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Technical training key to Yemen’s development

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Abdul Hafez Noman  Abdul Hafez Noman, minister of Technical Education and Vocational Training.

Technical training key to Yemen’s development: Yemeni Minister

Faisal Darem, Al-Shorfa, Sanaa, 2013-05-01

Technical education and vocational training are the key to Yemen’s industrial development, said Abdul Hafez Noman, minister of technical education and vocational training.

For this reason, the ministry has initiated a number of projects to support this type of education, he said.

Al-Shorfa spoke with Noman at his Sanaa office, where he described current programmes and the ministry’s role in safeguarding youth from the influence of groups that seek to exploit them.

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Making enemies in Yemen

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Tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a U.S. drone air strike targeting suspected al Qaeda militants in Azan A tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a US drone strike targeting suspected al-Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, Feb. 3, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah). Read also: “My Village Was Attacked By US Drones in Yemen”

Making enemies in Yemen

Aljazeera – Sun, May 5, 2013

A group of men stand at attention in front of a raised American flag billowing in the wind. The strained sounds of America’s national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner, echo through the courtyard.

This is not the scene of a Memorial Day celebration or military ceremony in Tennessee or Texas. This image comes to us from war-torn South Yemen, and the man standing tall and proud in the foreground is Tariq al-Fadhli. A former associate and friend of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan during the 1980s, he returned to his home of Zinjibar near Aden in Abyan province and would come to be a prominent leader in the current tribal resistance against the Yemeni central government. A former member of the ruling party, al-Fadhli is the head of the Fadhli tribe and son of the last British-backed sultan of the Fadhli Sultanate.

Though the former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh would accuse al-Fadhli of being a terrorist and member of al-Qaeda, al-Fadhli saw the US as an ally in his struggle against the government, and, in turn, saw himself as an asset for the US due to his connections with his fellow Yemeni, bin Laden. In a 2010 interview in the New York Times, he stated :

“I can be a mediator between America and al-Qaeda. We can be allied with the United States against terrorism, and we will achieve the interests of the United States, not those of the regime”.

To underline his support for the US, he released the video of him and his fellow tribesmen standing at attention before the Stars and Stripes. Referring to his days in Afghanistan, al-Fadhli stated:

“The Americans were our allies back then, and what I am doing now by raising the American flag is a continuation of this old alliance”.

One year later, al-Fadhli would shoot a video showing him burning that same American flag. He was explicit about his reasons for firmly turning against the US. He specifically cites a 2009 incident in which a US cluster bombing of a village in Abyan province in southern Yemen killed 41 people, among them 21 children and 14 women.

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355 companies were registered in 2012 in Yemen

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355 companies were registered in 2012 in Yemen

By Faisal Darem, Yemen Observer, April 24, 2013

Last year 355 companies with a capital of 13 billion riyals ($60.7 million) were registered in

Yemen, a development officials, businessmen and experts attribute to improving economic conditions.

Companies registered in 2012 include 329 limited liability companies and 26 private companies, said Aayad Baabad, director general of the General Directorate of Companies at Yemen’s Ministry of Industry and Trade.

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¿Yemen-Djibuti: el proyecto eurasiático de los Bin Laden?

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La noticia no es nueva, en modo alguno: data, nada menos, que de agosto de 2008, cuando faltaban escasas semanas para que estallara el crack financiero. Eran los últimos días de los buenos tiempos antes de la crisis.  Pero tiene su interés de actualidad si se tiene en cuenta que, al menos en Yemen, todavía hoy se guarda recuerdo de aquel puente que debería unir Eurasia con África, y del cual nunca se volvió a saber. Por supuesto, no se comenta -o no se conoce- que el proyecto estaba impulsado por Tarek Bin Laden; pero tampoco debemos olvidar que los Bin Laden son una familia de origen yemení. Cabe añadir que en su momento, el proyecto alarmó a los estadounidenses, para los cuales el puente podría amenazar incluso la seguridad de AFRICOM, dado que, supuestamente, favorecería la actividad terrorista en África. - Eurasian Hub, abril 2013

La última extravagancia del hermano empresario de Osama Bin Laden

Proyecto “Al Noor” unirá África y Asia y contempla construir dos ciudades a ambos lados del Canal de Suez. En el lanzamiento, al que asistió “El Mercurio”, Tarek deja hablar a los ejecutivos. Cuando le preguntan sobre su hermano fugitivo, dice que es difícil seguir la pista a los 53 que tiene. Por Gustavo Orellana, enviado especial a Djibouti – Plataforma Urbana, 10 de agosto, 2008

Tarek, el hermano empresario de Osama Bin Laden y un grupo de inversionistas hablan de cifras que cuesta dimensionar: US$ 200 mil millones para levantar un proyecto que llaman “Al Noor”.

En Medio Oriente, donde las platas del petróleo fluyen a la misma velocidad con la que se disparan los precios del crudo en el resto del mundo, elementos de todo tipo se pueden juntar. Y hacer maravillas.

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The drone mania

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When the Whole World Has Drones

The precedents the U.S. has set for robotic warfare may have fearsome consequences as other countries catch up

This article appeared in print as Standard Deviation

Kristin Roberts, National Journal, 22 March, 2013

[An interview with the author]

A slim aircraft glided through Israeli airspace, maintaining low altitude and taking a winding path to avoid detection. It flew over sensitive military installations and was beginning its approach to the Dimona nuclear reactor when it was blown from the sky by the Israel Defense Forces. The plane was pilotless, directed by agents elsewhere, and had been attempting to relay images back home. Whether they were successfully transmitted, Israelis won’t say, perhaps because they don’t know. But here’s what’s certain: It wasn’t American. It wasn’t Russian or Chinese. It was an Iranian drone, assembled in Lebanon and flown by Hezbollah.

The proliferation of drone technology has moved well beyond the control of the United States government and its closest allies. The aircraft are too easy to obtain, with barriers to entry on the production side crumbling too quickly to place limits on the spread of a technology that promises to transform warfare on a global scale. Already, more than 75 countries have remote piloted aircraft. More than 50 nations are building a total of nearly a thousand types. At its last display at a trade show in Beijing, China showed off 25 different unmanned aerial vehicles. Not toys or models, but real flying machines.

It’s a classic and common phase in the life cycle of a military innovation: An advanced country and its weapons developers create a tool, and then others learn how to make their own. But what makes this case rare, and dangerous, is the powerful combination of efficiency and lethality spreading in an environment lacking internationally accepted guidelines on legitimate use. This technology is snowballing through a global arena where the main precedent for its application is the one set by the United States; it’s a precedent Washington does not want anyone following.

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