Armies of Liberation

I used to publish more reader mail, but those idiots always try to find my sources and invariably arrest and beat up the wrong people. The following is a rather succinct expression of the southerners bewilderment over the international community’s studied silence on the four years of continued protests in south Yemen (Arabia as they say) and the brutal crimes against unarmed protesters, activists, journalists and civilians on the street while the world’s attention is galvanized by events in Tunisia over the last four weeks.

Good evening

America and the world leader of the free world lie in democracy and justice through the official silence on what is happening in South Arabia and the blessing of what forces are doing in favor of the South.

I do not know why the Americans and the West and the public ignores what is happening in South Arabia of killing, displacement and firing on the demonstrators and the use of violence and the bombing of villages and communities?

Why are the Arab and Western media together interested in what is happening in Tunisia for more than four weeks but does not care what is happening to us southerners in the South through four years ago?

Is it the interests of Americans to believe that or is it a game of rulers and says the North’s Lobby of the notion that the war in the south is against al-Qaeda, and everyone knows that Al Qaeda is a creation of the Republican Palace?

Is the Southern Command abroad who do not do only what he says, her representative office and British intelligence in America, there is not one not aware of what is going on but does not move a muscle.

Dear Jane
Yesterday, a car ran over a woman in the Yemeni army in Hadramout during a peaceful demonstration in Mukalla, the world did not move a finger, and while in Tunisia, the world was turned upside down.

Ask you about the reason for what is going on? And how to get rid of this ignorance and the absence of the truth? It is the beneficiary of what is happening in the Arab occupied our doorstep?

Bonds that we are in South Arabia – all of us – our own hands take charge of things and all the options open to us and we will take the necessary action and only then will we know who stands against us and those who stand with the justice of our cause and the day of reckoning will be difficult and very difficult

Be well always

The following article is a guest post by Fathia Mohamed Absie*

It seems as though, every month if not every other week, there is a terror plot that gets disrupted somewhere in the U.S. These plots are in most cases carried out by some so called Muslim jihadist. Every time I hear news of something bad happening somewhere in the U.S, my heart skips a beat and I start to pray that it is not a Muslim person at the helm of it.

The Corvallis, Oregon plot have shocked me even further because the young man who attempted to carry out the crime is from my home land, Somalia. Like me, Mohamed Osman Mohamud is a naturalized American citizen who came to this country as a baby. After listening to stories of friends of the family, I thought the kid was almost born here. He is from a middle class family. His father is an engineer and his mother a stay at home mother who was never absent from his life. Young Osman had everything going for him, a smart young man who was a college student at OSU with a bright future. He had the potential to become anything he set his mind on unlike the many young Somalis that are stuck in Somalia trying to survive flying bullets or those who have no choice but to live in an overcrowded refugee camps with no foreseeable bright future.
(Read on …)

Extremists hack Yemeni website to serve their tapes

By Abdullah al-Qubati in Sana’a

Sana’a, 20 Nov., Pirates hacked Mostakela network website on last Friday, taking its domain and smashing al-mostakela paper site through plagiarism identity of the website owner and contacting with the hosting company.

Unknown hackers defined themselves as “Gaza Hackers” claimed responsibility on piracy via a release covered the Mostakela homepage. It was enclosed with an audio-tape previously attributed to Osama Bin Laden. The so-called hackers also posted a statement on a website titled by the same name Gaza Hacker Team that included a confession with hacking Mostakela, which was described as “atheistic” and “enemy of Islam”. The statement also threatened to convert the website domain to “Islamist Forum for defeating its owner and enemies of Islam”. A video-tape links documented the Mostakela before and after the attack was posted on the Gaza Hacker website.

The content of these posts and tapes manifested that those alleged hackers belonged to extremist Islamist groups.

Ahmed S. Hashed, who is the owner of Mostakela website regarded the incident as a “robbery crime of ownership and an assault on rights and freedoms of speech and publishing”.

Mostakela network launched in 2006. It is a social network includes online site of al-mostakela newspaper issues, classified forums for intellectual, political, ideological and religious dialogues and discussions and electronic library of about 34,000 title of books and video-audio files.

According to mostakela editors, the archive of its forums included 134,000 topics and hundreds thousands posts. More than 33,000 member around the world registered in the website since 2006.

“Mostakela website is a free intellectual website opened to inter-faith, cultures and ideologies dialogue,” Hashed said. “Since 2006, it was hacked several times by extremists, who usually defined their identities as Islamists and the recent piracy attack was at the beginning of last Ramadan,” he added.

Hashed pointed out “this hacking came, as my other news website Yemenat has been banned by Yemeni government for more than 2 years ago.”

For a video of the massacre, click here.

