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A security official said the regional wing of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for an attack on a checkpoint in southern Yemen on Saturday that killed eight soldiers.

وأنحت وسائل الاعلام الحكومية باللائمة في القتال في الجنوب والذي قتل فيه عشرات الاشخاص على مدى الاشهر الثلاثة الماضية على جناح تنظيم القاعدة في المنطقة ومتشددين انفصاليين مسلحين. Sculpture and state media blamed the fighting in the south, which killed dozens of people over the past three months on the wing of al Qaeda militants in the region and separatist militants. (Read on …)

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Gratitude to Ms. Novak of South Yemen> By / Raed Jehafi

Miss Jane Novak, writer and human rights activist U.S., specializing in the political affairs of Yemen, one of the best political analysts in Yemeni affairs, as dealing with the issues of Yemen with tact and professionalism, and during the six years since Yemen outbreak of war in Sa’ada between the Yemeni and Houthi, managed Ms. Novak of addressing the problem of Saada politically wise and far-sightedness and impartial adult, was making a contribution to all new developments, not to relent in defending human rights in Saada and exposing the crimes of murder and destruction, which affected people in Sa’ada, and by then proceeded Ms. Jane Novak at follow-up developments in the street south in southern Yemen , is well aware of what the status quo in the southern provinces, has a historical background of Yemen and its inherited political stages of different political systems unless they owned the majority of Yemenis, including writers, journalists, and became the American writer dealing with deeply serious terrorism files and al-Qaeda in Yemen, the sequence of events is accurate and proficient in sort of problems and analysis through the draw from the evidence and the evidence, you receive a day thousands of information on Yemen and the issue of Houthi and al-Qaeda and the case of South and connect with nearly four thousand Yemen and south, share with most of them, especially intellectuals, politicians, journalists and other information and ideas, and engage in discussion in the overall issues Yemeni affairs, and through numerous news media are included in the Web, co writer Jane Novak Yemen and South through the codes and three locations the most important of the armies of liberation, in addition to Facebook and other living writer, Novak reality and suffering of the streets of Yemen and South, and had a head start thanks defense of cases of the victims accelerated in southern Yemen and other …

باسمي وباسم أبناء الجنوب اليمني مثقفين ورجال اعلام وساسة وطلاب وفلاحين وغيرهم نتقدم بأجمل التحايا وجزيل الشكر والعرفان للسيدة نوفاك. My own behalf and on behalf of the sons of the South Yemeni intellectuals and media men and politicians, students, farmers and others extend greetings and warmest thanks and gratitude to Ms. Novak.

المصدر:ملتقى جحاف Source: Forum Juhav jhaff.com

برقية وفاء وعرفان للسيدة نوفاك من جنوب اليمن
08-30-2010 06:23
الجنوب الحر – رائد الجحافي

الآنسة جين نوفاك , كاتبة وناشطة حقوقية امريكية , متخصصة في الشؤون السياسية اليمنية , تعد من أفضل المحللين السياسيين في الشأن اليمني , إذ تتناول قضايا اليمن بحصافة واقتدار, وخلال ست سنوات منذو اندلاع حرب صعدة بين السلطة اليمنية وأتباع الحوثي , تمكنت السيدة نوفاك من تناول مشكلة صعدة بحنكة سياسية وبُعد نظر وبحيادية بالغة , كانت تدلي بدلوها في كافة المستجدات , لم تتوانى في الدفاع عن حقوق الانسان في صعدة وفي كشف جرائم القتل والتدمير التي طالت السكان في صعدة , والى جانب ذلك شرعت السيدة جين نوفاك في متابعة مستجدات الشارع الجنوبي في جنوب اليمن , تدرك جيداً ماهية الوضع القائم في المحافظات الجنوبية , لديها من المعلومات التاريخية اليمنية ومن الموروث السياسي لمراحل الأنظمة السياسية المختلفة مالم يمتلكها غالبية اليمنيين , بمن فيهم الكتاب والصحافيين , وأضحت الكاتبة الامريكية تتناول بعمقٍ بالغ ملفات الارهاب والقاعدة في اليمن , تتابع الاحداث بشكل دقيق وتجيد في فرز المشاكل وتحليلها من خلال ما تستخلصها من قرائن وأدلة , تتلقى في اليوم الواحد آلاف المعلومات عن اليمن وقضية الحوثي والقاعدة والقضية الجنوبية , وتتواصل مع ما يقارب الأربعة آلاف يمني وجنوبي , تتبادل مع معظمهم خصوصاً المثقفين والسياسيين والصحافيين وغيرهم المعلومات والأفكار , وتدخل في نقاش في مجمل قضايا الشأن اليمني , وعبر وسائط اعلامية عديدة تندرج جميعها داخل الشبكة العنكبوتية , تعايش الكاتبة جين نوفاك اليمن والجنوب من خلال مدونات ومواقع ثلاثة أهمها جيوش التحرير , بالاضافة الى موقع الفيس بوك وغيرها , تعيش الكاتبة نوفاك واقع ومعاناة الشارعين اليمني والجنوبي , وكان لها السبق والفضل في الدفاع عن قضايا ضحايا المعجلة في جنوب اليمن وغيرها…

باسمي وباسم أبناء الجنوب اليمني مثقفين ورجال اعلام وساسة وطلاب وفلاحين وغيرهم نتقدم بأجمل التحايا وجزيل الشكر والعرفان للسيدة نوفاك.

