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The capital of Yemen is Sanaa.
150Mil BC In 2008 scientists said
footprints, dating from about this time, showed sauropods traveling at
the same speed along a river in Yemen, the first discovery of dinosaur
footprints on the Arabian peninsula.
(AP, 5/21/08)
c800BC-200 Saba culture (Yemen) was a major economic
player in the trade routes from India to the Mediterranean during this
period.
(Arch, 1/05, p.56)
500BC Qataban flourished in the 5th-1st centuries BC
in what is now southern Yemen. Qataban had a democratic form of
government and gained rule over a large area, but its influence and
dominions shrank with the emergence of the Himyarites late in the 2nd
century BC. Qataban was conquered by Saba‘ in the early centuries AD.
(HNQ, 7/20/00)
c950BC The Queen of Sheba lived about this time.
Local legends name her Makeda and claim that she was from Ethiopia.
Archeologists have found inscriptions from the ancient Sabean kingdom
but no mention of Makeda or Bilqis, the local name for Sheba in Yemen.
The Koran claims she ruled from Yemen.
(WSJ, 5/2/97, p.A1)
732 Oct 10, At Tours, France,
Charles Martel killed Yemenite general Abd el-Rahman and halted the
Muslim invasion of Europe. Islam's westward spread was stopped by the
Franks at the Battle of Tours (also known as the Battle of Poitiers).
(http://tinyurl.com/o1uj)(HN,10/10/98)
1000 About this time in the
Hadramawt region of Yemen a dam burst near the village of Senna, and
the people of the valley fled. In 1997 researchers using DNA studies
found that the Lemba, a Bantu speaking people of southern Africa carry
markers distinctive of the Cohanim, Jewish priests believed to be
descended from Aaron. Lemba oral tradition held that they came to
Africa from Senna. Dr. Tudor Parfitt authored "Journey to the Vanished
City," a description of his work on the Lemba.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, p.A24)(www.answers.com/topic/lemba)
c1500-1600 A Muslim pilgrim stole coffee beans from
Yemen and raised them in India. Yemen was the first great coffee
exporter and in order to protect its trade had decreed that no living
plant could leave the country.
(WSJ, 6/4/99, p.W9)
1931 Muhammad bin Laden, a baggage
carrier, left Yemen for Jidda. He and his brothers later founded a
prosperous construction company. He later fathered 51 children that
included Osama bin Laden, the 17th in 1957.
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B9)
1948 Nov 16, Operation Magic
Carpet began with the 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1950 Sep 24, In "Operation Magic
Carpet" all Jews from Yemen moved to Israel.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1952 In Yemen American explorer
Wendell Phillips began excavating Marib’s Moon Temple of Sheba. He was
forced away after 4 months when locals suspected that he was after gold.
(WSJ, 5/2/97, p.A1)
1955 Apr 16, Abdullah Seif
el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, was beheaded.
(MC, 4/16/02)
1958 Mar 2, Yemen announced it
will join the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria).
(SC, 3/2/02)
1962 Sep 26, In North Yemen a
group of military officers led by Col. Adbullah al-Sallal and supported
by Egypt overthrew the Imam and established a republic. Zaydi Imam
al-Badr had been in power for only a week having succeeded his father
who had presided over a feudal kingdom where 80 per cent of the
population lived as peasants and which was controlled through bribery,
an arbitrary and coercive tax system and a policy of divide and rule.
The coup was led by Colonel Abdullah al-Sallal and a pro-Nasser, Arab
nationalist group within the Yemeni military, which proclaimed the
Yemen Arab Republic.
(http://markcurtis.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/the-covert-war-in-yemen-1962-70/)
1963 Aden (South Yemen) was
amalgamated with the British protectorate to form the Federation of
South Arabia which resulted in rioting.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/yemen.htm)
1964 Jun, It was agreed that the
Federation of South Arabia (Aden-South Yemen) would gain independence
from Britain in 1968.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/yemen.htm)
1966-1967 Yemen was engaged in civil war.
(Econ, 8/30/03, p.64)
1967 Nov 28, Yemen gained
independence from Britain. British troops withdrew and the People's
Republic of Yemen was declared with Qahtan ash-Sha'abi as the country's
first President.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/yemen.htm)
1978 Jun 24, There was a coup in
Yemen. Pres. Ahmad Hussein al-Ghashmi was murdered and replaced by
Lt.-Col. Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was elected president of North Yemen
and began his 2-decade hold on the office. His power was strong in the
cities but in the countryside Sheik Abdulla al-Ahmar held power.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A1)(WSJ,
1/02/00, p.A1)
1978 Ali Abdullah Saleh was
elected president of North Yemen and began his 2-decade hold on the
office. His power was strong in the cities but in the countryside Sheik
Abdulla al-Ahmar held power.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/02/00, p.A1)
1978 Jun 26, There was a coup in
Southern Yemen (formerly Aden). Pres. Salem Rubaye Ali was ousted,
tried and shot. He was succeeded by Ali Nasir Muhammad.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1978 Jul 2, The Arab League
imposed a boycott on South Yemen.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1978 Oct 16, An attempted coup
against President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen was crushed.
(http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/30thyear/onthisday/10160457.html)
1978 Dec 27, In South Yemen the
Supreme Council elected a new president. He reversed moves toward
reconciliation with North Yemen and acquiesced to a continued Soviet
military buildup.
(PC, 1992, p.1065)
1984 Oct 9, A cooperation
agreement between the European Community and the Yemen Republic is
signed in Brussels.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1984/index_en.htm)
1986 Yemen discovered oil.
(AP, 6/24/06)
1990 May 22, After years of
conflict, pro-Western North Yemen and pro-Soviet South Yemen merged to
form the Republic of Yemen. The North was conservative and the South
was socialist.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A1)(AP, 5/22/98)
1992 In Yemen 2 hotel bombs
directed at US servicemen killed 2 Australians. The bombing was later
linked to Osama bin Laden, the scion of a wealthy Saudi family. He was
stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994.
(SFC, 8/14/96, p.A10,12)
1993 Nov 26, A U.S. diplomat was
kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen. Government officials negotiate for his
release in the first known kidnapping of a diplomat in faction-ridden
Yemen.
(AP, 11/26/02)
1993 In Yemen the first elections
after unification were held.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A1)
1994 May 21, South Yemen seceded
from Yemen.
(MC, 5/21/02)
1994 In Yemen the new Parliament
elected Ali Abdullah Saleh as president.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A1)
1994 In Yemen a civil war broke
out in Mukalla. Northern forces put down communist secessionists in the
South. The constitution was amended and the ban on discrimination was
replaced with the phrase "All citizens are equal in general rights and
duties."
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A1)(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D6)
1995 Dec 17, Eritrean and Yemeni
forces clashed over control of the Hanish Islands, located just north
of the Bab el-Mandeb. Eritrea used its warships to try to seize a
disputed island in the mouth of the Red Sea from Yemen. Yemen sent
warplanes to counter the attack.
(WSJ, 12/18/95,
p.A1)(www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hornafrica.html#eri)
1995 In Yemen Bin Shamlan, a
former executive for a Saudi oil company in London and minister of
infrastructure and minister of oil in the government of South Yemen,
resigned from parliament to protest government corruption.
(AP, 9/24/06)
1996 Jun, Heavy floods hit Yemen
and more than 65 people were believed dead and hundreds made homeless.
(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug, Eritrean and Yemeni
forces again clashed over control of the Hanish Islands, located just
north of the Bab el-Mandeb.
(www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hornafrica.html#eri)
1996 Oct 19, In Yemen Serge
Lefevre, first secretary of the French Embassy, was kidnapped.
(SFC, 10/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 27, In Yemen Serge
Lefevre, first secretary of the French Embassy, was kidnapped a 2nd
time after being released by members of the same tribe.
(SFC, 10/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct, Eritrean and Yemeni
signed an agreement for arbitration over control of the Hanish Islands,
located just north of the Bab el-Mandeb. [see Oct 1998]
(www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hornafrica.html#eri)
1996 Yemeni troops put down
antigovernment protests in Mukalla, also the site of a 1994 civil war.
Court charges that police raped a group of women appeared to trigger
the protests.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1997 Apr 27, Parliamentary
elections were held in Yemen. Some 11 people were killed in violence
linked to the vote. Participation was estimated at 80%.
(SFC, 4/28/97, p.A12)
1997 May 26, In Yemen it was
announced that 21 children died after being injected with insulin
rather than inoculations against fatal diseases.
(SFC, 5/27/97, p.A16)
1997 Aug 14, In Yemen ten Italian
tourists were reported kidnapped in 2 separate incidents.
