Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 10/7/2002
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of October 7, 2002
- Aden - Abyan army claims responsibility for the French oil tanker explosion
The Yemeni minister of transport and naval affairs Saeed al-Yafi' announced on Thursday that Sanaa does not rule out any hypothesis on reasons behind the explosion which took place on Sunday in the French oil tanker Limburg off the Yemeni coast. Yemen, Local, 10/11/2002 - Washington: the Fire in the French oil tanker off Yemeni coast is an accident
Reports more likely explained the explosion in the French oil tanker Liburg off the Yemeni coasts on Sunday as a result of an accident, especially after American sources confirmed the Yemeni view point which ruled out a "terrorist action," despite the fact that the Yemeni authorities remain cautious until the end of the investigations. Yemen-USA, Local, 10/8/2002 - French oil tanker blown off Eastern coast of Yemen, 12 wounded, 13 missing
The French embassy in Sanaa said that 12 persons were wounded in a French oil tanker explosion off the eastern coast of Yemen. Yemen, Local, 10/7/2002