tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54188380250003177832024-02-19T05:39:15.743+03:00yemen 24 newsThe Yemen 24 news covers all Yemen's news independently.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2711125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-23716946507683542332014-08-24T22:39:00.003+03:002014-08-24T22:39:42.374+03:00Pictures of today's massive rally supporting national reconciliation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-22810252685265646052014-08-24T22:12:00.001+03:002014-08-24T22:12:04.591+03:00Hadi meets presidential committee after returning from Sa'ada<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">August 24, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi
received on Sunday the National Presidential Committee returning from Sa'ada
after holding several meetings with Abdul Malilk al-Houthi.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The committee, headed by Premier
Deputy, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology Ahmed Obaid
Bin Daghr, submitted an initial report to President Hadi, which was not hopeful
of maintaining the security, unity and stability of Yemen.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The head and members of the
committee expressed their disappointments with the results of their discussions
with al-Houthi. The committee will submit their complete report to the
President in an expanded meeting of the State's senior officials, cabinet and
Hadi's aides.</span></div>
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before a national assembly that would be attended by members of Parliament,
cabinet and Shura council, as well as leaders of political parties, monitoring
bodies, and the national authoring for monitoring the implementation of NDC
outcomes along with representatives of civil society organizations and women
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">FA</span></div>
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August
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President
Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi chaired on Sunday a meeting of the Supreme Security and
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"Today,
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all Yemen's provinces,'' Hadi said.</div>
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Hadi
pointed out that there are probably hidden and suspicious agendas behind the
banners and slogans raised by Houthi group which aim to manipulate the people's
emotions, saying all actions inconsistent with the outcomes of the National
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The
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noting that the entire Yemeni people has been stood as one group with the revolution,
the republic system and the national unity and also stood together in times of
crisis Yemen has experienced for a long time.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">By Fatik Al-Rodaini</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">August 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">President Abdu Rabbu
Mansour Hadi chaired on Thursday an extraordinary and emergency meeting of
Supreme Security Committee and National Defense Council in the framework of
following up the latest developments on the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The meeting touched
upon attempts by armed Houthi group which aim to impede the political process
based on the Gulf initiative and its executive mechanism backed by the UNSC resolutions
in this regard.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"The state will not remain silent before
this critical threat of Houthis which harms all Yemen and not only the capital
Sana'a, because Sana'a is the capital of all Yemen and a great number of
Yemenis from al-Mahra to Sa'ada are living here,'' the President said.</span></div>
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Yemen among the country hit by the Arab Spring.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"The National Dialogue Conference (NDC) in
Yemen was combining of all political, societal and cultural components among
them the Houthi group themselves.. the discussions of nine months of the
dialogue handled all obstacles of Sa'ada and Southern issues through the NDC
outcomes,'' Hadi said.</span></div>
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August 20, 2014</div>
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The Embassy informs the public of a Houthi protest beginning today,
August 18, and possibly continuing through Friday, August 22. The protesters
will be joined by demonstrators traveling to Sana’a from Amran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Protests will be centered at Change Square by
Sana’a University, but could affect other parts of the city and Sana’a
Province.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The protests may become
violent and all U.S. citizens are advised to avoid the area at that time.</div>
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The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the high security
threat level in Yemen due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Department urges U.S. citizens to defer
travel to Yemen and those U.S. citizens currently living in Yemen to depart. </div>
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U.S. citizens in Yemen remain vulnerable to kidnappings and terrorist
attacks, especially when in transit to and from residences or workplaces. U.S.
citizens should exercise caution and take prudent security measures in all
areas, especially those areas frequented by Westerners. All U.S. citizens are
reminded to vary their routes and times for all travel, maintain a high level
of vigilance, keep a low profile, lock car windows and doors, carry a cell
phone at all times, and report suspicious incidents to the Embassy.</div>
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Review your personal security plans; remain aware of your surroundings,
including local events; and monitor local news stations for updates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maintain a high level of vigilance and take
appropriate steps to enhance your personal security and follow instructions of
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demonstrations or events intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and
possibly escalate into violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S.
citizens in Egypt are urged to monitor local news reports and to plan their
activities accordingly.</div>
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We strongly recommend that U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in
Yemen enroll in the Department of State's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program
(STEP). STEP enrollment gives you the latest security updates, and makes it
easier for the U.S. Embassy or nearest U.S. consulate to contact you in an
emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don't have Internet
access, enroll directly with the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate.</div>
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Regularly monitor the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs website
where the current Worldwide Caution, Travel Alerts and Travel Warnings, and
Country Specific Information for Yemen can be found. Contact the U.S. embassy
or consulate for up-to-date information on travel restrictions. Up-to-date
information on security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll
free in the United States and Canada or, for callers in other countries, by
calling a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available 8:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal
holidays).</div>
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The U.S. Embassy also encourages U.S. citizens to review the Traveler's
Checklist which includes valuable security information for those living and
traveling abroad. Follow us on Twitter and the Bureau of Consular Affairs page
on Facebook as well.</div>
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The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa is located at Dhahr Himyar Zone, Sheraton
Hotel District, P.O. Box 22347.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
are a U.S. citizen in need of urgent assistance, the emergency number for the
U.S. Embassy is (967) (1) 755-2000 (press 0 for emergencies) or (967)
737-789-261. U.S. citizens can also reach the consular section via email at
SanaaACS@state.gov</div>
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President Hadi meets government officials, parliamentarians, other
politicians</div>
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August 20, 2014</div>
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President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi along with Parliament Speaker Yehia
al-Raee, PM deputy, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology
Ahmed Obaid Bin Daghr, and President Hadi's aides met on Wednesday with members
of Parliament, the Cabinet, Shura Council and a number of political and party
leaders, civil society organizations, women's sector, social figures and
military and security leaders.</div>
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During the meeting, Hadi delivered a speech where he said that Yemen is
going through a critical, historic, and very important era, which requires to
unify efforts all of Yemenis to face all the country's challenges at various
levels.</div>
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"I am absolutely convinced and confident that we are able to bring
the nation to safety and to build a modern Yemeni state,'' Hadi said.</div>
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Hadi said since the eruption of 2011's crisis, the political powers in
the country adhered to the dialogue to handle the crisis in the country, which
averted Yemen from dragging into a civil war. Adding that the GCC-brokered deal
was a suitable solution agreed by all political components in the country in
the light of the GCC initiative that led the country to the National Dialogue
which represents with its outcomes a roadmap for a secure and stable future of
Yemen.</div>
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"As you know the progress of the NDC had been facing a number of
political and security obstacles which aim to hinder the path of political
settlement process in the country through creating various crises, problems and
conflicts across Yemen, however despite those challenges we brought the NDC to
a successful conclusion on January 25,'' the President said in his speech.</div>
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The President added that today we have a historic and significant
document drafted by all Yemenis and backed by brotherly and friendly countries,
yet this document today is in a critical situation in the light of the latest
security and political developments and through the latest escalation by who
thinks that he can impose unknown and upcoming alternatives through resorting
to violence and power.</div>
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"Since the beginning of my term in the office I adhered to solve
the problem of the country through forming several presidential committees to
tackle whether emergent matters or cumulative issues like Southern and Sa'ada
issues,'' Hadi said.</div>
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Hadi stated in his speech that over our concern to solve the problems of
Sa'ada issue we formed several presidential committees to address the issues of
Damaj, Radhma, Araheb anf Jawf and lately the issue of Ameran. Moreover, the
President said that the last Presidential committee visited Sa'ada on August
16, in addition to another committee, which is still working now and aims to
discuss the executive package to implement the NDC outcomes concerning the
Sa'ada issue.</div>
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"Hence, I invite them to review their attitude and to look at
things with responsibility and realize the dire consequences of a departure
from the national consensus,'' Hadi said.</div>
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Hadi was quoted as adding that the recently approved reforms were aimed
at preventing a possible economic collapse as the country continued to import
fuels for funds nearly double the country's revenues from crude exports, saying
those reforms were preceded by a number of an austerity package aimed to
control the growing cash shortage that Yemen has been experiencing since late
last year.</div>
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The package includes freezing hiring for all state institutions; halting
procurement of cars for government officials, restricting the international
travel by government officials. Also Hadi said that the austerity package
proposes improving tax collection methods and solving accumulated unpaid tax
duties.</div>
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Hadi in his speech renewed his call to all political, societal powers
and components in the country and regional and international powers to bear
their responsibilities through supporting the political settlement in Yemen
based on the Gulf initiative and its executive mechanism, urging to stay away
from all kinds of media provocations, and renouncing violence, force and threat
that aim to achieve any purposes outside the framework of what had been
unanimously agreed by Yemenis.</div>
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Hadi at the meeting asked the army to raise its combat alert level,
saying the state has the right to resort to all legitimate means to defend the
gains of Yemeni people and NDC outcomes and the maintenance of security and
social peace.</div>
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"We extend our hand to all and we open up the political dialogue
due to our belief that the language of dialogue is the best choices.</div>
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The meeting formed a presidential committee to meet with Abdul Malil
al-Houth in order to negotiate with him based on the Gulf Initiative and its
executive mechanism taking into consideration the respect of Yemeni people's
will and the implementation of the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference
(NDC). The committee is composed of 10 members and headed by Ahmed Obaid Bin
Daghr.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-85227747504971491902012-08-18T21:27:00.001+03:002012-08-18T21:27:45.243+03:00Al-Qaida Carries Out Deadly Attack in Yemen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Yemeni officials say suspected
al-Qaida militants have attacked intelligence headquarters in the southern city
of Aden, killing at least 14 Yemeni soldiers and security personnel.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Intelligence sources and witnesses
say the militants attacked the building from two sides Saturday, firing
rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least seven soldiers were wounded.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Al-Qaida's Yemen-based network,
al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, remains active in southern Yemen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suspected militants have been carrying out a
series of suicide bombings and assassinations on Yemeni officials.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The network is also suspected of
trying to pull off attacks on U.S. interests, including a failed plot in 2010
to blow up U.S.-bound cargo planes with explosives hidden in printer ink
cartridges.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-70135209390936382752012-08-17T23:38:00.000+03:002012-08-17T23:38:57.230+03:00UN Security Council Considers Extending Hadi's Term in Yemen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Yemeni local media reported that
the UN Security Council is considering a resolution to extend the transitional
period led by President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi by an additional two years.