(SFC, 8/15/97, p.A17)
1997 In Yemen it was reported in
1999 that honor killings, the killing of girls and women by their
relatives to cleanse "soiled honor," claimed the lives of over 400
women this year.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.A4)
1998 May, In Yemen Prime Minister
Abdul Karim al-Iryani came into power.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 19, In Yemen a 40% price
increase for gasoline, kerosene and cooking gas led to protests for the
next 4 days.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 22, In Yemen police fired
on protestors. At least one person was killed in Taiz and 3 were killed
in Sanaa. Protestors called for the resignation of Prime Minister Abdul
Karim al-Iryani.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 23, In Yemen police
killed 6 people blocking fuel trucks. The government ordered increased
fuel prices to pay off an $80 million IMF loan.
(WSJ, 6/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 20, Saudi Arabia attacked
a Yemeni island in the Red Sea and killed 3 guards. 3 islands and parts
of the Empty Quarter, a vast desert with potential for oil, were under
contention.
(SFEC, 7/21/98, p.A7)
1998 Jul 22, Yemeni naval forces
landed on Duwaima Island and took control.
(SFC, 7/23/98, p.C3)
1998 Jul 27, In Hodeida, Yemen, 3
nuns were killed by Abdullah al-Nashri (25), an unstable, mental
patient treated by the Missionaries of Charity.
(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct, The Permanent Court of
Arbitration ruled that the Hanish Islands are subject to the
territorial sovereignty of Yemen.
(www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/hornafrica.html#eri)
1998 Dec 28, In Yemen Islamic
militants kidnapped 16 Western tourists. The demanded the release of
Saleh Haidara al-Atwi and another top militant arrested 2 weeks ago.
The militants were led by Abu Hassan.
(SFC, 12/29/98, p.A8)(SFC, 10/29/00, p.A10)
1998 Dec 29, In Yemen security
forces attacked the kidnappers of 16 and 4 hostages were killed. The
freed tourists said that government forces initiated the battle that
left 3 Britons and an Australian dead.
(SFC, 12/31/98, p.A10)(WSJ, 12/31/98, p.A1)
1998 An Egyptian militant,
believed to be Ahmed Nasrallah, reported to Yemen’s Political Security
Organization on al Qaeda terrorists around the Marib region. The
security service tipped off the terrorists.
(WSJ, 12/20/02, p.A1,6)
1999 Jan 17, In Yemen 2 British
and 4 Dutch citizens were kidnapped.
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A10)
1999 Feb 2, In Yemen kidnappers
freed 4 Dutch and 2 British nationals.
(WSJ, 2/3/99, p.A1)
1999 May 5, A Yemeni court
sentenced 3 Islamic militants to death for their role in the abduction
and killing of Western tourists in Dec.
(WSJ, 5/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 9, In Yemen 8 Britons and
2 Algerians were convicted and sentenced to 7 years in prison for
plotting terrorist acts.
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.A10)
1999 Oct 17, In Yemen Abu Hassan,
"a nom de guerre" for the head of the Islamic Army of Aden and Abyan,
was executed.
(SFC, 10/29/00, p.A10)
1999 Oct 28, In Yemen 3 Americans,
Marta R. Colburn and her parents were freed after being held for 2 days
by tribesmen, who demanded the release of 25 suspects held for an
attack on an oil pipeline.
(SFC, 10/28/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 27, Military sources
reported that 2 Yemeni soldiers had been killed over the last few days
in border clashes with Saudi Arabia.
(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A26)
1999 Saudi police arrested
Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal and jailed him for 14 months for maintaining
contact with Osama bin Laden. He was then deported to Yemen.
(SFC, 11/26/03, p.A10)
2000 Feb 10, In Yemen tribesmen
released Kenneth White (54), an American oil executive, who was
kidnapped a month ago.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.D2)
2000 Jun 12, Saudi Arabia and
Yemen signed an agreement to end decades of border disputes.
(SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)
2000 Jun, In Yemen at the Univ. of
Sanaa Medical School Muhammad Adam Omar Ishaak, a morgue attendant, was
arrested for the rape, murder and dismemberment of at least 2 women
training to be doctors. The case also revealed bribes for grades and
the smuggling of body parts.
(SSFC, 12/3/00, p.D10)
2000 Oct 12, A US Navy destroyer,
the USS Cole, refueling in Yemen suffered an enormous explosion in what
appeared to be a terrorist attack. Initial reports had at least 6
sailors killed with 11 missing. The death toll was revised to 17. The
8,600-ton Cole was returned to the US aboard the Norwegian ship Blue
Marlin. In 2001 a video tape by "Al-Sahab Productions" circulated among
Muslim militants with footage of the bombed vessel. The Cole returned
to active duty in 2003 following $250 million in repairs. In 2007 Walid
Muhammad bin Attash told a military tribunal at Guantanamo that he was
responsible for organizing the Cole attack as well as the 1998 bombings
in Kenya and Tanzania.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)(SFC,
11/7/00, p.A12)(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 12/1/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/20/07,
p.A3)
2000 Nov 22, Yemen identified the
bombers of the USS Cole as 2 Saudi Arabian citizens with Yemeni family
roots. One was named Abdul Mohsen al-Taifi and both had suspected ties
to Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.A22)
2000 In Yemen a government report
held that 90% of Yemeni men use qat regularly along with an almost
equal number of women. Cat, Catha edulis, had a 600-year history of use
as a mild stimulant.
(WSJ, 12/28/00, p.A1)
2000 In Yemen Rift Valley fever
began affecting thousands of cattle, sheep and goats in the autumn and
within weeks 1,800 animals had died and 7,800 fetuses had aborted.
(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A8)
2001 Jan 2, The population of
Yemen was about 18 million. Most of these lived in the mountains and
remote plains.
(WSJ, 1/02/00, p.A1)
2001 Feb, 106 Russian-made T-54
tanks were delivered to Yemen by Czech/Slovak arms traders. Diversion
to Sudan was suspected.
(WSJ, 12/11/01, p.A15)
2001 May 19, In Yemen an explosion
in the weapons market of al-Suwaida killed at least 14 people and
injured 15.
(SSFC, 5/20/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 18, In Yemen 15 suspected
terrorists were arrested. US FBI investigators had pulled out on June
17 under a security threat.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 16, US Customs at JFK
found $140,763 in the luggage of Basam Nahshal who was bound for Yemen.
A 2nd man Ali Alfatimi claimed the money was his and was being smuggled
to Yemen as part of his travel business.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 20, Some 30,000 people
gathered in Amran, Yemen, to protest US air strikes in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 22, It was reported that
Yemen had partially shut down its port of Aden after the breakup of a
big anti-US protest. Militants were commandeering boats to ferry
fighters out of the country and to Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 27, Jamil Qasim Saeed
Mohammed (27), a Yemeni microbiology student, was turned over to US
authorities in Pakistan. He was said to be an active al Qaeda member
and was suspected of involvement in the Oct 12, 2000 bombing of the
Cole in Aden.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct, Sayyid Imam
al-Sharif (b.~1950), aka Dr. Fadl, a co-founder of al-Qaida, was
arrested in Yemen and transferred to Egypt in 2004, where he changed
his radical position and published "Document of Right Guidance for
Jihad Activity in Egypt and the World," also transliterated as
"Rationalizing Jihad in Egypt and the World". In it he proclaimed “We
are prohibited from committing aggression, even if the enemies of Islam
do that.” In 1988 in Peshawar, Pakistan, “The Essential Guide for
Preparation” by Dr. Fadl appeared and became one of the most important
texts in training for jihadis.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Imam_Al-Sharif)
2001 Dec 18, Yemeni troops
assaulted tribal forces in the Marib region after local leaders refused
to turn over suspected members of al Qaeda. At least 12 people were
killed and 22 wounded.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/19/01, p.A12)
2002 Feb 13, In Yemen Sameer
Mohammed ahmed al-Hada (25), an al Qaeda fugitive, died as troops
closed in and a hand grenade exploded in his hand. Family members were
also linked to al-Qaeda.
(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A18)
2002 Mar 1, Pres. Bush approved
plans to send some 100 US troops to Yemen to help train the nation’s
military to fight terrorists.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 14, VP Cheney traveled to
Yemen to press for joint efforts against remnants of al Qaeda.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Aug 11, Yemen reported that 6
suspected Muslim militants were arrested for planning a bombing attack
in the capital San'a. Two more were arrested in connection with a
previous blast.
(AP, 8/11/02)
2002 Sep 6, A Yemeni man died when
a bomb he was carrying exploded in a crowded market in San’a, injuring
two bystanders.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 20, In Yemen 2 suspected
members of al-Qaida were killed in a gun battle and three others were
arrested after security forces raided several homes looking for members
of the terrorist network.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Oct 6, A fire broke out on
the Limberg, a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, setting
barrels of oil ablaze and sparking an explosion killing one Bulgarian
crew member. The explosion was soon determined to be the result of a
terrorist attack. Insurance paid out $70 million for the damages.
