Assorted Yemen Links
On the other hand, theres a few saved posts and links lists I can throw together:
Transparency Yemen offices corrupted per this oped:
People start working and then receive their payment, not to exceed 50,000 Yemeni Riyals. The receiver is to sign the receipt, leaving the rest for the organization’s official who enters the date, spending purpose and beneficiary’s name. However, the corrupt official then writes the sum as $900 (180,000YR). Invoices and purchase receipts often are handled this way. Finally, the donor receives a file with all documentation proving funds were spent on the project. Of course, also included are published news items about the project.
A good report from the YO on corruption in the embassies:
In Yemeni Embassy of the United Kingdom it has been found that Yemeni nationals and foreigners are asked to pay one hundred pounds sterling for approval of a single document, whether personal or commercial. “You have to deposit the total amount for the number of documents you need approved in a private company account,” a Yemeni-British businessman told the Yemen Observer. “I discovered from the bank receipt that the account is under the name of the financial officer of the embassy.”
The article details also the practices in the Yemeni embassies in Saudi Arabia and Beruit.
An analysis of the very high rates of female mortality, also from the YO:
A recent study found that for every 100,000 baby delivered, an estimated 366 women die due to birth-related complications…The corresponding number of these maternal deaths in neighboring countries is just 10.
While 51% of women in the developing countries deliver babies with the aid of one skilled attendant, then in Yemen, a very broad section of women have no access to any obstetric medicine at all.
Lack of access to obstetric services remains a pivotal reason behind high maternal mortality rates.”
whew, now this guy really didn’t like Finkel’s articles: The problem, for those who think reality is worth knowing, is with the distorted vision of a hotel-based journalist on a limited assignment published via dismissive rhetoric and translated quotes scattered about in tepid newspaperspeak like shrapnel after a cluster bomb explodes. And some more: Yemen is more than an embryonic democracy. Unlike Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, where most of the perpetrators of the September 11 bombing came from, Yemen is already a democracy with several successful elections as supporting evidence. I guess that depends on your definition of success and democracy. Its a long analysis, with some valid points, that I have to read again. But I heard positive reaction from Yemenis about Finkles articles. I think Finkle did a good job, considering the country is so unknown, playing out the relation between Saleh and the tribes was a major accomplishment. Describing the administration as a kleptocracy is spot on.
Now this is odd. An article in the Arab News notes a Swiss court’s decision to acquit Yassin Abdullah Al-Qadia (also Kadi Qadi Quadi), a Saudi national who donated to Zindani’s al-Iman university. The article says, “The charges alleged that Al-Qadi gave money in 1998 ostensibly to construct student housing at Al-Iman University in Yemen while knowing that the funds may have ended up supporting Al-Qaeda’s plan to attack New York City.” The suit was brought by 9/11 families, not the USG.
The odd thing is that The 9/11 Report and other analysis ties all the financing directly to bin Laden. The article states, “And on Dec. 12 the Swiss concurred, stating that no evidence ever linked Al-Qadi to any knowledge of the possibility that his money could have ended up in the hands of a known terrorist organization.” So did the Swiss court find that this guy just didnt know? Or that the money that went to al-Iman did not end up in the hands of a terrorist organization?
The US Treasury Dept classified Zindani as a “major terrorist” in 2004 as a contact and I think also a financier. But this is the first time I ever saw anything published that linked Zindani to 9/11, other then the fact that he was bin Laden’s mentor and spiritual advisor.
Analysis of the GPC conference from the Daily Star:
Yemen’s ruling party on Friday re-elected the country’s long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh as its head, in a move widely interpreted to mean that he was likely to seek a new term. President Saleh has served his country honorably, and long – but perhaps long enough, because he embodies two of the chronic, structural problems in Arab political governance systems during the past 40 years.
One problem is that too many Arab heads of state have been former armed forces commanders who have tended to run their countries in the same top-down way they used to run their militaries….The second problem that plagues much of this region is that of presidents-for-life. Saleh has run the former North Yemen and then the united Yemen for a total of 27 years – a full generation. Rulers who stay in power for so long tend to rule badly after the first 25 years, because they allow systems to develop around them that slowly atrophy and succumb to mismanagement, insularity, corruption and general mediocrity.
And the presidential term is seven years, that’s a long time.
This is also strange for several reasons: Al-Sahwa.net – (12/20)
Yemeni official sources revealed that
the United States of America asked Yemen to open US
prisons in Yemen.Chairman of the Political Circle of the Nasserite
Unionist party Mohammad al-Sabri said that US
requested Yemen to open special American prisons
during the latest visit of president Ali Abdullah
Saleh to the United States last November.Al-Sabri confirmed the US request in a paper offered
in a debate session held by the Yemeni Center for
Strategic Studies on Tuesday on the reforms initiative
of the Joint Meeting Parties.
Saleh told al-Sabri this?