This comes after the Gulf Initiative has failed to achieve any results on the
ground as in the midst of the current situation in Yemen. Furthermore, Hadi is
facing military rebellion after he issued a number of presidential decrees,
while other parties are significantly impeding the transitional period.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Yemeni local media quoted
diplomatic sources as saying that the Security Council is examining a
resolution proposed by the Gulf Initiative sponsors. The resolution aims at
extending the transitional term of Hadi by two additional years to allow for
the continuation of security and economic reforms.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">According to the local news media,
ambassadors from the countries sponsoring the Gulf Initiative held several
meetings with Yemeni political parties to examine the extension of the
transitional period<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by two more years.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The media said the Joint Meeting
Parties (JMP) has given initial approval to the proposal, while the former
ruling Congress Party will be examining the issue until the end of August.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The media added that a final
decision regarding this proposal will be taken after the Eid al-Fitr holiday
marking the end of Ramadan. Following the Yemeni decision, the proposal will be
submitted to the UN Security Council, which will make a final decision.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-YE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">No presidential statement has been
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-12939973331544105842012-08-17T23:35:00.002+03:002012-08-17T23:35:43.619+03:00Sixty-two soldiers to be tried over Yemen ministry attack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Men charged belong to the elite
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Sana'a: Sixty-two officers and
soldiers loyal to ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s son were charged with
resisting authorities and mutiny after trying to storm the Ministry of Defence,
a senior Yemeni security official said on Thursday.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">High Security Committee spokesman
Gen Ali AlUbaidi said that the 62 will be referred to a military tribunal for
joining a force of 200 in the sudden attack on the Ministry two days earlier,
where they fired automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at Ministry
guards. The ensuing firefight left one attacker, two ministry guards and two
civilians dead.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The committee, headed by Yemen’s
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, was founded as part of a power transfer deal
after last year’s popular uprising that ended the longtime authoritarian rule
of Ali Abdullah Saleh. The committee is in charge of the country’s top security
and military issues.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The soldiers charged belong to the
elite Republican Guard units led by Ahmad Saleh, the former president’s son,
who were protesting a presidential decree that put some of the force’s units
under presidential oversight. The decree was part of Hadi’s moves to
restructure the army and purge it of former regime loyalists. He was also
trying to create his own force to help in law enforcement and implement moves
to remove former regime members.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Since he stepped down in February
and handed power to Hadi, Saleh has been accused of meddling in the country’s
affairs and retaining power behind the scene by moving his loyalists around to
disrupt life in Yemen.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">It was the second time the
ministry has come under threat in a week and the second attack on state
institutions in one month. Earlier, policemen in uniform, also loyalists to
Saleh, stormed the Interior Ministry, looting its offices and setting off
clashes that left 15 dead. A number of policemen were arrested and are also
facing trial, according to Al Ubaidi. The policemen belong to the Central
Security Forces, of which Saleh’s nephew, Yahia Mohammad Abdullah Saleh, is the
second in command.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The Republican Guard command
centre issued a statement denying responsibility for the attack and said that
the mutiny was carried out by forces that no longer fall under their command.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The attack on the Defense Ministry
left Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on a state of security alert.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Officials who spoke to the
Associated Press voiced fears of possible attacks on state institutions during
the four-day Eid al-Fitr holiday starting Friday, which comes at the end of
Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">They said that authorities have
beefed up security around the Presidential palace, the Foreign Ministry and
several other state institutions. Meanwhile, part of Sanaa’s Al Zubair main
street, where the Defence Ministry is located, has been blocked off to traffic
while tanks and armored vehicles are stationed nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The officials, accused Saleh and
his family of trying to “humiliate” the new regime in Yemen by showing that the
new president is unable to protect it.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Several other incidents of what
officials describe as “defiance to the central government” can be easily
spotted around the capital.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The Defence Ministry, for example,
said in a statement on Thursday that armed men looted four trucks carrying food
supplies to its forces. Officials suspect that Saleh’s men paid them to attack
the trucks on their way to the capital. Meanwhile, security authorities
complained in another statement that armed men blocked a highway in the early
hours of Thursday to create a traffic jam.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Hadi has won the support of the
United States and western allies along with neighbouring Gulf countries. Since
taking office, he has launched drastic shake-ups to unify the military while
leading offensives in the south against Al Qaida militants which took control
of several cities, towns and large swaths of lands during last year’s uprising
and accompanying security vacuum there.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">In June, with US. help, the Yemeni
military managed to drive Al Qaida militants from many of their strongholds,
especially the main cities and towns. However, there is fear they may make a
comeback given a persistent absence of state control in these areas.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-38738380094782068562012-08-15T23:26:00.001+03:002012-08-15T23:26:06.079+03:00Men abduct Yemen leader on plane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gunmen
have stormed a passenger plane after it landed in south Yemen, grabbed an
opposition leader from his seat and spirited him away to an unknown
destination, an official says.</div>
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Masked
gunmen burst into the airport building first, meeting no resistance from
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official said the motive for the abduction of retired Major General Ahmed
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Al-Hassani
was a staunch opponent of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. After retiring,
he became a prominent campaigner for the south's secession.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-55888248578711046292012-08-15T23:22:00.001+03:002012-08-15T23:22:44.017+03:00Yemen: Two years on, journalist still behind bars after alleging US cluster bomb use<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Yemeni authorities must set aside the conviction of a journalist
imprisoned after he alleged US involvement in fatal air strikes in the country
– including the use of cluster bombs – and release him, Amnesty International
said today.</div>
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Thursday marks two years since Abdul Ilah Haydar Shayi’, an
investigative journalist specializing in counter-terrorism affairs, was
arrested at his home in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, on charges of links to
al-Qa’ida. He has been behind bars ever since.</div>
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On 18 January 2011, he was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. On 1
February 2011, former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh issued an order to
free him, but it was not carried out after US President Barack Obama expressed
concern over the journalist’s release.</div>
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Abdul Ilah Haydar Shayi’s lawyers and Yemeni activists say the charges
against him were fabricated as a result of his investigative journalism.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ever since his arrest and trial,
there are strong indications that Abdul Ilah Haydar Shayi’ was targeted for
revealing evidence of the US role in a cluster bomb attack that killed dozens
of residents,” said Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui, Deputy Middle East and North Africa
Programme Director at Amnesty International.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Two years on, he remains behind
bars. The charges on which he was convicted appear to be based on what he has
done as part of his legitimate activities as a journalist. As such his
conviction must be set aside and he should be released.”</div>
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In January 2011, Abdul Ilah Haydar Shayi’ was convicted by the
Specialized Criminal Court on several charges including communicating with
“wanted men”, joining a military group and acting as a media consultant to al-Qa’ida.
After serving his five-year jail term, he will be banned from travel for a
further two years.</div>
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The charge of communicating with “wanted men” appears to have been
connected to his work as an investigative journalist. Shayi’ himself does not
deny having had contact with members of al-Qa’ida but said that this was in
relation to his journalism. His lawyers say the prosecution submitted no
convincing evidence that their client had worked with or supported al-Qa’ida.</div>
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Amnesty International has not seen anything that would substantiate any
of the charges against him.</div>
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Abdul Ilah Haydar Shayi’ and his lawyers have refused to appeal his
conviction, citing concerns about the legitimacy of the court and the fairness
of his trial.</div>
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From the time of his arrest until 11 September 2010, Abdul Ilah Haydar
Shayi’ was held incommunicado and he told his lawyers and others who were
present at one of the court sessions that he was beaten during that time,
leading to chest injuries, bruising on his body and a broken tooth.</div>
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Given the lack of convincing evidence to support the charges, the
allegations of torture and other ill-treatment and Amnesty International’s
concerns about the fairness of trials before the Specialized Criminal Court and
it’s lack of independence, Amnesty International considers that his detention
is arbitrary and that the conviction should be set aside and he should be
released.</div>
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If the authorities have evidence against him, they should charge him
with a recognizably criminal offence, and bring him to trial in proceedings
which conform to international fair trial standards.</div>
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Abdul Ilah Haydar Shayi’ was the first Yemeni journalist to allege US
involvement in a December 2009 missile attack on the community of al-Ma’jalah,
the site of what the government claimed to be an al-Qa’ida training camp in
southern Yemen’s Abyan area.</div>
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Shortly after the attack – which killed 41 local residents, including 21
children and 14 women – he wrote articles and spoke to news channel Al Jazeera
and newspapers. In addition 14 alleged al-Qa’ida members were also reported to
have been killed in the missile attack.</div>
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Yemen's government initially said its forces had acted alone in the
attack on al-Ma’jalah, but shortly afterwards US media outlets published
alleged statements by anonymous US government sources claiming President Obama
approved the use of US missiles being fired at two alleged al-Qa'ida sites in
Yemen.</div>
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In June 2010 Amnesty International released images of a US-manufactured
Tomahawk cruise missile that carried cluster sub-munitions, apparently taken
near al-Ma’jalah after the December 2009 airstrike. The organization further
claimed that such missiles were only known to be held by the US forces at that
time and that Yemeni armed forces were unlikely to be capable of using such a
missile.</div>
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This finding was later corroborated when WikiLeaks released a US
diplomatic cable confirming that US forces had carried out the attack.</div>
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The Pentagon has not responded to a request from Amnesty International
for information about US forces’ involvement in the attack.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Yemeni and US authorities
have failed to account for the attacks that killed dozens of Yemeni residents,
and a journalist who revealed information about the US involvement has been
behind bars for two years,” said Hadj-Sahraoui.</div>
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Cluster munitions – also known as cluster bombs – have indiscriminate
effects and unexploded bomblets threaten lives and livelihoods for years after
their use. </div>
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A global treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of
cluster bombs entered into force on 1 August 2010 and has 75 states parties to
date. Neither Yemen nor the USA has joined the treaty.</div>
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Washington is working to support the
administration of the Yemeni president as he works on political transition
goals, a U.S. State Department official said.</div>
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A resolution passed this year by the U.N. Security Council calls on the
Yemeni government to take steps needed for general elections in 2014. Last
year, former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah stepped down following lengthy
demonstrations and his vice president, Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi, won a one-man
contest to take his place in February.</div>
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Gunmen loyal to the former president attacked an administration building
in Sanaa this week, leaving at least four people dead. The attack followed a
decision by Hadi to reshuffle the military and reduce the number of units under
the command of the former president's son.</div>
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Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said
"dead-enders from the ancient regime" were throwing up roadblocks to
Hadi's reform agenda.</div>
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Washington has stood by Yemen as part of a regional effort to keep
al-Qaida influence at bay. Combating militants loyal to al-Qaida is among the
many factors complicating Yemeni transition.</div>
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Nuland said Washington was calling on both sides to show restraint but
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"What we are doing is trying to strengthen the regime of President
Hadi, trying to work with him on these transition plans that he's putting in
place," she said.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-80829428515422935492012-08-15T01:19:00.001+03:002012-08-15T01:19:51.898+03:00Three dead in clashes over Yemen army revamp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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SANAA: Three people were killed in clashes in Yemen's capital Sanaa on
Tuesday when members of the elite Republican Guards clashed with regular troops
in a challenge to a presidential reorganisation of the military, an army source
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Last week, President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi transferred command of some
Republican Guards units to a newly formed force called the Presidential
Protective Forces, under his authority. Other units were placed under a
different regional command.</div>
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Hadi aims to curb the clout of Brigadier General Ahmed Ali Abdullah
Saleh, the Guards commander and a son of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh who
was forced out by an uprising last year, and stabilise a country where Saleh's
legacy still looms large.</div>
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"Three were killed and nine were wounded in the clash, and now the
Yemeni troops have gained control of the area again," the army source
said, without specifying whether the casualties were members of the security
forces.</div>
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The fighting occurred near the defence ministry after extra government
troops were sent to defend the building. Shooting broke out after Republican
Guard soldiers surrounded the ministry in central Sanaa.</div>
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Residents said that although Yemeni troops had regained ground around
the ministry, Republican Guard soldiers were still moving around in
neighbouring areas.</div>
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The army source said the Guards' action was a strike at Hadi's authority
and reflected continuing turmoil in Yemen, six months after Saleh stepped down
to end protracted mass protests against his autocratic 33-year rule. Hadi, his
deputy, replaced him under transition deal brokered by Yemen's Gulf neighbours.</div>
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Lawlessness and al Qaeda's presence in Yemen have alarmed the United
States and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter. They increasingly
see Yemen as a front line in their war on jihadi militants to protect the
interests of the West and its allies, including oil shipping lanes off Yemen's
coast.</div>
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In an unrelated incident on Tuesday also in Sanaa, a man carrying a bomb
walked into the ministry of agriculture and was killed instantly when the
device went off, an army source said.</div>
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"The bomb only affected the man carrying it, no one else was killed
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-22813581594694140602012-08-14T15:06:00.001+03:002012-08-14T15:06:15.570+03:00Yemen Prime Minister urges opposition renounce GCC deal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Yemen Prime Minister called on
former opposition group to abandon the GCC deal which put an end to the
political turmoil in the country, days after the Yemeni president considered a
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">In an opinion piece published on
August 8 in a Saudi-owned newspaper, al-Watan, Muhammed Salim Basindwa called
on all “revolutionary parties” including the former opposition coalition to
“restore the momentum of the revolution as the only revolutionary path to
achieve the revolution goals”.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The momentum of the revolution can be
restored only through abandoning entirely the political settlement,” According
to Basindwa’s opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Basindwa was referring to the GCC
deal which stated the government be shared equally between the opposition
group, known as the Joint Meeting Parties and former ruling party head by
former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="RTL"></span> <span lang="AR-YE"></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The Yemeni government, shared
equally between the political factions and led now by the former opposition,
has failed since its formation in November 2011 to bring stability back to the
country after a year and a half of political unrest.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="RTL"></span> <span lang="AR-YE"></span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lack of basic services of
electricity as well as a deteriorating security situation, which fall under the
authority of the JMP’s portfolios, have led the Yemeni president to discuss a
reshuffle in the government, according to a tweet on August 10 by Muhammed
al-Basha , a media officer at the Yemeni embassy in Washington.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span dir="RTL"></span> <span lang="AR-YE"></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Basindwa blamed former president
Saleh of the current situation and accused the international al community’s
role of being “slothful”.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">In his comment posted in Facebook,
Muhammed al-Makaleh, a Yemeni writer and official at the Socialist Party, said:
“Whenever it fail to restore the hope to the Yemeni people, the government
tends to assign the blame on the former regime. And it has worked to convince
the public opinion…”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Yemeni troops from the elite
Republican Guard force, led by the son of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh,
attacked on Tuesday the headquarters of the defence ministry, witnesses said.</span></div>
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ministry in Sanaa before attacking it with machineguns and rocket-propelled
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-12054393239906083132012-08-12T21:20:00.001+03:002012-08-12T21:20:46.956+03:00Plans to free kidnapped Saudi envoy in Yemen fall through, tribal chief says<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The planned release of a Saudi Arabian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen fell
through on Sunday when al Qaeda-linked militants refused at the last minute to
hand him over to mediators, a tribal source said.</div>
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Abdallah al-Khalidi, the deputy consul in the Saudi consulate in the
Yemeni port city of Aden, was kidnapped in May by Islamist militants demanding
a ransom and the release of women prisoners held in the kingdom.</div>
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Earlier on Sunday, tribal chief Tareq al-Fadli told Reuters that Khalidi
had been released late on Saturday after a mediation by local tribal leaders.
