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		<title>Judges join institutional revolution against corruption, hyper-politicalization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Air Force protests are ongoing and the Yemen AF is one of the biggest money pits in the budget. The judges joined other governmental bureaucracies in demanding a change in leadership and procedures. Judicial reform is one of the most necessary elements of the transition, and they should be applauded and heard.  
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		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/08/judges-join-institutional-revolution-against-corruption-hyper-politicalization/</link>
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		<title>HRW documents Yemen&#8217;s Saleh&#8217;s crimes in Taiz including shooting ambulances, denial of medical care to civilians, while Saleh in US receiving medical treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The denial of medical care is one method of collective punishment indicative of the Saleh regime and was prevalent and well enforced during the Saada War. going back to 2005. How much urgent and necessary medical care Saleh is getting in the Ritz Carlton is questionable. 
Yemen: Unlawful Attacks, Denial of Medical Care in Taizz
US, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/08/hrw-documents-yemens-salehs-crimes-in-taiz-including-denial-of-medical-care-while-saleh-in-us-receiving-medical-treatment/</link>
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		<title>One year later, UN, GCC, EU &amp; US writes the Yemeni people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yemen Post: We the Ambassadors of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU), wish to reiterate to the people of Yemen our full commitment to the political transition process taking place on the basis of the November 2011 GCC Agreement and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/08/one-year-later-un-gcc-eu-us-writes-the-yemeni-people/</link>
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		<title>Microcosism of intra-institutional rivalry hampering progress in Yemen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The governor of Aden resigned in protest of the protesters&#8217; mass fatalities in March 2011. VP Haid re-appointed him recently. The deputy governor Abdul-Karim Shaif and other GPC officials boycotted a security meeting Saturday and stormed the governor&#8217;s office with armed men on Sunday, stealing the official stamps and cutting off funding at the bank, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/06/microcosism-of-intra-institutional-rivalry-hampering-progress-in-yemen/</link>
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		<title>Al Houthi calls for Civil State in Yemen at mass gathering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For westerners, the term &#8220;civil state&#8221; may imply an end to military dictatorship, but in Yemen it has the additional connotation of equal rights among various religious denominations and minorities. It is the more acceptable substitute for the word secular, which some Yemenis misunderstand to mean denying or rejecting religion, as opposed to an impartial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/06/al-houthi-calls-for-civil-state-in-yemen-at-mass-gathering/</link>
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		<title>Yemen&#8217;s VP future president Hadi stymied by entrenched interests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of the following  Yemen Post article is VP threatens to unveil Yemen&#8217;s realities
There&#8217;s no use pining for an apolitical transitional council of bureaucrats that was the protesters&#8217; goal instead of the US sponsored re-empowerment of the entrenched forces that spurred the rev in the first place. The GCC deal is all carrot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/06/yemens-vp-future-president-hadi-stymied-by-entrenched-interests/</link>
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		<title>New York protesters throw shoe at Yemeni war criminal Ali Abdullah Saleh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Yemeni Americans are protesting the fact that Saleh is in the New York Ritz Carlton Hotel enjoying an immunity deal that grants a pardon for 33 years of crimes and that &#8220;his&#8221; funds have not been frozen, or any punitive actions taken at all. He is supposedly here for urgent medical treatment only available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/05/new-york-protesters-throw-shoe-at-yemeni-war-criminal-ali-abdullah-saleh/</link>
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		<title>New US backed Yemen Unity government hopes to negotiate with AQAP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Just to be clear, Saleh et al overtly and covertly negotiated with al Qaeda for years. Officials often defended the policy as rehabilitation and CT policy. Following the 2006 escape of 23 AQ operatives, Saleh said he was in touch with them all by phone, including presumably Wahishi, current AQAP leader. After releasing Jamal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/05/new-yemen-government-hopes-to-negotiate-with-aqap/</link>
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		<title>Abaad Centre for Studies and Research report on Al Qaeda in Yemen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yay, an English version, pretty much what I thought it said but less headache inducing: 
 Yemen Post The Yemen-based Abaad Centre for Studies and Researches has cautioned that some factions seek to collapse Yemeni cities militarily under the pretext of Al-Qaeda as happened in Radda and Abyan provinces scenarios.
&#8220;This scenario may be carried out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/04/abaad-centre-for-studies-and-research-report-on-al-qaeda-in-yemen/</link>
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		<title>Civil society activists condemn Yemeni scholars&#8217; fatwa on writer as politically motivated exploitation of religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rejecting Taqfirism flat out. And they are correct that a civil state does not reject religion but protects the rights of all religious persuasions equally. 
RSF condemns the Takfeer campaign against Yemeni writers
A statement released by Revolution Salvation Front (RSF) on the apostasy campaign against the Yemeni writer, Bushra al-Maqtari
Condemnation Statement
O&#8217; great people..O&#8217; revolutionaries and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/02/04/civil-society-activists-condemn-yemeni-scholars-fatwa-on-writer-for-an-article-as-politically-motivated-exploitation-of-religion/</link>
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