Armies of Liberation

• 
• Home
• Jane's Articles
• Contact
• Subscribe/RSS
• 

President Saleh on Saturday Night Live

Filed under: Presidency, photos — by Jane Novak at 8:59 pm on Sunday, January 10, 2010

Oh my! A comedy routine shown on the popular US TV show “Saturday Night Live” about US General Patraeus, Yemeni President Saleh and the editor of the Yemen Observer. Faris, that’s you!!! (There’s a commerical before the skit starts, just wait it out.)

In Yemen, you could go to jail for a decade for something like that. Insulting the President is a crime, you know. Does anyone remember comedian Fahd al Qarni, imprisoned for being too funny? But its all good hearted joshing, yes? President Saleh is the guy who had a whole issue of a magazine pulled because he found one of the photos of him to be unflattering. I think it was this one:

Comments (5)

5 Comments »

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

• 
  
  

  Armies of Liberation website was banned by Yemeni authorities in 2007 and remains blocked by government censors despite a partial regime change in 2012.

• Search for:

• Click for catagories

  Select Category General    photos/gifs       photos guest posts    A. A. Qaid reporting Janes Articles    editing    janes articles arabic    mentions    Posts Yemen    A-analysis    A-EXTERNAL       AfPak       China       Diplomacy       Donors, UN       GCC       India       Investment       Iran       Iraq       Kuwait       Libya       Other Countries       Palestinians       Proliferation       Russia       Saudi Arabia       Somalia       Sudan       Syria       UK       USA          gitmo          US jihaddis          USS Cole    A-GEOGRAPHY/ Land       Agriculture          Qat       Locations          Abyan          Aden          al Dhalie          al Jawf          al-Bayda          Amran          Dhamar          Dharmar          Hadramout          Hajjah          Haradh          Hodeidah          Ibb          Islands          Lahj          Mahweet          Marib          Rayma          Sa’ada             abu jubarah          Sana’a          shabwa          Taiz    A-INFRASTRUCTURE       Communications       Electric       Transportation       Water    A-INTERNAL       Biographies       Children       Civil Rights       Civil Society       Civil Unrest          Protest Fatalities          protest statements          protests          reconfigurations       Corruption          Yemen-Corruption       Crime          counterfeiting          drugs          smuggling          theft: land other       Demographics          Yemen-Statistics       Economic          banking          Business          EMC          govt budget          Yemen-Economy       Education          Dammaj       Elections          Yemen-Election       Employment          Unions       Enviornmental          disasters          enviornmental 2       history       Interviews       Judicial          hostages          prisons          Trials       land disputes       Local gov       Media          al-Khaiwani          Yemen-Journalists       Medical       Ministries       Parliament       Political Opposition          National Dialog Committee       Political Parties          GPC          Islah          JMP          PFU          YSP       political violence       Post Saleh       poverty/ hunger       Presidency          Transition          VP       Reform          Yemen-Democracy       Refugees       Religious       reports       South Yemen       statements       Targeting          Targeted Individuals       Tribes       Women’s Issues    A-NATURAL RESOURCES       Fisheries       LNG       non-oil resources       Oil       Ports    A-SECURITY       Al-Qaeda          23 ESCAPE          a2          aq statements          arrests          attacks             3 security             9 hostages             airliner             embassy             prince             SK             suicide attacks             UK amb             UPS bombs          Islamic Imirate          other jihaddists          personalities             al nashiri             anwar             fahd             saif          state jihaddists          terror financing          TI: External          TI: Internal       Counter-terror          Air strike          obits          surrenders          Yemen’s Lies       Military       pirates       Saada War          War Crimes       Security Forces       security timeline

• Site archives: 2004-2012

  Select Month April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 January 2004

• News Articles about this Site

  New York Times, A Living Room Crusade Via Blogging Asbury Park Press, Local Blogger Irritates Yemen Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Switzerland, Housewife makes Yemen nervous Unica Magazine, Portugal, The Heroine of Yemen Alarabiya, She seeks to be a Voice in the West Bokra, American Launches Campaign to Defend Yemeni Journalist Menassat, Lebanon, New Jersey soccer mom's Yemeni crusade Yemen Times, Stop Attacking the American Journalist

• Quotes

  Committee to Protect JournalistsAccess to U.S. journalist Jane Novak’s Web site, Armiesofliberation, which is frequently critical of the Yemeni government, was repeatedly blocked inside Yemen.

  Yemen Observer The security source said that the captured elements’ confessions disclosed that they used to write reports about public opinion trends and sent them together with some photographs to Abdulmalik al-Huthi and external journalists, particularly to the American journalist Jane Novak.

