The Sa’ana Axis
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.
