Press Review [Archives:2002/44/Press Review]

Al-Jamaheer weekly, organ of Arab Baath Socialist party 20 Oct.2002.
Main Headlines:
-Details of American-Zionist plan for Iraq strike
-Following French oil tankers Limburg incident, a 25% coming “does”-Thailand imposes strict measures on Yemenis
-Saddam Hussein warn America from invading Iraq
-One thousand election cards in Jawf disappear
-Bajammal thanks America, criticizes Arabs
-Pakistan denies its connection with N. Korea nuclear program
-Zionist occupation troops incursion into Gaza, arrest Palestinians in Ramalla
-Head of Information sector at Elections Committee calls on parties leaders to take oath
Mr. Anwar Abdu Ali writes on effects of Limburg incident on Yemen. He has divided the negative results to three categories; economic, ecological and political. On the economic effects he says oil tankers Limburg burning has dealt a painful blow to Yemen’s national economy and created direct reflects embodied in the pollution of 500 km-long of Yemeni coasts extending the port of the Mukalla in Hadramaut which is among the richest areas of the marine life and fish. The other main damage is abstention of foreign investors to invest in Yemen. Those investors expressed their concern towards security in the regime, in addition to rise in investment costs.
From ecological standpoint, it is to be seen that the shores along 500 km from Mukalla are covered with crude oil and dead fish. Government press statements have indicated that environment impacts of Limburg incident are very dangerous in that of destruction of marine life and fish wealth. The incident has taken place in a vital area considered one of the best fish gathering in Yemen containing a group of unique fish and marine life species. Politically, the Limburg incident offshore Hadramaut made the area in the eyes of the world as being a base for terrorists. Limburg incident has come to expand foreign interference in Yemen’s internal affairs, added to interference following the USS Cole destroys incident in Aden.
26 September weekly, organ of Yemen Armed Forces, 24 Oct. 2002.
Main Headlines:
-France returns Yemen to countries included by care and support
-Limburg incident: A will & details maps of ports in the region, guiding catalogue on boat remote control
-Elections Supreme Committee reiterates commitment to impartiality, independence and constitution
-Abdul Karim al-Eryani visits Baghdad soon, head of ruling party delegation
-National Conference on Education begins meetings Saturday
-3rd National Conference on Population discusses challenges of development, globalization
-Arab Conference on fishery convenes in Sana’a
-To follow up results of Sana’a Summit, Yemen, Sudan and Ethiopia foreign ministers meet in Addis Ababa on 6 Nov.
-Farouk Taha, Syria’s ambassador to Sana’a
The newspaper’s editorial says no country has ever suffered from terror as Yemen has. Terrorists have targeted it at earlier times even before 11 September in 2001 or the Afghan war. Terrorists acts have inflicted great damage on Yemen, whether those that targeted Aden Hotel or Cole incident or incidents of kidnapping foreign tourists in Abyan and others. Some of which have been characterized by tribal stamp, but all are enlisted under banner of acts of terror and sabotage that hurt Yemen’s reputation, economy, interests and relations with others.
The recent attack on Limburg represents a continuation of the same detrimental terrorist acts. No doubt those who perpetrate terrorist act, by Yemenis or others, have harmed the people of Yemen and caused damage to their interests and reputation and their acts have no religious or national justification. It is illogical that the responsibility of fighting terror be shouldered on certain country and to left alone, for the others would mistakenly think they are away from consequences of terror and are not concerned about fighting it. The duty is that all should support the efforts of fighting terror. It is highly important that the issue of terror and fighting it should be the concern of the society. Confronting terror should not be confined to security bodies alone but the responsibility of every individual and all political and social forces.
 

