Armies of Liberation

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Saleh returns, new Yemeni president, suicide bombing in Hadramout

Filed under: Elections, Hadramout, Presidency, Transition, suicide attacks — by Jane Novak at 10:16 pm on Saturday, February 25, 2012

Barak Obama’s friend, the war criminal Ali Saleh departed the US and is back in Yemen. Saleh’s immunity is a central part of the US sponsored “transition” plan that followed a 48 million dollar, single candidate (sham) “election.”

Yemen’s first new president in 33 years, Abdo Mansour Hadi, previously Saleh’s Vice, was sworn in on Saturday. Hadi received 6.6 million votes of 10 million registered and two million eligible new voters. On election day, the electoral commission said 13 million votes were printed and they had run out of ballots during the day.

Also on Saturday, a suicide bomber in a slow moving pick-up truck killed 28 soldiers in Hadramout. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility via a text message to Reuters.

Link save: April 9, 2010, Yemen National Dialog Coalition Seeks Reform, Broad Political Inclusion

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Comment by James Gundun

2/27/2012 @ 5:11 pm

An Ethiopian villa offers an ideal setting to practice his puppeteering (assuming he actually leaves). He doesn’t have anything to complain about – what a sweet “retirement.”

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Comment by Nedhal Moqbel

2/27/2012 @ 8:03 pm

I completely agree with the previous comment. NOTHING has changed, NOTHING! Same regime, same faces, same everything. It’s too bad that the Northerners’ revolution has been aborted; it’s even worse that Tawakkul Karman has completely changed her stance and contributed to that abortion! It’s a big game with too many players!

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Comment by Nezar Naji Al-awlaki

3/5/2012 @ 11:10 am

True ,Nedhal. The only thing changed in Yemen is “WE”, the Southerners. We have been brain-washed and have been transformed into extremist Muslims after 23 years of being liberal and enlightened Muslims. Elas, it is a shame to degenerate… but we are excused. We are colonized by brutal uncivilized tribes.

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Comment by Jane Novak

3/7/2012 @ 11:35 am

the whole thing has become a disaster

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Comment by Nedhal Moqbel

3/16/2012 @ 9:44 am

Sorry. I did not see the comment above until now. I have to COMPLETELY disagree with what is said above about Southerners. If Southerners have turned to Islamic extremists, why then are they demanding the restoration of their liberal state, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen? Who have been protesting since after 1994, exposing their lives to death? Extremist Muslims?? If there are a few people who have been brainwashed, generalizing this is a big mistake and serves only the Northern occupiers. We are STILL the same.
If anything has changed in us, it would be the fact that we now have a much better perception of how Northerners think and of their strategies of traps, including the trap of federalism. Hundreds of thousands of Northerners have moved to live in the South after 1990 (not to mention those who had lived in the South before 1990 but still loyal to the North), more and more AND more hundreds of thousands will be sent gradually to reside in the South, so that they will greatly outnumber us in case a future referendum is held on unity. If this happens, our Southern cause will vanish forever!

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