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CHAPTER 3: TWO YEMENI REPUBLICS (1967–1990)

1.
http://wwww.markcurtis.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/the-covert-war-in-yemen-1962-70/

2.
Dana Adams Schmidt,
Yemen: The Unknown War
, London: The Bodley Head, 1968, pp. 211–12.

3.
Ibid., p. 77.

4.
Badeeb, op. cit., p. 4.

5.
Muhsin Alaini,
50 Years in Shifting Sands: Personal Experience in the Building of a Modern State in Yemen
, Beirut: Editions Dar An Nahar, 2004, p. 68.

6.
Ibid., p. 72.

7.
BBC report from Sanaa, by Noel Clark, 24 October 1962.

8.
Ali Abdel Rahman Rahmy
The Egyptian Policy in the Arab World: Intervention in Yemen 1962–67
, Washington DC: University Press of America, 1983, p. 97.

9.
David M. Witty, ‘A Regular Army in Counterinsurgency Operations: Egypt in North Yemen, 1962–1967’,
Journal of Military History
, vol. 65, no. 2, April 2001, pp. 401–39 (p. 425).

10.
www.army.mil/prof_writing/volumes/volume2/march_2004/3_04.html

11.
Abdou Mubasher, ‘The Road to Naksa’,
Al-Ahram Weekly
, 7–13 June 2007.

12.
Ibid.

13.
General Mohamed Fawzi, ‘The Three-year War’,
Al-Ahram Weekly
, 5–11 June 1997.

14.
Anthony Nutting,
Nasser
, Boston MA: E.P.Dutton, 1972, p. 323.

15.
Richard Beeston,
Looking for Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent
, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2006, p. 78.

16.
www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/medaspec/Ch-2electrv699.pdf

17.
Al-Salami, op. cit., p. 207.

18.
Yevgeny Primakov,
Russia and the Arabs
, New York: Basic Books, 2009, p. 97.

19.
Halliday,
Arabia Without Sultans
, op. cit., p. 117

20.
Edgar O’Ballance,
The War in Yemen
, London: Faber & Faber, 1971, p. 89.

21.
Halliday,
Arabia Without Sultans
, op. cit. p. 132.

22.
Ibid., p. 133.

23.
Alaini, op. cit., p. 200.

24.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalisation/global_politics/yemen_murder_arabia_felix

25.
Sheila Carapico,
Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 6.

26.
Fred Halliday,
Arabs in Exile:: Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain
, London: I.B. Tauris, 1992, p. 15.

27.
Robert W. Stookey.
The Politics of the Yemen Arab Republic
, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1978, pp. 273–4.

28.
Al-Salami, op. cit., p. 258.

29.
Ibid., pp. 167–8.

30.
Dresch, op. cit., p. 147.

31.
Robert D. Burrowes,
Yemen Arab Republic: The Politics of Development 1962–1986
, Boulder, C
(J
: Westview rress, 19o/, p. 93.

32.
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World
, New York: Basic Books, 2005, p. 214.

33.
Primakov, op. cit., p. 82.

34.
Halliday,
Arabia Without Sultans
, op. cit., p. 250.

35.
Joe Stork, ‘Marxist Revolution in Arabia: A Report from the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen’,
MERIP
, no.15, March 1973, p. 10.

36.
Ibid., p. 230.

37.
Ibid., p. 233.

38.
Ibid., p. 20.

39.
Ibid., p. 23.

40.
Ibid., p. 13.

41.
Norman Cigar, ‘Islam and the State in South Yemen: The Uneasy Co-existence’,
Middle Eastern Studies
, vol. 26, April 1990, pp. 185–203.

42.
Ibid.

43.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/28/germany.terrorism
;
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,956703,00.html
;
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,956703,00.html

44.
Andrew and Mitrokhin, op. cit., p. 218.

45.
Stookey, op. cit., p. 106.

46.
Carapico, op. cit., p. 43.

47.
Dresch, op. cit., p. 159.

48.
Robert D. Burrowes, ‘The Salih Regime and the Need for Reform’,
Yemen Times
, 28–30 January 2008.

49.
Stephen W. Day, ‘Powersharing and Hegemony: A Case Study of the United Republic of Yemen’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Washington Georgetown University, 2001, p. 201.

50.
Halliday
Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen 1967–1987
, op. cit., p. 48.

51.
Dresch, op. cit., pp. 168–9.

52.
Robert D. Burrowes, ‘Oil Strike and Leadership Struggle in South Yemen: 1986 and Beyond’,
Middle East Journal
, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer 1989, pp. 437–54.

53.
www.adenairways.com/Aden_Evacuation_1986.htm

54.
Halliday,
Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen 1967–1987
, op. cit., p. 42.

CHAPTER 4: A SHOTGUN WEDDING (1990–2000)

1.
Day, op. cit., p. 229.

2.
Carapico, op. cit., p. 50.

3.
www.yemen-nic.info/English%20site/SITE%20CONTAINTS/PRESEDENCY/PRESIDENT/Biog_pres2.htm

4.
John Pilger, ‘John Pilger Reveals How the Bushes Bribe the World’,
New Statesman
, 19 September 2002.

5.
Remy Leveau, Franck Mermier and Udo Steinbach, eds,
Le Yemen Contemporain
, Paris: Editions Karthala, 1999, p. 45.

6.
Sarah Phillips,
Yemen’s Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective: Patronage and Pluralized Authoritarianism
, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 63.

7.
James A. Baker,
The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace
, New York: G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1995, pp. 317–20.