المصدر:ملتقى جحاف

The Australian wonders what the heck is going on in Lauder and its a good question. How can we know when all the journalists are in jail? There’s difficulty even identifying the sides in the conflict, as there was in Ja’ar in 09 when the state’s jihaddists including al Nabi and Sami Dayhan were fighting another group intent on establishing an Islamic emirate in the city. Things went so far that several suspected homosexuals were killed and other Taliban style gross brutality occurred.

via al SahwaFAR from Afghanistan, Iraq and the flood plains of Pakistan, a bitter siege played out this week between al-Qa’ida and an American ally. Or did it?

The first reports from the siege of Lodar, in southern Yemen, told of 80,000 people fleeing as government forces encircled the town, dropping leaflets instructing residents to flee before a big offensive against al-Qa’ida militants hunkered there.

The next report revised the number of residents fleeing down to 3000, with 200 al-Qa’ida militants and 200 fighters from the secessionist Southern Movement holding the town. Yesterday the Yemeni government hailed its conquest of Lodar, having “stormed the dens of the terrorists”. Its count of al-Qa’ida fighters killed came in at 12. (Read on …)

That’s good and hopefully will avert a seventh war. A mutual timetable provides a good structure but the oversight is still up in the air. The Houthis view below the fold:

Qatar (Doha) – Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani witnessed this evening the signing of the explanatory appendix of the executive program schedule for the implementation of the 22 points which were signed between the Yemeni government and the Houthis Group, State-run Qatari News Agency reported. (Read on …)

Several international correspondents were also assaulted. The cartoonist Kamal and the SABA news “al Qaeda expert” Haider are still imprisoned without charges. Amnesty International noted: Under pressure from the United States and others to confront threats from al-Qaeda, along with Zaidi Shi’a rebels in the north and growing demands for secession in the South, the Yemini government is using national security as a pretext to stifle criticism and reject human rights in a campaign of unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and unfair trials.

Yemen Times SANA’A, August 25 — Yemen Times journalist Khaled Al-Hilaly was assaulted by two men from political security wearing civilian clothes after he covered a sit-in organized by the Journalists Without Chains organization condemning the abduction of journalists Abdulelah Shae’ and Kamal Sharaf.

Al-Hilaly was cornered as he was returning home after the event by two security men with wireless walkie-talkies. They demanded that he hand over his camera, which is worth more than USD 600, or else he would be arrested. When the journalist tried to verify their identity or give them the memory card instead of the camera the security men hit him on the head and violently snatched the camera. (Read on …)

Ali Saleh played his game so well, that the blowback is coming to haunt him. The deliberate conflation of state jihaddists with the AQAP nucleus got a lot of people confused. There’s no doubt that AQAP has global ambitions but its the subverted members of the security and other social figures that enable their capacity and legitimize their message. Update: AP: gee al Qaeda is now the main threat, Saleh says. The guy can turn on a dime.

Yemen says US exaggerates Al Qa’eda threat The national: SAN’A // Yemen said today that US officials have exaggerated the size and danger of al Qa’eda in Yemen, and insisted that fighting the jihadist network’s local branch remains San’a’s job.

A Yemeni official has denied what he called “press leaks published in US and Western media that exaggerate the size of al Qa’eda and the danger that it poses to Yemen’s stability and security,” according to Saba, the state news agency. (Read on …)

I was hoping the Afghan anti-corruption model could be replicated in Yemen, but with the CIA as part of the corruption in Afghanistan, its not very promising. Wasn’t the CIA paying the al-Qaeda supporting mass murderer, Ali Mohsen al Ahmar? I thought the book by Kaplan said as much. But its a few years old, maybe they wised up. Its bad to leak info to the media but its more immediately deadly to leak it to the Yemeni regime.

AP: The Obama administration on Friday accused an analyst who worked at the State Department of leaking top secret information about North Korea to a reporter. Steven Kim, who worked at State as an employee of a contractor, maintains his innocence.

He was named in a federal indictment unsealed Friday and charged with illegally disclosing national defense information, which carries a top penalty of 10 years in prison, and with making false statements to the FBI, which has a maximum five-year sentence. It was the latest move in an aggressive campaign to crack down on leaks, even as the administration has supported proposed legislation that would shield reporters from having to identify their sources.

Recent disclosures to news media have revealed the potential for using CIA drones in the counterterrorist fight against al-Qaida in Yemen, the close relationship of the CIA station chief in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the CIA’s practice of paying some members of the Afghan government for information.

1) What are they afraid of? Losing the case or exposing the Yemeni government officials complicity? Now that would be tacky. Nashiri got weapons permits and travel documents from the Interior Ministry and one report says he hid out in Yemen for months after while the Y govt denied he was there. 2) The old military commissions worked fine, the “reformed” commissions are supposed to be even better somehow. 3) What an insult it is to the US service members and the families of the deceased that politics again is determining US policy toward terrorists.

Boston.com: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the October 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.

The decision at least temporarily scuttles what was supposed to be the signature trial of a major Al Qaeda figure under a reformed system of military commissions. And it comes practically on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attack, which killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens when a boat packed with explosives ripped a hole in the side of the warship in the port of Aden. (Read on …)