The Saada Wars were fought by children and the state’s policies of collective punishment targeted children. The kids interviewed had been fighting for years already. The age of maturity in Yemen is 15– by that age many are married, armed, working and chewing qat.
The Obama admin exempted Yemen from legal repercussions for the use of child soldiers.
(New York) – Child soldiers recruited by the Yemeni army are now being used by a breakaway unit to protect anti-government protesters, Human Rights Watch said today. The United States and other governments should call for an immediate end to the use of children as soldiers or in other security forces, whether for the Yemeni government or the opposition. (Read on …)
Its been two days and there’s no independent confirmation that this even happened. Its such a murky country due to the censorship. But if true, the incident also shows that AQAP is continuing its violence in Yemen.
4/7/11 ADEN — Two soldiers kidnapped by tribesmen in southern Yemen were found with their throats slit on Tuesday in the restive province of Abyan, an Al-Qaeda stronghold, a security official said.
The two soldiers were murdered in an Al-Qaeda-style execution, the official said, requesting anonymity.
He said the execution of hostages went against the norms of Yemeni tribes, which often resort to kidnapping as a means of exerting pressure on local authorities, implying Al-Qaeda militants could have been behind the killings.
Local residents told AFP the corpses were found with gunshot and knife wounds on the side of a road outside the unrest-strewn town of Loder.
The two soldiers were kidnapped last Thursday in Loder by tribesmen in retaliation for the Yemeni military’s killing of six suspected Al-Qaeda militants last month.
A security official said on March 26 that army troops killed the six as they attacked an army post in Loder.
Chicago Tribune: According to the allegations against Nashiri, he met Osama bin Laden in 1996 and joined Al Qaeda two years later. In the fall of 2000, he allegedly recruited others to pilot a small boat filled with bombs into the Cole, setting off an explosion in a Yemeni port, killing 17 U.S. sailors and leaving a 40-foot hole in the ship.
Nashiri, a Saudi, was captured more than a year later, and “admitted he assisted with the plot,” according to the government allegations. He was taken to Guantanamo Bay, one of 779 captives who have been detained there at one time or another. (Read on …)
Filed under: Marib, Oil
— by Jane Novak at 10:54 am on Thursday, April 14, 2011
4/16: yup Shabwani
Yemen Times: At 21:30 on Thursday a tribal group destroyed a number of power lines in Marib governorate, which led to power cuts in a number of Yemeni cities for around 20 hours, amongst them the capital Sana’a.
The journalist Hassan al-Zai’idi, who is from Marib, accused tribes that support the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) of being behind the repeated damage to the power lines. However, others are of the opinion that the al-Shabwani tribe are behind the damage to the power lines and the oil pipelines, in protest for the government’s failure to respond to their demand for an investigation into the death of Jaber al-Shabwani, the secretary-general of the Marib local council, who was killed by an American drone last year.
On the same day Marib also witnessed the destruction of an oil pipeline in the area of Sarawih, 40 km west of Marib City. Armed men from the Jahm tribe carried out this attack. According to tribal sources, tribes led by a member of the local council of Sarawih district, who is a member of the ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) Party, was the leader of the operation to blow up the pipeline, which is situated between the Kofal and al-A’roush stations.
4/14: Repair teams were refused access following the earlier shut down on March 14 by relatives and tribesmen of Sheikh Shabwani who were demanding an investigation into his death by a missile strike. The new explosion was perpetrated by tribesmen affiliated with the regime and local council, al Masdar reports, but I’m sure the Saleh regime will blame it on protesters, al Qaeda or the Houthis. Since al Shabwani was deputy governor, its possible that this attack was perpetrated by nominally pro-regime tribesmen.
al Masdar: According to local sources and witnesses for the “online source” that they bent tribal militants blew up on Thursday to blow up a key oil pipeline in Marib governorate Directorate Sarwah east of the capital Sanaa.
