1544, Section: Opinion
Opinion
Published on 14 May 2012 by 2012 James Traub / foreignpolicy.com / May 11 in Opinion
The Obama administration has doubled down on the use of drones to go after bad guys. How long until the blowback comes?
Last month, according to news accounts, U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to widen the scope of drone attacks carried out against al Qaeda members in Yemen. Previously, strikes targeted only known individuals; henceforth, the CIA and the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command will be permitted to target people whose patterns of behavior make them high-value targets. Many counterterrorism and Yemen experts think that the White House is opening up the gates of hell. They might be right, but I wish the alternatives they suggest were more convincing.
Published on 14 May 2012 by 2012 Karen Greenberg / guardian.co.uk / May 9 in Opinion
As the news of this week’s intelligence sting against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula became public, there was a seemingly odd contradiction. On the one hand, the president, speaking from Afghanistan, had just announced that, thanks to US military action, Al-Qaeda was “on the path to defeat”. In the words of John Brennan, “In short, Al-Qaeda is losing badly.” On the other hand, there was news of a new and potentially lethal plot – a perhaps undetectable bomb aimed at blowing up an airplane.
Published on 10 May 2012 by David Ignatius in Opinion
The Osama bin Laden who emerges in the documents published online Thursday was not the typical homicidal political leader. Where Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin spurned the advice of honest advisers and increasingly cut themselves off from reality, bin Laden maintained to the end a surprisingly open and mutually critical exchange with his top aides.
Published on 10 May 2012 by nytimes.com Jameel Jaffer and Nathan Freed Wessler in Opinion
In Yemen, Pakistan and elsewhere the C.I.A. has used drones to kill thousands of people — including several Americans. Officials have aggressively defended the controversial program, telling journalists that it is effective, lawful and closely supervised.
Published on 3 May 2012 by Atiaf Alwazir / Al-Akhbar English / First published April 30 in Opinion
Political satire poking fun at Yemeni officials mushroomed during the country’s uprising. Starting among a receptive audience in the tents of Sana’a’s Change Square, political humor now features on national television stations.
Published on 30 April 2012 by The Economist in Opinion
Anisa is only 18, but already a mother of two and a widow. She married her husband, a fisherman, at 13. He “fell in the sea”, she says, and never came back. Cradled in her lap, Anisa’s younger daughter Amina is just shy of her third birthday. She looks more like a baby than a toddler. A fine layer of sweat covers her oversized forehead. She breathes rapidly, her belly sticking out from a dirty T-shirt, distended by hunger. Like many poor rural Yemenis, Anisa and Amina have suffered a series of shocks from which they may not recover.
Published on 30 April 2012 by Aref Abdullah Al-Selmi in Opinion
All of us knows the importance of higher education and its necessity in a world that recognizes only those with higher education degrees. In Yemen, getting a bachelor degree is very difficult as a result of corruption in the higher education sector. This corruption changed the public education system into a private one by establishing educational systems aimed towards profitability. In order to get a bachelor degree, Yemeni students – especially those with low marks at high school – have to give in to the reality and enroll in these private systems, because higher education is the gateway for a better future.
Published on 30 April 2012 by The Guardian Nesrine Malik in Opinion
The latest edition of Foreign Policy, the cover of which bears the same stark question posed by its main article ‘Why Do They Hate Us?’, has stirred up some serious controversy. In the article, Mona Eltahawy runs through a litany of indictments of women’s rights in the Middle East, and issues a call to arms against cultural relativism. What stands out, however, is her simple demand for readers to recognize that men, in the Arab world, hate women.
Published on 26 April 2012 by 2012 Jeremy B. White / ibtimes.com / April 19 in Opinion
In an effort to expand its campaign of covert drone strikes in Yemen, the Central Intelligence Agency has asked for the authority to target suspected terrorists without needing to establish their identity first.
Published on 26 April 2012 by 2012 Sarah Leah Whitson / Foreign Policy / April 20 in Opinion
Last week’s shutdown of Sanaa’s airport by security forces seeking to reverse President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s dismissal of top brass loyal to the ancien régime exemplified exactly where Yemen is stuck.
