Letters to the Editor [Archives:2001/09/Letters to the Editor]
Dear Editor,
I am a Yemeni student in India and I would like to send you my best regards and thanks for the all the effort you’re doing to provide the latest, though most of it not happy, news about our beloved Yemen. And I want to thank all the Yemen Times’ employees including writers, publishers, editors and the web designers for providing the latest news in the WWW. I just want to suggest that it would be useful of you to provide some news about the education sector in Yemen so that we, students outside Yemen, can keep track of the latest news about education in Yemen.
Ammar Ali Al-Harazi.
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Dear Ammar,
We will indeed be concentrating on education related articles starting next week. Please keep on following news through Yemen Times.-Editor
When will we feel secure in Yemen?
Last time I visited Yemen was January 2001 when I came to Sanaa to collect some compensation money. On my way out of the country at Sana’a airport, I was surprised to see a security officer checking my pockets. I had never experienced this weird act anywhere else in the world. At the time I thought that was the worst it could get, but the security man found cash money on me (around USD 10,000) and told me that no more than $3000 was allowed to be carried by any individual out of the country. I realized that I had to pay him an amount of money (bribe) so as to let me go. Since I had no time and because I had to be in the office the next day, I bargained with him and his boss and eventually paid them $100 and finished the deal.
I am asking, “when will we feel safe and secure in our own country?”
This was the last check point before boarding, and whoever wants more details about what happened, is welcome to contact me via email.
Omar Mohamed – Kuwait
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A Pleae from an American to Find a Yemeni Father
American born Nathaniel Amir Wheeler was fathered by a Yemen-born citizen known to be Bassam Mosleh Algazali, after a short relationship with my sister Rosemarie Wheeler, 28 years old, who lives in the Bronx, New York City. Bassam Algazali abandoned this woman when she revealed that she had become pregnant with his child. Bassam Algazali dissapeared without rendering any support, or even recognizing his child. Bassam Algazali, speculated to be born on 4/5/75, worked in a family owned Grocery Store in New York City. The Olympic Grocery on 615 East Tremont Avenue 176st Bronx New York, is known to be Algazali’s father’s business. According to Rosemarie Wheeler, the mother of Nathaniel Ahmir Wheeler, after Bassams sudden disappearance she tried to contact Bassam Mosleh Algazali by speaking to his family members who own Olympic Grocery in the Bronx. Algazali’s father known to be Mosleh Algazali along with Algazali’s brother Wadah Algazali told Rosemarie who mothered Bassams child that Bassam had left the United States to settle family problems in Yemen. Rosemarie Wheeler, believing the Algazali Family, waited for Bassam hoping he would come to finally recognize his American born child. After waiting almost a year for Bassam Algazali Rosemarie desperately reached to Bassams brother Nadam Algazali for financial help. Nathaniel Amir Wheeler is more than a year old, a beautiful boy who has a father in hiding, reluctant to claim his child. A relative of Wheeler, while shopping at a mall in the City of Yonkers, spotted Bassam Algazali shopping at a store called Sterns, an expensive Dept Store. Rosemarie’s relative followed Bassam, expressing to Rosemarie on a mobile phone that she had Spotted Bassam. It was indeed Bassam Mosleh Algazali. Bassam’s face turned pale, and white, tumbling through words, and unspeakably shocked, not knowing what to say. Rosemarie’s relative conveyed the shocking news to the rest of Rosemaries family. According to Rosemarie, soon after, Bassam appeared at her doorstep, he told her he had come from Yemen to the USA for a family emergency. According to a confidential source with close ties to the Algazali Family, Bassam Algazali never left the United States. He was in fact in hiding. The question, I guess, that has raised much speculation in the Bronx neighborhood, is why would Algazali be hiding from his child? Nathaniel Amir Wheeler is currently living in New York with his American mother. I decided to reach out to the American Government to find out new laws, and to reach out to local state agencies to launch an all out search for Bassam Mosleh Algazali. I personally believe Algazali is in New York, possibly in the Brooklyn area. Federal agencies already have been contacted and child support enforcement officials have been informed of the problem. Nathaniel Amir needs to be recognized and deserves to have a father. It was a cruel and inhuman thing to do by Algazali, not to recognize his child, and to continue to be in hiding avoiding his child. I guess this is a problem not new to many of us, but as humans we should try to come together to help these children that are left out alone with their mothers, with no guidance or support. This is a crime in America. In America many laws have evolved over the years because we have recognized the problem, and are facing this harsh crime as diligently as we can. Deadbeat dads is a system in which the American federal Government joins with local state agencies on an all out search for fathers who do not claim paternity, and avoid the responsibility of fatherhood. We hope to find Bassam Mosleh Algazali. I reach out to the people of his native nation of Yemen. Please help us find Algazali, a beautiful child is left unwanted. I call upon the People of Yemen to help us with any information they can, leading to Algazalis location. I thank the people of Yemen because I trust them despite Algazali’s doings. That he is an individual, and I trust his native nation of Yemen will not only spread the word of Algazali’s doings, but will acknowledge Nathaniel Amir Wheeler and will help Bassam Mosleh Algazali recognize his child. Thank you and God Bless the People of Yemen.
Gary R. Wheeler
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Dear Sir,
Today, and only today, my need is so great to write these lines, in order to reveal the real situation at Aden College of Education. Recently we finished the first semester examinations after long and continuous hardworking, especially by good undergraduate students who always take care and pay attention to their studies. I found myself in a very bad position for not being given what I actually deserve in the subject of ‘Novel’ because I scored only 67 marks with no significant reason, despite my good and sensible answers in both the primary and the final exam. To make you completely aware of this miserable situation, it should be realized that the mean teacher did not hand us back our answer-sheets. Therefore we insisted on her to return them to us, but she refused with no satisfactory reasons. After publishing the final results, we knew that since the moment she began teaching she has been hiding students’ answer-sheets to silence anyone who says ‘As you sow so you reap’.
If you have any suspicion for all the above you can use your own legal means to communicate with my college to ask the English Department about this major devastating condition at our university. I am confident, and will be fully appreciative if you kindly help me send this message to the whole society.
Yours faithfully,
Adeeb Abdulgabbar Ibrahim
Aden Educational College
English Department – Level 3
Condolences
Sir
I am very sorry for my late condolences as I got the news late.
In fact, we were shocked to hear that your mother is no more. At first, I could not believe the news, because we are still injured by the passing away of the late Prof. Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf “may Allah have mercy on them all.” But when I came through the article “The great couple” in your newspaper, I found the news was true.
I regret could not express my deep, sincere consolation to you all on this great affliction, but let the Almighty do what He wants. It is only our destiny. Similarly, I could not express my gratitude and appreciation to the late couple on the positive role they played in developing the country, establishing the charitable institutions, helping the poor..etc.
Therefore, I would like humbly to present my word of condolence to you. Abdulaziz and Aziza, as well as lessons they taught us about life, all would still be alive in our memories forever. My deepest condolences to you all. May Allah bless you with patience.
Yours faithfully
Fadl Ahmed Abbas Al-Mohsen
Arhab
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