Human Rights violation during the sixth war at the north of Yemen:
The case of Al’adi Massacre
Written by: Abdalah Sharafadin

Yemen, a country located in the western south of the Arabian Peninsula, has witnessed six violent wars in the north, in Saada governorate and Harf Sufian district between the Yemeni government and insurgents called Houthis. Houthis claim that they suffered a severe marginalization by the government which subsequently escalated into a war waged by the government in 2004. They claim that they had no chance but confront the war and defend themselves against the absolute death threats by the government. Each round of war is marked by a wider war zone and more violence than the former one. The first war ended with the killing of the founder of the rebels who is called Hussein Al-Houthi in which the group was named after. The tension after each war devolved into a new war and this happened six times. (Read on …)

Mr. President Barack Hussein Obama:

We the people of Aden in the south are suffering humiliation and oppression, murder and torture by the regime of the State of North Yemen, Sanaa

We also know we have an independent state and we have entered into unsuccessful unity with North Yemen, Sanaa, a country with a tribal, military and Baathist structure, that is usually backward for us and takes us back a century.

Today, the Arab people in Aden struggle to disengage from the North Yemen, Sanaa, and his re-Arab and to re-establish a southern capital of Aden, known as a free state on their national soil, known to the May 21, 1990

We want your support and your support and you with the free world in order to restore our nation and peaceful coexistence among the nations of the earth

Thanks
يافعي حضرمي متواجد حالياً with my regards
journalist from south yemen

alkhader alhasani
sana a 25/7/2010

Yemen lawmaker on open hunger strike, as MPs go on sit-in tomorrow

By Abdullah A. Qaid- For Armies of Liberation

Sana’a, Sunday, 4 July, 2010- Mr. Ahmed Saif Hashid, Yemen lawmaker, launches today morning an open hunger strike and sit-in inside the House of Representatives.

Hashid told Armies of Liberation “I have gone on open hunger strike because the Presidency of the House frequently prevented me from visiting prisons and confiscated my right to question ministers”. “It neglected my calls as my parliamentary immunity has been violated by the State Security Court”, he added.

Reportedly, some Yemeni MPs plan to go on a sit-in tomorrow morning inside the Parliament for solidarity with their colleague and protest against the presidency of the House.

Hashid went on a under surveillance of the State Security Court. The Criminal Court (State Security Court) listed his name, among other activists, in its indictment in case No. 117, 2009 and asking the National Security to “investigate and collect information about them, edit records of collecting evidences, and transfer the outcomes to it” in the background of two visits were paid by them in 2008 to Hajja and Dhamar prisons to conduct human rights investigations.

by Abdullah A. Qaid- for Armies of Liberation

23 June, Sana’a–Violent clashes between Yemeni troops and southern protesters are in their second day in al-Dhalia, southern Yemen. Three soldiers and a woman were reported killed. Eight were injured from both sides

Conflict erupted yesterday the army shelled Jahaf district with artillery fire accompanied by Katyusha rockets. The target zone extended to the city center of al-Dhalia, local sources said.

The Yemeni military authorities launched the campaign in order to break the siege on military camps imposed by armed locals. Military reinforcements of more than 20 units, several tanks and armored vehicles arrived in the area, witnesses said.

An armed faction loyal to the Southern Movement imposed the siege on the military camps four nights ago after the government reneged on a previous peace deal. Months ago, a presidential commission agreed to end the military blockade on al-Dhalia and withdraw from military outposts in the region in return for the activists’ pledge to open streets. However the military commander responsible for the agreement’s implementation refused to withdraw from the army’s quarters in the Jahaf section of al-Dhalia.

Protests began again in al-Dhalia when the army shelled residential areas on 8 June, killing five civilians and injuring about 20 others.

Lahj: Thousands in funeral procession

On Wednesday morning, thousands of supporters of the Southern Movement demonstrated in a funeral procession from Lahj to Radfan, southern of Yemen, to bury three activists killed by security forces days earlier during peaceful anti-government protests.

Sources said the participants raised the flags of the former South Yemen and green decals with pictures of the dead activists. They chanted slogans calling for the secession of the south from the north of Yemen.

The Southern Movement began in 2007 as a protest movement calling for equal rights for southerners and an end to perceived institutionalized discrimination against the region and its inhabitants since 1994’s civil war. The movement is a loose coalition of anti-government groups that largely remained peaceful in the face of repetitive state violence against protesters and widespread arbitrary arrests of demonstrators.

By Abdullah A. Qaid in Sana’a, Editing by Jane Novak

An article by Dhaif Alsoolani, the editor of Adengulf.net and YAATC representative in Yemen. On January 31, security authorities raided his home in Aden and arrested his younger brother, age 25, and two of his relatives, 19 and 15 years old. The prisoners were beaten with rifle butts at the PSO prison, (Alfateh). More here. In June 2009, another editor of the website was targeted, details here.

