Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 9/16/2002
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of September 16, 2002
- Francs in Yemen discusses means of chasing al-Qaida suspects
American sources have unveiled that the American ambassador to Yemen Edmond Halle and the commander of the American central leadership Tommy Francs are discussing with Yemeni officials means of chasing persons who are involved in "terrorist acts." Yemen-USA, Politics, 9/21/2002 - US, Yemeni secret plan in search of al-Qaida members
CIA and the American army have prepared for launching a large scale secret operation in Yemen in search of al- Qaida fighters who are presumed to have fled from Afghanistan to Yemen. Yemen-USA, Politics, 9/19/2002 - Al-Naas: Ruling party in Yemen accused of damaging al-Islah party; using public funds
The speaker of the Yemeni parliament Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hussein al-Ahmad, who is also the chairman of the opposition al-Islah ( reforms ) party has accused the ruling People's Congress Party of seeking to weaken his party and damage it. Yemen, Politics, 9/18/2002 - Yemenis interrogated in New York
American official sources announced on Monday that the five Yemenis who are carrying the American nationality and who were arrested on Friday in Buffalo, New York, under the charge of forming a cell for al-Qaida organization were investigated several weeks before the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yemen-USA, Local, 9/17/2002