Onrust Jemen

[irma]

Niet belangrijk; valt niets te halen voor ons.

Net als in Syrie  (maar dat is off topic)

[KapiteinRob]

Niet belangrijk; valt niets te halen voor ons.

[Lex]

Zware gevechten in hoofdstad Jemen

SANAA - In de hoofdstad Sanaa van Jemen zijn zaterdag zware gevechten uitgebroken tussen troepen loyaal aan president Ali Abdullah Saleh en zijn tegenstanders.

Daarbij vielen zeker 5 doden, meldde de Arabische nieuwszender al-Jazeera.

De doden zouden militairen zijn die zich hebben aangesloten bij de oppositie. Er klonken explosies en zwarte rookwolken hingen boven de stad. Vrijdag werd er ook al hevig gevochten.

Al maanden wordt gedemonstreerd tegen het bewind van Saleh, die al 33 jaar aan de macht is.

© ANP
22 oktober 2011 14:19

[VandeWiel]

SANAA - De politie in Jemen heeft zaterdag het vuur geopend op betogers die het aftreden eisen van president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Zeker zeven actievoerders werden gedood. Tientallen anderen raakten gewond.
Dat hebben medici gemeld. Honderdduizenden demonstranten hadden zich in het centrum van de hoofdstad Sanaa verzameld om een protestmars te houden.

De ordetroepen schoten met scherp en gebruikten traangas en waterkanonnen om de menigte uiteen te drijven.
De gewonden werden naar een veldhospitaal in de 60e Straat in de hoofdstad gebracht, waar duizenden tegenstanders van Saleh al maanden bivakkeren.


Armste land

De president is al meer dan 30 jaar in het armste land van de Arabische wereld aan de macht. Hij heeft al een aantal keren gezegd te willen aftreden, maar heeft daarvan op het laatste moment afgezien.


http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/2642231/ordetroepen-jemen-doden-betogers.html

[Lex]

President Jemen zegt macht op te geven

SANAA - President Ali Abdullah Saleh van Jemen heeft zaterdag op de staatstelevisie gezegd ''in de komende dagen de macht te zullen opgeven''.

Dat meldde het persbureau Reuters. Saleh is al 33 jaar aan de macht.

In het armste land van de Arabische wereld wordt al maanden gedemonstreerd voor het vertrek van Saleh.

Die heeft al eerder ingestemd met voorstellen om op te stappen, maar kwam daar op het laatste moment steeds weer op terug.

© ANP
8  oktober 2011 16:05

[VandeWiel]

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born radical Islamic preacher who rose to the highest level of al Qaeda's franchise in Yemen, has been killed.

Al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, has been linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) attempted bombing of a U.S. passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas day, 2009, and was thought to be a leader of the group.

A U.S. government official confirms to CBS News senior security correspondent David Martin that al-Awlaki was killed. Yemen's Defense Ministry was first to tell CBS News of the strike, but given previous reports which turned out to be erroneous, the relatively rapid U.S. confirmation is crucial, and bolsters witness accounts that it was a U.S. drone strike that killed the al Qaeda figure.

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U.S. officials considered al-Awlaki a most-wanted terror suspect, and added his name last year to the kill or capture list - making him a rare American addition to what is effectively a U.S. government hit-list.

Al-Awlaki's father, who still lives in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming his son's civil rights were violated by the U.S. call for his killing.

A federal court dismissed Nasser al-Awlaki's suit on Dec. 7, 2010, on the grounds that he had no legal standing to challenge the targeting of his son.

A statement from Yemen's foreign press office said the al Qaeda suspect "was targeted and killed 8 KM (about 5 miles) from the town of Khashef in the Province of Jawf, 140KM (about 80 miles) east of the Capital Sana'a."

Al-Arabiya television network cited local tribal sources as saying suspected U.S. drone aircraft - which are known to operate in Yemen - fired two missiles Friday at a convoy of vehicles believed to be carrying al-Awlaki and his guards.

There have been previous reports claiming al-Awlaki's death which turned out to be erroneous.

