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 Why War? Keywords: Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Republic of Yemen is a country in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt under Nasser aided the southern Marxist Yemen force militarily, including the use of chemical weapons, specifically mustard gas and perhaps an organophosphate nerve agent, against royalist troops in North Yemen.
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oil production, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/read.php?offset=15&id=329&sortby=   (760 words)

  
 Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Republic of Yemen is a country in the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia.
After unification, the Republic of Yemen was accepted as a member of the ACC in place of its YAR predecessor.
Yemen is not a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
creekin.net /n200-yemen.html   (1334 words)

  
 Armed force : Military   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Militaries in many larger countries are divided into an army, an air force, and a navy (if necessary).
The investment in military forces and their associated technologies can result in many ancillary benefits to the society as a whole.
These military investments are increased during a war or other conflict, and in a virtuous cycle can accelerate the technological development of the society as a whole.
www.city-search.org /mi/military.html   (891 words)

  
 Military of Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 4,443,312 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 249,292 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 5.2% (FY01)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Yemen   (127 words)

  
 Military victorious - Yemen Times
Military forces are still, however, chasing several militants still hiding in the vast mountains of Abyan.
The military forces that surrounded the area from the north and south at Makram found a vehicle belonging to the escapees.
Military units have started their withdrawal from the area after the successful operation as eyewitnesses have seen military convoys and trucks leaving the area towards Aden.
www.yementimes.com /article.shtml?i=646&p=front&a=1   (594 words)

  
 World Tribune.com: U.S. asks major increase in military aid for Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The aid is meant to train and equip Yemen's navy, coast guard and special operations forces.
The department said Yemen received $20 million in supplemental military aid in fiscal 2002.
Officials said the military aid would be used for the supply of naval vessels to help form Yemen's coast guard.
216.26.163.62 /2003/ss_yemen_02_05.html   (229 words)

  
 U.S.-Yemen Military Relationship - An American Forward Presence?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Republic of Yemen occupies the southern strip of the Arabian Peninsula and controls one side of the southern entrance to the Red Sea.
CENTCOM was drawn to Yemen because the command felt that it had a chance of securing approval to establish a U.S. military base on Arab soil, something that had eluded the United States for over a decade.
Prior to the latest visit, Arab media reported that General Zinni was in Yemen to request that President Salih allow the United States to establish a military base in Yemen, probably on the island of Socotra.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/middle_east/19233   (553 words)

  
 Front Page - Issue 53 - Yemen Times
Born in Kahal village in Nadira district of Ibb governorate in 1942.
Yemen Times has reviewed this issue and met two members of the JMP and others to know all there is to know about the new law.
Yemen is among those countries which has cooperated with the US to track down al-Qaeda elements.
www.yementimes.com /02/iss53/front.htm   (2249 words)

  
 Why War? Cheney Offers More Military Aid to Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The official said teams of military advisers were expected to start arriving in Yemen soon to supplement about two dozen U.S. military advisers already there.
The administration is courting Yemen in hopes of preventing the mountainous, partially lawless country from becoming another Afghanistan by providing sanctuary to fleeing al-Qaida terrorists.
Yemen has an unprotected 850-mile border with Saudi Arabia and a 1,500-mile coastline – and little in the way of a coast guard.
www.why-war.com /news/read.php?id=1315&printme   (814 words)

  
 Incessant Rant: France & Yemen Sign Military Pact...
However, France signing a military pact with Yemen just may be a positive act.
Yemen is not too far displaced from the mid-1800's of the United States.
However, Yemen, is clearly advertising for investors into their string of Red Sea Islands.
incessantrant.blogspot.com /2005/03/france-yemen-sign-military-pact.html   (843 words)

  
 Station Information - Military of Yemen
Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Forces, paramilitary (includes Police)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $414 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 7.6% (FY99) \n:See also : Yemen
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/military_of_yemen.html   (49 words)

