Press Review [Archives:2002/49/Press Review]

Al-Shoura weekly, organ of the Union of Yemen’s people’s Forces, 24 Nov.2002.
Main Headlines:
-Yemeni Committee on resisting normalization calls for holy war
-Palestinian resistance operation against Israel’s navy force
-Dr. al-Eryani: American officials caused damage to Yemen
-Domestic and Arab committee to defend al-Wahdawi weekly newspaper
Columnist Hizam al-Mahbishi writes on the Eritrean regime’s hostile policies towards its neighboring countries and should Yemen and countries neighboring Eritrea do to stop the Eritrea regime’s such policies.
The author says that president Aforqi’s regime in Asmara has been representing obedient instrument in the hands of the forces ambitious to control the Horn of Africa region and the Red Sea. It would consequently constitute an element of instability and insecurity in the region. What has encouraged the regime to continue in its behavior is the that it was not deterred from the beginning when it was driven out of the Yemeni islands of Hunaish through international arbitration. Nevertheless, the Eritrean regime kept delaying the implementation of demarcation of remainder sea borders with Yemen, under its own explanation. The regime also interferes in Sudan’s affairs by harboring the Sudanese opposition to enkindle differences between the Sudanese and push them to tight.
Yemen must look for partners to establish investments in all its islands in the Red Sea and to associate their protection with the Yemeni national security. Yemen’s geography location is one of its great advantages and gives its significance. It must therefore not squander its geographical situation. All the countries neighboring the regime of Aforqi must work for isolating it and help the Eritrean opposition to change it. All the Eritrean regimes violations of international agreements must be observed and documented and referred to the UN Security Council to be decided.
 
ATTARIQ weekly, 26 Nov. 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Arrests among Taiz University students
-50 prisoners to be set free in Aden in Eid al-Fitr
-Students denounces increase in university fees
-As he set his house ablaze, killing his wife & son, father Qassim Abdulrab demands public execution of his son
-Elections war between the Islah and GPC in Hadramaut
-Abyan teachers to stage a sit-in in front of the Finance Bureau
-State establishment for roads and bridge implements a number of projects
Columnist Farouk Nasser Ali discusses in article the situation of the political opposition and its role in the Yemeni political life. He confirms that the GPC ruling party is in control of the political arena as unopposed force and has forced its rulers of political game, whether by force and influence or by flexibility. It is supported by its full knowledge of type of the political forces that stand in its shadow not in front of it. This is, he says, an obvious fact that must be admitted.
The exhausted masses have along eight years known that most leaderships of the opposition are merely senior officials at the authority since 1994 up to now. The main woes of those are the high posts and gains. Throughout all those years they have no relationship with masses of the people because they represent only themselves. What is astonishing is that the bigger portion of the opposition bares are still convinced in the role of those leaderships. Nevertheless, the opposition is capable to play its important role in developing the democratic process and building the state of institutions, the state of order and law.
The writer maintains that the powerful and genuine opposition is alone able to contribute to develop Yemen and salvage the deteriorated situations and achieve the masses goals. But the reality is that we are face to face with a weak and scattered opposition.
26 September weekly, organ of Yemen Armed Forces, 28 Nov.2002.
Main Headlines:
-The president visits Moscow mid December
-Dialogue among the political parties to establish a national alignment in the in the face of terrorism
-Yemeni-Russian summit to strengthen ties, discuss regional & international developments
-Yemeni-Ethiopian-Djibouti movement to exert efforts for Somalian reconciliation
-Yemen makes 35th anniversary of independence
-WTO accepts Yemen’s memorandum
-France government delegation in Sana’a in December
-Tabaza, the dangerous wanted, killed
The newspaper has devoted its editorial to the 35th anniversary of independence on 30 November 1967. The independence was the product of outbreak and triumph of the Yemeni revolution of 26 September and 14 October resulted from a 4-year armed struggle against the British colonization. Achievement of independence represents victory for the Yemenis who have restored their sovereignty, riches and human rights and was the torch of light that eliminated the Arab nation darkness after setback of June 1967.
The Yemenis are proud today to celebrate the anniversary of the evacuation of the last British soldiers from their territories on 30 November 1967. They are more proud to be able to protect and preserve the soil and sovereignty of their homeland against any other colonialist power, translating and adhering to the most noble goals of the revolution embodied by liberation from colonialism and despotism and erection of a just republican government. After 40 years of the revolution and 35 years of independence, Yemen would never allow squandering of its sovereignty. There is a great difference between cooperation and violation of sovereignty.
Al-Wahdawi weekly, organ of the Nasserite Unionist Organization, 26 Nov.2002.
Main Headlines:
-Yemeni connivance in al-Hielah disappearance, Egypt admits handing him over to Washington
-Fresh American military, Iraq-scale arrests in Sa’ada
-Yemeni-American pursuits extended to 7 governorates
-Security bodies responsible for killing Mahir, 15 years at Beit al-Fakieh court.
-Arab, international solidarity with “al-Wahdawi”
-Student leaders detained in Taiz
-Woman in Ibb slaughters her husband
-Thousands of election cards disappear Haja
The article by Mohammed Mus’d al-Arami says our government and its ruling party confirm day by day they are not keen on the homeland. They do not have any sense towards deterioration of the citizen’s economic and living conditions resulting from applying the economic reforms policy by impoverishing doses. As a result of this policy, all that happened are expansion of poverty volume, aggravation of corruption and accumulation of wealth with the minority. Despite that the government does not admit its failure, which is an expected outcome. There would be no true reform without democracy providing general prosperity and preventing concentration of economic and social power in the hands of the oligarchy. True democracy begins with recognition of the other and soundness and honesty of electoral process, starting from voters registers to ballot boxes. This is what our government and its ruling party reject, and confirmed practically in the process of registration carried out last October. That practice rendered the present register worse than the previous one. Previously the difference was in repetition of about half a million names of voters, but this year the figure jumped to over one million names.
The present register included names of young students of intermediate and secondary schools in addition to members of the armed forces and security.
Al-Balagh weekly, 26 Nov. 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Following al-Harithi assassination, U.S. assistant defense secretary: We will fight terror in other countries with their consent or despite of them
-Egypt admits handing over al-Hielah to America
-In his message to al-Qaeda, the president: targeting foreign interests on our territories would benefit only America & its allies
-Yemen takes strict measures against Eritrea
-Bin Laden threatens with fresh operations
-The Guardian newspaper: Saddam Hussein would burn oil wells, hit Israel with mass destruction weapons
-The U.S. intelligence knows not Bin Laden’s face nor aim of his message
The editor in chief cites the president’s word on the 14 of last October when he pointed out the consequences resulting from operations by members of al-Qaeda as leading to the U.S., as the super power and world policeman takes these operations as a cause to interfere in internal affairs of any country. The writer calls on those having links to al-Qaeda organization to understand the president’s remarks because such operations result negatively with regard to the aims they seek to achieve. He says the logic says that al-Qaeda must stop carrying out their operations inside the Arab and Islamic countries to avoid American intervention in these countries. Its operations must be implemented outside the Arab and Muslim countries so that they would not be responsible for their results. Thus the confrontation will be confined to al-Qaeda members and the American arrogance.
Al-Qaeda members should then bear responsibility for the consequences of their operations and should not blame the regimes if they cooperated with America because none of the Arab and Muslim countries is able to refuse cooperation with the U.S. Al-Qaeda organization would on the other hand ensure avoidance of the Arab and Muslims regimes, antagonism in case it took a decision on carrying out their operations only in the western depth away from Arab and Muslim territories.
 

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