Published on 23 April 2012 by Diplomat and International Canada Khaled Bahah in Opinion
Yemen, an Arab country and one of the oldest centres of civilization, presides over one of the busiest and most crucial shipping routes in the world. Bordered by Saudi Arabia, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden and Oman, it comprises more than 555,000 square kilometers with some 2,000 kilometers of coast and in excess of 200 islands (including the famous natural paradise of Soqotra). Yemen’s population is approximately 24 million, with a growth rate of 3.4 percent and a GDP per capita of US$1,118.
Published on 16 April 2012 by The Daily Star Lebanon Volker Perthes in Opinion
More than a year into the Arab revolts, their outcomes remain highly uncertain. But some initial lessons for international politics – and for Western, particularly European, foreign policy – merit serious consideration. Almost everyone was surprised by the revolts, although the political and socioeconomic causal factors were well known. As is often true in crises that become systemic, we knew the phenomena, but failed to grasp their interaction, in part because politicians and analysts are unwilling to anticipate ruptures: The familiar is held to be stable even when it is known to be problematic. (Consider Saudi Arabia, which the United States and most of the West continue to regard as an island of “stability.”)
Published on 16 April 2012 by Ginny Hill، Foreign Policy in Opinion
Yemen’s army chief of staff, Major General Ahmed Ali Al-Ashwal, arrived in Washington, DC earlier this week to review the current state of military cooperation between Sana’a and Washington. Much rests on whether Yemen’s new president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Al-Hadi, can effectively reform the country’s military and security forces and bring them under unified, professional leadership. White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan recently voiced support for Al-Ashwal as “an impressive and professional military officer” and praised Hadi’s understanding of what it would take to “turn the Yemeni military into a professional and first-rate military organization.”
Published on 12 April 2012 by Khaleej Times Online Editorial in Opinion
The recent shakeup in Yemen’s powerful military is likely to consolidate President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi’s position. It will also boost confidence among the people who have to date been demanding reforms in the armed forces, because of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s continued influence through his handpicked loyalists.
Published on 12 April 2012 by The Daily Star Lebanon Mariam Fam & Alaa Shahine in Opinion
Amir Mohammad has been sleeping outside the Libyan Embassy in Cairo awaiting a visa for a week, his bed a layer of cardboard on the sidewalk. He has given up on finding a job in Egypt and is looking for a way out.
Published on 9 April 2012 by Aish Awas / aish@shebacss.com in Opinion
Within the last few weeks, US officials in the Department of Defence and the CIA have declared a number of statements depicting a bleak picture of the situation in Yemen.
Published on 2 April 2012 by Reuters Joseph Logan in Opinion
By prodding Yemen’s army to take on Islamist militants, the United States may entrench a split within its ranks and risks undermining the shaky political accord devised to stave off a descent into all-out civil war.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Naji Ghazali in Opinion
The deposed President Saleh used to use the government channel (Al-Yemen) to satisfy his ears when he was in power. But now he has not one channel, but three, with Al-Yemen Today, Al-Akeek and Azal echoing his famous speeches back to his ears as he continues to think ladies have been unable to give birth to another Saleh.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Editorial / The Washington Post / First published March 25 in Opinion
Domestic and international strictures empower the president to use lethal force, including targeted drone strikes, to protect the country against attack. That is so whether the target is a foreign national or a US citizen; and it is true whether the target is located on a traditional battlefield or ensconced in a foreign country that is unwilling or unable to assist in capture.
Published on 29 March 2012 by Aref Al-Selmi / arefalsalami2@gmail.com in Opinion
In my point of view, whatever all the names are of the conferences for helping Yemen, they should all be called “Begging for Yemen.”