وقالت المصادر إن مسلحين يقودهم عضو بالمجلس المحلي للمديرية وقيادي بالحزب الحاكم أقدموا في الثانية بعد منتصف ليلة الأربعاء على تفجير أنبوب النفط الممتد من حقل صافر النفطي إلى ميناء رأس عيسى للتصدير على ساحل البحر الأحمر غرب اليمن. The sources said that militants led by a member of the Local Council of the Directorate and lead the ruling party perpetrated at the second after midnight on Wednesday to blow up oil pipeline extending from the Safer oil field to the port of Ras Issa for export to the Red Sea coast west of Yemen. (Read on …)
They decline to attend talks in Riyadh. Saleh and Ali Mohsen accept the proposal for dialog, the US and EU support the idea, the JMP and the protesters reject it. If the JMP had gone to Riyadh, they would have lost all credibility with the protesters. Its unclear what the JMP are going to do after the two weeks when Saleh is still in power. Whatever promises the GCC extracts from Saleh will be broken. Furthermore the exclusion of the southern mobility from the whole process is a big mistake.
AJE Yemen’s opposition has set a two-week deadline for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside, rejecting a Saudi-brokered, Gulf-backed initiative to end the country’s political turmoil.
“We have renewed our emphasis on the need for speeding the process of (Saleh) standing down within two weeks. Therefore we will not go to Riyadh,” Mohammed al-Mutawakkil, a prominent opposition leader, said on Thursday, referring to the proposed talks in the Saudi capital.
This comes a day after five people were killed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as forces loyal to a defected army general and pro-government fighters clashed, Al Jazeera’s correspondents said. (Read on …)
The Coordinating Council of the Youth Revolution of Change
.http://www.facebook.com/CCYRC
A Pledge to the United States of America and European Union
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Under the alarming circumstance in Yemen, we are awfully concerned about the human rights violation taking place in Yemen, due to the recent violent acts of Ali Saleh and his regime, upon the citizens of Yemen, we urge you to take immediate and urgent measure to put an end to the abuse of power by Ali Saleh and his regime in Yemen.
Clinging to power has made Saleh take irrational measures to employ the resources of our national economy to his personal pleasure.
Three months into the peaceful revolution, over 400 killed, and thousands wounded, and other many young people prisoned for voicing their rights for freedom. We make this pledge to the United States of America and European Union to freeze all accounts and assets of Ali Saleh, his relatives abroad.
Foreign currency is extremely limited in our central bank and other government banks, due to the exploitation of our national resources to serve Ali Saleh and his ruling party.
Exploitation of public servants and forcing them to pro Saleh demonstrations is weighing heavily on our public sector performance and the budgets of the governments various institutions.
On behalf of all the peaceful youth movements under the Coordinating Counsel of the Revolution of Change, we make this pledge and we anticipate your urgent response towards our peaceful and pressing demands.
Oh noes! Is the push to hand power from Saleh to VP Hadi (who already said he would not take the position) because its constitutional or because he’s a southerner, and its thought that he may placate the southern independence movement? It’s a similar notion to Hamid al Ahmar’s repetitive suggestion that the next president be from the south. It was the strategy they tried during the last election. In the south, Hadi is known as a sell out to northern interests (as are many in the YSP) and in no way would be welcomed by the secessionists.
Nasser Arrabyee: In an exceptional meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, the GCC foreign ministers late Sunday April 10th, suggested that President Ali Abdullah Saleh should hand over his powers to his deputy, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and form a unity government chaired by the opposition for formulating a new constitution and conducting elections.
Mr. Hadi is from the south. This is the most important thing that will force all parties to agree on him for succeeding Saleh during the transitional period which will be about 3-6 months.
