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Ali Abdullah Saleh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: علي عبد الله صالح) (born March 21, 1942) is the current President of Yemen. Saleh was Yemen's first directly elected president in 1999, winning 96.2% of the vote, but the main opposition socialist party was barred from the election. Saleh was sworn in for another term on September 27. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh   (443 words)

Yemen In North Yemen President Saleh was re-elected for a further five years in 1983, and again in 1988, while in South Yemen Ali Nasser Muhammad was re-elected secretary general of the YSP and its political bureau for another five years in 1985. The unification was proclaimed in May, with Ali Abdullah Saleh as leader of the new Republic of Yemen and San'a as its capital. The winner, predictably, was Ali Abdullah Saleh, former president of North Yemen, and president of the unified Yemen for the past nine years. www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0018495.html   (1337 words)

Ali Abdullah Saleh Saleh's main effort has been to unify Yemen, which he succeeded with in 1990. 1962 September 26: Saleh leads a coup that replaces the Muslim monarchy of North Yemen with a civilian government. Saleh would not keep his promise of inviting NDF into the government. i-cias.com /e.o/saleh_a.htm   (501 words)

Ali Abdullah Saleh, Dictator of the Month January, 2006 Ali Abdullah Saleh was born on 21 March 1942 into the Hashid tribe in Bayt al-Ahmar, what was at the time the Sana’a governmental region. Saleh has been sharply accused of allowing and/ or fostering numerous criminal activities, including the smuggling of drugs to Saudi Arabia, trafficking of arms into various countries in Eastern Europe. In fact, during Saleh’s regime a large scale militarisation has occurred, with the defense budget tripling between 1998 and 2003, despite that the country is the poorest Arab country in the world. www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Saleh/Jan2006SalehEN.htm   (970 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Bowing out?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) "Saleh's decision was to soothe the atmosphere and remove tensions which exist in the political arena because of critical reports which held Saleh responsible for widespread corruption," the sources added. For his part, Ali Al-Sarari, chairman of the political circle of the Yemen Socialist Party (YSP), said the president's decision was but "a response to strong criticism" addressed to him by the opposition press. Saleh was chosen as chairman and Al-Baid as vice chairman. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/752/re2.htm   (785 words)

Yemen Saleh, recalling the memorable drive he took on November 29, 1989, from Taiz to Aden, said, "I was heading a big delegation of more than 100 citizens from all political and social affiliations from North and South Yemen. Saleh was received by the socialist party leadership at Karish checkpoint on the North/ South borders, and joined in one vehicle by Ali Al Bidh, Haidar al Attas and Salem Saleh on the way to Aden. Saleh also recommended the merger of the two governments, emphasizing there were three times as many government employees in the south as in the north. www.internationalspecialreports.com /middleeast/00/yemen   (2882 words)

Armies of Liberation » Blog Archive » President Ali Abdullah Saleh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Strangely, Saleh has a unique quality which distinguishes him from the rest of all Arab and foreign leaders, it is telling lies, he is the biggest liar in the universe, he is not only lying to his citizens but also to the whole world. Ahmad,the son of Saleh, is the commander of Special Forces and the strongest personality to succeed him, his nephew Tariq is the commander of the Central Security and Tariq’s brother is the commander of the National Security. Ali Mohsin Alahmar, Saleh’s half brother, is the commander of the North West Region and the second strongest personality to be the successor of Saleh and Ali Saleh Alahmar, Saleh’s brother, is the commander of the Air Forces. armiesofliberation.com /archives/2005/07/07/president-ali-abdullah-saleh   (3199 words)

GEESKA AFRIKA MAGAZINE AND HAN- geeskaafrika.com Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of the Republic of Yemen, visited Washington, D.C. The glories of the past have long since faded. Yemen and President Ali Abdullah salah said: "We call on the international community and Arab states to help the Somali government to rebuild Somalia to enable it to take its role in the Horn of Africa for the sake of comprehensive peace in the region," said Saleh. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the one Arab leader that attended the inauguration in Nairobi and called on international assistance to help the new president bring peace to Somalia. www.geeskaafrika.com /somalia_8nov04.htm   (1771 words)

