Yemen speaks of an information campaign to distort its image

Official Yemeni sources said yesterday that "the threats launched by the extremists declaring their responsibility for the attacks that are taking place - come in an informational campaign aims at showing Yemen as an unstable country."

The sources said that Yemen has been exposed for a while to an informational campaign to distort its reputation abroad and to obstruct its development."

The same sources assured that "the extremists are opposing the principle of economic liberalism and opening the country before the foreign investments and developing tourism."

These declarations come to deny allegations of an extreme Islamic group of being behind the accident of a military jet crash due to which 17 persons were killed last Saturday adding that a mechanical defect was behind the crash."

The Yemeni government accused Britain of permitting extremist Islamists to carry on activities and release statements against Yemen in London.