I am just astounded by how out of touch many in the north are with the secessionists and southern sentiment in general. (I don’t mean this reporter Nasser, I’ll leave the obnoxious egghead shtick to the eggheads. I mean Yemenis on the streets.) Regardless of my hopes for a just and unified Yemen, the secessionists haven’t lost as many supporters as the Sanaa protesters seem to wish. And the longer the southerners are ignored and excluded from negotiations, and the topic banned from discussion, the more alienated they are from the current movement.
The protesters in Aden are nearly all young boys, which makes their deaths so tragic. But many of the hundreds of thousands from other governorates who marched from 2007-2010 are staying home. Earlier this month, the southern movement held the regularly scheduled march for the prisoners, not to be confused with joining the current protest movement. Other protests are characterized as in harmony with the SM goal of removing Saleh as a step toward independence. It would be a good idea for anyone (YRC, GCC, UN) to reach out to them and try to get them on board, but there’s such hostility whenever the topic comes up and everyone seems to think that the issue can be deferred until after Saleh goes. And worse yet, the only name that has any recognition is Hassan Baoum, and he is only part of the equation.
A good spot to link the Southern Observatory for Human Rights March 2011 reports which details the protests and violence in the south, as well as the location and stated purposes of the demonstrations:
باللغة الأنجليزية
Its not a widespread goal, and the jihaddists note they are ready to follow Saleh, if they are not doing this on his behalf already. The protesters are determined to have a civil state. Update: I’m starting to see a meme develop here, Nasser Arrabyee reports a well known Salafi cleric urges the adoption of Sharia and the retention of Saleh as a solution to the current impasse.
The Salafi cleric Abdul Majid Al Raimi was blasting opposition statements that the new regime after Saleh would be a real partner with the US and western world in combating the terrorism and Al Qaeda.
“The would-be new regime says it would be a sincere partner with the west in combating terrorism and Al Qaeda, and this a big mistake against Islamic faith,” said cleric Abdul Majid Al Raimi in an article published Wednesday.
Al Raimi, who runs a Salafi school in the capital Sana’a, strongly criticized the Yemeni brotherhood Islamist party, Islah, who leads the anti-Saleh protests in the country, for demanding the ouster of Saleh instead of demanding the Shariah, the Islamic laws. He said President Saleh might agree and the crisis would come to an end if the protesters demand the Shariah.
Article is from the quasi-governmental Yemen Observer.
Yemen Observer: The leader of jihadists in Ja’ar who identified himself only as Abu Basir has said that his group holds the same vision and fate of al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. (Read on …)
Artillery is the next level of escalation. The state used mortars against various southern towns like al Dhalie and Radfan, centers of the pro-independence protests (2007-2010) and indiscriminate shelling was the hallmark of the Saada Wars. The clash between Mohsen’s supporters and those loyal to Saleh is no surprise, and the longer the stalemate festers, the more likely full blown military confrontations become. Two articles indicate the catch-all, “shelling,” and injuries. Apparently Ali Mohsen’s forces are well stocked with munitions. Reports range from several injuries to a report by CNN that says five died: Of the dead in Sanaa, two were loyal to Gen. Ali Muhsen Al-Ahmar, who has defected to the opposition, a government security official said. The other three were regime soldiers.
Yemen Post: Military forces loyal to General Ali Mohsin Ahmar clashed with tens of government security forces early morning today in an effort to take control of a vital search point at Amran Road of the capital Sana’a.
Heavy artillery was used by both sides resulting in the injury of ten people according to General Ahmars media office. An Interior Ministry official said that General Mohsen forces attacked security forces in an effort to expand it’s forces in the capital and open doors of chaos.
Bit more of a spin here at YOL:
13/4/2011- YemenOnline: Security sources told YemenOnline that 2 soldiers were killed and 8 injured in Clashes between government forces and soldiers belong to renegade military commander the Major General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmer in Sana’a last night. According to the sources, the clashes began on Tuesday midnight and both sides used anti-tanks rockets and machine guns which resulted to destroy and burning a track belonged to the government forces, which resulted to kill two government soldiers and eight wounded. Major General Ali Muhsin al-Ahmar announced last month split from the regime and its support to the demands of the protestors who demanded to bring down the political regime in Yemen. Major General Ali Muhsin al-Ahmar is known by its support for Islamist groups and the foe of Shi’ite Muslim rebels in northern Yemen.
