Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 2/25/2002
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of February 25, 2002
- American forces to Yemen
The Wall Street Journal said in its Friday's issue that the White House has ratified dispatching US forces to Yemen in order to train and give recommendations to the Yemeni forces which are chasing members of al-Qaida organization there. Yemen-USA, Politics, 3/2/2002 - Yemen: Presidential pardoning for 10 socialist leaders
It is expected that the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will release a presidential pardoning for 10 of the leaders of the socialist party who were sentenced after being convicted in the "conspiracy of the war of the Summer of 1994." Yemen, Politics, 3/1/2002 - Al-Shara, Yemeni peer discuss Arab conditions Syria-Yemen, Politics, 2/28/2002
- Sanaa hands over to Riyadh a Saudi belongs to al-Qaida
The Saudi minister of the Interior prince Nayef said that Yemen has handed over one Saudi who has links to al-Qaida organization led by Osama Bin Laden. He stressed that Saudi Arabia is still making investigations with persons suspected to have links to this organization. Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Politics, 2/28/2002 - US's Zinni visits Sanaa on Saturday
League party has called on the Yemeni political leadership to pursue the principle of clarity and transparency concerning the level of security cooperation, depending on American forces to fight terrorism and eliminate extremist members who are suspected to be involved in terrorist acts and are in Yemen. Yemen-USA, Politics, 2/28/2002 - Yemen: An increase in oil byproducts
The Yemeni government is intending to execute the decision of increasing the price of oil and its byproducts during April. Yemen, Economics, 2/27/2002