"CRASH SITE -- A Yemeni soldier inspected a building damaged by a military aircraft crash in Sana'a, Yemen. Reports said authorities continued to search the rubble for bodies after the crash in a residential area on Monday that killed 12 (Boston Globe February 20 2013)."
Hmmmmmm.
"10 DIE IN YEMEN PLANE CRASH -- The twisted remnants of a military aircraft smoldered after crashing Tuesday in a residential neighborhood in Yemen's capital, Sana, killing 10 and injuring 17, security officials said. The plane crashed during a training mission, destroying two houses. People may be under the rubble, witnesses said (Boston Globe February 21 2013)."
"Separatists, Yemeni troops clash in south; 2 dead" by AHMED AL-HAJ | Associated Press, February 22, 2013
ADEN, Yemen — A celebration by thousands of Yemenis marking the first anniversary of the country’s presidential election was interrupted by a shootout on Thursday between government forces and disgruntled members of a southern independence movement, officials said.
What the lack of Yemen coverage shows is a secret U.S. war as well as unapproved protests, even though they replaced one puppet with another to try and fool the Yemenis with a false, I mean, fresh face.
Two separatists were killed in the clash that began as President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s supporters gathered in the main square of the city of Aden on Yemen’s southwest coast to send a message that the central government is in control of southern Yemen after years of lawlessness.
The demonstrators carried Hadi’s posters and marked his one-candidate referendum. The vote drew an end to a yearlong uprising that ousted the longtime autocratic rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh stepped down as part of US-backed power transfer deal that gave him immunity from prosecution.
Wahid Ali Rashed, the governor of Aden, told the gathering: ‘‘Unity will continue.’’
But that sentiment is not shared by a strong majority of southerners who want to separate from the north after what they say are years of discrimination. And the shooting showed the limits of the government’s ability to practice its authority.
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"HIGH PRAISE -- Supporters of Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, climbed on flagpoles Wednesday in Sana, the nation's capital, during a rally marking the first anniversary of his handover of power. Saleh, speaking to tens of thousands of cheering supporters, urged his country to "forget about the past and look at the future (Boston Globe February 28 2013)."
"Fighting in Radda leaves seven dead
SANA — Five soldiers and two Al Qaeda militants were killed Saturday in fighting in Radda, and a senior intelligence officer was gunned down in the south. A Yemeni security official said the soldiers were killed when Al Qaeda fighters attacked a military checkpoint (AP)."
"Yemen drone strikes kill 5 suspected al Qaeda militants" by Ahmed Al-Haj | Associated Press, April 18, 2013
SANA, Yemen — Two US drone strikes Wednesday killed at least five suspected al Qaeda militants and destroyed the house of another in a mountainous area south of the capital city of Sana, a Yemeni security official and witnesses said.
Four were killed in the first strike while riding a vehicle in the desert area of Oussab al-Ali, about 90 miles south of Sana, the official said.
The second strike killed a fifth suspected jihadist, Hamed Radman. A drone bombed his house, the official said.
Radman is known to security authorities as an influential al Qaeda member and played a role in recruitment, he said.
A witness in a nearby village said he saw columns of smoke rising after two explosions rocked the area.
He said that US drones have been flying over his village for three days and are still in the sky.
The region, shaped like a triangle and located in the middle of three provinces of central Damar, southern Ibb, and eastern Hodeida, has become a hideout for al Qaeda militants since the Yemeni government intensified its offensive against their former strongholds in the south during the past several months.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
In Sana, Yemeni authorities have raided houses of suspected al Qaeda members in the past 48 hours, arresting more than 15, including a man whose brother was killed in one of the drone strikes in southern city of Abyan in the past months, the official said.
The arrests are part of tightening security measures in Sana in the vicinity of the foreign embassies, companies, and hotels.
Yemen’s al Qaeda branch, known as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is considered the group’s most dangerous.
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After a diligent and exhaustive search through my piles of Globe clippings that is all I found about Yemen these last six months.
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I'm sorry, readers; I have a tendency to do that.
UPDATE: Is 11-year-old 'escaped child bride' who took the internet by storm telling the whole truth? Doubts emerge about Yemeni girl's story