(AP, 10/6/02)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A13)(AP,
10/6/03)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.73)
2002 Nov 3, In northwest Yemen 6
al-Qaida suspects were killed when the car they were traveling in was
struck by a missile from a US Predator drone. Qaed Salim Sinan
al-Harethi, a suspected al-Qaida leader, was among the dead along with
Kamal Derwish, a member of the Lackawanna, NY, sleeper cell.
(SFC, 11/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/6/02, p.A15)(SFC,
11/9/02, p.A3)(AP, 11/3/03)
2002 Dec 9, US and Spanish forces
seized an unflagged ship from North Korea that was carrying Scud
missiles to Yemen.
(SFC, 12/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 11, Yemen said Scud
missiles found hidden aboard a North Korean ship seized by Spain and
the United States were destined for its army and demanded them back.
Pres. Bush ordered them released. Bush later created a coalition of
members to block arms shipments "of proliferation concern."
(Reuters, 12/11/02)(SFC, 12/12/02, p.A19)(WSJ,
10/21/03, p.A1)
2002 Dec 20, Yemeni security
forces battled suspected al-Qaida members holed up in a building in a
gunfight that left 2 policemen dead.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 28, In Yemen a gunman
shot and killed Jarallah Omar, a senior politician, after Omar spoke as
a guest at an Islamic party's congress at San’a.
(AP, 12/28/02)
2002 Dec 30, In Yemen a suspected
Muslim extremist, hiding his gun cradled like a baby, slipped into the
Jibla Baptist Hospital and opened fire, killing three American
missionaries: Dr. Martha Myers (57), William Koehn (60), and Kathleen
Gariety (53). A 4th was seriously wounding. Abed Abdul Razak Kamel was
sentenced to death in May for killing the missionaries. Kamel was
executed on Feb 27, 2006.
(AP, 12/30/02)(SFC, 12/31/02, p.A4)(AP,
12/30/03)(AP, 2/27/06)
2003 Mar 18, In Yemen a man shot 4
Hunt Oil company workers. He killed 3 and shot himself dead.
(SFC, 3/19/03, p.A5)
2003 Mar 21, In Yemen police
clashed with anti-war demonstrators trying to storm the US Embassy,
leaving a policeman and protester dead.
(AP, 3/21/03)
2003 Apr 11, In Yemen 10 suspects
in the bombing of the US destroyer Cole escaped from prison.
(SFC, 4/12/03, p.A3)
2003 Apr 27, In Yemen
parliamentary elections for 301 seats were marred by gunfights that
wounded at least 15 people.
(SFC, 4/28/03, A12)
2003 Apr 29, Pakistani police
arrested six men linked to al-Qaida, including a Yemeni man, Tawfiq
Attash Khallad, wanted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and the
bombing of the USS Cole.
(AP, 4/30/03)(WSJ, 5/1/03, A1)
2003 Jun 6, In Yemen an explosion
close to a military base killed 3 people. The blast was caused by a
missile that blew up in the Beir Ahmed district of the southern port
city of Aden.
(AP, 6/6/03)
2003 Jun 25, Yemeni troops killed
at least 6 Islamic militants during an attack on a mountain hideout
following failed negotiations.
(SFC, 6/26/03, p.A10)
2003 Oct 1, US officials
identified Abu Hazim al-Sha'ir (29), a Yemeni ex-bodyguard of Osama bin
Laden, as al Qaeda's new terror chief.
(WSJ, 10/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, In Yemen security
forces arrested Saudi-born Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal (32), the alleged
mastermind of the attacks on the USS Cole, at a hide-out west of the
capital, San'a.
(AP, 11/26/03)(SFC, 11/26/03, p.A10)
2003 In Yemen guards apprehended
Hezam Ali Hassan (17) and Khaled Saleh (18) after they followed the car
of Ambassador Edmund Hull through the Sabeen area of San'a before they
were able to throw hand grenades at Hull as he stepped into a store.
Both men were released in 2008 after serving over 3 years in jail.
(AP, 1/14/08)
2004 Mar 3, In Yemen security
forces arrested Abdul Raouf Naseeb, a leading al-Qaida member, along
with other militants in the southern mountains.
(AP, 3/4/04)
2004 Mar 16, Yemen authorities
said 9 suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole had been arrested,
including 8 who escaped from jail in 2003.
(SFC, 3/17/04, p.A9)
2004 Mar 19, Yemen security forces
captured the nation's most wanted man and another militant who escaped
from prison last year after being detained for the 2000 bombing of the
USS Cole. Jamal Badawi and Fahd al-Quso were arrested in the mountains
of southern Abyan province.
(AP, 3/19/04)
2004 Jun 11, In Yemen a gunman
opened fire with an automatic rifle on worshippers in a mosque outside
the capital during midday prayers, killing four people and wounding six.
(AP, 6/12/04)
2004 Jun, In northern Yemen Shiite
Muslim rebels began a revolt in Saada. By 2009 fighting claimed at
least 4,000 lives. The rebels were led by Shiite cleric Hussein Badr
Eddin al-Hawthi until his death in clashes later in 2004. Abdel-Malek
al-Hawthi, the brother of the slain leader, became chief.
(AP, 8/6/09)
2004 Jul 10, In northern Yemen 5
policemen were killed as security forces continued an offensive against
followers of a Shiite dissident, firing missiles on the militant's
mountain hideout.
(AP, 7/10/04)
2004 Aug 5, Yemeni officials said
its army has launched a major offensive to quash a rebellion in the
northern mountains. About 50 soldiers and rebels have been killed in
the two days of fighting.
(AP, 8/5/04)
2004 Aug 6, Yemeni warplanes and
artillery pounded mountain hideouts of an anti-U.S. leader and his
followers in a major offensive aimed at ending a six-week conflict that
has killed at least 500 people.
(AP, 8/6/04)
2004 Aug 28, A Yemen court
convicted 15 militants on terror charges including the 2002 bombing of
a French oil tanker and plotting to kill the U.S. ambassador.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Sep 10, Yemen reported that
its troops had killed Hussein Badr Eddin al-Hawthi (al-Houthi), a rebel
cleric whose “Believing Youth” forces have battled the government in a
remote northern region for months.
(AP, 9/10/04)(SFC, 9/11/04, p.A10)(Econ, 5/21/05,
p.51)
2004 Sep 29, A Yemeni judge
sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from
five to 10 years for orchestrating the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS
Cole.
(AP, 9/29/04)
2004 Yemen fell from 88th to 112th
place on a ranking of 145 countries tested for government transparency
and corruption by Transparency International, a global anti-corruption
group.
(AP, 10/27/05)
2005 Feb 5, A Yemeni court
overruled earlier rulings and imposed harsher sentences, including a
death sentence, on three militants convicted of attacking a French oil
tanker and a helicopter carrying U.S. employees of an oil company.
(AP, 2/5/05)
2005 Mar 29, In Yemen clashes
between the military and followers of a slain cleric stretched into a
second day of fighting, leaving eight Yemeni soldiers dead.
(AP, 3/29/05)
2005 Apr 16, Yemen's PM Bajammal
said underground religious schools that promote extremist forms of
Islam are drawing in many young students across the country. He
promised to eliminate the underground schools, which he estimated
numbered about 4,000 and drew about 330,000 students.
(AP, 4/16/05)
2005 Apr 21, Health officials said
a polio outbreak in Yemen may be due to pilgrims returning from Mecca.
(AP, 4/22/05)
2005 Apr 29, The UN health agency
reported 18 new cases of polio in Yemen and said more people are
believed infected, sparking fears of an epidemic in the Middle Eastern
country with a low immunization rate among children.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr, Yemen troops put down a
resumption of violence by the followers of cleric Hussein Badr Eddin
al-Hawthi (al-Houthi), who was killed in September. It was thought to
be led by his father, Badr Eddin al-Hawthi, in fighting that tribal
sources say killed 250 people on both sides.
(AP, 4/20/05)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.51)
2005 May 17, The UN WHO health
agency said confirmed polio cases reached 83 in Yemen. The country was
believed to have been free of the disease until last month.
(AP, 5/18/05)
2005 Jul 17, Yemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh, leader of this Arab nation for more than a
quarter-century, said he will not run in next year's elections, and he
urged political parties to nominate "young blood" to lead the country.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 20, In Yemen at least 11
people were killed in clashes with police after rioters threw stones
and set fires in streets to protest against subsidy cuts that nearly
doubled petrol prices.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 21, In Yemen protesters
clashed with security forces for a 2nd day after the government reduced
subsidies on oil products. The violence in the capital and elsewhere
left four dead and seven injured. 2 days of rioting left 16 people dead.
(AP, 7/21/05)(SFC, 7/22/05, p.A14)
2005 Aug 3, According to Amnesty
International 2 Yemeni men said they were held in solitary confinement
in secret, underground US detention facilities in an unknown country
and interrogated by masked men for more than 18 months without being
charged or allowed any contact with the outside world.