Published on 29 March 2012 by Abubakr Al-Shamahi The Daily Star Lebanon / First published / March 20 in Opinion
On Feb. 21, Yemenis went to the polls to vote for their new transitional president. This election, however, was different. There was only one candidate, former Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Published on 26 March 2012 by Catherine Shakdam / First published March 11 in / Foreign Policy Blogs in Opinion
Published on 26 March 2012 by Hind Al-Eryani in Opinion
Published on 19 March 2012 by Harper's Magazine Scott Horton in Opinion
Yesterday I wrote about how the Obama Administration has insisted that its deal with Yemen’s dictatorship concerning the use of drones there is a secret, and how it has been wielding that specious claim to justify withholding publication of a controversial Justice Department memo that outlines the president’s supposed authority to order the assassination of an American citizen abroad. Now Jeremy Scahill has published an important study of what the Obama Administration is prepared to do to journalists who expose its hit operations in Yemen:
Published on 19 March 2012 by Galal Al-Mohammedi in Opinion
It is absolutely unfair and misguided to view the Yemeni Youth Popular Revolution as merely a vocal claim for bread and butter, or as a political conflict for power.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Gulf News / Editorial / March 12 in Opinion
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has not delivered the objectives it set itself, but there is no clear agreement on what to do about this.
Published on 15 March 2012 by Rami G. Khouri / The Daily Star / March 14 in Opinion
What is it that drives ordinary Arab men and women to do extraordinary things, such as demonstrate against their government for 12 months non-stop, at the risk of being killed every day? I have heard many explanations for the ongoing Arab uprisings, but one of the best and most succinct I heard was at a seminar on Arab youth unemployment this week in Beirut, co-sponsored by the International Labor Organization regional office and Germany’s Friedrich Ebert Foundation. ILO regional director Nada Al-Nashef captured one of the most complex but important dynamics underpinning the uprisings when she said that to learn the lessons of the past 16 months of populist citizen revolts across the region, we must better understand “the nexus between unemployment, poverty and inequality” defining the lives and attitudes of so many young men and women in the Middle East. That may sound like obvious and slightly clichéd, but it strikes me as profoundly important for touching the heart of the malaise that had driven millions of Arabs to revolt.
Published on 12 March 2012 by 2012 Atiaf Alwazir / Al-Akhbar English / Feb. 14 in Opinion
In February 2011, Umm Hashim, a 45-year-old mother and resident of Yemen’s capital Sana’a was glued to her television. For hours she watched the opposition channel Suhail broadcast images of injured protesters being rushed into the makeshift field hospital in Change Square. As tears rolled down her face, she vowed to go to Change Square and help in any way she could. Today, one year later, Umm Hashim has become one of the managers of the field hospital in Change Square who administers volunteers and checks on the medical supplies.
Published on 8 March 2012 by 2012 Madeleine Wells / Foreign Policy / Feb. 27 in Opinion
Walking last month into the Shabaab Al-Sumud tent in Yemen’s Maydan Taghayr – Change Square – I was greeted by eager faces and talkative qat chewers. “We love Americans,” a Houthi supporter nodded his head vigorously, and, in doing so, revealed an enormous poster on the tent flap behind him on which the group’s infamous slogan was inscribed: “God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews.” Seeing my eyes widen, he offered, “We hate American policies, not people. The roots of the slogan lie in America’s war on the Iraqi people and support for Israeli policies against the Palestinians. Let me tell you what it is that the Houthis want...”
Published on 5 March 2012 by 2012 Rami G. Khouri / The Daily Star / Feb. 29 in Opinion
A persistent question we have heard during each Arab uprising across the Arab world in the past year has been, “What happens after the regime falls? Who takes over power?” This is usually asked with a tone of foreboding, with concern that bad or unknown political forces will assume power. Most worry revolves around the prospect of the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamists assuming power, on the grounds that they are the best organized political groups.
Published on 5 March 2012 by Akuf Abdulamir / Khaleej Times Online / 3 Mar. 2012 in Opinion
Let me talk about the Gulf Arabs and the way they are changing now. The region has been in the international spotlight since the first Gulf war when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Published on 5 March 2012 by David Ignatius / washingtonpost.com in Opinion
In the turbulent annals of the Arab Spring, last weekend’s ceremony in Yemen was so quiet it was barely noticed. But it marked the transfer of power from an aging autocrat who had ruled his country for nearly 34 years to a new leader who’s saying the right things about reform.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Editorial / Khaleejtimes.com / 25 February 2012 in Opinion
The International Conference on Somalia held recently in London succeeded in bringing the impoverished and security-challenged African nation to world attention.