  
 BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | US general seeks closer ties with Yemen
The Yemen news agency says the talks, which took place in Yemen, focused on the prospects for co-operation in defence and on the Middle East peace process.
Although the US embassy in Yemen vigorously denies the suggestion that setting up military bases is on General Zinni's agenda, other western diplomats believe the idea has some foundation.
A small number of US troops are already in Yemen as part of a humanitarian aid programme to clear unexploded mines from the south of the country.
news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/world/middle_east/newsid_100000/100429.stm   (417 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - International terrorism - Yemen military offers protection to vessels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
YEMEN deployed military ships and helicopters to protect foreign vessels yesterday amid evidence that the blast which hit a French-flagged tanker was a terrorist attack.
French officials said yesterday they expected Yemen to find and punish those responsible if Sunday’s explosion aboard the Limburg was not an accident.
"Military ships, patrol boats and helicopters are deployed to provide monitoring and protect foreign ships visiting Yemeni ports," a Yemeni official said, adding that fishing boats had been ordered not to approach foreign vessels.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1&id=1130532002   (465 words)

  
 yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Yemen, N - Geological Map of North Yemen 1:500,000.
Yemen, N - Geological Map of North Yemen 1:250,000.
Yemen, S - Photogeological Map of the Western Aden Protectorate 1:250,000.
users.powernet.co.uk /geopubs/yemen.htm   (153 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Kidnappers were to join Yemen military
The Jihad organisation that kidnapped 16 Western tourists in Yemen last week was to have been absorbed into the Yemeni army to curb its activities.
It runs a military training camp at Huttat, in the Maraqisha mountains of Abyan province, which has links with Osama bin Laden and other extremist groups.
More controversially, they also demanded that Arab veterans of the Afghan war who were living in Yemen should be granted political asylum.
www.guardian.co.uk /yemen/Story/0,2763,209226,00.html   (640 words)

  
 CNN.com - World - Yemen military surround Swedish engineer's kidnappers - November 18, 2000
SAN`A, Yemen -- Yemeni soldiers have surrounded the village where a kidnapped 69 year-old Swedish engineer is being held, Yemeni officials said Saturday.
The engineer was in Yemen as a consultant for the Swedish company Sweco International, which is building a diesel power plant in San`a, said the company's president, Richard Olsson.
Yemen denies any of its officials were involved in USS Cole attack
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/11/18/yemen.kidnapping   (584 words)

  
 Yemen Facilities
During a 1979 border conflict between the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the United States cooperated with Saudi Arabia to greatly expand the security assistance program to the YAR by providing F-5 aircraft, tanks, vehicles and training.
Defense relations between Yemen and the U.S. are improving with the recent resumption of International Military Education and Training assistance and the commercial transfer of some military spare parts.
Currently, Yemen is an important partner in the campaign against terrorism, providing assistance in the military, diplomatic, and financial arenas.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/yemen.htm   (568 words)

  
 Yemen military plane crashes, pilot saved   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
SANAA, Yemen, July 3 (UPI) -- Military officials said a Russian-made MiG-29 of the Yemeni Air Force crashed north of the nation's capital.
Yemeni military plane crashes (August 28, 2005) -- Yemen said Sunday one of its military aircraft crashed and killed its pilot during a routine exercise.
Yemen to buy Russian military choppers (June 15, 2005) -- Yemen and Russia are finalizing a deal for 12 Russian-made K-52 helicopters at a cost of $150 million, reports said.
www.sciencedaily.com /upi?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050703-10420100-bc-yemen-crash.xml   (273 words)

  
 US army chief to watch joint military exercises with Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
US and Yemeni army, navy and air forces are to conduct joint exercises under the eye of the head of US Central Command, General John Abizaid, who arrives here Saturday, official government sources told AFP.
Seven gunboats delivered by Washington to Sanaa last week as part of stepped up military cooperation in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, suicide attacks in the United States would join the manoeuvres, the sources added.
Yemen, at the request of Washington, has cracked down on suspected members of the Al-Qaeda terror network which was blamed for the attacks and has received US help in fighting the militants.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040218101511.uiqn3j8o.html   (171 words)

  
 Yemen Finally Acknowledges Blast Was Deliberate -- 10/16/2000
The remaining six are being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Ramstein, Germany.
Bin Laden is known to have strong links to terrorists in Yemen, an attractive base for anti-Western militancy.
Yemeni columnist Hassan Al-Haifi, writing in the Yemen Times Monday, asked whether it was far-fetched to suspect Israel of being behind the bombing.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200010\For20001016d.html   (432 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - Yemen-US in military drill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Official government sources in capital Sanaa have said Abizaid is due in Yemen on Saturday to observe the war games, which are to be staged off and around Yemen's southern port city of Aden.
Seven gunboats delivered by Washington to Yemen last week as part of stepped-up military cooperation between the two countries in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, would join the joint manoeuvres.
Yemen, at the request of the US, has cracked down on suspected members of al-Qaida.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/A5799CFB-EDB2-4A2A-91FF-0EABCE7B7A3B.htm   (222 words)