(AP, 8/4/05)
2005 Oct 19, The International
Organization for Migration (IMO) said "Ethiopian women and girls who
migrate to Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia suffer from
maltreatment, physical, sexual and emotional abuses," in a report based
on interviews with 443 women returning from the region.
(AP, 10/20/05)
2005 Nov 12, In Yemen masked
attackers stabbed and wounded outspoken journalist Nabil Sabaie (27) on
one of the capital's main streets. Newspapers in recent months have
stepped up reports on Yemen's rampant corruption, identifying ministers
and other officials allegedly involved in stealing state money. They
also have increasingly scrutinized Pres. Saleh, his family and the
country's powerful military.
(AP, 11/28/05)
2005 Nov 21, In Yemen a tribesman
threatened to kill two Swiss tourists he kidnapped if the government
uses force to free them. Hasan Ahmed al-Dhamen said that he would kill
his two hostages, a man and a woman, if security forces tried to raid
his hide-out.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 27, In Yemen a suspected
al-Qaida ally was executed by a firing squad after being convicted of
killing a prominent politician and plotting a deadly attack on three
American missionaries in 2002.
(AP, 11/27/05)
2005 Dec 24, Yemeni kidnappers
freed two Austrian tourists, three days after seizing them in an
apparent dispute over the government's arrest of fellow tribesmen.
(AP, 12/24/05)
2005 Dec 28, Armed men kidnapped a
former German diplomat and his family touring the mountains of eastern
Yemen and pressed the Yemeni government for the release of jailed
members of their tribe.
(AP, 12/28/05)
2005 Dec 28, In Yemen a mountain
avalanche swept away 23 houses in the tiny village of Dhafeer,
killing at least 56 people.
(AP, 12/31/05)
2005 Dec 31, Yemeni kidnappers
released a former German diplomat and his four family members.
(AP, 12/31/05)
2005 Yemen’s population of about
18.5 million was expected to double within 15 years, placing further
burdens on its economy.
(AP, 10/27/05)
2006 Jan 1, In northern Yemen
tribesmen kidnapped five Italians, a day after the government
negotiated the release of five Germans held hostage. Tribesmen soon
freed three Italian women, who were among a group of five Italian
tourists, and pressed for the release of kinsmen held by the
authorities.
(Reuters, 1/1/06)
2006 Jan 2, Yemeni tribal and
state officials said 3 Italian women kidnapped in north Yemen have
refused to go free until their abductors release two Italian men held
with them.
(AP, 1/2/06)
2006 Jan 6, In Yemen 5 Italian
hostages were freed in good health after six days in captivity when
their kidnappers surrendered to government troops.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006 Jan 22, The UN refugee agency
said a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, killing at
least 22 people. Twenty-eight were reported missing.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Feb 3, Jamal al-Badawi, a man
considered a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors
in a Yemeni port in 2000, was among 23 people who escaped from a Yemen
prison. At least 13 of the 23 escapees were convicted al-Qaida
fighters, who escaped via a 140-yard-long tunnel dug by the prisoners
and co-conspirators outside.
(AP, 2/5/06)
2006 Feb 26, Yemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh said three al-Qaida convicts among the two dozen who
escaped earlier this month have turned themselves in.
(AP, 2/26/06)
2006 Feb 27, In Yemen a firing
squad executed Abed Abdul Razak Kamel, an Islamic militant who killed
three American missionaries in a south Yemen hospital in 2002.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Mar 5, In Yemen Hezam Ali
Hassan (17) and Khaled Saleh (18), convicted of trying to kill US
ambassador Edmund Hull in 2003, were sentenced to five years in prison.
(AP, 3/5/06)
2006 Mar 5, In Yemen Hezam Ali
Hassan (17) and Khaled Saleh (18), convicted of trying to kill US
ambassador Edmund Hull in 2003, were sentenced to five years in prison.
(AP, 3/5/06)
2006 Apr 14, Security forces at a
Shiite mosque in northern Yemen fought with supporters of a slain
anti-US cleric in a clash that left at least four people dead.
(AP, 4/15/06)
2006 Jun 10, Three Guantanamo Bay
detainees, 2 from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen, hanged
themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes, bringing further
condemnation of the isolated camp where hundreds of men have been held
for years without charge. Yasser Talal al-Zahrani (21) of Saudi Arabia,
captured in Pakistan in 2002, was one of the 3 Gitmo detainees who
committed suicide.
(AP, 6/11/06)(Econ, 6/17/06, p.92)
2006 Jun 24, Yemen's president Ali
Abdullah Saleh, a US ally in the war on terrorism, said he would run
for re-election this year despite earlier assurances that he would step
down after 28 years in power.
(AP, 6/24/06)
2006 Jul 8, A Yemeni court
acquitted 19 alleged al-Qaida members of charges they plotted to blow
up a hotel frequented by Americans, citing a lack of evidence. The
state prosecutor appealed the collective acquittal, and the defendants
were returned to their cells at the intelligence services' jail where
they have been held for more than two years. 14 Yemenis and 5 Saudis
had been caught with guns and fake Iraqi passports.
(AP, 7/8/06)(WSJ, 8/14/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 8, Five Yemeni army
officers were killed when their military helicopter crashed during a
heavy rainstorm.
(AP, 8/9/06)
2006 Sep 10, Armed Yemeni
tribesmen kidnapped four French tourists in the east of the country to
press for their relatives to be released from jail.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 12, In Yemen a stampede
during a campaign rally for President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed at
least 51 people and injured more than 230, most of them schoolchildren
and teenagers.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 15, In Yemen suicide
bombers tried to strike two oil facilities with explosives-packed cars.
Al-Qaida later claimed responsibility for the attempted suicide attacks
and vowed more strikes against the United States and its allies.
(AP, 9/15/06)(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Sep 16, In Yemen 4 suspected
al-Qaida members who were plotting attacks in San’a were arrested.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 20, Yemen's President Ali
Abdullah Saleh faced a serious challenger at the polls for the first
time. Roughly 5 million of the 9.2 million eligible Yemenis cast
ballots. Saleh has ruled since 1978, first as president of North Yemen
and then as head of the unified state after the 1990 merger of the
North and South.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 23, Yemen's President Ali
Abdullah Saleh was re-elected with more than 77% of votes in the face
of the strongest challenge since he came to power 28 years ago. Faisal
bin Shamlan won almost 22% of the vote. Opposition parties backing bin
Shamlan immediately rejected the election commission's results,
claiming their candidate won at least 40%.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 25, In Yemen 4 French
tourists kidnapped Sep 10 were freed.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 29, Yemeni government
forces raided a tribal settlement following the kidnappings of foreign
tourists, arresting five suspects but killing two women and wounding
three children.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Oct 1, Yemeni anti-terrorism
forces killed Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeie, a suspected al-Qaida member, who
was convicted of an attack on a French oil tanker and escaped from
prison earlier this year. The forces also killed another suspected
al-Qaida member, Mohammed al-Dailami, and arrested two other suspects.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Nov 4, In Yemen an appeals
court endorsed a lower court's decision to drop the most serious
charges against 19 alleged al-Qaida members, clearing all of plotting
to assassinate Westerners and blow up a hotel frequented by Americans.
(AP, 11/4/06)
2006 Nov 22, A Yemen court
convicted 34 men of plotting attacks across the country, including one
aimed at the US Embassy. It sentenced Ibrahim Mohammed Sharafeldeen,
the leader of the Shiite rebel group, to death.
(AP, 11/22/06)
2006 Dec 5, In Yemen a gunman
opened fire outside the US Embassy, but Yemeni guards quickly shot and
arrested him.
(AP, 12/5/06)
2006 Dec 18, Six Yemenis released
from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay returned home and were
being held by Yemeni authorities to determine if they have any terror
ties.
(AP, 12/18/06)
2006 Dec 27, Yemeni authorities
opened fire on boats filled with refugees fleeing the fighting in
Somalia and at least 17 people drowned when one of the vessels capsized.
(AP, 12/28/06)
2006 Yemen’s 20 million citizens
owned an estimated 60 million firearms.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.52)
2007 Jan 27, In Yemen 6 security
forces were killed and 20 others were injured in clashes with followers
of Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi in Saada.
(AP, 1/28/07)
2007 Feb 12, A vessel smuggling
120 people across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen capsized as it
approached the coast. At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants trying
to reach the Arabian peninsula drowned.
(AP, 2/13/07)
2007 Feb 13, Military officials
said clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite rebel
leader have killed 16 troops and 69 guerrillas during the past three
days.
(AP, 2/13/07)
2007 Feb 16, A Yemeni official
said a boat loaded with Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized in the
Gulf of Aden during a night crossing in which at least 112 people died.
(AP, 2/16/07)
2007 Feb 19, Military officials
said ongoing clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite
rebel leader in the north of the country have killed more than 100
people in the past five days.
