver.com/news_6746.php
much more, click here (Read on …)

Update: My response to the article was published by the Yemen Times here. I appreciate the opportunity they gave me to reply.

Update 2: Apparently the article was snuck past the editors. The Yemen Times published a beautiful article about my journalistic standards with an apology and its here.

Original post: Full page article trashing me in the Yemen Times. This is the headline: Jane Novak a docile pupil of a monkey monk

This is the article that irked the regime at Front Page, also about six other places. This I think is the most complete version. )

I already got the first message, from Robert at Jihad Watch:
“Yes, this is bigger than anything I’ve seen for awhile. Congratulations!”

More BS propaganda from the King of Spin:

Just when former Amb Hasani starts talking about al-Qaeda in the top leadership of Yemeni government and security forces, just as the Iraqi generals hired by the Yemeni military come to light, just as intelligence reports surface of Yemeni al-Qaeda sponsored training camps for Ba’athists to go fight our guys in Iraq, Saleh pulls out these three Iraqi guys. Who were in jail already for two years. Now he’s going to try them (and convict them) and call it cooperation in the WOT.

While all the other Saddam people in Yemen continue their work.

WT: Sanaa, Yemen, May. 29 (UPI) — Yemeni judicial sources said Sunday three Iraqi intelligence officers from the former Saddam Hussein regime are to be tried in a terrorism court.

A court official said the three men will be tried next week on charges of involvement in plotting to blow up the American and British embassies in Sanaa.

On condition of anonymity, he said the former intelligence officers were accused of forming “an armed gang aimed at destabilizing the security of the country and planning terrorism acts against foreign targets.”

The source said Yemeni authorities arrested the three Iraqis two years ago and found plans for their attacks, official documents issued by the former Iraqi regime and explosives.

The official did not say why the suspects had been held without trial for the past two years.

In theory, Saleh pardoned the al-Houthi rebels. These two clerics were charged with not fighting with them but “affiliation” to them. One recieved the death penalty, the other eight years in jail. These guys lawyers quit the case to protest the fact that they weren’t allowed access to the “evidence.”

So Saleh is going to kill him using the tools of the state, and back off the world by calling them linked to Iran and fabricating evidence. The best of all red herrings for the west is Iran. But there’s no actual evidence: no available documents, no wire taps, no money trail. He just says “Iran” and the world swallows it. This is the same court that sentenced the judge Lugman to 10 years in jail for denouncing the violence in Sa’ada. That they called “sedition.” Yemeni human rights groups and his lawyers have all immediately denounced this death penalty verdict as politically motivated and unjust. I’ll take their assesment over Saleh’s and his cronies anyday.

Saleh is the head of the judiciary and its his personal tool. The state is the enemy of the people, especially people who criticize it. I don’t know how the people inside Yemen stay rational in the face of such infuriating injustice.

YO: A preacher has received the death sentence and another been given an eight-year jail term for collaborating with the rebel leader Hussein Al-Houthi, killed last year, and maintaining contacts with a foreign country.

more press reports below, the world takes Saleh at his word, the word of a tyrant, a thief, a murderer: (Read on …)

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The Eritrean Center for Strategic Studies points out some kind of web in this 2002 report: The trio states of Sana’a axis, namely Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen, maintain strong ties, one way on another, with terrorism, either through state terrorism or by providing all sorts of support to the elements that have strong connections with Al-Qa’ida organization led by Osama Bin Ladin.

So I have to check this out later and now its only a link dump. Highlights on the Yemen section:

The Yemeni regime pretends that it combats terrorism, hypocritically acts as the town crier calling on its Yemeni terrorists to “announce repentance, abandon evildoing” on the one hand, and sheltering, training, arming and supporting Eritrean terrorist element on the other.

The tribal base (Hashed), the tribal branch (Senhan) and the village (Al-Ahmer) — this is the triangle of Hashed-Senhan-Al-Ahmer which has an iron grip on the political, military, security and economic situation in Yemen, through the “General Popular Conference” led by the head of the state, General Ali Abdella Salih, and the “Yemeni Alliance for Reform” (Al-Islah party) chaired by Sheik Abdella Bin Hussein Al-Ahmer.

Both domestic and external Yemeni events for several years now indicate that the ruling “General Popular Conference” party in Sana’a had been penetrated by the Al-Qa’ida organization. As a proof, the member of the Central Committee for the party of President Ali Abdella Salih and the head of the political security apparatus, Abdul Salam Ali Abdul-Rahman had been identified by both the Arab and western intelligence circles to be an active member of Al-Qa’ida organization, implicated in various terrorist operations before his capture and arrest in September 2002.