Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 1/13/2003
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of January 13, 2003
- Somali, Ethiopian refugees drowned off the Yemeni coasts
The UNHCR has stated that it stopped search operations for survivors in a boat drowning incident which was carrying Somali and Ethiopian refugees off Yemen on January 4. About 100 persons are expected to have been be killed in the incident. Yemen-Regional, Local, 1/16/2003 - Al-Sahwa: Yemeni opposition: killing al-Mutawakkil may be a terrorist act Yemen, Local, 1/16/2003
- Yemeni official killed in car accident Yemen, Local, 1/14/2003
- Germany: Washington, Sanaa request extraditing arrested Yemenis
A state of security alert was announced yesterday in Germany against likely terrorist attacks following the arrest of two Yemenis, one of them suspected to have had a major role in the attack against the US warship "USS Cole." The two men were held in a strongly guarded jail. Yemen-USA, Politics, 1/13/2003