He did not give details.</div>
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But later in the day, a tribal source told Reuters the kidnappers had
delayed Khalidi's release saying they needed to hold more talks among
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The tribal negotiators were
surprised at the last minute when they were told by the kidnappers that the
handover of the Saudi diplomat was postponed to a later time,” the source said,
without giving further details.</div>
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A militant who claimed responsibility for the abduction had threatened
to kill Khalidi unless a ransom was paid and al Qaeda prisoners were freed from
Saudi jails.</div>
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Last month, five al Qaeda-linked women detainees were freed by Saudi
authorities. Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turkis stressed at the time
that the move was not linked to the demands of Khalidi's captors.</div>
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Kidnappings are common in Yemen, frequently in the context of regional
or tribal disputes with Yemeni authorities. The victims are sometimes held for
ransom, particularly if they are foreigners.</div>
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Yemen has been in turmoil since popular protests broke out last year and
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Khalidi had appeared in two videos posted on the Internet after his
abduction begging King Abdullah to meet his captors' demand for the release of
women detainees.</div>
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The United States and its Gulf Arab allies have watched with mounting
alarm as Islamist fighters, emboldened by the political instability in Yemen,
gained ground in the south of the country in the past year.</div>
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the al Qaeda group operating in
Yemen, is seen by U.S. officials as the most dangerous offshoot of the global
militant network.</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-65906595276261837682012-08-12T21:19:00.001+03:002012-08-12T21:19:23.323+03:00New video of Swiss hostage in Yemen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Swiss woman being held hostage in eastern Yemen has made a second
video appeal to the Swiss government to help her, the Sonntags Zeitung reported
Sunday.</div>
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The Swiss foreign ministry confirmed the existence of the video but
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It was the second video appeal by the woman who was reportedly snatched
from her home in March in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida by armed men, who
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In May she appealed to the Swiss authorities to help secure her release
and confirmed she was being held by Al-Qaeda combatants.</div>
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Shabwa is a stronghold of loyalists of the jihadists' local affiliate
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, whose militants fight under the
banner of Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law).</div>
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More than 200 people have been abducted in Yemen over the past 15 years,
many of them by members of the country's powerful tribes who use them as
bargaining chips with the authorities.</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-48190944967159565632012-08-11T01:44:00.001+03:002012-08-11T01:44:48.822+03:00Support for Decrees Reorganizing Yemeni Military<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The United States welcomes and fully supports President Abdo Rabo
Mansour Hadi’s decrees this week that continue the restructuring of Yemen’s
military and security institutions. Yemen has experienced a significant
transformation over the past year and these decrees are a tangible illustration
of the positive steps that Yemen is taking along their path to democracy.</div>
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We look forward to the swift implementation of these decrees, which are
consistent with the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative and Implementing
Mechanism as well as UN Security Council Resolution 2051. Reorganizing Yemen’s
military and security institutions and establishing world class standards of
professionalism and civilian control benefits both Yemen and the region. We
will continue to work with President Hadi and the Yemeni people as they work to
realize their aspirations for a stable, secure, and prosperous country.</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-51660408301670111402012-08-10T22:29:00.001+03:002012-08-10T22:29:56.245+03:00Military official dies in Yemen attack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Yemeni military official died Friday of injuries he sustained in a
bomb attack in the southern province of Hadramawat the day before, reported the
state news agency Saba.</div>
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Brigadier Omar Salem, the chief of the Army Staff Academy, was taken to
hospital late Thursday with serious injuries after a bomb hit his car in the
town of Mukalla in Hadramawat, the agency said, citing a local source.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Investigations are under way to
determine the circumstances of the incident and identify the perpetrators,”
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Similar attacks have targeted senior security and military officials in
southern Yemen in recent months, reported local media.</div>
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The Yemeni government has been pursuing a wide-scale military campaign
since April, backed by the United States, against insurgents suspected of links
with al-Qaeda.</div>
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President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, who took office in February, has vowed
to continue fighting al-Qaeda operatives in the Arabian Peninsula country. -
Sapa-dpa</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-37061005625974662602012-08-10T22:28:00.001+03:002012-08-10T22:28:14.380+03:00Yemenis rally against US meddling, urge envoy expulsion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yemenis have staged an anti-US demonstration in the northern city of
Sa’ada to protest against Washington’s interference in their country's internal
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Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in Sa’ada following the Friday
Prayers, demanding the expulsion of the US ambassador in response to
Washington's meddling in Yemen’s domestic affairs.</div>
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The demonstrators said Washington’s policies are a major source of
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They also condemned US assassination drone attacks in Yemen which have
left a large number of civilians dead.</div>
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At least five people were killed in a US assassination drone attack in
the eastern Yemeni village of al-Qotn on Sunday.</div>
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Washington claims it is targeting militants but witness reports and
figures provided by local officials indicate that civilians are the main
victims of the attacks.</div>
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SANAA, Yemen -- Hundreds of Republican Guard forces loyal to former
Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh encircled the Defense Ministry in Sanaa for
several hours early on Friday, protesting a move to strip the ex-president's
son of part of his military command, officials said.</div>
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The officers and soldiers of the country's best trained force, which has
been led by Saleh's son, Ahmed, rallied at the ministry starting late Thursday.
Officials said that military officers had informed them that the force would
try to storm the ministry, prompting authorities to deploy tanks and armored
vehicles to the area. Government forces threatened to open fire if the
protesters didn't leave. The demonstration ended several hours later.</div>
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The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
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Saleh stepped down as part of deal brokered by Yemen's neighboring Gulf
countries and backed by the United States in return for immunity from
prosecution. His successor, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has pledged to restructure
the armed forces in order to unify its ranks and end divided loyalties.</div>
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Despite promises to shake up the military, Hadi faced resistance from
Saleh, who warned that without him and his supporters in office, the country's
security would suffer. Previous orders to remove or demote Saleh loyalists were
challenged.</div>
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On Monday, Hadi tried to undermine Saleh's son's command of the
Republican Guard by ordering his Presidential Guard to take charge of several
of the Saleh-loyalist battalions. Hadi also ordered the transfer of financial
and administrative control to the president's office.</div>
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The military has been engaged in deadly battles against al-Qaida-front
groups in the south of the country, where militants took control of several
cities, towns and large swaths of land during a security vacuum left by last
year's uprising.</div>
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The United States considers al-Qaida in The Arabian Peninsula as the
most dangerous offshoot of the terror network, which has carried out several
failed attacks against U.S. targets.</div>
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With U.S. help, the Yemeni military in June managed to end al-Qaida
control over several urban strongholds including Zinjibar and Jaar. Al-Qaida
retaliated with a wave of assassinations of top military and security
officials. However, officials say that old regime loyalists are also involved
in targeting Hadi's aides and those who joined last year's revolution.</div>
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Security officials said that a top military official named Omar
Barsheed, who headed the Military Academy, was killed with his son when his car
blew up in the city of Mukallah in the south late Thursday. The officials spoke
on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the
press.</div>
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Saleh has been seen as trying to hold on to power from behind the scene.
Weekly protests by youth groups demand that Hadi be held to account for
killings of protesters during the uprising.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Thursday, August 9, 2012</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">U.S. Policy Toward Yemen</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Speaker: John O. Brennan,
Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Presider: Margaret Warner, Senior
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">August 8, 2012</span></div>
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</span>MARGARET WARNER: So welcome, everybody. Welcome to today’s Council on
Foreign Relations meeting. And I’m Margaret Warner, and I think most of you are
veterans of this. You know the ground rules. Please turn off all your
cellphones and pagers, which I’m doing right this second myself. And I’ve been
asked that you not even put it on vibrate because that also can interfere with
the sound system. And this meeting is on the record.</span></div>
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</span>And it’s my pleasure today to introduce today’s guest, John Brennan.
He’s assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism and
a deputy national security adviser. That means he’s the chief adviser to the
president on counterterrorism strategy as well as its policy and
implementation. And he also coordinates all the homeland security-related
activities throughout the executive branch, both in preparing for and
responding to things as disparate as cyberthreats and terrorist attacks.</span></div>
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</span>He’s going to open today with a few remarks, some remarks about U.S.
policy from Yemen. And he and I will have a conversation for 15 minutes or so,
and then we’ll open it up to questions from you, the audience, on a wide range
of topics. Mr. Brennan? (Applause.)</span></div>
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</span>JOHN BRENNAN: Thank you very much, Margaret, and thank you, everyone,
for being here today. It certainly is a pleasure to see so many familiar faces,
both from inside and outside of government, who I hope are here because of
their abiding and deeply rooted interest in Yemen and U.S.-Yemeni relations.</span></div>
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</span>When the subject of Yemen comes up, it’s often through the prism of the
terrorist threat that is emanating from within its borders. And for good
reason: Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, is al-Qaida’s most active
affiliate. It has assassinated Yemeni leaders, murdered Yemeni citizens,
kidnapped and killed aid workers, targeted American interests, encouraged
attacks in the United States and attempted repeated attacks against U.S.
aviation. Likewise, discussion of Yemeni and American counterterrorism efforts
tend to focus almost exclusively on the use of one counterterrorism tool in
particular: targeted strikes.</span></div>
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</span>At the White House, we have always taken a broader view, both of Yemen’s
challenges and U.S. policy. Two months ago, however, a number of experts on
Yemen wrote an open letter to President Obama arguing that there is a
perception that the United States is singularly focused on AQAP to the
exclusion of Yemen’s broader political, economic and social ills. Among their
recommendations, that U.S. officials publicly convey that the United States is
making a sustained commitment to Yemen’s political transition, economic
development and stability. And it is in that spirit that I join you here today,
both in my official capacity and as someone who has come to come know and
admire Yemen and its people over the last three decades.</span></div>
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</span>I want to begin with a snapshot of where Yemen is today. Since assuming
office, President Hadi and his administration have made progress toward
implementing two key elements of the Gulf Cooperation Council agreement that
ended the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh and provided a road map for political
transition and reform.</span></div>
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</span>As part of a military reorganization, powerful commanders, including
some of the former president’s family and supporters, have been dismissed or
reassigned, and discussions are under way to bring the military under unified
civilian command. And just two days ago President Hadi took the important step
of issuing a decree that reassigns several brigades from under the command of
Saleh’s son as well as leading Saleh rival Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.</span></div>
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</span>In addition, to organize the national dialogue, President Hadi has
appointed a committee with representatives from political parties, youth
groups, women’s organizations, the southern movement and Houthi oppositionists
in the north. And that committee met for the first time this week.</span></div>
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</span>On the security front, government forces have achieved important gains
against AQAP. Today AQAP’s black flag no longer flies over the city centers of
Ja’ar, Loudur (ph) or Zinjibar. As one resident said, after AQAP’s departure
from these areas in June, it is like seeing darkness lifted from our lives
after a year.</span></div>
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</span>Elsewhere in Yemen, checkpoints are being removed, businesses are
reopening, public services have resumed in major cities, and public servants
are getting paid. The energy infrastructure is slowly but surely being
restored, including the Marib pipeline, which supplies half of Yemen’s domestic
oil.</span></div>
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</span>At the same time, Yemen continues to face extraordinary challenges.
