Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 8/19/2002
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of August 19, 2002
- Sanaa apologizes for buying missiles parts from North Korea
The US Department of State has announced imposition of sanctions at a northern Korean company for selling Yemen components for the "Skud" missiles. This was before the US President George Bush came to power. Sanaa presented an "apology" over finalizing this deal. Yemen-USA, Politics, 8/24/2002 - Yemen: some 14 persons killed, wounded in Tribal clashes
The security authorities in Aden have accused one member of the local council in the city named Fadel Ali Awad of trying to topple the regime. Yemen, Local, 8/21/2002 - Saleh in Saudi Arabia: No justification for US attack on Iraq
The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced in Saudi Arabia on Sunday that directing an ( American ) attack against Iraq "is not justified." Yemen-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 8/19/2002