Published on 1 March 2012 by Emir Suljagic in Opinion
The daily footage of the bombardment and siege of Homs by Bashar Al-Assad’s army and security forces evokes vivid memories for those familiar with the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Bosnians are all too well-acquainted with the meat grinding machinery of modern siege warfare. This relentless assault on Syria’s people can no longer be countenanced.
Published on 1 March 2012 by 2012 Linda S. Heard / Gulf News / Feb. 28 in Opinion
A powerful, united and determined Arab world could pressure America to get serious about a Palestinian state.
Published on 27 February 2012 by Dr. Robert Burrowes in Opinion
Published on 27 February 2012 by Foreignpolicy.com Inna Lazareva in Opinion
Activists are preparing to charge Yemen’s ex-strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh with crimes against humanity – despite a deal that guarantees him immunity at home.
Published on 23 February 2012 by David Ignatius / The Daily Star in Opinion
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan. But his biggest worry is the growing possibility that Israel will attack Iran militarily over the next few months.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Editorial / Gulf News in Opinion
Despite numerous warnings, threats and protests, the US continues its missile attacks in Pakistan. The latest on Thursday killed the most senior Pakistani in Al-Qaeda, Badar Mansour. According to one estimate, more than 200 such missile attacks have been made since 2009 in Pakistan's tribal belt.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Mahir Ali / Khaleejtimes.com in Opinion
“Yemenis prepare to vote Saleh out of office” was The Guardian’s slightly disconcerting headline over a news report about a somewhat fake election in a country that has experienced one of the least fruitful versions of the so-called Arab Spring.
Published on 23 February 2012 by Editorial / Khaleejtimes.com in Opinion
Yemeni Vice-President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi is to now officially replace outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh after elections on Tuesday.
Published on 19 February 2012 by Joseph S. Nye / The Daily Star in Opinion
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes.”
Published on 19 February 2012 by Michele Cervone d’Urso / Head of the EU Delegation in Opinion
The Yemeni people have shown courage, determination and commitment to driving forward and launching a process of political transformation and social justice in the past year. This revolutionary spirit has triggered the transition process and the February 21 peaceful transfer of power through early Presidential elections. The international community has been united in speaking with one voice in support of Yemen’s transition and the legitimate aspirations of the Yemeni people.
Published on 16 February 2012 by khaleejtimes.com Editorial in Opinion
Published on 16 February 2012 by LA Times Doyle McManus in Opinion
Published on 16 February 2012 by Khaleejtimes.com William Hague in Opinion
Published on 13 February 2012 by Foreignpolicy.com Laurent Bonnefoy in Opinion
Published on 13 February 2012 by www.dailystar.com.lb Rami G. Khouri in Opinion
Well, reviewing events in Syria this week, I guess the unipolar world, the looming American century, and the end of history that were simultaneously announced by assorted American chauvinists and crackpots at the end of the Cold War around 1990 can be discarded for now. The continuing killings in Syria, and the energized global diplomacy that is seeking to wind down or evict President Bashar Assad and his family from power, or both, should be seen as two distinct dynamics that are converging for a moment.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Editorial / www.gulfnews.com in Opinion
Middle East governments should work with private sector to tap human resources
Unemployment is a ticking bomb that helped fuel the recent political turmoil in the Middle East – otherwise known as the Arab Spring – that toppled a number of regimes last year. However, a year after the turmoil, the youth unemployment rate in the region remains at 26.2 percent – one of the highest in the world.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Ameen Al-Hemyari in Opinion
Terrorism is a term used by many countries to define the illegal practice, the anti-government movements or the resistance to the foreign culture. Each country defines this term according to its own interests and according to its own law. This phenomenon is as old as human being existence, however; recently the western media used this term to refer to Al-Qaeda militants. Most of the Islamic movements were established as responses or reactions to certain political, religious or cultural behavior. Therefore, these movements will never give up or disappear due to more oppressions or assassinations.
Published on 9 February 2012 by Brian Whitaker / guardian.co.uk in Opinion
Stroll along Edgware Road in London and you’ll find a mystifying array of signs in the shop windows, written in Arabic.