The Official Yemeni Terrorism: Roots and Origins

By Dhaif Hussein Al-Solani

During the times and eras, Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic) was and still a country full of weapons, with different kinds (sorts) and marks, and on all different occasions the Yemeni officials are proud of this state which specify their country to other neighboring and far Arab countries without any reasons to cause that type of pride. According to the last census by more than one local rightful and media organizations, there are more than 60 million pieces of Kalashnikov gun machines available for the Yemeni public, in addition to the other different medium-sized and heavy weaponry owned by the big tribes backed up personally by the Yemeni President such as the Hashed, Baked, Maareb, Hajjah, Al-Mahweet, Sa’adah, and Amran tribes.

The storage of such huge weapons has no logic meaning of being proud, moreover, it has made Yemen a hot center point for permanent fighting between the people in all situations over nonsense reasons for long different periods of the history. Many overseers agree that Yemen is the most known country in the world for the smuggling of weapons and mainly exporters, even to present today there are still countryside weapon markets surrounding and spreading to the capital city of Sana’a and other main cities and this is the best evidence of an environment with the color of blood and gun powder. (Read on …)

Guest Post:

Counterterrorism in Yemen between Sociopolitical/Socioeconomic International Development Aid Programs and Airstrikes; London Conference to examine terrorism in Yemen Challenges and Opportunities

By Ahmed Hezam, Jan 2010 ahezamyem@gmail.com

By now and since 9/11 (and even before that), It has been very obvious that the Yemeni Government – in spite of all the negative speculations and interpretations and political analysis/reporting (though some are/were very rational) on the seriousness of the political will, interrelated and integrated radical relations, its inner dynamics and weak institutionalism, …etc – become an alley and a partner with the US and the western hemispheres on what it has been known to be called “The War on Terror”. (Read on …)

A “Guest Post” by our sometimes contributor Abu Yemen. I didnt write it, but there’s a lot there I agree with, including the disgusting Western indifference to the inhumane and nearly genocidal policies of the Saleh regime, which arises from an entirely misguided hope of counter-terror cooperation.

Yemen: The Problem and the Solution

The President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh is certainly the problem. Before 31 years and following the assassination of the two previous Presidents Al Hamdi and Al Ghashmi, this junior military officer who never attained a standard of education beyond illiteracy alleviation programs, became the President with the help of the tribe of Hashid and regional financial support. Throughout the course of his 31 years of dictatorship the people of Yemen have suffered a lot under anti-democratic, unconstitutional policies, and the total absence of law and order. Several civil wars were waged by Ali Abdullah Saleh resulting in hundreds of deaths, detention camps full of freedom fighters, and prominent Yemeni politicians are forced to seek self exile in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States as well as the UK, USA, Canada, and other European countries.

Today the dictator declared his sixth war against the people of the province of Sa’ada where hundreds of children, elderly, and women are amongst those killed or injured. Civilian targets including schools, mosques, and local markets have been destroyed by air raids and rocket launchers. The peaceful resistance in most, if not all, Southern Yemeni provinces is accelerating and causing hundreds of arrests and daily injury of protestors by armed security forces. The peaceful resistance in the Southern provinces is expanding to cover many Central Yemeni provinces including Taiz and Ibb. In view of the mounting economic and judicial failure, the entire country is on the verge of collapsing and at best the government is a total failure.

Under the circumstances, it is disgusting to note that the international opinion is adopting a “couldn’t care” attitude towards the tragedy in Yemen. Leading European and Middle Eastern governments influenced by USA CIA and FBI guidance, continue to show increasing reluctance to condemn the inhuman war caused by the dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh against the Yemeni people in the Northern province of Sa’ada and the Southern Yemeni provinces. The only explanation for such irresponsible policies by the USA, Europe, and several Arab governments is often connected to a wishful ray of hope that Ali Abdullah Saleh is supporting the campaign against terrorism.

As a matter of fact, the corrupt administration in Yemen has always been an incubator for terrorists since American involvement in Afghanistan against Soviet Union occupation of the country. Taliban, Bin Laden, etc. are natural outcomes of that era due to the failure of the USA, Europe, and supportive Arab governments in the Jihad against the Soviets to accommodate the victorious Jihadis. Such neglect caused a state of despair amongst the Jihadis, and ultimately led to grave consequences such as 9/11 and the current Pakistani Peshawir crisis.

The dictator of Yemen, realizing his ability to convey deadly ideas to his collaborates from the USA, Europe, and Arab countries, multiplied his temptation to rely on their support against opposition parties including the Hawthis in Sa’ada and keep a blind eye to his daily violation of human rights as well as basic constitutional and legal requirements. As a case in point is the President’s involvement in authorizing arms deals to businessmen attached to him and redirecting such shipments to feed terrorists in Somalia, Sudan, etc. There is no truth in the recent Yemeni security statement that a shipment of arms was seized by Yemeni security and the ship was owned by Iran. It is certain that the shipment and the ship is owned by Yemenis who include Faris Mana’a a business associate of the President, and Abu Miska as well as Okaimi both of whom are members of the Yemeni Parliament. The reference to Iran is made only to secure further sympathy from the US and Europe.