Violence remains a tragic reality for many Yemenis. We saw this again in last
week’s clashes at the Ministry of Interior in Sanaa and in an outrageous
suicide attack in Jaar on Saturday that killed dozens of innocent Yemenis.</span></div>
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</span>Moreover, Yemen remains one of the poorest countries on earth, and
conditions have only been compounded by last year’s upheaval. Most Yemenis
still lack access to basic services, including electricity and functioning
water systems. Unemployment is as high as 40 percent. Chronic poverty is now
estimated at 54 percent. Ten million people, nearly half of Yemen’s population,
go to bed hungry every night. One-in-10 children does not live to the age of 5.</span></div>
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</span>President Obama understands that Yemen’s challenges are grave and
intertwined. He has insisted that our policy emphasize governance and
development as much as security and focus on a clear goal to facilitate a democratic
transition while helping Yemen advance political, economic and security reforms
so it can support its citizens and counter AQAP.</span></div>
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</span>You see our comprehensive approach in the numbers. This year alone, U.S.
assistance to Yemen is more than $337 million. Over half this money, $178
million, is for political transition, humanitarian assistance and development.
Let me repeat that. More than half of the assistance we provide to Yemen is for
political transition, humanitarian assistance and development. In fact, this is
the largest amount of civilian assistance the United States has ever provided
to Yemen. So any suggestion that our policy toward Yemen is dominated by our
security and counterterrorism efforts is simply not true.</span></div>
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</span>Today I want to walk through the key pillars of our approach.</span></div>
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</span>First, the United States has been and will remain a strong and active
supporter of the political transition in Yemen. That’s why President Obama
called on then-President Saleh to step down shortly after unrest erupted last
year. Having consistently advocated for an orderly, peaceful transfer of power,
despite claims by some that doing so would jeopardize counterterrorism
operations, we’ve worked hard to help sustain the transition, facilitate
elections and promote an inclusive national dialogue. This past May President
Obama issued an executive order authorizing sanctions against those who
threaten the transition.</span></div>
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</span>Going forward, we’ll continue to push for the timely, effective and full
implementation of the GCC agreement. During this delicate transition, we call
on all Yemenis, especially Ali Abdullah Saleh, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, Hamid
al-Ahmar and Ahmed Ali Saleh, to show that they will put Yemen’s national
interests ahead of parochial concerns and abide by the letter and the spirit of
the GCC agreement so that Yemen can move toward a more inclusive democracy.</span></div>
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</span>As we support the transition, our comprehensive approach has a second
pillar: helping to strengthen governance and institutions upon which Yemen’s long-term
progress depends. Despite decades of rule by one man, Yemen has a foundation on
which it is building. The country has a tradition of opposition political
parties, a vibrant civil society, independent media and leaders who place the
larger national interests above politics, religion, sect or tribe.</span></div>
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</span>President Hadi is one such leader. This year I’ve met with him twice in
Yemen and spoken to him numerous times. I’ve been impressed with his commitment
to his nation, his integrity and his willingness to make difficult decisions to
move his country forward, even at great risk to himself. The Yemeni people are
indeed very fortunate to have President Hadi as their leader. We are helping to
strengthen Yemeni government institutions so that become — they become more
responsive, effective and accountable to the people. We are partnering with
ministries to expand essential services, approve — improve efficiency, combat
corruption and enhance transparency. We will support the reform of law
enforcement and judicial institutions to strengthen the rule of law.</span></div>
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</span>Beyond government, we’re proud to continue our long tradition of helping
to strengthen the role of civil society to conduct parliamentary oversight,
raise public awareness on electoral reforms and Yemen’s transition, empower
women, provide leadership and advocacy training, and build the capacity of
political parties to engage in peaceful democratic discourse.</span></div>
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</span>Of course lasting political and economic progress is impossible so long
as half of Yemenis are malnourished and struggling to survive another day. That
is why the third pillar of our approach is immediate humanitarian relief. This
year the United States is providing nearly $110 million in humanitarian
assistance to Yemen, most of it through the U.N.’s Humanitarian Response Plan.
This makes the United States the single largest provider of humanitarian
assistance to Yemen.</span></div>
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</span>These funds are allowing our U.N. and NGO partners to provide food and
food vouchers, improved sanitation, safe drinking water and basic health
services to help meet other urgent needs. USAID is providing more than $74
million for food security and nutrition programs, enabling UNICEF to rapidly
scale up its assistance for starving children. With U.S. support, UNICEF and
the World Health Organization completed a large-scale immunization campaign,
which may have successfully halted a polio outbreak that began last year.</span></div>
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</span>Yet even with these efforts, so many Yemenis remain in desperate need.
We commend the European Union for doubling its humanitarian aid to Yemen and
urge other donors to follow suit by contributing more to the U.N. Humanitarian
Response Plan, which is less than 50 percent funded. This will provide critical
and lifesaving relief to millions of Yemenis.</span></div>
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</span>As we help address immediate humanitarian needs, we’re partnering with
Yemen in a fourth area, the economic reforms and development necessary for
long-term progress. In fact, the $68 million in transition assistance and
economic development that we are providing this year includes vital assistance
to improve the delivery of basic services, including health, education and
water.</span></div>
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</span>We are helping Yemen address its staggering health gaps by renovating
health clinics, providing medical equipment, training midwives and doctors in
maternal and child health, and supporting community health education.</span></div>
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</span>We are helping to introduce farmers to more productive techniques and
provide youth with skills training, job placement and entrepreneurial programs.</span></div>
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</span>We are helping Yemen rebuild infrastructure and promote microfinance and
small businesses. We are encouraging efforts to stabilize the economy and
undertake reforms that will help raise living standards and promote a more
diversified economy.</span></div>
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</span>And following Yemen’s success against AQAP in the south, USAID is
supporting the Yemeni government’s efforts to repair war-torn infrastructure
and to rehabilitate communities.</span></div>
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</span>For its part, Yemen must have a plan to address unemployment and
poverty, as well as develop, diversify and reform its economy, including by
combating corruption, so that government revenues and donor funds are not
diverted to private interests at the expense of the Yemeni people.</span></div>
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</span>International donors want to know that their contributions aren’t
misappropriated and that the projects they fund are part of a comprehensive
plan. Providing a vision of where Yemen’s leaders plan to take the country will
helps its friends invest wisely.</span></div>
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</span>This brings me to the final pillar of our comprehensive approach to
Yemen: improving security and combating the threat of AQAP. Put simply, Yemen
cannot succeed politically, economically, socially so long as the cancerous
growth of AQAP remains.</span></div>
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</span>Ultimately, the long-term battle against AQAP in Yemen must be fort —
fought and won by Yemenis. To their great credit, President Hadi and his
government, including Defense Minister Ali, Chief of Army Staff Ashwal and
Interior Minister Qatan (sp), have made combating AQAP a top priority and have
forced AQAP out of their stronghold in southern Yemen.</span></div>
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</span>So long as AQAP seeks to implement its murderous agenda, we will be a
close partner with Yemen in meeting this common threat. And just as our
approach to Yemen is multidimensional, our counterterrorism approach involves
many different tools — diplomatic, intelligence, military, homeland security,
law enforcement and justice. With our Yemeni and international partners, we
have put unprecedented pressure on AQAP. Recruits seeking to travel to Yemen
have been disruptive — disrupted. Operatives deployed from Yemen have been
detained. Plots have been thwarted. And key AQAP leaders who have targeted U.S.
and Yemeni interest have met their demise, including Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP’s
chief of external operations.</span></div>
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</span>Of course, the tension has often focused on one counterterrorism tool in
particular, targeted strikes, sometimes using remotely-piloted aircraft, often
referred to publicly as drones. In June the Obama administration declassified
the fact that in Yemen, our joint efforts have resulted in direct action
against AQAP operatives and senior leaders. This spring, I addressed the
subject of targeted strikes at length and why such strikes are legal, ethical,
wise and highly effective.</span></div>
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</span>Today I’d simply say that all our CT efforts in Yemen are conducted in
concert with the Yemeni government. When direct action is taken, every effort
is made to avoid any civilian casualty. And contrary to conventional wisdom, we
see little evidence that these actions are generating widespread anti-American
sentiment or recruits for AQAP. In fact, we see the opposite, our Yemeni
partners are more eager to work with us. Yemenese citizens who have been freed
from the hellish grip of AQAP are more eager, not less, to work with the Yemeni
government. In short, targeted strikes against the most senior and most
dangerous AQAP terrorists are not the problem, they are part of the solution.</span></div>
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</span>Even as we partner against the immediate threat posed by AQAP, we’re
helping Yemen build its capacity for its own security. We are spearheading the
international effort to help reform and restructure Yemen’s military into a
professional, unified force under civilian control. In fact, the $159 million
in security assistance we are providing to Yemen this year, almost all of it is
for training and equipment to build capacity. We are empowering the Yemenese
with the tools they need to conduct precise intelligence-driven operations to
locate operatives and disrupt plots, and the training they need to ensure counterterrorism
operations are conducted lawfully in manner that respects human rights and
makes every effort to avoid civilian casualties.</span></div>
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</span>Finally, I’d note that our approach to Yemen is reinforced by broad
support from the international community. Throughout the last year, the Gulf
Cooperation Council, especially Saudi Arabia, the G-10, the Friends of Yemen,
the United Nations and the diplomatic community in Sana’a have come together to
push for a peaceful solution of the crisis and to facilitate a successful
transition. The international community has threatened U.N. sanctions against
those who would undermine the transition, provided humanitarian relief and
offered assistance for the national dialogue and electoral reform.
International partners, including the U.K., Germany, China, Russia, India, the
EU and the UAE have pledged aid. Saudi Arabia alone offered $3.25 billion on
top of the significant fuel grants it gave Yemen to offset the losses caused by
attacks against oil infrastructure. As such, close coordination with our
international partners will be critical in the years ahead.</span></div>
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</span>These are the pillars of our comprehensive approach to Yemen: supporting
the transition, strengthening governance and institutions, providing
humanitarian relief, encouraging economic reform and development, and improving
security and combatting AQAP. Taken together, our efforts send an unmistakable
message to the Yemeni people: The United States is committed to your success.