(AP, 2/19/07)
2007 Mar 3, A Yemen official said
a hundred jailed Muslim extremists, including some who allegedly fought
for al-Qaida in Iraq, had been released. Some had completed serving
their sentences, while some of the others were acquitted for lack of
evidence.
(AP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 4, Thirty-six Yemenis
with alleged ties to al-Qaida went on trial on charges they planned to
take part in foiled suicide attacks on oil and gas installations in the
country.
(AP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 19, A Yemen military
official said government forces seized a number of bases belonging to
Shiite rebels in northern Yemen following fighting that drove some
2,500 civilians from their homes. Military officials said that 144
Yemeni troops have been killed since January.
(AP, 3/19/07)
2007 Mar 22, Smugglers taking
illegal migrants from Somalia to Yemen forced hundreds of Africans
overboard in stormy seas in an effort to make a fast getaway from
security forces. 31 bodies were found and nearly 90 people remained
missing.
(AP, 3/27/07)
2007 Apr 7, Yemeni police arrested
three men suspected of setting fire to a mosque and wounding at least
33 people.
(AP, 4/7/07)
2007 Apr 6, Human migrant
traffickers forced some 300 African migrants to jump into the sea off
Yemen causing at least 32 to die.
(SFC, 4/7/07, p.A3)
2007 May 8, A newspaper owned by
Saudi Arabia's royal family said one of seven recently exposed Saudi
terrorist cells used Syria as a base for coordinating with al-Qaida in
Iraq and held training camps in the desert of neighboring Yemen.
(AP, 5/8/07)
2007 May 12, Yemen said it was
recalling its ambassadors to Iran and Libya over what it sees as their
support for Shi'ite Muslim rebels involved in bloody clashes with
government forces. The government of Sunni-dominated Yemen accused the
rebels of seeking to oust its secular administration and install
Islamist rule.
(AP, 5/12/07)
2007 Jun 16, Representatives of
both sides said Yemen's government and Shiite rebels have reached a
cease-fire in a three-year fight that has claimed 4,000 lives this year.
(AP, 6/16/07)
2007 Jun 19, The US announced the
transfer of six Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to their home countries,
including one who, according to his lawyers, now may face abuse in
Tunisia for nonviolent political activities. 4 men returned to Yemen
and two to Tunisia.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 23, A Yemeni guard opened
fire on a group of foreign oil workers shortly after they landed at a
company airstrip, killing one and wounding five, including an American.
The provincial governor said the guard's was mentally ill.
(AP, 6/23/07)
2007 Jul 2, In Yemen a suicide
bomber plowed his car into people visiting a temple linked to the
ancient Queen of Sheba, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis. A
wounded Spanish woman died July 14. The suicide bomber was later
identified as Abdu Mohammed Saad Ahmed (21), a Yemeni citizen.
(AP, 7/3/07)(AP, 7/15/07)(AP, 8/2/07)
2007 Aug 2, In Yemen security
forces fired tear gas and water cannons at former soldiers protesting
in Aden demanding to be allowed back in the military. One person was
reported killed. The protesters were largely members of the army of
south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by northern forces.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Sep 1, Hundreds of riot
police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of retired
officers and soldiers in southern Yemen who were demanding to be
allowed back into the military. The protesters were largely members of
the army of south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by
northern forces.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 2, In Yemen riot police
opened fire on a demonstration by retired officers and soldiers,
killing two people and wounding more than 20 on the second day of
protests demanding the right to rejoin the army.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 30, A volcanic explosion
rocked Yemen’s tiny Jabal al-Tair island in the Red Sea, spewing lava
and ash hundreds of feet into the air and forcing Yemeni authorities to
evacuate a military base. 8 soldiers were missing.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 25, A senior security
official said Yemen has set free Jamal al-Badawi, one of the al-Qaida
masterminds of the USS Cole bombing in 2000 that killed 17 American
sailors. Al-Badawi was granted his freedom after turning himself in 15
days ago and pledging loyalty to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(AP, 10/25/07)
2007 Nov 1, The UN said nearly
90,000 people have fled Mogadishu in recent days following the heaviest
fighting to shake the war-battered city in months. About 40 people,
mostly Somalis, drowned while crossing the Gulf of Aden on their way to
Yemen in a desperate attempt to escape gunbattles back home. About 90
others survived and managed to reach the Yemeni southern shores of
Shokara after their rickety vessels capsized.
(AP, 11/1/07)(AP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 5, In Yemen unidentified
saboteurs bombed an oil pipeline in Marib province. The attack halted
the flow of oil and added to concerns in the world oil markets about
adequate supplies for heating fuel.
(AP, 11/8/07)
2007 Nov 7, A Yemeni court
convicted 32 al-Qaida suspects of planning attacks on oil and gas
installations in the country, sentencing them to prison terms of up to
15 years. Four others were acquitted.
(AP, 11/7/07)
2007 Nov 8, In Yemen tribesmen
attacked an oil installation and then clashed with government troops,
leaving 12 people dead. It was the second attack on the country's oil
industry this week.
(AP, 11/8/07)
2007 Nov 21, More than 60 migrants
drowned when their boat capsized off Yemen during an attempt to flee
their war torn homeland of Somalia.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2008 Jan 10, Government officials
and rebels said soldiers and Shiite rebels are fighting again in
northern Yemen, breaking a 6-month-old cease-fire with clashes that
have killed more than 30 people.
(AP, 1/10/08)
2008 Jan 18, In Yemen gunmen
believed to be al-Qaida militants opened fire on a tourist convoy near
the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, killing two Belgian women and
their Yemeni driver.
(AP, 1/18/08)
2008 Jan 19, The bodies of nearly
50 Africans trying to immigrate washed up on Yemen's shores after their
boat capsized in the treacherous waters of the Gulf of Aden.
(AP, 1/19/08)
2008 Mar 18, In Yemen a mortar
shell exploded by a high school next to the American embassy, killing
one Yemeni guard and wounding 13 students and three other guards. Five
suspects were later arrested in the attack, which the US said targeted
its embassy. An Interior Ministry official later said al-Qaida militant
Hamza al-Dayan launched three mortars at the embassy before fleeing the
scene in a vehicle with three accomplices.
(AP, 3/18/08)(WSJ, 3/21/08, p.A1)(AP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 28, Jordan, Iraq and
Yemen announced at the last minute that their top leaders will not
attend this weekend's Arab summit in Damascus.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Apr 1, Tanks took to the
streets of southern Yemen cities to discourage rioting by disaffected
youths and retired military officers over unfulfilled government
promises to enlist them in the army.
(AP, 4/1/08)
2008 Apr 2, In Yemen security
forces killed one demonstrator and wounded four others in the fourth
day of rioting that has engulfed the country's south.
(AP, 4/2/08)
2008 Apr 6, In Yemen a housing
complex used by foreigners in the capital came under attack, with
explosions shattering windows and prompting residents to evacuate with
suitcases and boxes.
(AP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 7, In Yemen 7 people were
arrested on suspicion of involvement in attacks the previous day
against a residential complex for Westerners in San’a, Yemen's capital.
(AP, 4/8/08)
2008 Apr 18, In northern Yemen
gunmen assassinated Saleh Hendi, a ruling party lawmaker, along with
his son.
(AP, 4/18/08)
2008 Apr 21, Pirates in the Gulf
of Aden fired on a Japanese oil tanker, unleashing hundreds of gallons
of fuel into the sea. The attack took place 170 miles off the coast of
Yemen while the 150,000-ton tanker was heading to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 4/21/08)
2008 May 2, In northern Yemen a
motorcycle bomb exploded amid a crowd of worshippers leaving a mosque
after prayers, killing at least 18 people and wounding about 45.
(AP, 5/2/08)
2008 May 3, In Yemen 3 soldiers
and four rebels died in the overnight skirmishes that took place in the
remote mountain province of Saada, near the Saudi Arabian border.
(AP, 5/3/08)
2008 May 4, A Shiite rebel leader
in Yemen warned that his group will escalate its fight against the
government if the army continues an offensive that has left almost 20
rebels and soldiers dead over the past two days.
(AP, 5/4/08)
2008 May 18, A Yemeni-American on
the FBI's Most Wanted list of terror suspects was jailed in Yemen after
an appeals court upheld his 10-year prison sentence. Jaber Elbaneh has
been accused of belonging to al-Qaida, convicted of plots to attack oil
installations in Yemen and of involvement in a 2002 attack on the
French tanker Limburg off Yemen's coast that killed one person. On
November 8 Elbaneh’s sentence was cut to 5 years after winning an
appeal.
(AP, 5/19/08)(AP, 11/8/08)
2008 May, The population of Yemen
was about 22 million. More than a fifth of the people were
malnourished. 75% of the food was imported. It was feared that aquifers
could dry up within a decade.