Consequently, the solution for the people of Yemen in both the North and South to continue their peaceful opposition against the regime and the President in particular and to call upon self-respecting governments in the region and elsewhere to join in calling for the step-down of such a notorious dictator.

Munier makes a similiar point to what I posted yesterday, that the regime accusing al Fadhli of terrorism is a tad hypocritical, considering Saleh supported him from 1990-2009:

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صحفي يمني أميركي مقيم في واشنطن
في الوقت الذي تحركت فيه دبابات ومدفعية الرئيس اليمني علي عبدالله صالح لقصف منازل المواطنين الآمنين في منطقة ردفان بجنوب اليمن، عقب مطالبتهم بإخراج المعسكرات المحيطة بمدنهم وقراهم، خرجت صحيفة الرياض السعودية في افتتاحيتها ليوم الأربعا 29 أبريل 2009 بدعوة لتقديم دعم مالي خليجي لنظام الرئيس اليمني، لأن أي انفصال بين الشمال والجنوب سوف تكون توابعه كزلزال هائل على أمن المنطقة كلها. وقبل ذلك أيد رئيس تحرير الشرق الأوسط السيد طارق الحميد خطاب الحرب الذي ألقاه الرئيس اليمني في 25 أبريل محذرا فيه أبناء شعبه، من الصوملة والعرقنة، وأن اليمنيين يمكن أن يتقاتلوا من منزل إلى منزل ومن نافذة إلى نافذة. وبدا رئيس تحرير الشرق الأوسط في مقاله الذي جاء تحت عنوان ” لا لعودة الإنفصال إلى اليمن” وكأنه غير ملم بأوضاع هذا البلد العربي المجاور لبلاده، أو كأنه تلقى تعليمات من جهات عليا للكتابة حول موضوع لم يكن مستوعبا له” (Read on …)

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الحلقة الثانية: ( فضيحة التبرئة)

منير الماوري
almaweri@hotmail.com
ارتكبت وكالة الأنباء اليمنية سبأ التي يرأسها صحفي قدير هو نقيب الصحفيين السابق نصر طه مصطفى، خطأ مهنيا فاحشا، أستطيع أن أجزم أن رئيس الوكالة لا ناقة له في الخطأ الفضيحة ولا جمل، لأن الخبر الفضيحة صادر من دوائر التظليل والخداع باسم الوكالة دون أدنى حياء أو خجل من افتضاح الكذب الذي أصبح سياسة رسمية. ففي محاولتها لتبرئة نجل الرئيس من فضيحة الرشوة التي تطرقت إليها وثائق محكمة أميركية في فلوريدا، واعترفت بتقديمها لمسؤولين يمنيين شركة لاتين نود الأميركية، كذبت تلك الدوائر على الجمهور اليمني بأن وزارة العدل الأميركية أصدرت بيانا جديدا ” يؤكد نزاهة تصريحات حكومة بلادنا في نفيها أن يكون لأي من أولاد فخامة رئيس الجمهورية أي علاقة بالشركة الأمريكية المذكورة، وأن الإشارة إلى اسم نجل الرئيس ليس سوى خطأ غير مقصود تم تصحيحه من الجانب الأمريكي.”
والواقع أن وزارة العدل الأميركية لم تنزه أحد، ولم تصدر بيانا جديدا بل أعادت تحديث بيانها الأول نفسه مؤكدة في نفس البيان أن “الوزارة لا تنوي محاكمة أحد من المسؤولين الأجانب”، وأعادت التأكيد بأن الشركة الأميركية دفعت الغرامة واعترفت بذنبها وانتهت القصة. ويمكن قراءة البيان مع الإضافات المدخلة عليه في الرابط التالي:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/PRNewswire/release/145177.html