We share the vision that guides so many Yemenese, a Yemen where all its
citizens — Shia and Sunni, northern and southerner, man and woman, rural
villager and city dweller, old and young — have a government that is democrat,
responsive and just.</span></div>
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</span>But we are under no illusions. Given the tremendous challenges that
Yemen continues to face, progress towards such a future will take many, many
years. Yet, if we’ve learned anything in the past two years, it’s that we
should not underestimate the will of the Yemeni people. Despite the seemingly
insurmountable obstacles in front of them, hundreds of thousands of men and
women took to the streets and engaged in political and social movements for the
first time in their lives, and in so doing helped pave the way for change that
just a few years ago would have seemed unimaginable.</span></div>
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</span>That Yemen did not devolve into an all-out civil war is a testament to
the courage, determination and resilience of the Yemeni people. It showed that
Yemen’s future need not be determined by violence. The people of Yemen have a
very long and hard road ahead of them. But they’ve shown that they are willing
to make the journey, even with all the risk that it entails. As they go forward
in pursuit of the security, prosperity and dignity they so richly deserve, they
will continue to have a partner in the United States of America.</span></div>
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</span>Thank you very much. (Applause.)</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Well, thank you, Mr. Brennan, for that comprehensive laying out
of U.S. policy to Yemen. It was very — very interesting.</span></div>
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</span>You mentioned that — helping Yemen move toward a — to a transition to a
government that’s democratic and responsive and more just. I’m just wondering
how that jibes with one of our — the U.S.’s important partners in this whole
effort in the transition, beginning with the transition, which is Saudi Arabia.
To what degree — I mean, Saudi Arabia both financially and politically, and the
other Gulf states, are very, very involved in partnering with the U.S. there.
To what degree will Saudi Arabia allow the flourishing of a more vibrant,
democratic model in Yemen with the kinds of institutions you cite; you know,
flourishing political parties, opposition press, or free press, at least?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, first of all, Saudi Arabia has done more for Yemen than
any other country in the world, both in terms of its financial support,
political support. It shares a very important border with Yemen. Saudi Arabia
was one of the key drivers within the GCC to forge the agreement that called
for this political transition to take place. And embedded in that GCC agreement
is political reform, political transition.</span></div>
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</span>So — and whenever I go out to Yemen, I invariably will go to Saudi
Arabia, sometimes before and as well as after my visits there, because what the
Saudis and the Yemenis want to do is to make sure that we’re working this
together. It really needs to be a team approach to Yemen’s problems. And I have
found only support coming out of Saudi Arabia, from King Abdullah to the other
senior Saudi officials, for Yemen to continue along this path.</span></div>
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</span>As I mentioned in my remarks, you know, Yemen has a history of having a
vibrant civil society. You know, political opposition parties there —</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: (Inaudible) — Saudi Arabia — (inaudible).</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Yes. I mean, they have political parties there — you know,
Baathists and others — that have been there for quite some time. So now moving
into this new phase, I think what, you know, the Saudis want to do is to make
sure that Yemen is able to take advantage of the foundations that it has
already but to make sure it evolves in a peaceful way and one that is, I think,
consistent with what the region is trying to accomplish.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: So you’re saying their agenda was more than getting rid of
Saleh.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Oh, absolutely.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Whom they didn’t like.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: And, you know, President Saleh agreed to step down before his
term was up. He agreed to the GCC agreement, allowing that election to take
place and President Hadi to assume office. And so the Saudis realized that, you
know, getting Saleh out of the position is not in itself, you know, a
remarkable achievement. It was an achievement, but in order for Yemen to go
along the path of progress, it needed a much broader effort under way across
the government.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: How would you compare President Hadi with President Saleh in
terms of as a partner to the U.S. in combatting AQAP? Because the United States
used to refer to President Saleh as its great partner in Yemen.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, I think what we referred to is that we had — (partnered
?) with Yemen against AQAP for a number of years. And — but with a lot of
counterterrorism partnerships, there are ups and downs. We’re experiencing that
with — in some other parts of the world right now as well. There were times
under the former president where there were some strong disagreements about the
need to have a sustained effort against AQAP. And anybody who knows Yemen knows
that there’s some — there’s such a mix of politics and tribes and so many
different things that come to bear within Yemen, and at times I think the Yemen
government before President Hadi would see how certain counterterrorism
activities or operations would affect their political equities. That can’t be
part of a counterterrorism effort.</span></div>
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</span>And what I have found with President Hadi is that he has a singular
focus and has expressed a real determination. He said even if he doesn’t get
help from the outside world, al-Qaida is killing Yemeni men, women and children
on a sustained basis, and he is going to battle them, you know, as much as he
can. And so what we have found is that there’s a continuity of effort and there
are not these other, sort of, you know, considerations that come into account.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: So you’re seeing him actually as a more consistent, dependable
partner.</span></div>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BRENNAN: There has been
exceptional consistency since President Hadi has assumed office.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: I won’t lead you into any more comparisons.</span></div>
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</span>Let’s move on to Syria. And there, just in your bailiwick of terrorism,
increasing reports, both media — not just coming from the Assad government, but
increasingly, extremists and al-Qaida-linked fighters are coming in from all
over the world and joining up this rebel cause. Could that threaten U.S.
security interests? Do you see a potential threat there, actually,
terrorism-wise?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, I think the history of al-Qaida has been that it has
tried to take advantage of environments that are either lawless or are going
through political change or chaos.</span></div>
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</span>You know, we’ve seen that they grew in Iraq. We have seen that they’ve
taken advantage of the situation of Somalia and in Yemen because of the
political problems there. So Syria is no different. And in fact, the Syrian
oppositionists have come and have said that they’re very concerned about the —
you know, the al-Qaida types, and they have said that they are not going to
sort of allow al-Qaida to take advantage of the situation there. So what we
have to be very mindful of is that al-Qaida as a — as a worldwide sort of
enterprise, will be looking for opportunities to exploit. And Syria certainly
presents that opportunity for them.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: How does the sort of funding model that is currently in
operation — I mean, it seems that could contradict your aims here; that is,
since the U.S. and the West aren’t actively, at least publicly, funding the
rebels, it’s been sort of left to the Saudis and the Qataris, who tend to fund
the more extremist groups. Could that be self-defeating on the United States’s
part?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, we have, you know, done a number of things in support of
the opposition. And you know, I won’t go into all the sort of details of this
but, you know, there is a provision of assistance. There’s a lot of
humanitarian assistance that is going in there. What we want to do is to make
sure that we understand exactly who are going to be the recipients of any type
of aid, whether it be, you know, any number of types of things — communications,
you know, equipment, other types of things that they can better coordinate
their activities.</span></div>
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</span>But the — I think the policy of the U.S. government is very clear. Assad
must go. What is happening in Syria is outrageous. The tragedy that’s been
perpetrated on the Syrian people is something that really needs to be
addressed, and so we are very much supportive of the effort by the opposition
to in fact bring this (to a close ?).</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: But doesn’t it matter at whose hand or by whose doing he is
ousted? In other words, the secular rebels are now complaining that they do not
have the weapons and the firepower that some of these newer and more extreme
rebel forces do.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: What — and I think, you know, any night when you look on the
video footage on news programs, clearly there is a lot of weaponry in Syria.
The country is awash in weaponry. There are a number of elements within the
military that have defected and brought their weapons with them. You know, we
are concerned about that extremist element — you know, the Salafist who are the
al-Qaida types.</span></div>
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</span>I will say, though, when you look at the Syrian opposition as a whole,
the overwhelming majority of them are not of al-Qaida ilk. They are Syrians who
are truly trying to gain control of their lives and their future, and I think
that’s what we need to be able to do. And so there’s a multi-pronged effort,
you know, both in — you know, internationally, diplomatically, but also along
the borders in working with the countries that are in the area there. But the
situation is tragic. What we don’t want to do is, you know, do anything that
would unintentionally in fact lead to greater bloodshed in the country.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Now, there’s a no-fly zone of same nature in the — in the
northern part of the country where the rebels are beginning to have — they
don’t totally control it the way the Libyans did — Libyan rebels did in eastern
Libya, but there is a territory beginning to take shape. Can you see foresee
circumstances in which the West might at least protect them from air assault by
Assad’s forces?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, you can imagine that just like happened in Libya, you
know, the situation in Syria has been now evolving over the past number of
months. And the United States government always looks at situations and looks
at what types of scenarios might unfold, and then, accordingly, looks at what
types of contingency plans might be available to deal with certain circumstances.
So, you know, rest assured that various options that are being talked about in
the press and sometimes being advocated, these are things that the United
States government has been looking at very carefully, trying to understand the
implications, trying to understand the advantages and disadvantages of this.
And the president has kept us all quite busy making sure that we’re able to do
everything possible that’s going to advance the interests of peace in Syria and
not, again, do anything that’s going to contribute to more violence.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: So it’s not a complete nonstarter, the idea that in fact that
it’s on the table — (inaudible)?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: I don’t recall the president ever saying that anything was off
the table.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Let me move on to cybersecurity. This has been one of the
president’s top national security objectives, at least legislatively, to get
this bill that would have begun to put in some protections for the nation’s
critical infrastructure — oil and gas pipelines, electricity grid, nuclear
power plants, water supplies and so forth.</span></div>
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</span>Last Thursday the Senate, a Senate Republican filibuster, blocked the
bill. What are the consequences of that?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, the consequences are we’re not going to have enhanced
authorities and capabilities of the U.S. government to deal with what is an
increasingly serious cyber challenge to our nation and to our critical
infrastructure in particular. We worked very hard to try to push forward and
advance the cybersecurity provisions that were included in the
Lieberman-Collins bill that unfortunately did not advance last week.</span></div>
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</span>So what are the implications? Well, one of the things that we need to do
in the executive branch is to see what we can do to do maybe put additional
sort of guidelines or policies in place under executive branch authorities. I
mean, if the Congress is not going to act on something like this, then the
president wants to make sure that we’re doing everything possible.</span></div>
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</span>I still find it incomprehensible that, you know, the legislation that
was calling for minimum performance standards on the cybersecurity front for
critical infrastructure that the U.S. government would help develop with
private industry, that those minimum performance standards would have to be
followed by those elements of the private sector that have responsibility in
the critical infrastructure — and you know, obviously, there were a lot of
people that came out and, I think, misrepresented, you know, what was in that
bill. But believe me, the critical infrastructure of this country is under
threat, and the technology that — you know, whether it be, you know, foreign
states or cyber hackers and others — they are developing advanced technologies,
and we have to improve our defenses on this issue.</span></div>
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</span>So President Obama has told us after that — you know, the
Collins-Lieberman bill didn’t go forward to keep at it and keep pushing. And we
are going to keep pushing, and you know, we’re going to keep pushing on the
Congress, but we’re also going to do what we can under executive branch
authorities.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Now, how serious are the threats, on the scale from, you know,
theoretical vulnerability to actually being attacked to actually being
penetrated in terms of the infrastructure we’re talking about?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: You know, when you do a net assessment, you take a look at what
the threat is, and that means what the capabilities are — (inaudible) — it
talks about, then, what the vulnerabilities are of the target of an attack, and
then it talks about intent. Right now I can tell you with great certainty that
the vulnerabilities are there, that the capabilities on the threat side are
there, and so it’s a question of intent, whether or not certain actors are
going to operationalize the capability to go against the vulnerabilities that
exist in the system.</span></div>
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</span>Every day our — not just the critical infrastructure is — faces
intrusions, but we see that, you know, intellectual property rights are just,
you know, robbed, you know, people’s personal identification. It’s a system
that, you know, rides in the — in the private sector. It’s — and it’s privately
owned, privately operated space. But that’s the environment now where all of
our daily lives are conducted.</span></div>
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</span>And so the government is not trying to go in and sort of, you know,
regulate exactly sort of what everybody is going to do there. No, but the —
clearly, the market has not developed in a way that it has developed, on its
own, the cybersecurity requirements. Of course, if it did, then we wouldn’t
have these intrusions and the billions of dollars of losses that companies are
now writing off. But the people — American people are the ones that are going
to be at risk, not just because of, you know, personal identification
information that is going to be out there, but also the water we drink, you
know, the electricity that we — that we depend upon, the hospitals that require
that type of support, critical infrastructure — that’s increasingly at risk.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Give us an example of a vulnerability. I mean, I know that you
don’t want to give someone a blueprint of a vulnerability, but let’s take the
electricity grid, in other words, in the way that industry now operates in 2012
that makes it vulnerable to hacking and, I guess you’re saying, disabling or
being crippled.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Yeah. I mean, there are different types of cyberintrusions that
we see. There are cyberintrusions to get to understand your environment. So
they go in, and then it’s sort of operationally preparing the environments. So
you can go in just to map it so you understand it, you go in to exfiltrate
certain type of data, or you can go in there so you understand it and then you
take actions to disrupt, disable it and destroy it.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Either then or later.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Right. And so what we’re seeing now is a lot of intrusions. We’re
seeing a lot of exfiltrations. You know, and then the next step is, again, the
disruptive, disabling, destructive types of attacks. And so, you know, electric
grids, water treatment facilities, you know, mass transportation systems, you
know, railways and trains, whatever — if those intruders get into those systems
and then can determine how they can in fact interfere in the command and
control systems of these systems, they can do things. They could, you know, put
trains onto the same tracks. They can, you know, bring down electric grids.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: So who is most interested in doing this? Are we talking about —</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Bad guys.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: What?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Bad guys.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Bad guys. (Laughter.) Define bad guys who would want to cripple
U.S. infrastructure. I mean, is it other countries?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: You know, in time of — (inaudible) —</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Or terrorist organizations?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well — (inaudible) — you look at foreign countries and, you
know, some that have tremendous, you know, cybercapabilities and some of the
most powerful countries in the world. You know, do they want to bring down that
critical infrastructure in the United States right now? No, because they rely
on the U.S. economy, in fact for a number of reasons.</span></div>
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</span>There are some foreign actors out there, though, that if they had the
opportunity to bring down elements of the U.S. economy, U.S. infrastructure, I
think would do it on — you know, in a instant. So they fortunately don’t have
the capability at this time. They may have the intent but not the capability.
