Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 4/11/2005
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of April 11, 2005
- Yemen announces control of al-Houthi positions
Yemen announced that its forces were able recently to control the positions of the supporters of the Shiite clergy Hussein Bader Eddine al-Houthi after bloody confrontations took place in Saadah governorate in the north west of the country. Yemen, Local, 4/13/2005 - Yemeni opposition reject use of power as violation of the constitution
The Yemeni opposition parties rejected the use of force and violence outside the framework of the constitution and the law, and deplored all forms of "sectarian, tribal, and regional extremism forms." Yemen, Politics, 4/11/2005 - 40 members of al-Houthi supporters killed in Yemen
The Yemeni authorities said it killed at least 40 gunmen of the followers of Bader Eddine al-Houthi during the armed confrontations which took place in Sadaah governorate to the northern west of the country. Yemen, Local, 4/11/2005 - Western warnings for foreign citizens in Yemen
Yemeni officials played down the American and British warnings over a likely attack by extremists against their citizens or interest in Yemen. Yemen, Local, 4/11/2005