وفي واقع الأمر فإن الصحف اليمنية وعلى رأسها صحيفة المصدر عندما نشرت خبر الفضيحة الأولى لم تعتمد على بيان وزارة العدل الأميركية بل اعتمدت على وثائق المحكمة مباشرة، والتزمت الصحف الأمانة في نقل الحقائق، بالقول إن الوثائق لا توجه اتهاما صريحا لنجل الرئيس، وإنما توجه الاتهام للشركة التي اعترفت بدفع رشوة لأشخاص ووسطاء يزعمون أن لهم صلة بنجل الرئيس، وتقول الوثائق إن كلام الوسطاء قد يكون صحيحا لأنهم استطاعوا بالفعل أن يحصلوا على تسهيلات للشركة داخل اليمن بأسعار تفضيلية.
نؤكد مرة أخرى أن الوثائق لم تتغير وأن القضية صحيحة، وليس هناك في اليمن من يحتاج إلى أدلة من وزارة العدل الأميركية على وجود فساد في اليمن، لأن روائح الفساد قد وصلت كل مكان في مؤسسات البد، ومن يريد التأكد فما عليه إلا المرور من قرب منازل المسؤولين في حدة وفج عطان وسيجد فيها، أكبر دليل على فساد هؤلاء المسؤولين وسرقاتهم. كما أن الرئيس نفسه اعترف في خطاب رسمي بأنه لن يستمر مظلة للفاسدين، وهذا اعتراف مسجل بالصوت والصورة على وجود الفساد، والرئيس أكثر من يعرف بوجود الفساد لأنه يقرأ تقارير الجهاز المركزي للرقابة والمحاسبة، وهو الجهاز الذي لم يحاسب أحدا ولم يقدم كبشا ولا وزيرا للمحاكمة وإنما تحولت تقاريره إلى وسيلة للابتزاز السياسي وإسكات المشاغبين.
أما ما يتعلق بنجل الرئيس فإن وزارة العدل الأميركية لن تحاكمه، ولا نريدها أن تحاكمه، بل نريد الشعب اليمني والرأي العام اليمني أن يحاكم الرئيس ونجل الرئيس وسكرتير الرئيس، ومزوري توقيع الرئيس، ومدير مكتب الرئيس، وكل من له علاقة بالرئيس، ما دام أن الرئيس لا يريد أن يحاكم الفاسدين، مستعيضا عن ذلك بمحاكمة الصحفيين والناشطين الحقوقيين، ومحاربي الفساد.
النصيحة التي قدمتها لنجل الرئيس في مقالي السابق مازالت قائمة، ولها ما يبررها لأن نجل الرئيس يرأس لجنة غير دستورية تشرف على كل استثمارات البلد، ومن أبرز أعضاء هذه اللجنة الأخوة التالية أسماؤهم:
أحمد علي عبدالله صالح
طارق محمد عبدالله صالح
يحي محمد عبدالله صالح
يحي عبدالله صالح دويد
خالد الأكوع
فارس السنباني
صلاح العطار
حافظ معياد
جلال يعقوب
با لإضافة إلى وزير الاتصالات الجبري
ومن الملاحظ أن الخمسة الأوائل هم من أقارب رئيس الجمهورية، ولا نعرف لأي جهة دستورية تتبع هذه اللجنة، وهل يعرفها مجلس النواب أم لا، ولكن يبدو أننا دخلنا مرحلة الاستثمار الأسري. والأدهى من ذلك أن بعض أعضاء اللجنة ورئيسها، يتولون مناصب عسكرية رفيعة لا تتناسب مع الإشراف على استثمارات البلد المدنية. وكان الرئيس قد كشف في إحدى مقابلاته التلفزيونية أنه عين أقاربه في مناصب عسكرية رفيعة، لكي يمنع حدوث انقلاب عسكري قد يخطط له ضباط من خارج الأسرة. ولكن السؤال المطروح الآن ما هي مبررا ت الرئيس في تعيين أقاربه في أعلى لجنة لحماية الاستثمار داخل البلاد؟! هل يريد أن يحمي البنك المركزي من القوات الجوية أو من الفرقة الأولى مدرع؟! أم أنه يعتبر اليمن كل اليمن ملكا له يفعل بها ما يشاء؟!
لاحظوا معي هنا أن قائد الحرس الجمهوري هو رئيس اللجنة، وأن وزير الاتصالات هو عضو في اللجنة. وبما أن الشركة الأميركية صاحبة الفضيحة ارتبطت بالاتصالات، فإن من حق كل يمني أن يطالب بتحقيق محايد، ومحاكمة للمتورطين إذا أراد نجل الرئيس أن يبرئ نفسه؟ بدلا من الإفتراء على وزارة العدل الأميركية. وأتحدى وكالة سبأ للأنباء أن تنشر الترجمة الكاملة للبيان الجديد الذي تقول إن وزارة العدل الأميركية أصدرته، فليس هناك أي بيان سوى البيان الأول مع الإضافات المطمئنة التي أدخلت عليه.
ونحن بصراحة نريد تحقيقا محايدا، لأننا بصراحة فقدنا الثقة ليس في نجل الرئيس فقط بل في الرئيس نفسه وفي النظام برمته. وما لم تكن هناك شفافية في سير التحقيق فإن التهمة ستظل قائمة إلى أن يموت الشعب أو يموت النظام. و الأمر الذي نوه له الرئيس في خطابه هو تذكير أن ثورة سبتمبر قامت ضد الحكم الأسري والقروي. وأظن أن 90% من القراء يتفقون معي أن تعيين أفراد الأسرة واصحاب القرية في مناصب رفيعة تحتكر التعامل مع المستثمرين سوف يعيدنا إلى القروية والأسرية، ويعيدنا إلى “المربع الأول”. ورحم الله الشهيد علي عبدالمغني الذي ضحى بحياته وهو في عز الشباب من أجل التخلص من الحكم العائلي والتخلص من الاقتصاد العائلي الذي أفقر الشعب اليمني، وعاد إلينا الفقر والظلم في ثوب جديد.