  The New York Times Ms. Novak’s perpetual harping on these themes appears to infuriate the Yemeni authorities.

  Yemen Times Jane Novak, an American researcher, interviewed Hashid, addressing issues related to human rights, freedom, prisons, and inmates in Yemen. The interview was downloaded onto many news websites, enraging a lot of people.

  Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Swiss For the Yemeni government, she has become something like enemy of the state number one.

  Expresso, Portugal But thousands of miles away in a land where ever was, all readers of newspapers know who Jane is. In Yemen, Jane has become a nightmare for the regime.

  Annabelle, Switzerland She re-checks the information, fitting all these pieces together into an overall picture puzzle that results in an extremely precise view of the mysterious interior of Yemen.

  Abdulkarim al Khaiwani @ Oslo Freedom Forum 2010 (video) Jane has a full and sophisticated understanding of the government's true nature.

  Aden News Agency Jane Novak is a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn't know it, but Yemen as it known by its people.

  Gary Swenchonis Sr. Jane was instrumental in helping my wife and myself in many of our successes that we have had since attempting to hold our own government responsible for the promises that they all made to the murdered sailors and the surviving crew of the USS Cole. She helped us achieve a small measure of justice.

• Deutsche Welle International Blog Awards, Finalist 2008 “Best Press Freedom Blog”

  

  Happily lost to Zeng Jinyan, the wife of imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, and 4Equality, a Persian blog on women’s rights in Iran.

• Yemeni Sites

  News of the Yemeni Revolution, Facebook, hourly nation wide updates, English Yemen Fox, New! English! AMA Yemen Rights Monitor, English Yaman News, English, FB, New! Coordinating Council of Youth Revolution for Change Yemen for All Yemen for All, English! Civil Coalition of Youth Revolution Yemenis for Justice 13 demands of the rev Aden Online (English) New! More sites and pages Bakeel tribe (New!) Crowd Voice, Yemen Wikipedia Timeline of Protests Aden Online, English, new! Suhail TV live stream Yemen bloggers in English Yemeni American Coalition for Change, NY

• 2011: Links to external sites

  • Amnesty Intl: 2011 Moment of Truth
  • CPJ: Summoned by Yemeni authorities, journalist is now missing
  • HRW: Child soldiers in army and opposition
  • HRW: civilians killed in Abyan
  • Jane on twitter :)
  • State Dept 2010 Human Rights in Yemen

• Al-Qaeda

  • AQAP Tracker 2010 Attacks, Critical Threats
  • Coucil on Foreign Relations
  • NCTC
  • NEFA Foundation
  • UN 1267 Committee
  • US Counter-terror Aid Diverted: FRC
  • US SD 2009 Terrorism Report
  • Yemeni-American Anti-Terrorism Center

• Arabic Media

  • 26 Septemper (Defense Ministry)
  • Abnall Ganoob
  • Akbaralasr
  • al Dustour
  • al Gahd
  • Al Sahwa (Islah)
  • al Watan
  • Aleshteraki
  • Elpah
  • Sadah Online
  • Shabwa Press
  • Tajaden (SDA)
  • Yemenat

• Country Reports

  • al-Bab: History
  • Amnesty International 2008
  • Amnesty Y/E 2008
  • Committee to Protect Journalists 2008
  • Election News
  • Freedom House
  • Freedom House 2009
  • Freedom House 2010 Women
  • Global Health Reporting
  • Global Integrity 2008
  • Heritage Business Freedom
  • HRW Gitmo Detainees 2009
  • HRW Saada Civilians
  • HRW year end 2010
  • HRW, Hostile Shores, Refugees in Yemen 2009
  • HRW: Arbitrary Arrests and Disappearances Sa'ada War
  • HRW: Child soldiers in army and opposition
  • HRW: civilians killed in Abyan
  • HRW: In the Name of Unity (abuses in Southern Yemen) dtd 12/09
  • HRW: Seven Principles for Effective International Engagement in Yemen (2010)
  • Intl Crisis Group: Sa'ada, May 09
  • Millennium Challange Ranking
  • National Security Overview
  • Open Net Initiative
  • RSF Y/E 2009, Journalists Under Attack
  • RSF: Journalists Targeted April 2010
  • State Dept 2010 Human Rights in Yemen
  • Trafficking in Persons 2006
  • Trafficking in Persons 2009
  • UN Human Rights Index
  • UN Monitoring Committee on Arms Embargo to Somalia y/e 2008
  • UNDP Country Reports
  • UNDP Poverty Profile
  • UNHRC 2008 Report
  • US SD Y/E 2008: Terrorism
  • US State Dept 2008 Human Rights
  • US State Dept Report on Terrorism 2007
  • Women in the Media: Article 19
  • World Bank Yemen Update Y/E 2008

