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1.4 million US Training Yemeni Officers (2004)

Filed under: Yemen — by Jane Novak at 3:15 pm on Friday, April 14, 2006

Update: According to this website, The Federation of American Scientists the only transfer of arms from the US to Yemen 1999-2005 was this: Yemen 7/24/2002 DTC 189-02 Overhaul of J79 and J85 gas turbine aircraft engines, to be performed in South Korea Direct Commercial Sales.

(Jordan on the other hand got a lot including air to air missles. In the ’90’s Morocco got a lot of weapons for free. Wow, Saudi Arabia purchased over 2 billion in 2005 alone. Pakistan and Egypt purchased about 300 million in weapons in 2005.)

(The Arms Sales Monitoring Project keeps track of the administration’s notifications to Congress of proposed government-negotiated Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreements, export licenses for industry-negotiated Direct Commercial Sales (DCS), leases of equipment, and reduced price or free excess defense article (EDA) transfers.)

According to this State Department report in 2004, the US spent 1.4 million on training programs for Yemeni officers inthe US, mostly English language courses and some Naval training (standing up the Coast Guard) . Similiar amounts were spent on Morocco and Tunesia, with 3.1 million for Jordan. So no weapons, just English courses.

Just a note, while most are $10K increments for individual training, this item is for 10 people and a 14 month course:
MTT COMERC CTL IINFRAS DEV 10 YORKTOWN, VA 23690 YEMENI NAVY $450,859 9/15/2002 11/9/2003

18 Comments »

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Comment by beautifulatrocities

4/15/2006 @ 12:08 am

I see the gremlins are gone

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Comment by Jane

4/15/2006 @ 12:09 am

Not for long, they’re lurking.

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Comment by Abu Dougana

4/15/2006 @ 2:58 am

ISLAM ORDERS WOMEN TO STAY IN THEIR HOUSES AND NOT INDULGE IN THE SOSIETY OUR TEACHERS OF FIGH LIKE SHEIKH ZINDANI WHO IS VERY MODERN ALLOW WOMEN TO GO TO EMAN UNIVERSITY TO LEARN ISLAM TEACHINGS ONLY IN CONDETION THAT THEY ARE FULLY COVERED AND NO MEN TEACHERS MEX TO THEM THE LECTURES THEY GIVE THRO SHORT CIRCIT T,V
GOOD VERY MUCH
WOMANS THEY CAN MARRY FROM EMAN U MANS. AND HAVE HOUSES FROM THE EMAN U
WE SHALL MAKE THE TTALEBBAN IN YEMEN BECAUSE YEMEN IS THE LAND OF ISLAM AND NOT KOFFUR.
ISLAM ALWAYS WINNED LOOK TO SHIEKH ZINDANI AND HIS MANS MOVING FREELY INSIDE YEMEN AND OUTSIDE NO US OR UN BANED THEM THEY ARE VICTORY . THEY CHALLENGE ALL HUMANS AND SUCCEECFUL. LONG LEVE ZINDANI AND ALQAIDA AND TALIBANI. YOU ALL GO AWAY AMARECA WOMANS TALIBAN IS COMING IN YEMEN LONG LEVE PRISADANT SALEH GOOD ANTI AMARECAN SATANS.
I AM PROUD THAT MY BRETHAR IS WORKING WITH HEM IN TRADE HALLAL AND NOT KAFFAR.

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Comment by Jane

4/15/2006 @ 9:10 am

So let me ask you, what if a woman in Yemen has God given talents, and she is able to care for the children and the house and the husband and has time left over. Is she just to sit there? Or can she use her talents to give something to society as long as there is no mixing? What about the women working in argiculture? Is that OK to work in the fields? What if the husband dies and she has no family and she has no money to feed the kids? Is she allowed to work then? Or is begging better? Im not arguing with you, Im just curious as to your view.

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Comment by Jane

4/15/2006 @ 9:54 am

You know we all are a product of our culture, and the culture in the US is that all people are equal and have somethinbg to give to society even the blind and crippled and brain damaged.