But you also have international criminal groups. And you know, you can do
things to advance your criminal intent by bringing down certain types of, you
know, activities or infrastructure. So there could be all types of different
reasons or different types of, you know, groups or people that are doing this.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: So when you say you were looking at what the executive branch
can do without congressional action, I mean, what are you talking about? Executive
orders?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Executive order is a good vehicle to actually, you know, direct
the departments and agencies of the United States to do certain things; to make
sure that, you know, the nation is protected. The president’s priority is to
protect the safety and security of the American people. That’s the physical
security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American
people.</span></div>
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</span>And so you know, we’ve been pushing. We’ve worked hard. We delivered our
legislative package to the Hill, you know, April, May of last year, 2011. And
unfortunately the Senate bill went down last week. You know, it may be revived,
but we can’t wait. So we’re doing things. DHS, in conjunction with, you know,
NSA, FBI, others, are working to make sure that we’re able to better safeguard
our environment but also be able to respond and also to be resilient. That’s
one of the things — one of the approaches is if you take down some part of our
critical infrastructure, you want to be able to — be able to recover very
quickly.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Let me ask you about one final topic, one question before we go
to questions from the audience. So people should get ready for their questions.
This has to do with this leak investigation that’s going on. Now, everyone from
Mitt Romney to some Republicans on the Hill have accused members of the
administration of leaking sensitive operational details for the president’s
political benefit.</span></div>
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</span>And that — they cite the sort of hunt for and raid that got Osama bin
Laden. They talk about the Stuxnet virus in Iran. They talk about selecting
drone targets and the president’s involvement in that. And the FBI’s
investigating all of that. I think some have even cited the foiled terrorist
plot in Yemen in May, though it wasn’t clear to me where that — whether that
leak was domestic or overseas. What do you say in response to that?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, a couple things. One is, as you point out, there are
investigations under way, so we have to be mindful of that and respectful of
that investigative process. Secondly, the president has made it very clear that
any leak of classified national security information is something that should
be rigorously pursued and prosecuted, if in fact there was a violation of one’s
responsibilities in terms of protecting classified information.</span></div>
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</span>There have been some devastating leaks. I’m not going to point to any of
them, so I don’t want to validate any of the things that are out there. But
it’s unconscionable what has gone out. And the president has made his
displeasure abundantly clear to his senior team that — for whatever reason. If
someone, you know, is trying to advance their own equities or interests, or
they want to just be able to sort of, you know, cultivate a relationship with a
reporter or whatever — there are sources and methods — there are very, very
critical national security matters that require there to be protection of that
information so it doesn’t get out, so that we can keep the American people
safe.</span></div>
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</span>So without doubt, anybody who has released in an unauthorized fashion
any of this information should be held to the — you know, to the requirements
and if necessary, you know, deal with the judicial system appropriately or the
police.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: So you’re saying there has been damage from some of these leaks.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Absolutely.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Yeah.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Yeah, there has. You know — now, unfortunately I think there’s
been a conflation also of people who are out there who are making speeches and
unfounded claims about individuals who have leaked, you know, national security
secrets for political purposes. It’s easy to get up in front of a TV camera,
quite frankly, and point fingers at the White House and say they’re doing it
for this or that. You know, and frankly I think a lot of those allegations are
highly irresponsible.</span></div>
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</span>And I — you know, what we need to do is to make sure that we are dealing
with this — these issues in a — in a very serious manner because the national
security of the United States is at risk. And so what we want to do is to make
sure that we’re able to be, though, as transparent as possible with the
American people. So for example, you mentioned about when there was this
incident where there was an IED that al-Qaida in Yemen was trying to put on an
aircraft, and it came out.</span></div>
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</span>Unfortunately, information was leaked, apparently, and is the subject of
an investigation that came out. When that operation, though, came to a
conclusion, you know, we do have an obligation to tell the American people
about what the threats are coming from al-Qaida. And so there’s been a
conflation of, oh, my goodness, they’ve said this, they’ve said this, and so
it’s mixing sort of apples and oranges here. We need to make sure that leaks of
classified information, of national security secrets needs to be rigorously
pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.</span></div>
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</span>But at the same time, that shouldn’t inhibit us from talking to people
like that are gathered here. You know, President Obama feels very strongly that
the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well
as with the world community. So, you know, I have said things about our
counterterrorism program and in terms of what we do and how we’re trying to do
it, you know, consistent with the law, our ethics and values as a people. I’m
going to continue to do that. I will be mindful, though of our national
security matters and not to reveal sources and methods that are going to
compromise that. You know, sometimes is there a tension between these things?
Yes.</span></div>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WARNER: It’s a fine line.</span></div>
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</span>So we’re going to questions. And you all know the rules. Let’s start
here with Hattie Babbitt.</span></div>
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</span>QUESTIONER: My name is Hattie Babbitt. I was going to take the question
back to Yemen. And you mentioned that Yemen is one of the poorest countries in
the world. It’s also one of the most water-insecure areas of the world, and it
will be increasingly water-insecure both because of the enormous use of water
for qat and also because of climate change. You didn’t mention anything that
we’re doing about — to assist in that or direct that, and I wondered if you
could comment a little on what is a significant issue in that poor country.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Yeah. I think I did mention water a couple times, but I didn’t
speak about specific projects we have under way. But it is part of our economic
development program with Yemen to look at ways that water can become more
available. As you point out, the water tables are being depleted in Yemen
rapidly. You have a population that is growing exponentially. It’s one of the
highest population growth rates in the world. And Sanaa sits, you know, about
7,000 feet or so. And as you mention, qat is one of the most water-consuming,
you know, crops in the world, but yet there’s continued, you know, cultivation
of that crop.</span></div>
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</span>There are a number of things that I think they — and we’ve talked to the
Yemenis and the Saudis and looking at the GCC for this as well. You know, it’s
not a question of just building more desalinization plants along the coast. It’s
also a question of trying to develop communities, maybe along the coast, that
have a better opportunity to take advantage of water that’s available in
certain parts of the country. Those — the population of Yemen is concentrated,
you know, overwhelmingly in some real densely, you know, populated areas, you
know, just in a handful of cities.</span></div>
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</span>So, you know, water development and projects that are going to allow the
Yemenis to address their longer-term water requirements is absolutely
essential. It’s one of the things we’d like to be able to work with the World
Bank so that we can, in fact, have some project aid that is going to address
the infrastructural deficiencies that exist within Yemen. Even their existing
water system is, you know, suboptimal in terms of making sure that they’re not
going to be a waste of the water that is available. So I think there’s greater
efficiencies that can be put into the system, taking advantage of the water
that is there.</span></div>
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</span>But you know — you know, Saudi Arabia has, you know, similar types of,
you know, issues, but their population is not as, you know, concentrated in
these urban centers without the availability of desalinated water. So it’s — I
think the — I don’t want to say the solution to water, but the way to address
the water problem has to be multifaceted. Some of it is going to be developing
communities in different areas so we move away from those urban centers, but
also it’s going to be a combination of what types of projects will be able to
generate more water either that exists in the water table but just not is
available right now or desalinization projects.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Yes, right here.</span></div>
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</span>QUESTIONER: Mr. Brennan, my name is Christopher Swift. I’m a fellow at
the University of Virginia Center for National Security Law. In late May and
early June I was in Yemen doing field research on al-Qaida’s relationship with
the indigenous tribal structures there. I’m also a signatory to the Atlantic
Council letter to President Obama.</span></div>
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</span>I think your assessment of the Hadi regime is correct, sir. I’ve seen a
lot of progress on the ground there, and I think the administration should be
commended for it, especially with respect to the national dialogue. I also
think that there are significant improvements in the security situation in the
south. Certainly it’s much better there now than it was when I was in Aden over
a month and a half ago.</span></div>
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</span>But sir, I have some concerns about implementation on an indigenous
basis, particularly with respect to the nexus between security on the one hand
and development on the other. It’s pretty clear to me from the tribal leaders
that I interviewed from 14 of Yemen’s 21 provinces that economic desperation is
the primary driver of al-Qaida recruiting in the country. It’s also pretty clear
to me that some of these regions are so remote and so desperate that it’s very
hard for the Yemeni government, let alone USAID, let alone our security
apparatus to get out to some of these places.</span></div>
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</span>The concern I have, sir, is how do we know who credible local
implementers are, both in terms of development and in terms of security? How do
we do this diligence, and who is doing this diligence, sir, going forward?
Thank you.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: Well, if your point is that we have, you know, a lot of
challenges ahead in terms of addressing the multiple needs of the Yemeni people
in different parts of the country, many of which are remote, many of which are
distant and removed from the Yemeni government, many of which operate under
tribal sort of politics and, you know, relationships, you’re absolutely right.</span></div>
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</span>And one of the things in the complaints of the former government is
that, you know, Ali Abdullah Saleh was appointing his own people from the north
to preside and to be in government positions in the south. I think what
President Hadi is trying to do is — and President Hadi is a southerner. He’s
from that area. So he knows, you know, the people in that area. And so there’s
going to have to be a period of time where you’re going to have to develop the
confidence and trust in individuals so that the mechanisms are in place so that
as money, as assistance flows down, it’s going to flow down to the right
places.</span></div>
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</span>Corruption has been rampant in — for years and years and years in Yemen.
And so President Hadi is trying to address that. You know, he just — he was
elected, what, at the end of February. You know, we’re talking about an
amazingly short period of time. So there have been complaints in the south that
as a result of the Yemeni forces pushing AQAP out, you don’t have the police
then coming in; you don’t have, you know, the regeneration of the communities,
and the shops haven’t been repaired, whatever else.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-YE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, you know, that’s
difficult to do, you know, even in the United States. Look at what — you know,
Katrina and how long it took for that. In a place like Yemen that is seriously
challenged because the road networks are not there, the instruments of
interaction with local communities, you know, the ones that were developed have
been interrupted significantly as a result of what AQAP has done. They’ve
wreaked havoc in that area.</span></div>
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</span>So I mean, you’re absolutely right. What we need to do is to make sure
that what is pumped in at the top, whether it be from the United States or
others, flows through the people and the mechanisms that’s going to give you
confidence that you’re going to derive the benefits from it. This is going to
take awhile, though. And so that’s why we’re really counting on, you know,
President Hadi in this two-year interim period of time to do as much as he can.