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منير الماوري – واشنطن
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أسفل هذا المقال سيجد القارئ الكريم روابط إلكترونية يستطيع عبرها الإطلاع على نسخ مصورة من وثائق اتهام شركة أميركية بتقديم رشى لمسؤولين خارج أميركا بينهم نجل الرئيس اليمني، وكان موقع التغيير المستقل أول موقع باللغة العربية يكشف عن محتوى بيان وزارة العدل الأميركية بشأن اعتراف شركة لاتين نود للاتصالات أنها رشت مسئولين يمنيين في شركة تليمن إضافة إلى نجل الرئيس اليمني الذي لم تسمه الوثائق باسمه ولكنها أوردت صفته في أكثر من موضع.
ومن خلال تصفحي السريع للوثائق، وردود الفعل التي تلتها، والتوضيح الذي نشره موقع التغيير خرجت بنقاط تحليلية يمكن إجمالها فيما يلي:
أولا: هذه ليست حادثة نادرة أن تتحدث الصحافة عن فساد أهل الحكم، فالجميع يكاد يجمع أن كثير من المسؤولين الكبار يتلقون رشى وينهبون المال العام ويبنون المنازل والقصور ويحفرون الآبار الإرتوازية داخل اسوار منازلهم في صنعاء وعدن في وقت تعاني فيه العاصمتين الصيفية والشتوية من نقص حاد في مياه الشرب، ولكن الشئ الجديد في هذه الوثائق أنها تقدم دليلا قويا مصدره المحاكم الأميركية وليست تسريبات يصعب اثباتها. (Read on …)

A guest post (meaning I didnt write it) by Abu Yemen:

The Yemeni dictator continues to turn Yemen into a failed state despite all free advice given to him by honest citizens and overseas friends. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is turning a deaf ear to all sensible opinions expressed to him by politicians, scholars, and experienced clergy. The recent tour he made to Russia and Ukraine in order to acquire huge quantities of sophisticated weapons worth over 2 billion US Dollars is another example of his irresponsibility, ignorance, and betrayal of constitutional obligations. According to reliable sources in Yemen, this little dictator has indulged in many constitutional violations, totally disregarded human rights, and has abandoned democratic principles. Further, the President of Yemen is involved in ignition of civil wars and sponsors a crude policy of creating disputes, tribal and political, amongst the entire population in Yemen. Today the deplorable President of Yemen has gone too far in misrepresenting the aspirations of the Yemeni people over the last 30 years. During this time, he misled public opinion in Yemen as well as many friendly governments in the Arab world, Europe, US, and Canada. In this regard, he pretended on one hand to play the role of cooperating in the joint efforts to curtail and defeat international terrorism, and on the other hand, he maintained discrete arrangements with terrorists to survive and use them to exterminate his political opponents.

Consequently, Yemen has become a safe haven for such terrorist elements. These terrorist elements represent a serious threat to the security and stability of the entire region to the extent that genuine interests of all are at risk. It is therefore time for all concerned to consider stepping forward and extending all necessary efforts to assist the masses of Southern Yemenis seeking to abandon the political unity between the two Yemens after the dictator betrayed the unity agreement concluded 20 years ago. Your attention is equally invited to a possible military confrontation currently under preparation by the dictator and his men against the Hawtis in Saada who enjoy the support of tribes all over the province, and the support of those in the provinces of Al Jawf, Ma’rib, and Harf Sufyan. Yemen has reached the point of disintegration and every self-respecting citizen in Yemen is praying for safety from becoming the next Somalia.

Confidence building measures please?

No. The regime continues to refuse to release these prisoners (that were supposed to be released at least three times already) and moves them around despite the civil society protests and the danger of re-triggering the war. Oh well, Saada six will be worse and bigger than than any of the previous wars. Eventually the conduit between the Gulf and North Africa will be open.

Yemen – Saada
26/2/2009 PM

In the context of a defense to the power and lasting on the implementation of what has been agreed upon, it took thirty prisoners taken from the central prison in Sanaa, and instead of a release as provided for in the agreements have been taken to an unknown destination leaving the human rights agreements and the wall, thereby increasing the suffering of the detainees and their families, and emphasizes the indifference of the authority, which would serve the national interest.

Information Office of the Mr. / Abdul-Malik al-Houthi

26/2/2009م

في سياق تنصل السلطة المستمر والدائم عن تنفيذ ما تم الاتفاق عليه، فقد أقدمت على اقتياد ثلاثين سجينا من السجن المركزي بصنعاء, وبدلاً عن الإفراج عنهم كما نصت عليه الاتفاقات فقد تم اقتيادهم إلى جهة مجهولة ضاربة بالاتفاقات وحقوق الإنسان عرض الحائط, مما يزيد من معاناة المعتقلين وذويهم, ويؤكد على عدم اكتراث السلطة بما من شأنه خدمة المصلحة الوطنية.

