Indicators of the Yemeni Regime’s Support of al-Qaeda
We can safely say the Pakistani model of rehabilitiation and engagement has failed, and further backfired, in Yemen.
- escaped terrorists. lots including the cole bombers
- re-educated terrorists released without debriefing by the US
- murder of Jarallah Omar, socialist leader, indications of regime complicity per Amnesty international, fatwa-ed by Zindani
- unwilling to close UN identified terrorist bank accounts
- alqaeda praises Yemeni president Saleh
- Cole bombing, Saleh sends his top guys to Aden hours *before * the bombing
- Cole bombing, Saleh misdirects the FBI
- Cole bombing, Saleh uncooperative
- thousands of extremist schools still functional and well funded by the state, including al-Iman univ
- jailed al-qaeda get special treatment in jail
- Aden Abyan Army said by officials to be disbanded and no longer a threat, then strikes the Lindburgh oil tanker
- terrorists reported as dead to the US by the regime are later found to be alive and well in Yemen
- yemeni terrorists operating in Iraq, 20 Yemeni suicide bombers include two Cole escapees
- training camps for baathist and al-qaeda in yemen
- travel documents for terrorists going to Iraq are from yemen
- cole bombers had official travel documents from the Yemeni govt
- cole bombers had weapons permits from the yemeni govt
- cole bombers later complicit in 9/11 and other yemenis involved
- reeducated bin laden driver says its a hoax, that theres a deal between al-qaeda and the regime not to operate in yemen but outside is ok
- extremist ideology spread by the state through school and mosques
- afghan arab preachers trucked in to mosques even in Sanaa, the capital
- jihaddiis through the region supplied with weapons by yemeni military
- Zindani, US classified “Major Terrorist” operating openly as a member of Parliament and businessman, fatwa-ed the Cole
- attacks the Shiites, including possible use of chemical weapons, destroys Shiite literature, outlaws Shiite prayers
- al-qaeda in Saudi Arabia found with weapons from yemeni military
- Saleh denies he was ever notified by the US that the Cole was coming to Aden
- Oppression of secularists, democrats, pluralsists, calling all opponents apostates
- Sistani calls the regime jihadiis
- Zindani to Ansar al-Islam to Andsar al- Sunna to 12 beheaded Nepalese in Iraq
- 2003 al-Qeda offers the regime a deal, Hittar negotiaties
- regime military and security forces full of people loyal to al-qaeda
- terrorism arrests normally underlings or innocent people, very few top al-qaeda
- the central bank of yemen does not issue the UN circular that lists which bank accounts belong to internaionally designated terrorist entities
- Ali Mohsen
- 3000 students from al-Iman univ are hired to teach the governmental summer camps
- not cooperating with the UN regarding weapons trafficking and reporting
-17% of foreign fighters in Iraq are Yemeni, not counting those trained in Yemen or expeditedwith logistical assistance or transited
- narcoterrorism, nexus of criminal activities financing the jihad