Published on 6 February 2012 by gulfnews.com Khaled A. Ziadi in Opinion
Former Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh left the country after winning immunity from prosecution. I think the immunity law did not only award Saleh a safe exit but it also definitely rescued Yemen from civil war.
Published on 6 February 2012 by al-akhbar.com Yassine Temlali in Opinion
The working class in the Arab world has accomplished a lot in the course of one year of uprisings. Some of these accomplishments are material, including higher wages and improvements in working conditions. Others are political, such as the right to democratic representation (the rise of Egyptian independent unions and changing the leadership of the Tunisian general workers’ union, among others).
Published on 2 February 2012 by Atiaf Alwazir in Opinion
After nine months of mass protests calling for an end to the regime, and six months after the initial Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) initiative was submitted, Ali Abdullah Saleh signed the GCC’s implementing mechanism on 23 November 2011, at a ceremony in Saudi Arabia. The deal involved the transfer of his powers to Vice President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, in return for immunity from prosecution. A national unity government will be created, evenly divided between the opposition and Saleh’s ruling party.
Published on 2 February 2012 by The Atlantic Colin Kahl in Opinion
When Mubarak fell, Iran’s leaders moved out with swagger. They saw one pivotal US ally gone, and perceived an opportunity to exploit unrest to undermine other pro-Western regimes, especially Saudi Arabia. They sought to develop contacts with Islamists in Egypt and Libya, expand ties to opposition movements in Yemen, and capitalize on the indigenous Shiite protests in Bahrain. And Iran’s leaders seemed confident that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, Tehran’s state ally in the Middle East, was immune from the populist wave because of its militant stance toward Israel and the United States.
Published on 30 January 2012 by BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner in Opinion
Al-Qaeda in Yemen is on the move. In the last few days, militants linked to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have stormed a town less than 100 miles (160km) south of the capital, Sana’a.
Published on 30 January 2012 by Reuters Stefan Wolff in Opinion
After months of uncertainty around whether Ali Abdullah Saleh has been sincere about stepping down from his post as Yemen’s president, Sunday brought confirmation that he has left the country to seek medical treatment in the United States. Under a deal brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council with United Nations, United States and United Kingdom assistance, Saleh is barred from partaking in the February 21 elections for an interim president. In exchange, he received immunity in an unamendable law – both nationally and internationally highly controversial – passed by Yemen’s parliament the day before his departure.
Published on 26 January 2012 by Ramzy Alawi in Opinion
Published on 26 January 2012 by Foreign Policy Marc Lynch in Opinion
Yemen seems trapped in an endless political stalemate. More than a year after massive protests erupted challenging the 33-year-old regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen seems no closer to achieving a meaningful political transition.
Published on 19 January 2012 by Gulf Today PV Vivekanand in Opinion
The Yemeni government’s endorsement of an amnesty “against legal and judicial prosecution” for the supposedly outgoing president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and all his aides “who worked with him in all government, civil and military departments during the years of his rule” flies in the face of not only the people of Yemen but also the international community.
Published on 16 January 2012 by Mansoor Moaddel - Project Syndicate in Opinion
The self-immolation a year ago of Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi triggered a wave of popular protests that spread across the Arab world, forcing out dictators in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Now, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, too, seems near the end of his rule.
Published on 16 January 2012 by James Gundun ـ hadalzone.blogspot.com in Opinion
Although instrumental in drafting the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) power-sharing agreement in Yemen, including an immunity clause for Ali Abdullah Saleh’s extensive family, the Obama administration has advanced the unpopular deal in determined silence. Offering limited information since mobilizing the GCC in April, the White House and State Department eventually guided a ratification process over objections from the UN's Human Rights Council and through the Security Council. October’s Resolution 2014 would reaffirm the GCC’s initiative in full, while adding “that all those responsible for violence, human rights violations and abuses should be held accountable.”