المكتب الإعلامي للسيد / عبد الملك الحوثي
2/ ربيع الأول / 1430هـ

by Nashwan Ghanem

Democratic Arab .. fattening generals and killed activists and bloggers!!

A reading of the current Arab scene by scene, the press and stifle freedoms on the sidelines of a more serious stage is not in conformity with the race around the world information revolution, this time the dangerous Arab-led government wants to keep its people in the age of blockage and ignorance and accept the bitter reality!!

The spider’s web, which weaves in this context, and in recent years has expanded the continuing abuses against journalists and many of the reporters, activists and bloggers. With the widening of the so-called fourth power of any electronic journalism .. and allowed without any limits to the writing of the most daring and freedom, and for those who missed work the press without restrictions from the grip of authoritarian management and whip! (Read on …)

واقع الحرية وكلفتها … الثمن الباهض ..*

عبد الكريم محمد الخيواني – اليمن

عنوان محور هذه الجلسة يعفيني من بذل أية محاولة للإقناع بالواقع السيء الذي تعيشه الصحافة الناقدة والحقوق المدنية، أو مدى التضييق على حرية الصحافة، أوالقمع والانتهاك الممنهج ضد الصحفيين وأصحاب الرأي والناشطين الحقوقيين في غالبية الدول العربية، وكون هذه القناعة قاسماً مشتركاً فإنها لا تعني التسليم بهذه الأوضاع وإنما السعي الجاد لتغييرها. ونقاشنا لواقعنا يأتي في هذا الاتجاه.

لم تأت حرية الصحافة صدفة في أي بلد وإنما نتيجة نضال وحراك ومطالبة وضغوط وتضحيات حقيقية، عبرت عن تطور اجتماعي وسياسي وثقافي. وهذا التطور والحراك في واقعنا يتصادم مع جمود النظام الرسمي العربي الذي قصارى أمنياته المحافظة على واقعه الراهن كما هو عليه كسمة من سمات وخصائص المنهج الوظيفي الملتزم به، ولعل ذلك ما يفسر حرصه على إفراغ أي عملية تطوير من مضمونها، والقبول بالتطوير والتغيير شكلاً ليعزز من شرعية أو استمرار أو مصلحة هذا النظام أو ذاك دون أن يؤدي إلى تغيير حقيقي في النتيجة.

هكذا أرادت (وتريد )الأنظمة الرسمية العربية: ديمقراطية لا تفضي إلى دولة مؤسسات؛ وانتخابات؛ لا تفضي إلى تداول سلمي للسلطة؛ وحرية صحافة لا تنتقد الفساد والأخطاء؛ ولا تحترم الحقيقة أو عقلية المتلقي، ومنظمات مجتمع مدني لا تؤدي وظائفها الااصيلة وتدافع عن الحقوق ولا تدين الانتهاكات ….الخ، أي تريدها مجرد ديكور لا أكثر.

ومع الاعتراف بوجود استثناءات عربية محدودة؛ أود أن ألفت النظر إلى ما يلي: (Read on …)

This article is written by the same person who wrote “Winds and Waves of Change in South West Arabia”

> The Struggle for Aden by Ian Garner

> The leadership impasse in the southern governorates of Yemen (called by
> the insurgents South Arabia) could be best understood by referring to
> early research by Doreen Ingrams (A Survey of Social and Economic
> Conditions in the Aden Protectorate,Eritrea,,1949, and A Time in
> Arabia,UK,1970). Mrs Ingrams was the wife of Sir Harold Ingrams, the
> British Resident in Hadramaut (the Eastern Aden Protectorate).
> The most pertinent part of her writings is her description of the
> Aulaqis in the Western Aden Protectorate.

> In 1967 George Brown, the Foreign Secretary in Downing Street did a
> U-turn and declared for the NLF against UN and Arab League
> resolutions. Enoch Powell, MP, denounced that as a betrayal of the
> Govt. of the Federation of South Arabia (inclusive of the Crown Colony
> of Aden). (Read on …)

From Barak Obama to the Arab leaders: Do not expect me to support your family enterprises

By Munir Mawari

A number of Arab leaders, who have been in power from 20 to 40 years each, wrote to U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama congratulating him on the success of the “change” he would bring to the United States. Since Obama did not respond to these leaders, the author of this article decided to volunteer to take on this task on behalf of Mr. Obama, as Thomas Friedman once did on behalf of President George W. Bush.

To avoid ambiguity it must be noted here that Mr. Obama is not aware of any of the contents of these messages. The way I write these letters is unacceptable in real diplomacy. The real Barack Obama would never “bash” the leaders of sovereign states or criticize their actions, as I take liberty to do. But what is not allowed in real practice may be just the thing, in our collective imagination.