  
 Extensive security meeting of military apparatus - Yemen Times
An extensive meeting for the security and military bodies in Aden, Abyan, and Lahj governorates was held on July 2 in Aden.
The President’s orders and the recent military operations against militant camps in Abyan were discussed during the meeting.
During the recent military operations performed in Huttat area-Abyan governorate, a key mastermind and four more militants were killed.
www.yementimes.com /article.shtml?i=648&p=local&a=2   (233 words)

  
 CBS News | U.S. Military Advisers To Yemen? | March 1, 2002 16:48:51
The Yemen operation was disclosed as the United States also prepared to send Army special forces trainers to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help train that country's military in battling guerrillas near the Chechen border.
Washington has been pushing Yemen — birthplace of the father of bin Laden — for greater cooperation on anti-terrorism since 17 American sailors were killed in the October 2000 attack on the Cole.
Two of the people Yemen is pursuing, Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal and Ali Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, are suspected of involvement in the Cole bombing and are believed to be under the protection of powerful tribal chiefs.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/03/01/world/main502658.shtml   (887 words)

  
 Yemen military plane crashes, pilot saved:- - World News - Webindia123.com
Military officials said a Russian-made MiG-29 of the Yemeni Air Force crashed north of the nation's capital.
The Rai daily quoted officials as saying the aircraft's pilot ejected with his parachute and was saved by the residents in the area of Emran.
Last year, Yemen purchased 14 fighter jets from Russia to be delivered gradually.
news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=93724&n_date=20050703&cat=World   (115 words)

  
 Saleh, Cheney discuss security, military cooperation, terrorism in Yemen, striking Iraq
Yemeni officials, on the other hand, said that Washington will send 100 military advisor in three shifts to train the Yemeni security forces and this will be in the context of an agreement reached by the two sides earlier this month.
Cheney said that his visit to Yemen was an important station in his current tour in the region but he refrained from answering questions on whether he agreed with Salem on the issue of the American military trainers.
Yemen, however, is the third country to be visited by Cheny in the framework of a tour on the Middle East which is to include 11 states.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/020315/2002031507.html   (444 words)

  
 Military Of Yemen Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Yemen reduces military expenditures
In a statement to press, the Yemeni minister of economic development and planning Ahmad Muhammad Soufan explained that the annual military spending in the years 1997 and 1998 consumed almost 15% of the GNP and more than 32% of the state's budget.
Soufan added that implementing the border agreement will put an end to the security and military spending, strengthen the state's general budget, increase public assets and convert spending into development, as well as bolster investment and tourism in Yemen and improve the general economic conditions in this country.
The Yemeni minister remarked that the border agreement stated that Yemen and Saudi Arabia should work to develop joint investments especially in the area of gas, oil and petrochemicals.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/000721/2000072107.html   (246 words)

  
 CNN.com - Yemen has history of terrorism - October 12, 2000
The attack was the first targeting of the U.S. military in Yemen since the Pentagon pulled out all 100 American military personnel based there in January 1993.
In the decade since Marxist South Yemen merged with conservative North Yemen, the country has been plagued by sporadic terrorist kidnappings and bombings.
But Zein al-Abidine al-Mihdar, leader of Yemen's militant Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, was executed in 1999 after being convicted of abducting 16 Western tourists and killing four of them.
archives.cnn.com /2000/US/10/12/ship.terrorism.yemen.ap   (535 words)

  
 Military News: Yemen Court Sentences USS Cole Bombers to Death
This is the first time anyone has been sentenced to death in Yemen for an act of terrorism.
Jamal al-Badawi and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were sentenced to death Wednesday, as the masterminds of the attack in which a small boat loaded with explosives rammed into the American destroyer in the Gulf of Aden.
Yemen arrested hundreds of suspected al-Qaida members in the months following the September 11 attacks.
www.vnis.com /story.cfm?textnewsid=1191   (694 words)

  
 Military of Yemen - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Military of Yemen - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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