And an official denial via 26 Sept.
more links
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=899&p=local&a=13
hostage
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=899&p=local&a=6
voting law
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=899&p=lastpage&a=1
south
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/13312289.htm
likely torture
http://www.yobserver.com/news_8913.php
al-jaifri and difficulties with judicial reform
Carnegie journos
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=17786&prog=zgp&proj=zme
democracy assessment:
http://pdf.dec.org/pdf_docs/PNACX728.pdf
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP24201
uss cole
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP76704
bin laden bodyguard
banning motorcyclists
http://www.newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2005_12_08_5680
Money Laundering and Terror Support: According to decisions No. 35 in 2003 and No. 247 in 2005, the cabinet affirmed the necessity to reinforce precaution efforts to fight money laundering and terror support. The procedures included the supervision of insurance companies (?), gold stores and real state offices.
http://www.ecoi.net/documents.php?gp=1&iflang=en&country=YE
watchlist assessment:
http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/docs/watchlistreport1.pdf
1998 analysis
http://www.nisat.org/blackmarket/Middle%20East/yemen/98.05.03-Yemeni%20Jihad%20Movement%20Russian%20made%20arms.html
http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/data/laden.htm
sheik al- fadili
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/10/60II/main505794.shtml
cbs
http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/ter_002_007.pdf
http://www.centralbank.gov.ye/
(c) Defense (Wage and Non Wage):
In 2003, defense expenditures increased by YR 18.6 billion or 14.4%. It rose from YR
129.5 billion in 2002 to YR 148.1 billion in 2003. However, its contribution to total current
expenditures decreased from 26.7% in 2002 to 25.4% in 2003. Its ratio to GDP remained
stable in 2002 and 2003 at almost 7.1%.
(YR billion)
Item 2002 2003
Total Government Expenditure 609.5 737.3
Current Expenditures: 485.0 582.6
- Wages and Salaries (Civilian) 134.5 144.3
- Materials and Services 45.2 51.8
- Defense (wage and nonwage) 129.5 148.1
- Interest Obligations 34.7 39.2
- Domestic (Net) 26.2 30.5
- Foreign 8.5 8.8
- Transfers & Subsidies 126.4 176.2
- Subsidies 57.0 106.9
- Current Transfers 69.4 69.3
- Other Current Expenses 14.7 23.0
Capital Development Expenditures 124.5 154.7
http://www.firstgov.gov/fgsearch/index.jsp?dep=t&nr=20&rs=1&de=detailed&mw0=yemen&mt0=all&ms0=must&in0=domain&dom0=ita.doc.gov,%20www.trade.gov,%20www.export.gov&db=www-fed-all&rn=1&parsed=true
banking
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/cpolit/papers/wedeen2.doc
paper on unifcation
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD105105
qawaraqrdi
http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Yemen
http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC16338.htm
http://www.reporter.no/IRN/Countries/Middle_East/Yemen/index.html
http://www.eldis.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?QB0=AND&QF0=DE@DOCNO&QI0=Yemen*&MR=20&TN=a1&DF=f1&RF=s1&DL=0&RL=0&NP=3&MF=countmsg.ini&AC=QBE_QUERY&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%3A//www.eldis.org/search.htm
http://www.thedailyjournalonline.com/article.asp?ArticleId=209067&CategoryId=12395
,a href=”http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=896&p=press&a=4″> 26 September: The paper of the Military: The American administration is making use of the issue of Hariri assassination as a pretext similar to that of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in prelude to deal a blow to Syria with an Arab participation.
22 May, a paper associated with the ruling party,
if we want America to be satisfied with us, put us on the list of democratic and civilized countries, helps us to join the WTO, opens for us doors of the World Bank, considers us among its best friends, encourages the international community to support our economy and market out products and meets our military needs, we have to abandon our national constants and principles. We have to cancel Ramadan from the Hegira calendar and to take the initiative to recognize the Zionist entity and normalize our relations with it without conditions.
us state dept religion report
“http://yementimes.com/newsarticle.shtml?a=20_2005_11_11_7003″.
The Age, wheat.
2000 press infringments
http://www.cpj.org/attacks00/mideast00/Yemen.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/shabab-al-moumineen.htm
believing youth
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=904&p=report&a=1
al-houthi interview
http://www.ndi.org/EDF/discuss1.html
ndi forum
http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal_vol9/0203_sharif.asp
parliament
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=904&p=business&a=1
it is estimated that the total of workers in fisheries and marine life and related industries reach 1.7 million people.
19/12/2005
NODRF anxious over “coercive detentions,
Al-Sahwa.net – The National Organization for Defending
Rights and Freedoms (NODRF), called also HOOD,
expressed its concerns over the “arbitrary detention
and disappearance” being practiced by Yemeni
intelligence, the Central Security Body, against
individuals under the pretext of terrorism fighting
and Saada rebellion.
The NODRF said that most detained for Saada rebellion
and terrorist actions have not been referred to
justice.
The organization said that some people “are still
disappeared” and their relatives were not allowed to
visit them.
“Some people were arrested as they were on a visit to
Libya without any legal reason,” said the organization
in a press statement on Monday that al-Sahwa.net got a
copy of it.
The organization extended its fears that detainees and
disappeared persons be tortured and treated inhumanely
as security authorities did not allow local
organizations to visit detainees to check their
conditions in prison.
HOOD appealed to president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the
executive and legislative authorities and the judicial
apparatuses to do their constitutional and legal
responsibility towards detainees in Yemeni prisons. It
urged the concerned bodies to release all persons who
were found not guilty and to refer the guilty people
to justice to get fair trial.
The organization exposed protests and hunger strike in
solitary confinements in al-Mansora in Aden and in
al-Bahreen in Abyan. It asked for forming a committee
including parliamentarians to investigate into the
incidents and put the responsible for abuses under
trial.
