Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 11/24/2003
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of November 24, 2003
- Yemen: another leading figure in al-Qaida arrested
A high ranking security source in Sanaa announced that the Yemeni authorities arrested a second leading figure from al-Qaida organization, Hadi Dalqam, just two days after announcing the arrest of Muhammad al-Ahdal, who was described as one of the leading figures in Yemen in the organization's leadership. Yemen-USA, Local, 11/29/2003 - Sanaa denied Saddam's wife, daughter, resort to Yemen
A Yemeni official denied that the wife of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein resorted to Yemen with her younger daughter Hala, despite the offer given by the Yemeni authorities to her earlier to host them. Yemen-Iraq, Politics, 11/28/2003 - Yemen arrests an al-Qaida organization leaders
The Yemeni security forces said that the security department arrested on Tuesday one of the main figures of al-Qaida organization in the country after years he had spent hiding for accusations of being the master mind of attacks against western interests in Yemen. Yemen, Local, 11/26/2003 - One Saudi detainee committed suicide because Yemen refused him asylum
The Yemeni opposition announced the death of a Saudi citizen inside a Yemeni detention center, when he committed suicide, because the Yemeni authorities refused to give him and three of his colleagues the right to political asylum. Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Local, 11/24/2003