CBS News' Khaled Wassef reports that Al-Awlaki was reported dead following U.S. air strikes on southern Yemen in December 2009 and November 2010. He was also the target of a U.S. drone attack that killed two al Qaeda operatives in southern Yemen on May 5, 2011.

Wassef reports that al-Awlaki last appeared in a video released online in August 2010.

Yemen has risen in recent years to the top of the threat list for U.S. security officials - with AQAP seen as the most active branch of the global terror network in planning attacks against the U.S. homeland.
Al-Awlaki was believed to be a prominent member of the group, taking some role in the planning of actual terror plots, in addition to his role as a religious adviser and powerful recruiting officer. His clear English, American roots, and powerful speaking skills are believed to have attracted many young Muslims from within the U.S. to the cause of jihad.

He reportedly met directly with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 19-year-old Nigerian who attempted to blow up the flight to Detroit in 2009, when the young man traveled for training to Yemen.

Al-Awlaki's voluminous online preaching, in both video and print form, is also thought to have inspired Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, who made email contact with the preacher before carrying out his attack.

His death will deal AQAP a serious blow, but Ben Venzke, who heads intelligence contracting group IntelCenter in the Washington area, says it does not seriously diminish the threat posed by the al Qaeda franchise.

"AQAP remains one of the most dangerous al Qaeda regional arms both in its region and for the direct threat it poses to the U.S. following three recent failed attacks," said Venzke, who monitors jihadi propaganda for myriad U.S. government agencies. "AQAP leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who is responsible for expanding the group's focus to conduct attacks on U.S. soil, remains in charge of the group and further attempts to conduct attacks in the U.S. are expected."


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/30/501364/main20113732.shtml

[Elzenga]

At some point, al-Qaida is going to have to figure out that gathering in conspicuous places just means giving a big, fat, blinking red target to the killer drones hovering above.

In the latest sign of the intensifying U.S. shadow war in Yemen, drones hit a police station in Abyan Province, where fighters from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have flocked during the country's ongoing political crisis. al-Qaida reportedly took over the station, prompting the drone(s) to take action.

Early reports are conflicting, but the strike might have a massive death toll attached. The New York Times says eight militants are dead, but CNN claims that the body count is at 50. Either way, there's a lesson here: al-Qaida gatherings are drone bait.

According to stats compiled by the Long War Journal, it's the third U.S. airstrike in Yemen this year, which really means since May. The next strike will tie the total from all of 2010.


al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula can't say it wasn't warned. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the former CIA director, tells anyone who'll listen how drone strikes, commando raids and other inconspicuous, lethal applications of force are his preferred solution to the al-Qaida problem. Same goes for incoming Special Operations Command chief Vice. Adm. William McRaven. New CIA Director David Petraeus is cool taking militants dead or alive.

Not to suggest there's a bright side to al-Qaida's strength in Abyan, but if the militants feel they can run the province with impunity, their operational security standards are likely to drop. The newer model Reaper drones at the U.S.' disposal increasingly carry smaller, lighter weapons — 35 pound missiles, down from a 100-pound Hellfire — and more of them. That means more opportunities to hit more al-Qaida targets, especially if the terrorist group is going to set up conspicuous de facto bases. Maybe it's time to rethink the concept of "safe haven."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/massive-drone-strike-hits-qaida-cop-station-in-yemen

or to rethink their air-defence concepts...and buy some air-defence equipment... de huidige UCAVs zijn nog niet bepaald onkwetsbaar in deze.

[VandeWiel]

At some point, al-Qaida is going to have to figure out that gathering in conspicuous places just means giving a big, fat, blinking red target to the killer drones hovering above.

In the latest sign of the intensifying U.S. shadow war in Yemen, drones hit a police station in Abyan Province, where fighters from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have flocked during the country's ongoing political crisis. al-Qaida reportedly took over the station, prompting the drone(s) to take action.

Early reports are conflicting, but the strike might have a massive death toll attached. The New York Times says eight militants are dead, but CNN claims that the body count is at 50. Either way, there's a lesson here: al-Qaida gatherings are drone bait.