• English and New News Sources

  • Aden News Agency
  • Aden News Agency- English, opposition
  • Aden Press English
  • Bakeel Tribe Webstie

• Expatriat Orgs

  • Southern Democratic Assembly
  • Yemeni Students Abroad

• Forums

  • Heware
  • South Yemen Aden Youth Forum

• Independent NGOs

  • Center for Traning and Protection of Journalists Freedom
  • HOOD: Nat’l Org for Defending Rights and Freedoms
  • National Struggle Against Corruption
  • Political Development Forum
  • Seyaj for Childhood Protection English
  • SEYAJ Organization for the Protection of Children
  • Southern Observatory for Human Rights
  • Women Journalists Without Chains
  • Women’s Forum on Research and Training
  • Yemen Center for Human Rights
  • Yemen Medical Forum
  • Yemen Parliament Watch
  • Yemeni Center for Human Rights
  • Yemeni Journalists Against Corruption
  • Yemeni Observatory for Human Rights

• Links

  • Amnesty: Human Rights 2010
  • Congressional research 2011
  • Flashpoint Intel
  • Gulf of Aden
  • Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen, The Huthi Phenomenon
  • RSF: Journalists Targeted April 2010
  • South Arabia Times
  • Yemen Tribune

• News Outlets

  • Aden News Agency- English, opposition
  • Al-Motamar (GPC)
  • Al-Sahwa (Islah)
  • Al-Shoura (opposition)
  • Mareb Press (non-gov)
  • News Yemen (Independent)
  • SABA (State News Agency)
  • Yemen Observer (quasi-gov)
  • Yemen On Line (non-gov)
  • Yemen Portal (Aggregator)
  • Yemen Post (non-gov)
  • Yemen Times (Independent)
  • Yemeni American

• Other

  • Facebook stats on Yemen

• Research Resources

  • 1994's Document of Pledge and Accord (English)
  • Al- Babwa
  • CIA Factbook
  • Constitution and Laws
  • Guantanamo Docket NYT
  • Human Security Gateway
  • Islah website
  • Library of Congress: Reference
  • PDF
  • Yemen locations alphabetical

• Rights Organizations

  • Abolish Slavery. org
  • Amnesty International
  • Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
  • Article 19
  • Committee to Protect Journalists
  • CPJ: Summoned by Yemeni authorities, journalist is now missing
  • Front Line Defenders
  • Hands Across the Middle East Support Alliance
  • HRW: Child soldiers in army and opposition
  • IFEX: International Freedom of Expression Exchange
  • Iranian Minority Human Rights
  • Links International Organizations
  • Menassat
  • MENGOs: Middle East NGO’s
  • Reporters Without Borders

• Yemen Government

  • Central Statistical Org.
  • LOC: Business, Commerce and Economy
  • Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation
  • Ministry of Public Health
  • Ministry of the Interior
  • Petroleum Exploration and Production Authority
  • Yemen constitution
  • Yemen Embassy DC Economic and Commercial Office
  • Yemen Embassy UK
  • Yemen’s Central Statistical Organization

• Yemen's Donors

  • Financial Tracking Service: Humanitarian Aid
  • ICRC Yemen Update July 2009
  • IDP’s in Sa’ada July 2009
  • IMF 2008 Consultation
  • IMF Yemen Page
  • Relief Web
  • UN Info Center Sana’a
  • UNDP: Yemen
  • US Central Command
  • US Embassy Sana’a
  • US Embassy Sana’a
  • US State Dept: MENA
  • USAID: Yemen
  • World Health Organization

• Yemen Articles 2004-2010

  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi products
  • Obama fumbles Yemen

• Link to this site that bypasses the block by the Yemeni government

  http://tinyurl.com/6ky3cfl long

• Blogging Yemen since 2004

  The fifth blogoversary was anteater themed.

• Follow on Twitter

  

• Disclaimer and Terms of Use

  By accessing this website, armiesofliberation.com, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Any reproduction, republication or reiteration of this website’s content must credit the author by name and/or the website by Uniform Resource Locator (URL). All content is provided to the public on an as-is, as-when basis, for informational purposes only and without any representations as to accuracy, completeness, or suitability. The website and/or authors will not be liable for any informational errors or omissions, or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. The website is not responsible for translation or interpretation of content. The website's content is not intended to malign any group. organization, company, or individual. The website does not take responsibility for the content of outbound or inbound external links. Comments contained in the comment sections are the sole responsibility of their writers. Original work: copyright 2012 by Jane Novak

• Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org