But you know, two years from now we’re still going to be facing some enormous
hurdles.</span></div>
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</span>Yemen is one of the most, you know, unfortunate, you know, backward
parts of the world. I mean, it’s beautiful also. You fly over Yemen; you see
these communities that are the same as what they were, you know, 500 or even a
thousand years ago except for the pickup truck and the satellite or whatever.
But you know, trying to have a countrywide system where you can actually
connect the government to the people in a, you know, sustained way is really
tough.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Yes, someone in the middle here. Let’s see — right there. The
lady in the middle there. And if I may just gently ask to try to keep your
questions short because we just don’t have a lot of time. So that was an
excellent question, but just — (laughter) —</span></div>
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</span>QUESTIONER: Thanks. Elisa Massimino with Human Rights First. I very much
appreciate this putting the — what’s gotten the most attention, the drone
program, into this broader context. It’s very helpful. But the reason, I think,
that the drone program gets so much attention is that the use of lethal force
tends to get people’s attention. And I would like to understand a little bit
more about the framework in which we’re operating there. This is one of the
concerns that a lot of Americans have, I think, about that program. You know,
what you’ve described is this internal conflict that we are trying to assist
the Yemenis with in driving out AQAP. And I guess, you know, the U.S. has a
strong interest in making sure that our use of lethal forces is grounded in the
rule of law. Are we grounding that in a concept of being a party to an internal
armed conflict in Yemen? And if not, what’s the legal basis for the use of
lethal force there? Thanks.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: OK. Well, the use of lethal force always should gain attention
whenever it’s used by the U.S. government anywhere. I would draw some
distinctions, though, between what you said and what the reality is.</span></div>
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</span>First of all, in terms of the basis for the use of lethal force, you
know, the authorization for the use of military force in Afghanistan provided
the basis for the U.S. government, the U.S. military to take action against
al-Qaida because it presents a threat to us, not just in Afghanistan, but in
other places — and affiliated forces, associated forces. AQAP clearly is one of
the most active al-Qaida franchises worldwide and has been determined to carry
out attacks against us.</span></div>
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</span>So while we have aided Yemen, the Yemeni government, in building their
capacity to deal with an AQAP insurgency that exists on the ground there, we’re
not involved in working with the Yemeni government in terms of direct action or
lethal action as part of that insurgency.</span></div>
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</span>What I think has been made clear is that there are individuals within
al-Qaida that are determined to kill Americans, whether it’d be in the U.S.
Homeland or in Yemen or in other parts of the world. We go to great extent to
try to thwart those attacks, and we very much hope that we’re able to do it
short of the use of any type of direct action or lethal force, either by our
partners or by us or in concert one another.</span></div>
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</span>When we don’t have those opportunities to, in fact, prevent these
individuals from carrying out those attacks, if our only recourse is to take
lethal action in concert with partners and provide our partners some assistance
in that regard or to do things with them that we’ll mitigate threat, we do it,
but it’s because it presents a terrorist threat to U.S. persons, properties,
entities.</span></div>
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</span>So there is an insurgency under — see, the AQAP is a very interesting
organization. Interesting, I know, is an overused term. You know, you look at
al-Qaida in the FATA, al-Qaida core. You know, it’s a combination of Arabs and
sort of — almost non-Pakistani. There are some Pakistanis up there in al-Qaida,
but mainly, they’re Arabs that are there. It was almost a foreign body that
then was using that as the springboard to carry out attacks, whether it’d be in
Afghanistan, in the United States or other places.</span></div>
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</span>Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is mainly but not solely composed of
Yemenis, but you have a lot of others now there. But a lot of these, you know,
Yemenis in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula are not determined, you know, only
to carry out attacks against the Americans wherever they may be. A lot of them
are trying to gain ground. And unlike in a place like the FATA or somewhere
else, they actually put up their flags, you know, controlling the territory.
You know, they’re trying to unseat the government of Sana’a. So we’re trying to
help the Yemenis, you know, thwart that insurgency and push it back because
that certainly is counter to our interests; it’s counter to the interests of
the Arabian Peninsula as a whole.</span></div>
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</span>But where we get involved on the counterterrorism front is to mitigate
those threats, those terrorist threats. And al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula,
and they have some very, very diabolical, innovative, creative and determined
murderers that have gone to great lengths to try to, you know, find ways to put
IEDs, you know, in printers and put them on aircraft, carry out attacks here,
do things against our embassy there on a — almost a daily basis. We’re not
going to sit by and let our fellow Americans be killed. And if the only way that
we can prevent those deaths from taking place is to take direct action against
them, we will do so.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Let me — this gentleman right here, and then — lady right there.</span></div>
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</span>QUESTIONER: Thank you so much. What is your assessment of the claim from
five members of the Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood has deeply penetrated
the U.S. government? (Scattered laughter.)</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: I would — I would refer you to the five members of Congress
that made that remark. I have no idea of what it is that they are making
reference to, and I’m not even going to try to divine what it is that sometimes
comes out of Congress. (Laughter.) I really don’t. I really can’t address that,
you know, that statement.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Yes.</span></div>
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</span>QUESTIONER: Kim Dozier, AP. Wanted to give you a chance to give us a
report card on al-Qaida at large. How is al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
doing over the last six months? You mentioned that you disrupted their
recruiting operations. Can you give us some more specifics and then a larger
picture?</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: You know — OK, I’ll start at Yemen, and then I’ll talk overall.</span></div>
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</span>In Yemen, I know there is a lot of attention paid to when there is, in
fact, some type of ordinance that may be dropped by somebody against a
terrorist target. That’s what gets the focus. And they say, oh, you know, it
was the counterterrorism, you know, successor action that was taken.</span></div>
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</span>On a daily basis there are, you know, activities under way by the U.S.
government, by the Yemeni government and others that are — is uncovering,
disrupting, thwarting these terrorist activities and plans. And you know — a
lot of CT specialists here — and you know that there are different phases of an
operation, from fundraising to putting — you know, identifying the operatives to
identifying the materials to, you know, (casing ?), surveilling or whatever
else.</span></div>
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</span>So there is a continuum there. And regularly, we and the Yemenis,
looking in Yemen, are disrupting things that are taking place along that
continuum. What really is concerning is when they get to the end of the
continuum, when they get in the execution window and they’re ready then to put
the IED into the — you know, the aircraft. But on a regular basis, we’re doing
that.</span></div>
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</span>So I think in Yemen there are — I think there are two things that are in
a very positive direction in strategic terms. One is that, you know, again,
since President Hadi has assumed the presidency, there is a new determination,
a new consistency in terms of what the Yemeni government is doing on the
counterterrorism front. You know, our ability to work with them and the
intelligence, security, law enforcement, military side, homeland security side
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<span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, thankfully,
the Yemeni military has been able to reverse the gains and the momentum of AQAP
in the south. They have dislodged a number of those AQAP units. And when we
talk about AQAP, you know, there are widely varying estimates about how many
people are there. Is it several hundred? Is it several thousand? Well, in
truth, it’s probably both because there are, you know, several hundred
hard-core committed, you know, full-time, you know, fighters, and then there
are a lot of part-time moonlighters and, you know, tribal fighters that will
join them because they’re in their area. But I do think that psychologically,
as well as just geographically, there have been some significant gains made
over the last several months by the Yemeni armed forces being able to
demonstrate that they can push it out. Now the thing is, the Yemenis have to
build in behind it. So it’s, you know, sort of the concept of clear, hold,
build, and that’s what they’re trying to do.</span></div>
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</span>Looking out overall, you know, al-Qaida(‘s core ?) in the Fatah really
has taken it on the chin. I mean, they have been degraded significantly in
terms of the number of operatives, leaders, others that have been taken off the
battlefield. We’re going to continue to maintain that very strong pressure on
them, because that is the wellspring from which sort of the al-Qaida, sort of,
enterprise has sprung.</span></div>
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</span>Just because they are significantly degraded and have been badly damaged
and bloodied, that doesn’t mean that they still don’t pack a lethal punch,
because if they can get operatives, you know, trained and out and directed —
you know, we know what they did on 9/11, and still there are a lot of
individuals who are attracted by the al-Qaida, you know, propaganda that want
to sort of carry out these types of murderous attacks. So we’ve degraded that.</span></div>
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</span>What I am concerned about: the growth of the franchises. You know, you
look in Iraq in terms of the number of attacks that have taken place there. You
look at the situation in Syria, how al-Qaida is trying to take advantage of it,
Yemen, and then you look in Africa. And across Africa, you have a lot of areas
— you know, the Sahel in terms of the al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb — that
has been able to take advantage of vast expanses of territory that are
ungoverned — you know, the situation in Mali with the — with the coup there and
the political turmoil. You know, there’s areas in the north that al-Qaida has
been able to be in league with some of the tribals and others that, you know,
presents a continued threat. Right now, a lot of the al-Qaida elements in
Africa pose a regional threat, but there is a concern that they could use, in
fact, their growth to look to the north to Europe and even beyond. So, you
know, unfortunately, al-Qaida, you know, has not gone away.</span></div>
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</span>And I know that, you know, memories sometimes fade since 9/11. But we’ve
pummeled the heart of al-Qaida in the Fatah, but the appendages of it, you
know, are — still exist and continue to grow. And that’s why, first and
foremost, we have to work with our partners. The — no matter how many, you
know, Predators or drones you have up there, we’re trying to give time and
space to the countries to be able to take these situations on themselves and be
able to carve out the cancerous tumor of al-Qaida.</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: We only have a couple of minutes left. The lady right here on
the aisle. Why don’t we take two questions, if you both could keep really short
and you could combine your answer?</span></div>
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</span>This gentleman here. Thanks.</span></div>
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</span>QUESTIONER: (Name and title inaudible.) I wanted to follow up on a
question Ms. Warner asked you: Who threatens the critical infrastructure? Your
response is bad guys. When I think about bad guys, I think about state bad
guys, terrorist organization bad guys, criminal enterprise bad guys and
hackers. What evidence is there of collaboration among those sets of bad guys?</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: OK. Thank you. And — let’s just go — if we could pass the mic
over and you could ask your question too, and if you could answer both. They’ll
probably be on different topics, but —</span></div>
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</span>QUESTIONER: I’d like to direct your attention to Nigeria and see what
your assessment is of Boko Haram. Is this an existential threat to the state,
and how are we working with Nigeria on it?</span></div>
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</span>WARNER: Well, those are two very big questions to answer in two minutes.</span></div>
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</span>BRENNAN: No, that’s OK — (inaudible). The first one, in terms of do we
see any collaboration among the various groups, there — you know, one
phenomenon that I would point to is that there are a lot of individuals who
have been a part of different types of intelligence and security agencies abroad
who have developed and refined their capabilities in the cyber realm why they
were in those professional slots. Sometimes these individuals will retire or
move on to other pastures. Sometimes they set up their own types of, you know,
legitimate efforts, and sometimes illegitimate. Sometimes they maintain
relationships with their previous employers in the government.</span></div>
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</span>And so what we’re seeing in different places, in Asia, that there are a
number of activities that are emanating from Asia that it — sometimes it’s very
hard to distinguish whether this is coming from a state sponsor or if it’s
coming from, you know, the — a parastatal working on behalf of the state
sponsor or is coming from an organized criminal group or a business that is
trying to advance its commercial, sort of, interests, whatever. So we’re seeing
more and more sort of, you know, common features. And we’re seeing the DNA
that’s, you know, flowing downstream.</span></div>
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</span>Frequently, though, a lot of it comes from the skills that one acquires
in the government. And so, you know, anybody who is working for the U.S.
government right now in cybersecurity, I encourage you to have a long and very
prosperous career in the U.S. government — (laughter) — doing things on the
cybersecurity front as opposed to the other. But I think we have to be mindful
that there are relationships there, either born out of a pedigree or they’re,
you know, how they develop these skills or because, you know, different types
of organizations have common cause.</span></div>
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</span>On Nigeria, you know, Boko Haram is a very serious concern that we have,
the Nigerian government has as well. In Nigeria, you have the domestic dynamics
that are under way in terms of the north and the south and, you know,
Christian-Muslim tensions and — but Boko Haram and Ansar al-Dine and Ansaru
have been, you know, the — sort of elements of a domestic phenomenon that now
has these terrorist dimensions to it. And, you know, one of the things that —
ask is, you know, what constitutes terrorism, you know, international
terrorism? You know, just like AQAP has had the insurgency against the Yemeni
government, you know, Boko Haram could be considered to be waging this domestic
battle against the Nigerian government. However, there are elements of Boko
Haram as well as, again, offshoots, like Ansaru, that have a foreign target in
their sights and continue to go after them.</span></div>
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</span>So — and you ask, is it an existential threat. One of the things that I
think we have learned and I think the governments throughout the — certainly
Africa has learned is that these organizations have the potential to expand,
you know, at a rapid pace. And it’s critically important to nip it in the bud
if you can, but I think it also speaks to the need not to just have a pointy
end of the spear, that you can take the actions to mitigate the manifestation
of the terrorist threat and the problem but also address some of the underlying
causes and conditions and factors that have contributed to these movements from
developing.</span></div>
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</span>So, you know, AQAP had its, you know, roots in, you know, al-Qaida core,
but yet it was able to take advantage of some of the real problems in Yemen.
