Widespread Attacks on Jane Continue in Yemen
The Yemeni government wigged out after I was on al-Jazeera. Wigged. Out.
This article is not an attack article but it discusses the barrarge of Yemeni governmental media attacks on me. The title is A Front Called Novak:
After more than one week of the battle of the government and the govern party’s press that has launched a campaign against what they pretend is a foreign enemy who is going to root out the country; it is the American journalist Jane Novak.It is normal that the speech of Jane Novak to Al-Jazeerah has cause all this outrage and reaction of the Yemeni regime, however the regime through it media was vulgar and not was aware of the fact that it gives more evidence and proofs to what was Jane saying .
They launched to attack Jane’s personal affairs and replaced the objectivism with swearing and cursing.
From the Thawrah, the government newspaper, to the Congress Party’s newspaper ( Al-Methaq) and between them, all the government and the websites newspapers even the small bulletins and independent journals which they use the public money all of them have nothing to say only talking about Jane Novak the describing her as a conspirator, Zionist, traitor, unemployed and the owner of a bad website and lying sources.
The governmental media insists that all the opposition’s parties and their newspapers are involved with this American Journalist at mobilising foreigner’s forces against Yemen aiming to destroy the legitimate regime.
Despite the fact that Jane is an independent Journalist they insist on describing her activities as an expression of the American and Zionism strategic and enmity policy.
It seems that this speech is not a boyish speech and not all those auditors write with personal motives or because of the lack of professionalism but it is the official policy and method of the president Saleh at dealing with his oppositionists inside and outside the country.
The personal press consultant of the president Saleh (Fares Alsanabani) who used this method by attacking Jane’s private affairs (on the al-Jazeera show) is an example. All these mentioned newspapers used the same method even that Al-Methaq (the ruling General Congress Party’s newspaper) has invented a personal accusation that Jane has romantic relationship with one of the Yemeni oppositionist .
Novak also has written surprisingly at her website about the regime media ways of attacking even her personal website.
Vulgar? Personal Attacks? Swearing and Cursing? A Romatic Relationship? bwahahahaha The very best is “owner of a bad website.” I can’t stop laughing.
Maybe its the woman thing, but they just can’t wrap their heads around the idea that no one is directing me, not for love or money. For a long time, the accusation was that I was a Yemeni man in disguise. That’s been pretty well debunked. Maybe its better if they think I have some organization behind me, but I’d love to see the Yemeni officials’ faces the day the reality sinks in that its one woman, all by herself (well, with a blogosphere and a solid editor), who is bringing them so much grief by speaking the (well-documented) truth.
I think I’ll set the time on this post to 3 AM so they can continue to say that I work all night. Aw screw it, I’m gonna ‘lanch myself from the Boyz and Girls instead. I get by with a little help from my blogfriends.
Update: HI!!!! What a sleezy regime huh? But this is nothing compared to what they do internally to the Yemeni people who speak out- the reformers, the political opposition, and the journalists who are facing an unprecedented wave of violence and repression. Its brutal.
Also I failed to note this article is at al-Shoura’s website, where al-Khaiwani is the editor. Its very ironic that after we made the petition for his release from jail, its turning around that the guy winds up defending me, like in his article Stop Atacking the American Journalist (written before the al-Jazeera show and this new onslaught). Like he doesn’t have enough headaches.