So half of the women in the US choose to stay home and care for the family, others need to work to get money for the family. Some like to work becasue they are talented. And there are some excellent women doctor surgons, artists, teachers, business, computer programmers, judges, politicians ect. And clearly they are talented. So its not logical that women in the US are talented but those in Yemen are not. Clearly the women must be equally talented in Yemen as in the US. So why would God give talents to women if not to use them to help society?

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Comment by Abu Dougana

4/15/2006 @ 5:57 pm

WOMENS ARE HAVE HALF BRAIN,HALF RELIGON AND HALF MONEY INHERITANCE GOD SAY GIVE ONE MAN WHAT YOU GIVE TO WOMAN.
BUT STILL WOMANS ARE IMPORTANT TO THE SOSIEIEY IF STAY IN HOUSE COOKING, GIVING BIRTH TO CHILDREN GIVENING PLEASARE TO HUSBAND OBEYING HIM THEN DIE AND GO TO PARADISE. SHE GO OUTSIDE HOUSE ONLY TWO TIMES ONE FROM HER FATHER TO HER HUSBAND THE TWO FROM HER HOUSE TO HER GRAVE. THAT ALL NO MORE WENT OUT. WE DONT LIKE WEST LIFE WITH WOMANS IN THE STREETS EVERY MAN TAKING THEM TO MAKE PLESURE WE ARE VERY VERY HARD MOSLEMS
UNDERSTAND WOMAN. LOMG LIVE SHIEKH ZINDANI WE WANT TALIBAN GOOD BETTER VERY MUCH MOSLEMS NOT IRAN NOT WEST NOT AARICA.

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Comment by Jane

4/15/2006 @ 7:22 pm

I get you clear.You said that Zindani approves of Saleh, but how does keeping Saleh move Yemen closer to a Taliban style government? Isn’t Islah an Islamic party and Zindani’s party? What about the poverty of the people from the GCP corruption, is that just and fair?

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Comment by Abu Dougana

4/17/2006 @ 6:37 am

YES SOUR MOSLIM PRISIDANT IS WITH OUR 2 SHIEKHS ALAHAMER AND ZINDANI.
ALESLAH IS NOT ALL GOOD RELIGON PEOPLE SOME ARE BAD POLITICS MAN NOT WITH SHEIKH ZINDANI. SOME PEOPLES NOT ISLAH WITH SHIEKH ZINDANI ALL WHO WITH ZINDANI ARE GOOD MOSLEMS LIKE TALIBAN THEY HATERD AMARECA VERY VERY VERY MUCH BECAUSE YOU ARE KAFFERS YOU HATE ISLAM. YOU WANT TO KILL ZINDANI AND SALIH. NO WE NOT ALLOW YOU BAD PEPOLES TO DO THAT WE WILL COME TO AMARECA TO TAKE MOAYAD FROM YOUR PRESON SOON .
LOOK HAMASS IN PLAESTEN IS NOW GOVERMENT WHY YOU STILL PRESON SHAEKH MOAEAD?
YOU WELL SEE THAT ESLAM WELL WIEN SOON. MAENEY PEOPLELS FROM UROUPE AND WAST ARE COMING MOSLEIMS. IESLAM WILL WIN. MY SON IS NOT WETH ME HE SPOKE GOOD EANGILESH.
MAA ALSALAMMA GOODBEY WOMAN OF AARECKA.

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Comment by Jane

4/17/2006 @ 8:36 am

So which one of us is supposed to have half a brain? You are believeing two opposite things at once. I dont hate Islam and I certainly dont want to kill anybody. Do you beleive everything they tell you? How can you say the US hates Islam while saying there are many conversions. No logic. You don’t know anything about the US people except to hate them because they Christian. No logic. You are holdng me responsible for Bush and Moyyad being in jail but say I should not hold Saleh responsible for himself, when you yourself say he is bad politician, no one should speak of him or write about his stealing the people’s money. No logic. You could not answer me as to why God would give women talents but not to use them. Im sorry for you. So long no logic guy.