(Econ, 5/10/08, p.55)
2008 Jun 9, A Yemeni security
court convicted 13 Shiite rebels of plotting terrorist attacks,
sentencing one of them to death.
(AP, 6/9/08)
2008 Jul 5, In northern Yemen an
explosion at the main post office building of Saada killed at least
five people.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 25, In eastern Yemen a
suicide car bomber rammed a vehicle into the Interior Ministry's
headquarters, killing a policeman and injuring eight others.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 28, Tarek bin Laden
signed a deal with Djibouti to build Noor City, the first of a hundred
“Cities of Light” that the Saudi Binladen Group planned around the
world. Plans called for the city to have 2.5 million people by 2025 and
4.5 million for its Yemeni twin.
(Econ, 8/2/08,
p.50)(www.railpage.com.au/f-p1093077.htm)
2008 Aug 11, Two Yemeni security
officers and five suspected al-Qaida militants died in a gunbattle in
Tarim, a southern Yemeni town.
(AP, 8/11/08)
2008 Sep 17, Suspected militants
armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least
one suicide car bomb assaulted the US Embassy in the Yemeni capital.
The coordinated attack killed 17 people, including six assailants. The
dead included Susan Elbaneh (18), a US citizen from Lackawanna, N.Y.,
who was recently wed in Yemen in an arranged marriage, along with her
Yemeni husband as they stood outside the embassy.
(AP, 9/17/08)(AP, 9/18/08)(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 18, A senior Yemen
security official said at least 25 militants with suspected links to
al-Qaida have been arrested in the last 24 hours in connection with the
deadly attack on the US Embassy in San’a.
(AP, 9/18/08)
2008 Oct 10, Yemeni officials and
the UN refugee agency said about 100 migrants from Somalia were missing
and feared drowned in the treacherous waters off the coast of Yemen
after smugglers forced them overboard 3 miles off Yemen’s coast. 47
were believed to have survived.
(AP, 10/10/08)(SFC, 10/11/08, p.A10)
2008 Oct 23, In southern Yemen a
tropical storm, formed out in the Indian Ocean earlier in the week, hit
the remote Hadramut province. Flooding which followed left at least 90
people dead and some 20,000 displaced.
(AP, 10/25/08)(SSFC, 10/26/08, p.A18)(AP, 10/27/08)
2008 Nov 2, The bodies of 60
Somali and Ethiopian migrants washed up on the shores of southern Yemen
over the last three days.
(AP, 11/3/08)
2008 Nov 12, Pirates commandeered
the Karagol, a Turkish chemical tanker, off the coast of Yemen. 14
Turkish personnel were aboard the tanker. The Russian frigate
Neustrashimy and the British frigate Cumberland foiled pirates who
fired automatic weapons toward a Danish ship and twice tried to seize
it in the Gulf of Aden. The Karagol was released on Jan 12, 2009.
(AP, 11/12/08)(AP, 1/13/09)
2008 Nov 15, In Yemen a
16-year-old boy died when police fired at locals demonstrating at a
voter registration center. The crowds were protesting the government's
rejection of opposition attempts to amend the country's electoral law.
Yemen's political parties have been preparing the amendment to the
electoral law for the past year in an effort to bring more women into
parliament, curb vote-rigging and limit the influence of government
officials.
(AP, 11/15/08)
2008 Nov 22, In Yemen opening
ceremonies were held for the $60 million Saleh Mosque glorifying the
country's leader, President Ali Abdullah Saleh. It's a massive sum in a
country that ranks as the poorest in the Arab world and is beset by
internal armed conflict, terrorism and severe malnutrition.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, The Bush
administration, after a long legal battle, agreed to send Salim Hamdan,
Osama bin Laden’s driver, home to Yemen. Hamdan was transferred to
Yemen the next day.
(WSJ, 11/25/08, p.A1)(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 27, Yemeni security
troops in San’a opened fire on thousands of protesters calling for a
boycott of April parliamentary elections, wounding a number of
demonstrators.
(AP, 11/27/08)
2008 Dec 3, In Yemen the bodies of
24 Somalis washed ashore following an accident involving a boat trying
to smuggle migrants. Strong winds pushed the bodies on to beaches over
the last 2 days near the town of al-Qasha'a. 184 more Somalis involved
in the accident managed to swim ashore.
(AP, 12/4/08)
2008 Dec 4, The Danish navy
intercepted and sunk a suspected pirate vessel drifting off Somalia. 7
men were handed over to authorities in Yemen but were not immediately
suspected of any crime.
(AP, 12/5/08)
2008 Dec 13, The Indian navy
captured 23 pirates who threatened a merchant vessel in the lawless
waters of the Gulf of Aden, where dozens of ships have come under
attack by gunmen in recent months. The pirates were from Somalia and
Yemen. A German helicopter thwarted another attack on a freighter being
chased by speed boats off Yemen.
(AP, 12/13/08)(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.A20)
2008 Dec 15, In southern Yemen
tribesmen kidnapped a German aid worker and her parents, demanding the
government release imprisoned clan members.
(AP, 12/15/08)
2008 Dec 17, An international
anti-piracy force thwarted the attempted takeover of a Chinese cargo
ship off the Somali coast, sending in attack helicopters that fired on
the bandits and forced them to abandon the ship they had boarded. The
Indian navy handed over 23 pirates, caught at sea on Dec 13, to
authorities in Yemen.
(AP, 12/17/08)
2008 Dec 19, Mediators said Yemeni
kidnappers have released their three German hostages after the Yemeni
government agreed to meet some of their conditions, including paying a
ransom and releasing some tribesmen from prison.
(AP, 12/19/08)
2009 Jan 17, Near Yemen hundreds
of people were missing and feared dead after three boats carrying about
400 migrants from Somalia capsized.
(AP, 1/18/09)
2009 Jan 20, Abdullahi Yusuf (75),
Somalia's former president and an ex-warlord who was forced from
government, arrived in Yemen in a private jet from his impoverished
homeland, seeking political asylum. Islamic insurgents and Somali
forces clashed in Mogadishu, killing at least 14 people in the latest
sign the Islamists are making inroads into the few areas the UN-backed
government still controls.
(AP, 1/21/09)(AP, 1/21/09)
2009 Jan 23, Said Ali al-Shihri, a
Saudi man released from Guantanamo after spending nearly six years
inside the US prison camp, is now the No. 2 of Yemen's al-Qaida branch,
according to a purported Internet statement from the terror network.
(AP, 1/23/09)
2009 Feb 17, The Yemeni Interior
Ministry announced the surrender of Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, a
former Guantanamo detainee who later became an al-Qaida field
commander. He was handed over to Saudi authorities.
(AP, 2/17/09)
2009 Feb 19, Naser Abdel Karim
al-Wahishi, Yemen's most wanted fugitive and leader of al-Qaida in the
Arabian Peninsula, used an audio recording to urge Yemenis to rise up
against the government and called on Arabs in Saudi Arabia and Gulf
countries to help their brothers in Yemen.
(AP, 2/19/09)
2009 Feb 20, Six African migrants
drowned and 11 more are presumed dead after smugglers in the Gulf of
Aden forced their passengers overboard in deep water off Yemen. The
smuggling boat was carrying 40 Somalis and 12 Ethiopians when it
approached Yemen's coast.
(AP, 2/24/09)
2009 Feb 24, Four Yemenis were
convicted and sentenced up to seven years in prison on for forming an
al-Qaida cell and plotting to attack government and foreign targets in
the country.
(AP, 2/24/09)
2009 Mar 15, In Yemen a bomb
killed four South Korean tourists and their Yemeni guide, the latest
attack targeting foreigners visiting this poor Arab country that has
both famed historic sites and a strong al-Qaida presence. 12 Islamic
suspects were soon arrested.
(AP, 3/16/09)(WSJ, 3/17/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 18, In Yemen a suicide
bomber struck a convoy carrying South Korean officials sent to Yemen to
investigate a bombing earlier in the week that killed four South Korean
tourists. No one was hurt.
(AP, 3/18/09)
2009 Mar 31, In Yemen Jan and
Heleen Janszen, a Dutch couple, were kidnapped in a suburb of Sanaa and
taken to a mountainous area near the capital. They were released on
April 14 after Yemen's government paid more than a quarter million
dollars in ransom.
(AFP, 3/31/09)(SFC, 4/1/09, p.A2)(AP, 4/14/09)
2009 Apr 4, Off the coast of Yemen
a smuggling boat carrying 40 Somalis capsized as passengers were
disembarking. Twenty people made it to shore, the rest were missing.
(AP, 4/7/09)
2009 Apr 22, In Yemen two young
sons of a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo were buried after a grenade
they were playing with accidentally detonated inside their home. The
two boys were the sons of Guantanamo prisoner #1463, Abdelsalam
al-Hilah, a businessman who was captured in Cairo in 2002 and sent to
Guantanamo on charges of terrorism.