Same thing with Boko Haram and others. I think there is a core there; there’s
an ideologically driven core that has a domestic political agenda. But also,
you know, it is fed by a number of the underlying, you know, conditions that,
you know, either because of, you know, discrimination or because of perceived
inequities in the system, you know, they’re able to recruit, particularly some
of these — you know, the teenagers in Africa that are being attracted and
pulled into these organizations because, you know, 10 (dollars) or $20, you
know, is something to attract a person to sign on with a terrorist organization.
And 15-, 16-year-olds, they don’t know any better. And so we really have to
tackle, again, the country as a whole, the problems that exist, because the
terrorist groups are just taking advantage of it.</span></div>
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</span>And I will say this final bit. You know, President Obama, even though he
has, you know, agreed to and authorized the actions that we need to take to
keep the American people safe, he continues to drive home to us that these are
just temporary measures. We need to make sure we’re able to address those
conditions, those factors that are contributing to these, you know, terrorist
organizations from being able to exploit the conditions that exist in certain
countries.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So whether you’re talking about Somalia or Yemen or Nigeria, you know,
there is a much broader set of issues that need to be tackled. And these
countries need to develop the institutions that the people can have confidence
in. So judicial reform, legal reform, you know — you know, rooting out
corruption — these are all part of a broader counterterrorism, broader security
effort that the president has insisted that we pursue.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">WARNER: John Brennan, White House
adviser on counterterrorism, thank you for a very interesting, candid and
lively conversation. (Applause.)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">August 09, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">By Abu Bakr al-Yamani in Sanaa</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">On July 28th, Ali Majed al-Thahab
was outside his home in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa when unidentified men
asked him to deliver a gift to his father, a well-known tribal sheikh.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">However, when Ali entered the
house, the parcel exploded, killing him instantly.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">He was only 12 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"Al-Qaeda was behind the
killing of my son," Sheikh Majed Ahmed Nasser al-Thahab told Al-Bayda
Press. "It is a heartless, merciless terrorist organisation."</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The sheikh said he increased
security at his residence after receiving threats from al-Qaeda in response to
his tough positions against the group earlier this year.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Led by the sheikh's cousin, Tariq
al-Thahab, al-Qaeda terrorists took control of the city of Radaa, Bayda
province, in January 2012. They withdrew 10 days later after tribal mediators,
who had the support of Sheikh Majed, persuaded the group to vacate.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Following the attack, many Yemenis
expressed indignation and resentment over what they described as a
"criminal act".</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"We condemn all crimes, but
they are more heinous when the victims are children," said Mustafa
Mohammed, a 43-year-old government employee who attended the child's funeral.
"What fault did they commit?"</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Al-Qaeda retaliates against tribal
sheikhs</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Terrorism analysts said al-Qaeda's
retaliatory attacks do not distinguish between their targets and innocent
bystanders, regardless of whether women or children are among them.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"Al-Qaeda does not forget its
opponents," said Saeed al-Jamhi, head of Al-Jamhi Centre for Studies and
Research. "It targeted Sheikh Majed using a parcel bomb in retaliation for
his positions. Al-Qaeda does not forego taking revenge upon its many enemies,
including tribesmen and government, army and security officials."</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"Targeting innocent people is
condemnable, and using a child to deliver a parcel bomb to his father put the
life of the child at great risk, and that risk was realised," al-Jamhi
said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Similarly, Abdel Salam Mohammed,
head of the Abaad Studies Centre, said, "Al-Qaeda does not care about
victims. Giving the parcel to the child opened the possibility that the child
would try to open it himself before handing it to his father."</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Mohammed said al-Qaeda's targeting
of Sheikh al-Thahab stems from past disputes that arose between the sheikh and
the organisation's late leader, Tariq al-Thahab, during the conflict with
al-Qaeda in Radaa.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Al-Qaeda failed twice</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Observers said the use of innocent
children in reprisals indicates the organisation is in decline.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Strategic affairs researcher Saeed
Abdul Momin said that by targeting prominent figures, al-Qaeda is trying once
again to prove it still exists.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"Al-Qaeda failed twice in its
latest attempt," he said. "They killed a child for no fault of his
own other than being an innocent child who was deceived by the attractive
appearance of the parcel and possibly the deceptive appearance of those who
handed it to him, and it also failed in reaching its goal."</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"The danger is that al-Qaeda
may be looking for easy targets guaranteed to intimidate its opponents, so that
if they do not succeed in killing the opponent himself they have a chance of
striking one of his relatives," Abdul Momin said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">"This indicates that the
organisation shifted to a new modus operandi to restore some of the lustre of its
reputation and the victories it achieved under the previous regime [in
Yemen]," he added. "This line of thinking is an indication of the
decline the organisation has fallen into."</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418838025000317783.post-68902680723418211652012-08-10T00:53:00.003+03:002012-08-10T00:53:58.555+03:00Bold decisions, drones and suicide bombings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">President Hadi in Yemen
consolidates power as the fight against Al-Qaeda continues Nasser
Arrabyee</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">August 9, 2012</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-YE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour
Hadi has taken the long awaited step to strengthen his hold on a split army as
an upper commander.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">He has reduced the influence of
two military commanders who divided the army into two hostile to each other
groups since March last year.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The two commanders themselves
remain in their positions but their powers will become less until they become
like any two commanders in the army that is being restructured and reunified.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">President Hadi took two decisions
on Monday, 6 August, to take military powers from these two commanders. Hadi
took three brigades (about 5,000 soldiers each) from the Republican Guards, and
one brigade from the First Armored Division to form what is called "the
Presidential Protection". These units will be completely independent of
the two commanders.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The second decision was to take
four brigades from the Republican Guards and four from the First Armoured
Division and put them under other commanders in two different regions, which
means these two commanders will lose more than 60 per cent of their forces.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The two decisions reduce the
military powers of defected General Ali Mohsen, commander of the First Armored
Division, and the elder son of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Ahmed,
commander of the Republican Guards. The two formed the most powerful military
centres of influence during the political crisis over Saleh's presidency.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">It would be extremely difficult
for President Hadi to sack Ahmed and Mohsen who constituted an equilibrium of
forces during the crisis. After Hadi was elected president in February this
year, he needed this equilibrium to protect himself as a new president from any
possible military coup.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">President Hadi's bold decisions
came amid the continued implementation of a Saudi-sponsored and US-backed deal
that resolved the Yemeni political crisis on a basis of consensus rule between
Saleh's party and opposition parties.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Meanwhile, the deputy chairman of
Saleh's party, Abdel-Karim Al-Eriani, was elected Monday as chairman of the
25-member preparatory committee for the national dialogue that will be held in
November. The woman lawyer Rakia Humaidan, from the Socialist Party was elected
as first vice president, and secretary general of the Nasserite Party Sultan
Al-Atwani was elected a second vice president. The human rights activist Amal
Basha was elected spokesperson.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Ahmed Awadh was elected a
reporter. The 25 members of the preparatory committee represent all different
groups that will be involved in the dialogue, which is due to reach agreement
on a new constitution according to which presidential and parliamentary
elections will be held in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Meanwhile, US drones killed six
Al-Qaeda operatives and a suicide bomber killed or injured 95.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The war between the US-backed
government and Al-Qaeda continues. The US drone killed an Al-Qaeda leader and
his friend while riding their motorcycle early Tuesday, 7 August, in Kaifa
area, Radaa, in Al-Baidha province, southeast of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Security forces identified the
killed leader as Osama Al-Marebi. His friend was not identified. This was the
first drone attack on a motorcycle since Al-Qaeda urged its members to use
motorcycles to avoid the air strikes two months ago.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">On Monday, a US drone killed four
Al-Qaeda operatives while driving in their car in the area of Qutan west of
Sayoun town in Hudhrmout, east of Yemen. The four operatives were driving a model
87 Land Cruiser, which was completely destroyed.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Eleven terrorists -- mostly
foreigners -- were arrested on Monday in Jaar of the southern province of Abyan
after a suicide bomber killed and injured around 90 people.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">A young man in his 20s infiltrated
Sunday night a large tribal gathering for expressing condolences and blew
himself up, killing at least 50 and injuring 40 more.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The suicide bombing was in the
house of Abdel-Latif Al-Sayed, chairman of the anti-Al-Qaeda popular
committees. Al-Sayed defected from Al-Qaeda before it was driven out of Jaar
last May. Al-Sayed survived, but three of his brothers were killed.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Al-Qaeda has been trying to
re-take the town of Jaar for the last two weeks.</span></div>
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Seven others also arrested in Jaar</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">SANAA,
Aug 8 (Reuters) - Yemen has foiled a plot by an al Qaeda-linked cell to carry
out attacks inside the capital Sanaa and seized 40 belts packed with
explosives, the mayor said on Wednesday, highlighting the risks posed by
Islamist militancy in the impoverished Arab state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The
Defence Ministry said seven militants had also been detained in the southern
town of Jaar, where a suicide bomber killed 45 tribal fighters earlier this
week and threatened further attacks on a bigger scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Yemen
declared victory in June over militants calling themselves Ansar al-Sharia
(Partisans of Islamic Law), but they continue to pose a serious threat in a
country that borders top oil producer Saudi Arabia, despite losing control over
territory they controlled for most of last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">A
local official said the target of the suicide bombing earlier this week - Abdul
Latef Sayed, the head of a tribal fighting force - had narrowly escaped death
again on Wednesday. </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-YE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Militants
had parked a car loaded with explosives outside his house in Jaar, the official
said. </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-YE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Sayed
has now been targeted in two assassination attempts in just four days. The
militants say it is revenge for siding with the army during a U.S.-backed
military campaign against Islamist fighters in Abyan province. He was wounded
in the first attack.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-YE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;"><span dir="LTR"></span>"Whatever happens, we will
work to cleanse the city of Jaar of these terrorist elements, whatever the
cost," Sayed told Reuters via telephone soon after Wednesday's blast, in
which nobody was injured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Tribal
fighters drove away the militants behind the attack, killing one and wounding
another, the same local official said.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-YE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Ansar
al-Sharia went on the offensive last year when former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh
was distracted and grappling with protests that eventually toppled him, seizing
several towns and declaring them Islamic emirates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">The
seven men arrested in Jaar included a Somali national and a militant leader
known as Abu Musaab who was responsible for al Qaeda's finances in Abyan, the
Defence Ministry said on its website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;">Ansar
al-Sharia is linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which U.S. officials
have described as the most dangerous offshoot of the global militant network.</span></div>
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