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Comment by yassin

4/17/2006 @ 3:12 pm

nice thrill losers ,,

but wht abt this one

So let me ask you, what if a woman in Yemen has God given talents, and she is able to care for the children and the house and the husband and has time left over. Is she just to sit there?

what if a woman in Yemen has God given talents,

woman in yemen ,,,yemen ,,yemen ,,and then is it fair to sit there ,,,r u talking abt country or abt relgion ,,wht the hell connect this to that ,,,when u wanna discuss such things ,,never mention yemen ,egypt ,,this s some thin to do with the religion not countries ,,,,

also ,,,
was nice thrill ,,funny one ,,
however unfortunately niether u not
Abu Dougana good actors ,,,

abu dougana wanna paint such bad picture abt islam ,,hahah ,,and u were going with him as if this s serious converstaion ,,,stop such nonsens ,,,i m askin again and again ,,,wht have u done to our ppl in iraq wht have u done u fuckin americans to one of the most beloved cities in the world baghdad .

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Comment by Jane

4/17/2006 @ 6:00 pm

yassin you are funny with the conspiracy theories, so you are still saying in your other comment that you think im cia and now you say this guy is a fake to give a bad picture of islam. you think someone sent him here to make a bad impression on me? or that he is also cia and we are talking here both pretending to be other people? for what, for who? it makes no sense. it only makes me tired.

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Comment by Abu Dougana

4/17/2006 @ 9:54 pm

My father asked me to tell you that he is areal person not fake please respect yourselves and answer his logic.
Yasin you are very strange and have little room for islam.
Woman has no talents because God created her from a bent rib of Adam
I dont say you are cia and no need to say because any one is serving his country’s intellegence you do and i do and yasin also.
it seem that you in usa are preparing an attack to iran i dont like iran get i will support them because they are moslems
goodby anerican woman i hope one day you become moslim.
i have three wives and 17 children . i want a 4th woman iwill go to pakistan to marry one moslim if i know of a moslim woman from America or west europe i will marry her,

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Comment by Jane

4/17/2006 @ 10:54 pm

Ok this is a clear answer. I disagree and think anyone who wants to see a woman with talent, all they have to do is look. I am not planning to attack Iran anymore than I am holding Moyaad hostage. What I am planning is to fix the house and then write some more, then you and the US govt and the Yemeni govt can all be mad at me again together. Many kids in Yemeni are very hungry and no one is helping them, I believe someone outside should say that. Goodbye Abu Dougana, I hope you find a good wife. God made a wonderful creation when he made the woman from a rib.

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Comment by khalid

4/18/2006 @ 4:39 am

Hello jane
you have said all the logic.if any one is liable to understand he will be satified by your logic . do you remember that i started by attackking you then i understand because of the intervension of our mutual frriend y.z.
you know jane that i do advocate that every yemeni politician who speaks and read english should observe armies of liberation . hope this so called yassin and abodougana can appreciate that. you know jane our friend y.z always says to me and to other friends whom you might not know please carry on encouraging mrs, jane novak because that is a phenomenon that we dont want to loose.
please keep good jane.
please be objective and oppose if you like brother yassin you seem to be highly intellectual regards to you all.

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Comment by Jane

4/18/2006 @ 11:55 am

Hi Khaild, its nice to hear from you. We all have our own logic and I like to talk to the people who oppose me because maybe they have a good point that im missisng. I disagree with Abudougana but he made his thinking clear. Yassin on the other hand for a year just calls me cia and insults me. Its like one time some US acedemic comes to belittle me and after a long exchange he finally says im wrong because i dont speak arabic. thats funny but meaningless.

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Comment by alhareth

4/18/2006 @ 2:50 pm

i would like our western friends to understand that abodigana opinions and views of islam or the west do not represent the moslim or yemen people views and opinions. it is true we have some sick people like him but the mijority of the people do not agree with him

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Comment by Jane

4/19/2006 @ 9:54 am

this discussion continues on another post.

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Comment by Rev ns ugboaja

7/24/2006 @ 6:15 pm

Sir|MADAM
Ihave been looking to get contact of great church organisation like yours ,but now GOD has open my way as my dream come true.
I am a pastor and my ministry is in Nigeria since 1998 with very few members because of no fund. We seriously pray to GOD For help ,surely our father is out to save us fromsuffer.

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