According to stats compiled by the Long War Journal, it's the third U.S. airstrike in Yemen this year, which really means since May. The next strike will tie the total from all of 2010.


al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula can't say it wasn't warned. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the former CIA director, tells anyone who'll listen how drone strikes, commando raids and other inconspicuous, lethal applications of force are his preferred solution to the al-Qaida problem. Same goes for incoming Special Operations Command chief Vice. Adm. William McRaven. New CIA Director David Petraeus is cool taking militants dead or alive.

Not to suggest there's a bright side to al-Qaida's strength in Abyan, but if the militants feel they can run the province with impunity, their operational security standards are likely to drop. The newer model Reaper drones at the U.S.' disposal increasingly carry smaller, lighter weapons — 35 pound missiles, down from a 100-pound Hellfire — and more of them. That means more opportunities to hit more al-Qaida targets, especially if the terrorist group is going to set up conspicuous de facto bases. Maybe it's time to rethink the concept of "safe haven."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/massive-drone-strike-hits-qaida-cop-station-in-yemen

[Lex]

'Saleh keert niet terug naar Jemen'

RIYAD -  De Jemenitische president Ali Abdullah Saleh, die voor een medische behandeling naar Saudi-Arabië is uitgeweken, zal niet naar Jemen terugkeren. Dat heeft een hoge Saudische functionaris vrijdag gezegd.

Eerder stelde de regering in Jemen dat Saleh snel terug zou komen in zijn land. Saleh raakte twee weken geleden gewond tijdens een aanval op zijn paleis in de Jemenitische hoofdstad Sanaa. Hij vertrok kort daarna naar Saudi-Arabië.

Bij protesten tegen Saleh zijn de afgelopen vier maanden ten minste 200 mensen omgekomen. De president, die al sinds 1978 in het zadel zit, zag de steun voor zijn regime gestaag afbrokkelen, maar weigert tot dusver halsstarrig af te treden.

Telegraaf,
vr 17 jun 2011, 13:18

[Lex]

Saleh heeft brandwonden op 40 procent lichaam

RIYAD -  De Jemenitische president Ali Abdullah Saleh heeft brandwonden op 40 procent van zijn lichaam. Daarnaast liep hij een klaplong op tijdens de granaataanslag vrijdag op het presidentiële paleiscomplex in Sanaa, de hoofdstad van Jemen. Dat meldde de Amerikaanse nieuwzender CNN dinsdag op basis van diplomatieke bronnen in Saudi-Arabië, waar Saleh is opgenomen in een ziekenhuis.

Een granaatscherf veroorzaakte een wond van 7 centimeter diep in het lichaam van Saleh. Het stuk metaal doorboorde een van de longen van Saleh. Het afgelopen weekeinde hebben artsen de scherf verwijderd.

De bomaanslag had plaats in een moskee, waar Saleh aanwezig was met een aantal anderen. Na het incident, waarbij zeker zeven mensen stierven, nam Saleh met een reeks andere hoogwaardigheidsbekleders de wijk naar Riyad, de hoofdstad van het machtige buurland Saudi-Arabië.

Telegraaf,
di 07 jun 2011, 09:36

[KapiteinRob]

Ja hoor, wederom op de Tromp.....

Tromp komt morgen aan in Aqaba; dat is nou ook niet in de omgeving. 

Met een OPV zou je niet in de omgeving zijn. De Ollies van de TRMP doen echter wonderen......

[Lex]

Ja hoor, wederom op de Tromp.....

Tromp komt morgen aan in Aqaba; dat is nou ook niet in de omgeving. 

[KapiteinRob]

Hebben we nog in Lynx in de omgeving.. 

Ja hoor, wederom op de Tromp.....

[Lex]

Hebben we nog in Lynx in de omgeving.. 

Het is maar net wat je onder omgeving verstaat, want Libië is volgens mij wel een aarig eindje wandelen. 

[jurrien visser (JuVi op Twitter)]

Hebben we nog in Lynx in de omgeving..