Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2003/674/Press Review]

30 Sept.2003
Main headlines:
– Organisation Central Committee calls for a program on reform and rectification
– Al-Midhwahi: Authority-corruption alliance created violence
– Son of a security official in Aden, interrogated
– 146 oil institutes graduates stage sit-in in front of oil ministry in Sana'a
– Yemen's embassy in Saudi Arabia imposes illegal duties on expatriates

Columnist Mohammed Shamsan says in his article on terror after the crime of assassinating Jarallah Omer, (assistant secretary general of the YSP) discussion got stepped up among local intellectuals and politicians as all have realized that terror is a danger almost threatening all and therefore they have to give this question big interest and large portion of their time and effort in order to be able to reach an agreed upon definition of terror. The terror the United States is fighting and trying to end it differs from the terror we, in the Yemeni society, are suffering from. America considers standing against its interests and the Zionist movement as terror while in Yemen and the Arab Islamic community see in terror as a threat to our life and future in addition to our security and stability. Terror is a confiscation of our intellectual religious, cultural and historical rights.
It should be made clear that the question of terrorism is not a present product but rather an extension to an old thinking. To put an end to that terrorist inheritance we have to trace back the course it has taken and be fair with all those who have been tyrannized by it, whether persons or intellectual schools . But if we adopt it as the question of 11 September events we are then trying to acquit ourselves from the charges made against us in the American address in this regard.
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