Press Review [Archives:2002/28/Press Review]

Al-Wahdawi weekly, Organ of Nasserite People Unionist Organization, 2 July 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Security authorities arrest a suspect tried to approach the visiting British warship.
-Dangerous leading al-Qaeda member escaped from prison in Aden.
-Press prosecution interrogates Muhsin and Ibrahim, returns them to political security prison.
-Aborted attempt to kidnap high-ranking officials son.
Columnist Khalid Mohammed Hashim says in his article that Bush has described the Palestinian authority as, to his point of view, becoming an old horse, and time has come to fire on it a bullet of mercy. It seems that Bush has forgotten that this same authority was a partner in signing all agreements of surrender. He called for its replacement by a new group, fighting terror, as interpreted by America and Israel.
Those following Bushs school would do that against the Palestinian freedom-fighters, and this way they would comfort Israel and spare its army the trouble of deploying it and using it for that purpose.
Bush did not miss the opportunity to give his orders to Arab rulers on the necessity of full normalization with Israel and implementation of his imitative on the ground. The leaders of this authority was the first to welcome Bushs imitative and that consequently encouraged the other slaves to rush to prove their being slaves exceeding their master expectations.
The fact would remain stronger and the decisive attitude is possessed by those martyrs who adores martyrdom on the road of freedom.
As-Sahwa weekly, July 4,2002.
Main Headlines:
-Election Higher Committee, political parties: Criteria await agreement
-Economic sources: Prime Ministers statements on currency stability, an illusion
-Al-Jawf celebrates return of Sheik Ameen al-Ukaimi
-Citizens of Aden decide to sue electricity authority
-U.S. embassy confirms intensified procedures against Yemen
Columnist Ahmed Uthman writes in his article that those who announced their solidarity with the journalist Abdul Raheem Muhsin were waiting for his release, but instead of that they received a quick reply embodied by imprisoning journalist Ibrahim Hussein. It has been a step aimed at weakening the spirit of this unprecedented solidarity, which proved to be a new healthy spirit.
Hussein and Muhsin are not the first of kidnapped or imprisoned and wont be the last.
The important thing is continuation and development of this solidarity to evolve into a culture and mass project. It should be continued on a basis of respecting the law and stressing the legitimate variance, protection of the citizens liberties and his rights and defending him without reservations.
Annas weekly, 1 July 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Opposition parties warn against return of totalitarianism
-Sheikh Ukaimi: Misuderstanding caused my arrest, the president ordered my release
-Controversy over dividing electoral constituencies
Columnist Sadeq Nasher says in his article that after Bushs speech on the Middle East the Arabs have no longer any hope in this American administration that proved it is more Israeli than the Jewish state itself. As a matter of fact Bush is a supporter for those regimes that are trying to keep talking about the American stand in support of the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Americans and Israelis are having a sway over the Palestinians keeping the Arabs incapable of taking any attitude save that of welcoming the American stand and saying that Bushs recent stance carries positive elements of which one wonders where those positive elements are. Let Bush say whatever he likes because this is a stand very familiar from the Americans. They are more antagonists towards the Palestinians than the Israelis themselves. The strange is the Arab leaders stands which we have not heard about them. All of them are still waiting for the American clarifications on what Bush has said in his latest speech, which in fact is quite clear and does not need any kind of clarification.
Now only Arafat remains alone amidst the Arab-American conflict. This conflict has lately got intensified and the president of the most powerful country in the world, claming democracy, is demanding the ousting of a legitimately elected president with the aim of establishing a non-identity state. I am quite sure that Arafat would step down as head of the Palestinian authority if he becomes convinced that his stay in his post would be a block in the way of establishing the Palestinian state. The question is not connected with Arafat as a person but rather as a symbol of struggle of the people of Palestine who are now alone facing the Israelis and the Americans.
 

Al-Balagh weekly, 2 July 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Explosive charges discovered in Saudi Arabia, calls for hitting American interests
-British security delegation conducts investigations about some fundamentalists two days before arriving in Yemen
-Al-Eryani mediates between the opposition and the elections supreme committee
-Abdulrahim Muhsin and Ibrahim Hussein interrogated and returned to the Political Security
Editor in chief of the newspaper says in his article that by utilizing the events of 11 September the United Stated was able to deal blows to some Islamist groups but it has at the same time planted hatred, love for vengeance and seizing opportunities with the souls of more than 200 million Arabs and more than a billion Muslims.
President Bush should have looked for the future and to define his vision of the new century. However, unfortunately he has chosen war and revenge to be the slogan of the 21st century. No doubt the American war on the Islamic world would not stop and simultaneously the retaliatory blows against the American targets and interests would also not stop. The Americans might be able to hit infrastructure of Islamist movements but they could not destroy the main elements of this war, i.e. the hearts full of faith of the Muslims. This element represents a time-bomb liable to explode at any time and place.
The Americans have sown hatred and grudge and love for revenge with the Muslims and cannot replace these hearts bursting with hatred which would explode in the face of the Americans and their interests. We can foretell the future and see that all indications point out that the American administration has drawn a map for the 21st century full of blood and destruction and this map would remain the main title for the coming decades unless the U.S. reconsidered its policy towards the Muslims. Perhaps the Americans have depended on the difference in power while they have drawn up their new policy but they have fallen in a grave mistake when they have not taken into consideration the factor of peoples. Confrontation would not be basically with the regimes but rather with the peoples.
26 September weekly, organ of Yemen Armed Forces, 4 July 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Draft protocol on security cooperation with Italy
-A British team looks for additional evidence against Abu Hamza before bringing him to trial
-Bahrains finance minister conveys message to president Saleh from Bahrains king
-Fixing border markings with Saudi Arabia to be finished beginning of next year
-Foreign minister al-Qirbi leaves for Tehran late this month
-Vice-President stresses Yemens strong relations with Iraq, Italy, China
-Saudi oil pipeline project, true translation of partnership and economic integration
Political editor of the newspaper says in his article that all are unanimous that the United States of America is the strongest state militarily and politically in the world. It has managed with the help of this power to put itself in one scale of the balance and the rest of the world in the other scale. It has managed to make its decisions implemented imperatively, whether they were right or wrong The most obvious evidence is its decisions regarding the Palestinian issue. The American decision has affected the United Nations and rendered it incapable and prevented it from taking decisions on withdrawing Israeli troops from the Palestinian territories, occupied since 2000. America has also hindered sending international forces to constitute a buffer zone between the Palestinians and the Israelis in order to stop violence and monitor and determine the party responsible for violating the truce.
Atmospheres of optimism that prevailed after President Bushs vision of the establishment of the Palestinian state and was supported by the Arab peace initiative have disappeared after the American latest statement. This requires an American reconsideration of its stand especially that which is biased to Israel. We have many times said that Israels security would not be realized but with the establishment of the Palestinian state and that peace cold not be achieved but with justice. If the American power is no connected with values of justice, the solutions it imposes on this party or that would be only temporary matters no more. It will sow seeds of resentment and rejection of the American power and threaten international security and stability.

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