The AP is reporting one killed, seven injured in Aden, but the following report on Mallah and al Mansoura indicates two fatalities. The divisions that are responsible for the violence around the country are the two the US had invested so heavily in for CT ops, the Republican Guard and the Central Security.
Since nine O’clock this morning and the city of Aden is facing a brutal attack against the peaceful protesters by the Central Security and the Republican Guard Forces who belong to Saleh’s regime. At least two protesters killed in Al Mu’alla and Al Mansoura districts, but no accurate information on the total number of victims has been confirmed yet. Appeals for rescue been flown by Aden women and men citizens since this morning. Aden now is crying.
Yemenis as calling people of the world, especially people of the Gulf to urge their governments to stop the bloodshed in Yemen, they at the same time holding international and Gulf governments the responsibility and accountability towards the massacres conducting in Yemen for the reason of been supportive to Saleh illegitimate regime. Is Yemeni blood that cheap? What a shameful deed!
Yemeni forces kill 11 al-Qaeda members
[11/April/2011] ABYAN, April 11 (Saba)- At least 11 al-Qaeda members, including two foreigners, were killed on Monday in a clash with Yemeni forces in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, a security source has said.
The source was quoted by the military-run 26sep.net as saying that al-Qaeda members had attacked a checkpoint at Mudia district in Abyan, killing two Yemeni soldiers and wounding five others.
The source added that a number of al-Qaeda members were also injured in the clash.
This article by Sarah Philips is true. I have an eyewitness and I wrote it on the blog somewhere. I thought it was about 30 al Qaeda released from prison, but 70 is possible. Same date. Following is an excerpt but read it all:
Australian YEMEN is at an extraordinary juncture, but 32-year stalwart President Ali Abdullah Saleh won’t go without a fight and he is using every trick in the book to cling to power. The most problematic trick is his penchant for releasing militant jihadis from prison when his legitimacy with the West is strained.
While the story has not been widely released, local security sources have confirmed that this is just what he did on March 8 when he quietly granted 70 al-Qa’ida suspects their freedom from a political security prison in Sanaa.
In other words, the man whom the US continues to look to for assistance against al-Qa’ida in Yemen has – again – released al-Qa’ida suspects from jail.
There have been some statements recently attributed to General Nuba but this one is authentic. In the statement, General Nuba applauds the GCC efforts and invites the GCC to deal with the issue of the south. It is a political opening to begin a discussion, but the starting position of the SNC is independence. Its also important to recall General Nuba is the head of the retired southern military coalition which began the protests in 2007 and have sustained them through time peacefully despite horrible atrocities by the state. As I’ve been saying, the retired southern military officers could be quite helpful after the purge of the Yemeni military leadership. The southern officers have Russian military training, respect civilian immunity, are already organized and know the lay of the land.
An important political statement
We followed with great interest the efforts undertaken by the GCC countries, in response to the crisis of Yemen, between the regime and opposition which culminated in a five point initiative.
Accordingly, we in the Supreme National Commission for the Independence of the South, although the initiative was not exposed to us or in the South, we review the issue. We continue our struggle in a peaceful manner against the current system or the next system in order to attain independence of the South in an expeditious manner.
At the same time we can not fail here that confirm that we applaud the policies included in the initiative, especially as they concern our brothers in Yemen Arab Republic. We appreciate the role played by the GCC countries to resolve the crisis of our brothers in the Yemen Arab Republic.
We also hope the GCC countries to be next to them is to move forward in resolving the issue about South and the quick granting of independence in the South.