BBC News | Middle East | Saleh set to win Yemen poll Yemen's current president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is widely expected to win against his sole challenger, little-known Najib al-Sha'abi, from his own party. Although local journalists expect President Saleh to win around 90% of the vote, they believe that the issues thrown up by these elections will change life for the better, with promises of much-needed reforms coming from both candidates. President Saleh ruled former North Yemen from 1978 until its unification with the south in 1990. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/455610.stm   (322 words)

In eleventh-hour reversal, President Saleh announces candidacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Saleh reversed his decision at a massive rally in Sana’a organised recently by the GPC. Saleh, president of unified Yemen since 1990, went on to say that he would “bow to the popular pressure and appeals of the Yemeni people” by accepting the nomination. Saleh, meanwhile, won the 1999 presidential election with a whopping 96.2 percent of the vote. www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=54151   (435 words)

CNN.com - Yemeni president says he will step down in 2006 - Jul 17, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Saleh, president since 1978, said he would remain in office until the September 2006 elections. Some in the opposition were skeptical of Saleh's announcement Sunday, suggesting it was a ploy to spark calls for him to stay in the race or that he was paving the way for his son to take power. His son, Ahmed Saleh, 38, is the commander of the elite Yemeni Republican Guard and of the special forces. www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/07/17/yemen.president.ap   (340 words)

Sea Island Summit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) President Ali Ali Abdullah Saleh was born on March 21st 1942 in Bait Al Ahmar village in the Sana'a Governorate. President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded on numerous occasions while defending the revolution and the Republic. President Ali Abdullah Saleh challenged the attempts made to redivide the nation by the secessionist conspiracy. dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/g8usa/yemen.htm   (709 words)

Journalism in Yemen: A Battle for Truth in the Age of Terror - Worldpress.org Rampant corruption is a logical consequence of the concentration of power in Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh is the president, the head of the military, the chief judicial officer, the head of the ruling party, and essentially controls the parliament and the official media. Saleh’s nephew Tariq is the commander of the Central Security, and Tariq’s brother is the commander of the National Security. Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, Saleh’s half brother, is the commander of the North West Region, and Ali Saleh al-Ahmar, Saleh’s brother, is the commander of the Air Forces. www.worldpress.org /Mideast/2144.cfm   (2277 words)

Home The President of Yemen has been very diplomatic on being supportive of both Democratic and Republican administrations.President Saleh has also resumed ties with Saudi Arabia following the Yemeni government's severed relations after standing neutral during desert storm forcing an almost estimated 1 million Yemenis living in the Kingdom to be deported. However, he has done the impossible, now King Abdullah recently stated that Yemen is a part of the Gulf. President Saleh has skills and we are confident that this President is on the verge of becoming re-elected in 2006. www.aliabdullahsaleh.com   (867 words)

Saleh Ali Abdullah - Search Results - MSN Encarta Saleh Ali Abdullah - Search Results - MSN Encarta Saleh, Ali Abdullah (1942-), president of Yemen (1990-) and president of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) (1978-1990). More MSN Search results on "Saleh Ali Abdullah" uk.encarta.msn.com /Saleh_Ali_Abdullah.html   (59 words)

'Ali' Abdallah Salih Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography After rising through the military ranks and following a series of military coups, 'Ali' Abdallah Salih (born 1942) was elected president of the Yemeni Arab Republic (North Yemen) in 1978. Brigadier General 'Ali' Abdallah Salih became the first president--officially, chairman of the Presidential Council--of the Arab world's newest state, the Republic of Yemen, in May 1990. In historical terms, however, 'Ali' Abdallah Salih's chief accomplishment was to surmount Yemen's traditional family-oriented factional politics to promote the political stability that allowed realization of his countrymen's long-held dream to unify all of southwestern Arabia into a single state. www.bookrags.com /biography/ali-abdallah-salih   (1095 words)

Ain-Al-Yaqeen - July 14, 2006 - Article 1 President Ali Abdullah Saleh left Riyadh after a brief private visit to the kingdom during which he was reassured of the health of the speaker of house of representatives of Yemen Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hussein Al-Ahmar who was hospitalised at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. Meantime the Yemeni Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mohammad Ali Al-Ahwal said that the session would focus on the latest regional and international developments in addition to discussing the means of enhancing the bilateral relations in various areas. Al-Ahwal said that President Saleh's visit came in the framework of the regular meetings between the political leaderships in the two brotherly countries, pointing out that President Saleh's letter, conveyed last week by the Interior Minister Rashid al-Alimi, was related to coordinate the two countries' attitudes toward the security and terrorism issues. www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20060714/feat1en.htm   (3255 words)