In this spirit, the following is the full text of a letter from the virtual Barack Obama to Arab leaders, with attached telegrams, which are also imaginary:
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Sirs, Presidents, Kings and Emirs of Arab States:

Greetings, all; Happy Eid al-Adha (the most important religious event for Muslims):

I have received with deep gratitude a number of congratulatory messages on my election as the next President of the United States.. I apologize to you that I will not be able to reply formally, for the following reasons:

First: I have not yet formally assumed my duties or moved into the White House. President Bush continues to exercise his powers until the 20th of next January. I am committed to my country’s customs and Constitution, which do not allow the existence of two presidents at the same time. I will exercise presidential powers only after President Bush leaves office and after I take my Constitutional Oath of Office, in accordance with U.S. customs. Only then will I be able to exchanged cables with you. I have been told that you love exchanging cables with other leaders, and also that your official media love to cover this habit. I have been advised to have an intern in the White House who can devote his or her time solely to engaging in this hobby with you on my behalf.

Second: Since the United States is rich in the diversity of its people with different experiences and backgrounds, an American of Arab origin volunteered to write this response to you. I appreciate that you took a portion of your valuable time to write to me, and I thank you in advance for setting aside some of the time ordinarily allotted to the vigorous suppression of your people, to read this virtual reply. (Read on …)

A piece that contains some of the names of the 59 southern leaders the regime has issued a warrent for and notes South Arabia is willing to cooperate with NATO:

The Winds & Waves of Change in South-West Arabia- by Ian Garner

The Key issues in Yemen are:-

1-The predictions of economic collapse in 2009 by many experts although some say in 2011.

2-The probable return of civil war (the sixth) in Sa’da in 09 although the Huthis have very recently announced heir acceptance of a federal or confederal structure.Sanaa will not accept a confederation.

3-The anti-parliamentary elections (April 09) hand grenades & riots (ongoing) in the South & the North e.g., Hajja.

4-The election of a Government on 1st Nov.08 in the South under the name of South Arabia (first used officially by the UK in 1959:The Federation of South Arabia) with central govt. troops watching-RPGs deterred and many of the troops were Southerners not keen on bloodshed.

A warrant of arrest for 59 prominent members of the South Arabia National Struggle-Movement-Hirak(reported by Mukalla Press net on 25 October 08). Charges include Sedition, Treason and Cesession.

The South Arabia movement relies upon Security Council Resolutions 924 and 931 of 1994 for renegotiating the unity accord. If the warrant is enforced it may lead to civil commotion.

5-Somali piracy in the Gulf of Aden with Yemen unable to handle challenges on the ground let alone at sea.

Yemen has only 2 vessels capable of reaching the deep waters.The previous Admiral,Ahmad al-Hasani,is in exile in London leading the Taj opposition organisation.

The fears of Yemen of the intervention of Nato and Russia in the Gulf of Aden was explained by the Saudi newspaper”al-Watan al-Saudia”on Sunday,22 Nov.08: Mukalla in Yemen is the Logistics port of the Somali pirates who pay Yemeni officials for information as confessed during negotiations for the release of the Saudi tanker.

Economic collapse will worsen the tensions and the anti-election campaign will intensify. NYMEX & Brent were below $50 a barrel (Nov.08) and Yemeni oil trades a lot lower (Yemen is not even part of OPEC).

The South Arabian Parliament of 352 Members(the National Council-al-Majlis al-Watani)will be named within 2 months and a confrontation is inevitable.

Recognition of South Arabia is expected e.g., by Kuwait.

South Arabia is willing to collaborate with NATO in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandab Strait(island of Perim-Mayyun) as international waters are subject to international protection, and South Arabia will respect the right of innocent passage. The Socotra archipelago was always administered from Aden as the British navy was well-equipped there followed by the Soviet.

Since the 1986 civil war in Aden the navy was grossly neglected.

Socotra is in fact closer to Pantuland in the Federation of Somalia and Berbera in Somaliland.

Conclusion:at this stage moral help is needed to persuade Sanaa not to take action that will precipitate a civil war.

Names of the leaders of the 59:-
Hasan Ahmad Ba’um(president elect)
Brigadier Nasir Ali al-Nuba
Ali Munassar Muhammad(who met the US & UK ambassadors in Aden clandestinely)
Husain Zaid bin Yahya
Advocate Yahya Ghalib al-Shu’aibi
Dr.Muhammad Ali al-Saqqaf(Sorbonne)
Muhammad Salim Akkush(former minister)
Ahmad Bamu’alim
Muhammad Tammah
Gamal abdul-Latif Obadi
Nasir al-Khabji
Salah al-Shanfara
Shallal Ali Shayi’
Ali al-Shayba Nasir
Shaikh Abdullah Hasan al-Nakhibi
Dr.Abduh al-Ma’tari
Qasim Othman al-Da’iri
Muhammad Sikkin
Nasir Thabit al-Awlaqi
Dr.Nasir Huwaidar
Fadi Hasan Ba’um

The wanted are members of the South Arabia Provisional Govt. and members of the Executive Committees of the 7 governorates of the South.