Al-Balagh weekly, 22 Oct.2002
Main Headlines:
-Saudi ambassador to Washington announces disclosure of Bin Laden’s financial network
-The president calms down the conflict between General People’s Congress party & opposition
-Local & imported goods prices rise
-Election card, a basic condition in unionist elections
-One girl killed, another injured in dispute over piece of land
Editor in chief says American policy refusing the study of reasons behind the explosions of New York would lead to emergence of new organizations following the same ways of al-Qaeda in dealing with the U.S. policy. We have in our analyzes affirmed that the future results of the U.S policy would lead to founding of new generations hate the American administration and policy and their hatred could also include the American people. We can say that the new blasts and targeting of some targets her and there are not necessarily carried out by al-Qaeda organization. They could be the work of new organizations, newly established in response to the U.S. policy towards the Arab and Islamic region.
The U.S politics has proved lately that it does not entertain far-sightedness and its analyzes are incorrect. The Americans may have a strong intelligence apparatus, and may have strong army, but the U.S. vision is not clear. The U.S. future expectation of this relation is not realistic because what is happening nowadays confirms America’s failure in ending terror. On the contrary, the U.S. behavior has sown hundreds of terrorist seeds that would grow someday in future and the U.S would then rear what it has sown today.
Al-Sahwa weekly, 24 Oct.2002.
Main Headlines:
-Sheik al-Ahmar: The government has put its weight behind deciding election in GPC’s favor.
-JMP ends preparation a file on legal violations by the Elections Committee
-Limburg, a persisting catastrophe
Columnist Zaid Bin Ali al-Shami says violations and excesses, the use of power and public properly are continuous practices employed for influencing electoral registration to prepare an electoral register more defective than the former one. On the other hand, the Elections Supreme Committee is still insistent to act as party in the dispute. Its decisions and statements condemned opposition parties and hold it responsible for the dispute, while the committee turn a blind eye to all violations committed by the ruling party or attribute them to unidentified individuals. The committee still confirms the right of armed forces and security personnel to register at any center within a constituency, in violation & the law, while deprives students of registering in their residence places.
The process of registration, violation and mobilization of the state potential in favor of the ruling party continues. Nevertheless, the citizen does not despair or give in. He would not allow his will and rights to be confiscated. He has only one path ahead of him, and that is to wring out his rights with the elections card.
Al Wahdawi weekly, organ of the Nasserite People’s Unionist Organization, 22 Oct. 2002.
Main Headlines:
-American ambitions with military presence on Yemeni coasts
-Large-scale manhunt following Limburg incident, French judges to Sana’a
-Registration stage, a political scandal
-Six killed in Sana’a, 2 in Aden
-American trainer of Yemeni special forces, found dead in his car
-Gunmen storm a morgue in Aden
-Saudi Islah movement: Bin Laden won’t keep silent against his country’s occupation
Mr Abdula’lem Baggash wrote an article saying there has been certain ambiguity engulfed the most recent tour of the American general Tommy Franks in the region. During his visit to Yemen the general talked about the 6 October attack on the oil tanker Limburg, renewing his country’s support for Yemeni coast guard. The American general surprised all expectations when he declared for the first time his country’s wish for a complete partnership in the project of the coast guard of Yemen to protect the Yemeni coast line that extends more than 2000 km. General Franks has also praised Yemen’s efforts for combating terror, becoming the second American official expressing thanks to Yemen in this regard since the incident of Limburg. It would have been much better if Washington has offered its initiative within the framework of an international partnership, not merely an American because it cannot be forgotten that despite victories of Bush’s administration in its war against terror, it is not succeeded in uprooting the danger of Taliban in Afghanistan for good.

RAY weekly, organ of the Sons of Yemen League party, 22 Oct. 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Process of registration has not begun in eleven election centers
-France investigates in presence of a terrorist cell related to Limburg incident
-Release of a number of Guantanamo detainees, including a Yemeni, expected
-Limburg inflicts grave economic losses on Yemen and the region
-Since Cole incident, the first American vessel anchors at Aden port on Sunday 20 Oct.
The newspaper’s editorial says despite the large and varied size of violations with regard to he electoral register , we , proceeding from keenness on surmounting the bottleneck the democratic experiment is intended to be placed into, and the desire for not missing available chances, say we are still in a society governed by many power centers. There are still many issues managed by the law of power rather than the power of the law. Civil society organizations are still too weak to exercise their tasks in full swing realizing their targets and placing them in charge of failures.
We are inclined to the idea that all political forces and the supporting organizations should think with good intentions and say that most violations that have been committed are the product of individual conduct and that the ruling party and the elections committee are not involved in causing them and consequently are not meant to defend those violations. This result necessitates the immediate initiative to refuse such acts and express readiness to joint work with all political parties and organizations to rectify what the violators have done. The whole issue needs a credibility which would be the touchstone that would define the extent of relationship between these acts and both the ruling party and the elections committee.

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