Brigadier / Nasser Ali Al Nubia
President of the Supreme National Commission for the independence of the South
President of the Supreme Coordination Council of the Assemblies of retired military and security officials and civilians
Filed under: GCC
— by Jane Novak at 8:12 am on Monday, April 11, 2011
al Sahwa $400 million transferred to Dubai (among other transfers), maybe he is going…Diplomatic sources at the Yemeni Embassy in the United Arab Emirates have revealed that powerful figures of the Yemeni ruling family transferred $ 400 million to Dubai banks.
HOOD confirms the regime took dead bodies along with severely wounded persons, (as they did in Aden 2/25) and dozens were arrested.
RE the GCC deal: Why isn’t anyone among the big powers listening? This plan was rejected by the JMP and the people as it would only serve to entrench the existing status quo. Saleh gave an ambiguous answer about leaving in a constitutional manner, which means that he’s not leaving. Update: Reuters: He had sought Saudi mediation, but Gulf diplomatic sources said Riyadh was prompted in the end by concern over the deteriorating security in its southern neighbor after Saleh failed to act on a backroom deal struck with U.S. officials on a quick exit.
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s opposition rejected on Monday a Gulf Arab initiative for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, because it appears to offer him immunity from prosecution, while Saleh himself welcomed the plan.
Gulf Arab foreign ministers meeting in Riyadh late on Sunday said publicly for the first time that the framework of their mediation effort involved Saleh standing down, though it did not say when that would occur. (Read on …)
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) offered to mediate President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s departure from Yemen. (He wants immunity from prosecution, to keep a lot of money and summers in France.) Saleh was insulted by the interference in internal affairs and withdrew Yemen’s ambassador to Qatar. Friday and Saturday saw continued state violence against the protesters with several deaths and injuries.
The units that have been shooting unarmed protesters around the country, killing almost 200, are the Republican Guards, headed by Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, son of President Saleh, and Central Security Forces, headed by Yahya Mohammad Abdullah Saleh, President Saleh’s nephew. These are the two men the US is scrambling to keep on as these units contain the US trained counter-terror units. However, the Youth Coordinating Council (YCC) is determined that all elements of the Saleh regime must go, including all his relatives. The YCC also rejects any offer of amnesty to President Saleh, who was guilty of war crimes before the protests ever broke out.
إن ما تشهده ساحة التغيير بصنعاء من هجوم مكثف ومن محاور متعددة من قبل قوات الأمن المركزي والحرس الجمهوري ومجاميع البلطجية , مستخدمين في هجومهم الرصاص الحي والمطاطي وقنابل الغازات السامة والعصي والهراوات لمجزرة ممنهجة بحق الشباب العزل والمعتصمين سلميا محاولين جر الشباب الثائر الى العنف وتحويل مسار الثورة السلمية البيضاء. (Read on …)
Taiz: Regime distributed counterfeit dollars to pay for attacks on protesters, one sheik discovered $200 of $300 paid for attacking protesters is counterfeit. Counterfeiting is one of those enterprises with strong connections to the Saleh regime. Some gunfire reported today. Yesterday’s onslaught in Taiz resulted in three dead and dozens injured: “the number of dead after the events of Friday reached 3 people, and 130 were injured as a result of live fire, the majority to the head and the neck, and an added 1700 cases of suffocation.”
Sanaa: Live coverage at Suhail TV online. Per eyewitnesses in Sanaa: gunfire, live rounds, and many injuries at the Intersection of Al Zubiri Street and Al Dairi Street in Sana’a. A group of protesters left the square and began marching to the palace. Over 200 incapacitated by gas (later estimates 1000). Ten with bullet wounds. One death reported by the field hospital. Security is closing off the southern exit of Tagheer in Sanaa. The field hospital has no oxygen and is lacking other essential equipment. For photos and updates see AIN news, English, on facebook. By 6 pm EST, its still ongoing. More photos at Yemen 4 All.