NewsYemen As the presidential elections approach and the General People's Congress (GPC) prepares for an exceptional conference to announce its candidate for presidency, expected to be Ali Abdullah Saleh, the General Books Authority proclaimed an international contest on designing the Greatest Al-Saleh Library in Sana'a. Though the government used to prevent linking the government institutions to president Saleh's name, the chairman of the General Books Authority Fares al-Saqaf said the authority would start carrying out the project in September according to the Yemeni architecture and international standards. President Saleh also funded the greatest center for orphans in Sana'a, that was accomplished by the Islah Charitable Society. www.newsyemen.net /en/view_news.asp?sub_no=4_2006_05_14_6081   (306 words)

Yemeni President Wins Re-election - New York Times DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 23 — President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been declared the winner of the election on Wednesday for another seven-year term with 77.2 percent of the vote, the state-run television announced Saturday. Saleh’s main opponent, Faisal bin Shamlan, won 21.8 percent of the nearly six million total votes cast in what opposition figures on Friday said was a rigged ballot but which independent observers termed an open election with a few infractions. The final results were released by the election commission in the legally mandated 72 hours, after a hotly contested election pitting Yemenis’ desire for change against their need for stability. travel2.nytimes.com /2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24yemen.html   (290 words)

President Ali Abdulla Saleh of Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Taiz, Sep 15 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh held here on Thursday a meeting with the officials of the local council and executive office in Taiz province. SANA'A, Sept 10 - President Ali Abdullah Saleh sent on Saturdaya cable of congratulations to the Egyptian President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak on occasion of reelecting him by the majority, in the first presidential elections in Egypt, for the president position. SANA'A, Aug 22- President Ali Abdullah Saleh paid a visit to secretarial capital to evaluate the construction of the project of Assailah which aims to protect Sana'a from the floods. www.presidentsaleh.gov.ye /en   (308 words)

Siblings (Muhammad Ali & Abdullah Saleh Arshad): Fahd Arshad's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Ali is three years younger and that many inches taller than I am. Ali (Muhammad Ali Arshad) is a senior at University of Pittsburgh. Abd (Abdullah Saleh Arshad), on the other hand, is a senior in primary school. www.cs.cmu.edu /~fahd/family/siblings.html   (118 words)

Embassy of Yemen - Press Release (09/12/01):  A Letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of ... President Saleh reiterated Yemen’s condemnation of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and Yemen’s denunciation of all forms of terrorism. President Saleh expressed his concern and hope that the military action in Afghanistan does not exceed its borders and spread to other parts of the Middle East, igniting further instability in the region. In addition President Saleh and his delegation met with representatives of American and Canadian Oil Companies currently working in Yemen as well as those interested in setting up operations in Yemen. www.yemenembassy.org /welcome/pressrel/releases/1.11.27.01.htm   (681 words)

Warning of loosing security in Somalia; Ali Abdullah Saleh: tripartite coalition not directed against any side The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has stressed that the tripartite "Yemeni, Ethiopian and Sudanese" coalition is but an open coalition before all countries and that it is not directed against any one, rather an economic, cultural, social and security gathering especially in the area to fighting terrorism. Replying to a question on Yemeni- Eritrean relations at the meantime, Saleh explained that what had happened between Yemen and Eritrea was treated as what had also happened between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Saleh indicated the Yemeni- Ethiopian relations, noting "we with Ethiopia meet in several stations. www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/030725/2003072509.html   (514 words)

Yemen: Amnesty International calls on President Saleh to end illegal detention of Yemenis "disappeared" by the USA As President ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Saleh began a visit to Washington to meet US President George W. Bush, Amnesty International called on the Yemeni President to make clear that his country will no longer hold its nationals in indefinite detention without trial on behalf or at the behest of US authorities. Currently, the Yemeni authorities continue to hold four of their own nationals without charge or trial, apparently on the instructions of the US government, three of whom were formerly “disappeared” and held in secret US-run interrogation centres for periods over one year before being handed to Yemeni custody. The organization also urged President Saleh to insist that any Yemeni nationals who may currently be “disappeared” and detained secretly by US officials, or persons acting on their behalf, or held at Guantánamo Bay, should immediately be brought within the ambit of the law and be treated in accordance with international human rights standards www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGMDE310192005   (529 words)

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