(AP, 4/24/09)
2009 Apr 26, Pirates attacked 4
Yemeni tankers escorted by a Yemeni coast guard boat on their way to
Aden. 3 of the ships escaped and coast guards captured five pirates and
wounded two others. The Turkish cruiser Ariva 3, with two British and
four Japanese crew aboard, survived a pirate attack near the Yemeni
island of Jabal Zuqar. Somali pirates demanded a $5 million ransom for
the release of two Egyptian fishing boats hijacked earlier this month.
Later in the day Yemeni coast guard forces freed the hijacked Yemeni
oil tanker (Qana) and arrested 11 Somali pirates, the first time the
country has successfully retaken a seized vessel.
(AP, 4/26/09)(AP, 4/27/09)
2009 May 4, In southern Yemen
armed protesters ambushed a military camp in Radfan killing one
soldier, as separatist sentiment mounted against the weak central
government.
(SFC, 5/5/09, p.A2)
2009 May 5, Yemen suspended seven
publications, including the nation's most popular daily, in effort to
stifle reporting on an unprecedented wave of deadly rioting sweeping
the south.
(AP, 5/6/09)
2009 Jun 1, Muhammad Ahmad
Abdallah Salih (31), a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay, died of an
apparent suicide. His was the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore US
prison, which Pres. Obama hopes to close by January. The Joint Task
Force that runs the US prison in Cuba said guards conducting a routine
check on June 2 found Salih unresponsive and not breathing.
(AP, 6/3/09)(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Jun 12, In Yemen nine
foreigners, including three children, were kidnapped while on a picnic
in northern Saada province. 3 of the kidnapped were found dead on June
15.
(AP, 6/16/09)
2009 Jun 14, Yemen accused a
Shiite rebel group of kidnapping 9 foreigners in northern Saada
province. The Interior Ministry official said Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan,
a Saudi man suspected of financing Al-Qaida cells in Yemen and Saudi
Arabia, has been arrested.
(AP, 6/14/09)
2009 Jun 15, In Yemen 3 foreign
women, including two German nurses and a South Korean teacher kidnapped
on June 12, were found dead. Two children were found alive. Nine
foreigners, including seven German nationals, a Briton and a South
Korean, disappeared June 12 while on a picnic in Yemen’s northern Saada
region.
(AP, 6/15/09)(AP, 6/16/09)(SSFC, 6/21/09, p.F3)
2009 Jun 30, A Yemenia Airbus 310
jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean as it tried
to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros. The
passengers were on the last leg of a journey from Paris and Marseilles
to Comoros with a stop in Yemen to change planes. Bahia Bakari (14),
the only person to survive, was plucked from the sea after clinging to
wreckage for 13 hours. Investigators on Aug 28 retrieved the slightly
damaged flight data recorder and 10 more bodies from the Yemenia
Airways flight. The voice recorder was recovered on Aug 29.
(AP, 6/30/09)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A3)(AP, 8/29/09)
2009 Jul 6, In Yemen a barber was
publicly executed after he was found guilty of raping and killing an
11-year-old boy who came to his shop for a haircut. The barber was
arrested in December 2008 and confessed during a January trial to
raping the boy inside his salon, killing him and cutting up his body
before dumping it outside San'a.
(AP, 7/6/09)
2009 Jul 23, Yemeni security
forces opened fire on thousands of protesters in the south chanting
anti-government slogans, killing 12 and wounding scores of others.
Demonstrations by former army members in southern Yemen demanding
political reforms have been occurring regularly since August, 2007.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Aug 6, In northern Yemen
local officials and the rebels said Shiite Muslim rebels have seized a
key control post on a strategic highway linking the capital San'a with
Saudi Arabia, overcoming an army brigade after 12 hours of intense
combat.
(AP, 8/6/09)
2009 Aug 11, Yemen’s government
launched "Operation Scorched Earth," an all-out offensive to stamp out
an uprising in the northern Saada province, after rebels claimed they
had wrested more control of the region from Sunni-led government troops.
(AP, 8/13/09)(AFP, 2/8/10)
2009 Aug 11, Two Yemenis jailed in
the United States over terrorism charges received a tumultuous public
welcome on their return home after serving more than six years in
prison. Sheik Mohammed Ali Hasan Al-Moayad (60) and his assistant
Mohammed Zayed were arrested in 2003 and convicted of supporting
terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida. Al-Moayad was sentenced to 75 years
in prison and Mohammed Zayed received 45 years, but on August 7 they
pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of supporting the Palestinian
militant group Hamas and given six years time served.
(AP, 8/11/09)
2009 Aug 12, Yemeni government
forces used artillery and aircraft to attack Shiite rebels near the
border with Saudi Arabia in an escalation of the five-year-old
conflict. A local government official said 20 rebels were killed. A
local Health Ministry official said 12 others died in fighting across
Saada and 51 were injured.
(AP, 8/12/09)
2009 Aug 13, Yemeni warplanes
bombed a northern province bordering Saudi Arabia for a second straight
day, in an ongoing offensive that has brought casualties and pushed the
area close to an all-out war.
(AP, 8/13/09)
2009 Aug 15, Yemen widened a
military offensive against Shiite rebels in the country's north,
blasting the fighters' positions with artillery and airstrikes.
(AP, 8/15/09)
2009 Sep 8, Yemen’s the Interior
Ministry said 4 Yemenis carrying explosives and guns had been arrested
near the US embassy in San'a.
(AP, 9/8/09)
2009 Sep 9, In Yemen 17 rebels
were killed in an air strike, according to a government statement,
which said they were caught sneaking through the mountains near Saada.
Four men survived the attack and were in custody.
(AP, 9/10/09)
2009 Sep 10, A Yemeni army
statement said the government launched a new offensive against Shiite
rebels in the north, destroying many of their vehicles and hideouts.
The rebels said they have been able to keep the government from
entering the northern town of Saada, which has been at the center of
the rebellion.
(AP, 9/10/09)
2009 Sep 15, The UN refugee agency
said 16 African migrants have died and another 49 were missing and
presumed dead after trying to cross the Gulf of Aden in three boats.
One boat reached Yemen on Sep 13, one had capsized on Sep 13 and one
sank on Sep 14.
(AP, 9/15/09)
2009 Sep 16, Yemeni warplanes hit
a makeshift camp for civilians fleeing fighting between the government
and Shiite rebels. Nearly 87 civilians were killed as government
warplanes hit a camp of people fleeing fighting in the northern region
of Saada.
(AP, 9/16/09)(SFC, 9/18/09, p.A2)
2009 Sep 19, Yemen offered a
conditional cease-fire to the Shiite rebels it is battling in the
north, following international concern over a deadly airstrike against
civilians displaced from the war zones.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 25, UN officials said
tens of thousands of Yemenis displaced by warfare between the
government and Shiite rebels were stranded around the war zone with aid
agencies unable to reach them because of the intensified fighting.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Yemen thousands of
activists were reported taking to the streets across the south calling
for independence, even as much of the central government's army is tied
up fighting a Shiite rebellion in the far north.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 13, In Saudi Arabia a
shootout between Saudi security forces and al-Qaida militants near, two
of whom were disguised as women and wearing explosives belts, left two
of the militants and a soldier dead near the southern Yemen border. One
of the assailants, Abdullah Hassan Tali Assiri, was captured. The two
al-Qaida militants killed were planning to carry out a massive attack.
6 Yemeni accomplices. who were coordinating with the two militants,
Youssef al-Shihri and Raed al-Harbi, were later arrested.
(AP, 10/14/09)(AP, 10/18/09)
2009 Nov 3, Unidentified gunmen
infiltrated from Yemen and attacked Saudi security guards patrolling
the Mount Dokhan border area. 3 senior security men were killed.
(AP, 11/5/09)(Econ, 11/7/09, p.47)
2009 Nov 4, Saudi Arabia launched
a large military incursion across the border into northern Yemen, using
fighter jets and artillery bombardments to try to end a Shiite
rebellion inside its troubled southern neighbor.
(AP, 11/5/09)
2009 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia said it
carried out airstrikes against "infiltrators" from Yemen that were
limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to press on with the
military action until the border with its restive neighbor was secure.
In Yemen, however, a military official said Saudi forces continued to
shell rebel position in Saada.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 8, Saudi Arabia’s
assistant defense minister said Saudi forces have taken control of
Dokhan mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of
Shiite rebels, in five days of fighting that saw three soldiers killed
and 15 wounded.
(AP, 11/8/09)
2009 Nov 10, Yemeni authorities
were reported to be hunting for Anwar al-Awlaki to determine whether he
has al-Qaida ties. The radical American imam, who communicated with
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooting suspect, and called him
a hero, was once arrested in Yemen on suspicion of giving religious
approval to militants to conduct kidnappings. Al-Awlaki, a US citizen
born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, had preached at a Virginia mosque
that Hasan's family attended.