Published on 29 December 2011 by Editorial Staff Boston Herald in Opinion
Photographing himself at Ground Zero proclaiming a perverse sort of victory was a loathsome but clearly protected form of free speech by Tarek Mehanna.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Ikram Al-Yacoub Al-Arabiya in Opinion
Yemeni Foreign Minister, Dr. Abu Bakr Al-Garbi said on Tuesday that the biggest challenge facing Yemen today is economic as the political turmoil has led to a mass downgrading of the country’s financial system over the past 10 months.
Published on 29 December 2011 by Hugh Macleod globalpost.com in Opinion
There is no famine in Yemen. There are no vultures looming over skeletal babies. No film cameras to record flies landing on hollowed faces. No pop concert to raise awareness.
Published on 6 February 2012 by The National National Editorial in Opinion
Published on 6 February 2012 by Washington James Gundun in Opinion
Published on 7 February 2012 by Asharq Alawsat Tariq Alhomayed in Opinion
Published on 7 February 2012 by The Saudi Gazette Dr. Sadaka Y. Fadhel in Opinion
Published on 7 February 2012 by Kuwait Times Badrya Darwesh in Opinion
Published on 7 February 2012 by CNN Adam Levine in Opinion
Published on 11 February 2012 by Osman Mmirghan / english.alarabiya.net in Opinion
It is no wonder that the official Yemeni authorities have objected to the Arab League’s resolution regarding Syria. The situation in the two countries may be different in numerous aspects, yet there are also marked similarities, especially regarding the way in which the two regimes have handled Arab efforts to find a solution, and their attempts to circumvent such endeavors or use them as a tool to buy more time.
Published on 14 February 2012 by By: Andrew Bowen / The Majalla in Opinion
As the country teeters on the brink of potential civil war, The Majalla proposes three possible scenarios for Yemen’s near future. Yemen has endured the least productive uprising of a momentous year in the Arab World, and now is consumed by divisions. Examined here are the stress points of a divided nation, specifically looking at where the cracks will form should President Saleh cling to power, become the victim of a coup, or instigate transition.
Published on 13 February 2012 by The Independents’ Alliance (Youth & Patriots of the Revolution of Change in Yemen) in Opinion
Published on 13 February 2012 by U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein in Opinion
Published on 20 March 2012 by Yemeni British Coalition Supporting the Yemeni Revolution in Opinion
The Yemeni revolution has entered its ninth month and the youth are still adhering to its peaceful nature, despite Yemen being home to 60 million weapons. This ancient people want the revolution to be peaceful, and yet the remnants of the illegitimate regime want to drag Yemen into a civil war, after they burned all their political cards, the last of which was Al-Qaeda.
Published on 20 March 2012 by Kourosh Ziabari in Opinion
Unemployment, deteriorating economic conditions, government’s proposal for modifying the constitution and removing the limit for presidential terms and the corruption of the ruling elite are the root causes of the growing indignation and resentment of the Yemeni people.
Published on 20 March 2012 by Institute of Peace and War Reporting Afrah Nasser in Opinion
It is very typical for a journalist in Yemen to receive threats and intimidation whether they are famous or not. Once you are perceived as dissident or anti-government, then you automatically start getting threats – it’s part of the censorship system.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Ben Avram Benyameen Noone in Opinion
October 27, 2011 — The events that took place in Yemeni cities and towns starting by the great popular presence in the Oct 7 Friday mass and in the Oct 14 Friday masses ending in the million strong anti-regime march in Sana'a on Oct 15 is the reflection of the title.
Published on 26 April 2012 by James Petras، Al-Ahram Weekly online in Opinion
October 27, 2011 — The killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki, a US citizen, in Yemen by a CIA drone missile on September 30 has been publicised by the mass media, US President Barack Obama and the usual experts on Al-Qaeda as “a major blow to the jihadist network founded by Osama bin Laden”. US officials called Al-Awlaki “the most dangerous figure in Al-Qaeda”, according to the London Financial Times at the beginning of October.
Published on 26 April 2012 by Louise W. Knight، chicagotribune.com in Opinion
October 27, 2011 — When three women were named recently to share this year's Nobel Peace Prize, well-wishers said: Isn't it wonderful that women are being honored? And the news stories all led with their gender. I heard an NPR reporter say giddily that it marked a "celebration of women!"
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