Update: confiscating bodies again.”Witnesses and medics confirms that government ambulances taking the bodies of people shot with live ammunition, ‘dead and wounded,’ to unknown places.” And “Land Cruiser Car number 2\24048 kidnapped youth wounded & martyrs in Kentucky Round.” See my article re the 2/25 massacre in Aden and the hidden mass burial that followed. It explains the arbitrary arrests tonight. Yemen Post: Central security forces and the republican guards arrested tens of protesters near change square in Sanaa. They wont release the names of the arrested in order to hide the death toll. UPDATE 4/11: HOOD confirms 20 bodies seized and wounded kidnapped.
Sanaa: Hundreds of children at home are fainting as a result of tear gas leaking to their houses in Zubairi n Dairi St. Can’t the US get the gas back from Saleh? Its a clear misuse and diversion. What happened to the US-Yemen bilateral treaty, the US-Yemen “End Use Monitoring Agreement”?? There must be a clause that covers misuse.
News Yemen At least 300 protesters have been wounded, some seriously, in gunshot carried out by the Republican Guards and Security Central Forces in Change Square in the capital Sana’a. Republican Guards, headed by Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, son of President Saleh, and Central Security Forces, headed security by Yahya Mohammad Abdullah Saleh, President Saleh’s nephew, have used live bullets and tear gas in the attack, eyewitnesses told News Yemen.
Aden: assault on protesters at freedom square. Regime goons were lead by AbdulKareem Shaif, cheif of al Motamar in Aden. Three wounded in an attack by the Republican Guards and Central Security forces of bullies on the protesters in Freedom Square in Crater. Vid of Aden field hospital, not too graphic.
Hodiedah: also attacks on protesters, details sketchy.
Al jazeera office in Yemen closed with sealing wax, license withdrawn: An official information source has explained that this final action came after the persistence of Al-Jazeera in implementation of a sabotage scheme aimed to inciting strife, hatred and fighting in a number of provinces of Yemen.
Vid Sanaa tonight:
That madman Saleh has to realize his choices are between a firing squad and life in jail; he should stop bargaining for summers in France. Taking out his palace is not something I’d advise but maybe permanently grounding the fleet of MIGs might emphasize the point that its time to go. He should have been brought to the ICC following the sixth war if not the fourth.
Saleh’s outrageous demands for prosecutorial immunity and financial rewards continue to stall the transition process. Meanwhile in a display of pique at the GCC offer of mediation, Yemen recalls its ambassador to Qatar.
SANA’A // Yemen recalled its ambassador to Qatar yesterday following remarks from Qatar’s prime minister suggesting a plan for the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power.
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani said on Thursday that members of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) “hope to reach a deal with the Yemeni president to step down”. (Read on …)
Just think! If Saleh goes quickly, then maybe Obama can return the Yemeni prisoners and close Gitmo before the presidential election in 2012!
News Yemen: Former minister of endowment Hamoud al-Hittar, who also headed a committee for dialogue with militants in Yemen for years, said President Saleh is not committed to fighting al-Qaeda in the country.
Al-Hittar said that President Saleh uses al-Qaeda threat to blackmail Arab and foreign countries to get more assistance. He said that al-Qaeda in Yemen is only 10 percent of what was reported by official media.
In his speech to almost one million anti-regime protesters in Change Square outside Sana’a University on “Friday of Steadiness”, al-Hittar assured Arab and foreign countries that Yemen will be able to put end to terrorism after the popular revolution succeeds and President Saleh stands down. He also said that Yemen will remain an active partner of the international community in counterterrorism in accordance with Yemen’s constitution, law and international legislation.
Al-Hittar urged Gulf countries to support the popular revolution and could confirm that Yemen will respect relationships with Gulf countries.
Armies of Liberation website was banned by Yemeni authorities in 2007 and remains blocked by government censors despite a partial regime change in 2012.
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.
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”
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