(AP, 11/11/09)
2009 Nov 10, A Saudi Arabian
government adviser says the kingdom has imposed a naval blockade on
northern Yemen's Red Sea coast to try to prevent weapons and fighters
flowing to Shiite rebels in the area.
(AP, 11/10/09)
2009 Nov 16, A Yemeni security
official and the Japanese Embassy said armed tribesmen have kidnapped a
Japanese engineer working on the construction of a school and demanded
the government release one of their imprisoned tribe members. Takeo
Mashimo was released on Nov 23.
(AP, 11/17/09)(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 23, Shiite rebels in
northern Yemen accused Saudi forces of launching a major cross-border
ground and air attack, a day after an alleged failed incursion.
(AFP, 11/23/09)
2009 Nov 27, Saudi Arabia said
nine of its soldiers fighting Yemeni rebels on the border were missing
and Saudi King Abdullah vowed to defend the country.
(AP, 11/28/09)
2009 Dec 12, Saudi newspapers said
Saudi ground forces and Apache attack helicopters had battled Huthi
fighters for two days at the Al-Jabri post on the Yemeni border in the
southern province of Yemen, and repulsed attempted Huthi incursions.
Saudi military denied a claim by Yemen's Huthi rebels that they seized
a Saudi border post.
(AFP, 12/12/09)
2009 Dec 13, In Yemen air strike
killed at least 35 people in the northwest where rebels have been
fighting a guerrilla war against Yemeni and Saudi forces. Rebels said
70 civilians were killed as fighter jets struck the town of Razah.
(SFC, 12/14/09, p.A2)
2009 Dec 15, Human Rights Watch
issued a report condemning Yemeni security forces for abuses in the
country's south, including the killing of at least 11 unarmed
protestors during the past two years.
(AFP, 12/15/09)
2009 Dec 17, Yemen security forces
struck several al-Qaida hideouts and training sites in Abyan province,
killing up to 34 suspected militants, including four would-be suicide
bombers who planned attacks at home and abroad. At least 17 suspected
militants were arrested. Civilians were caught up in the government
offensive, with several homes destroyed in the airstrikes and others
stormed by troops who mistook them for al-Qaida hideouts.
(AP, 12/17/09)(Econ, 1/2/10, p.35)
2009 Dec 18, The UN High
Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said an estimated 74,000 Africans,
mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia, have fled to Yemen as refugees or
economic migrants. That's a 50 percent higher than in 2008.
(AP, 12/18/09)
2009 Dec 22, Saudi Arabia said
that 73 Saudis have been killed and 26 gone missing since the kingdom
launched an offensive against Yemeni Shiite rebels along the border
last month. Rebels, known as Hawthis, have alleged dozens of civilian
deaths in Saudi air assaults.
(SFC, 12/23/09, p.A2)
2009 Dec 24, Yemeni forces, backed
by US intelligence, struck a series of suspected al-Qaida hideouts in
Shabwa province, including a meeting of senior leaders, killing at
least 30 militants in the country's stepped-up campaign against the
terror network.
(AP, 12/24/09)(Econ, 1/2/10, p.35)
2009 Dec 27, The New York Times
reported that the United States has quietly opened a third, largely
covert front against the Al-Qaeda terror network in Yemen. The paper
said the Pentagon will be spending more than 70 million dollars over
the next 18 months, and using teams of special forces, to train and
equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces.
(AFP, 12/28/09)
2009 Dec 30, Yemeni security
forces stormed an al-Qaida hide-out in a principle militant stronghold
in the country's west, setting off clashes, as a security chief vowed
to fight the group's powerful local branch until it was eliminated.
(AP, 12/30/09)
2009 The population of Yemen was
about 30 million with the Zaydi sect, a quietist branch of Shia Islam,
making up about a third.
(Econ, 9/12/09, p.49)
2010 Jan 2, Yemen security
officials said they deployed several hundred extra troops to two
mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in
the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber
may have visited.
(AP, 1/2/10)
2010 Jan 3, The US and Britain
closed their embassies in Yemen in the face of al-Qaida threats, after
both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight
the terror group linked to the failed attempt to bomb a US airliner on
Christmas.
(AP, 1/3/10)
2010 Jan 4, Yemeni security forces
killed two suspected al-Qaida militants in clashes outside the capital
Sanaa, as the US and British embassies extended their closure for a
second day because of threats of attack by the terror group's offshoot
here. France became the latest foreign mission to close in Yemen as
security around embassies and the airport was boosted.
(AP, 1/4/10)(AFP, 1/4/10)
2010 Jan 6, Yemeni security forces
captured Mohammed al-Hanq, a key Al-Qaeda leader, and two other
militants believed behind threats against Western interests in Sanaa.
The US embassy reopened after a 2-day closure due to terror threats.
(AFP, 1/6/10)(SFC, 1/6/10, p.A2)
2010 Jan 12, Yemeni military
forces killed 20 rebels in a door-to-door sweep of the main northern
city Saada and arrested 20 more in an operation dubbed "Strike on the
Head." Yemeni security forces killed Abdullah Mihzar, a suspected
militant, who was on a government list of wanted al-Qaida figures. 4
others were arrested in a raid on a house in the remote mountainous
province of Shabwa.
(AP, 1/12/10)(AP, 1/13/10)
2010 Jan 12, Saudi Arabia said
that 82 Saudi soldiers been killed and 21 are missing since November
when it joined the fighting in battling rebels along the Yemeni-Saudi
border.
(AP, 1/12/10)
2010 Jan 15, A Yemeni airstrike
killed six al-Qaida operatives, including a key leader, in a desert
village bordering Saudi Arabia. Officials said four of those killed
were on Yemen's list of most-wanted al-Qaida figures, including Qassim
al-Raimi, who had been accused of plotting to assassinate the US
ambassador in 2004. Al-Raimi escaped from a Yemeni prison in 2006 with
21 other militants.
(AP, 1/15/10)
2010 Jan 20, Yemeni airstrikes
targeted Ayed al-Shabwani, one of the country's most wanted al-Qaida
figures, for the second time in a week.
(AP, 1/20/10)
2010 Jan 21, Officials said Yemen
will stop issuing visas to foreign visitors upon arrival to try to
prevent Islamic militants from sneaking in to meet and train with an
al-Qaida offshoot that has established a stronghold in the fractured
and impoverished country.
(AP, 1/21/10)
2010 Jan 22, Yemen rebel leader,
Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi, appeared in a video posted on the group's Web
site to disprove Yemeni government claims that he was killed in an
attack last month. Al-Hawthi was shown sitting on a chair and speaking
into a microphone.
(AP, 1/23/10)
2010 Jan 23, Saudi Arabia’s
assistant defense minister said Saudi forces have recovered the bodies
of 20 soldiers who had been reported missing in fierce battles with
Yemeni rebels on the border, raising the Saudi death toll in the
conflict to 133.
(AP, 1/23/10)
2010 Jan 25, It was reported that
Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi, the leader of Yemen's Shiite rebels, has
declared the war with Saudi Arabia over and that he will pull his
fighters out of Saudi territory. At least 133 Saudis soldiers have died
in the months of fierce fighting in the rugged border region.
(AP, 1/25/10)
2010 Jan 26, A Yemeni court
sentenced 7 suspected Al-Qaeda members between five and ten years in
jail after convicting them of plotting to attack foreign interests and
tourists.
(AP, 1/26/10)
2010 Jan 27, In Britain world
powers gathered in London for talks on how to tackle Al-Qaeda militants
operating out of Yemen. The conference was called to help world powers
chart a roadmap out of Afghanistan amid rising US and NATO casualties
and falling public support.
(AFP, 1/27/10)(AP, 1/28/10)
2010 Jan 27, A top Saudi defense
official said Saudi forces have driven Yemeni rebels out of the border
region between the two countries, suggesting that the three month
conflict along the mountainous frontier may be winding down.
(AP, 1/27/10)
2010 Jan 31, Yemen said it would
stop its war on Shiite northern rebels only if they agree to a
six-point truce offer, including a pledge not to attack Saudi Arabia,
as fighting raged on 3 fronts.
(AP, 1/31/10)
2010 Feb 8, A Yemen military
official said 10 soldiers have been killed, most of them by snipers,
and 18 wounded in a fresh outbreak of fighting with Shiite rebels in
north Yemen.
(AFP, 2/8/10)
2010 Feb 10, Twelve Yemeni
soldiers and 24 Shiite rebels were killed in clashes despite the
announcement of an imminent accord to end six months of fighting.
(AFP, 2/11/10)
2010 Feb 12, A senior Yemeni
official accused northern rebels of violating a cease-fire agreement
hours after it took effect, killing a soldier and wounding another in
an attack on a police station.
(AP, 2/12/10)
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