8.
Pilger, op. cit.

9.
Brian Whitaker, ‘National Unity and Democracy in Yemen: a marriage of inconvenience’, conference paper delivered at SOAS, University of London, 25 November 1995,
http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/artic/bw1.htm

10.
Leveau et al., op. cit., p. 367.

11.
Dresch, op. cit., p. 191.

12.
‘A Real Arab Revolution’,
New York Times
, 8 May 1993.

13.
Day, op. cit., p. 292.

14.
Phillips, op. cit., p.
177.

15.
Brian Whitaker, ‘North Yemen Tightens the Noose on Aden’,
Middle East International
, 24 June 1994,
www.al-bab.com/yemen/artic/mei4.htm

16.
Simon Henderson, ‘A Saudi Disaster Story: Yemen’s Unity By Force’, Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
Policy Watch
, no. 125, 22 July 1994.

17.
‘Yemen Claims Victory in Civil War After Seizing Rebel City’,
New York Times
, 8 July 1994.

18.
Dresch, op. cit., p. 197.

19.
Day, op. cit., p. 367.

20.
Lisa Wedeen,
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen
, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. 68–86.

CHAPTER 5: FIRST GENERATION JIHAD

1.
Yemen Times
, 2 April 2001.

2.
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete911 timeline&geopolitics_and_9/11=complete_911_timeline_yemeni_militant_collusion
.

3.
Burke, Jason,
Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam
, London: Penguin, 2004 (2003), p. 140.

4.
http://www.globalpolitician.com/23607-terror-yemen

5.
Katherine Roth, ‘War and Change in Yemen’,
www.icwa.org/articles/KLR-16.pdf
, 19 July 1994, p. 9.

6.
Lawrence Wright,
The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11
, New York: Viking-Penguin, 2006, pp. 277–8.

7.
http://www.jamestown.org/programs/gta/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=838&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=181&no_cache=1

8.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3752517.stm

9.
Nick Owens, ‘Abu Hamza Still Preaching Hate in Prison’,
Daily Mirror
, 31 May 2009.

10.
Brian Whitaker, ‘Hostage to Fortune and Yemeni Guns’,
Guardian
, 30 December 1998.

11.
Andrew Higgins and Alan Cullison, ‘Friend or Foe: The Story of a Traitor to al-Qaeda’,
Wall Street Journal
, 20 December 2002.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Al-Quds al-Arabi
, ‘Bin Ladin’s Former “Bodyguard” Interviewed on al-Qa’ida Strategies’, 2 August 2004,
www.why-war.com/news/2004/08/03/binladin.html

14.
http://www.al-bab.com/Yemen/cole4.htm

15.
Lally Weymouth, ‘We Are Still Searching’,
Newsweek
, 18 December 2000.

16.
www.globalpolitician.com/printasp?=3607

17.
Patrick E.Tyler, ‘Threats and Responses’,
New York Times
, 19 December 2002.

18.
Craig Whitlock, ’Probe of the USS
Cole
Bombing Unravels’,
Washington Post
, 4 May 2008.

19.
Eric Watkins, ‘Yemen’s Innovative Approach to the War on Terror’,
Terrorism Monitor
, Jamestown Foundation, vol. 3, issue 4.

20.
Wright, op. cit., p. 30.

CHAPTER 6: A TRIBAL DISORDER?

1.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73130#

2.
Yemen Times
, 24 March 2008, p. 2.

3.
Day, op. cit., 2001, pp. 361–2.

4.
Gabriele vom Bruck,
Islam, Memory and Morality in Yemen
, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 9.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Phillips, op. cit., p. 90.

7.
Patrick E. Tyler, Yemen an Uneasy Ally, Proves Adept at Playing off Old Rivals’,
New York Times
, 19 December 2002.

8.
Frank Gardner,

Yemen Praised after al-Qaeda Action’, BBC news online, 19 December 2001.

9.
Nick Pelham, ‘Yemeni Sheikhs Threaten Revolt over US Build-up,’
Daily Telegraph
, 16 March 2002.

10.
Dale Davis, ‘Red Alert’,
Salon.com
, 13 August 2004.

11.
Philip Smucker, ‘The Intrigue Behind the Drone Strike’,
Christian Science Monitor
, 12 November 2002,.

12.
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2022573.html

13.
‘Yemen’s Saleh urges tribes to back State’s Fight against Terrorism’, Deutsche Presse Agentur, 3 February 2009.

14.
Gregory D. Johnsen, ‘Terrorists in Rehab’,
WorldViewMagazine
, Summer 2004.

15.
http://islamandinsurgencyinyemen.blogspot.com/2009/09/battle-of-marib-video.html

16.
Ibid., p. 70.

17.
John R.Bradley,
Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis
, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 62.

18.
Ibid., p. 57.

19.
Ibid., p. 62.

20.
Charles M. Sennett, ‘Why bin Laden plot relied on Saudi hijackers’,
Boston Globe
, 3 March 2002.

21.
Turki al-Saheil, ‘Inside al-Qaeda’s Hideout’,
Al-Sharq al-Awsat
, 7 May 2009.

22.
‘Marib attack has no relation to al-Qaeda of bin Laden, but new one’,
News Yemen
, 10 July 2007.

23.
Robert F. Worth, ‘Wanted by FBI but walking out of a Yemen hearing’,
New York Times
, 1 March 2008
.

24.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/12/yemeni_al_qaeda_lead_2.php

25.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/160694

26.
Jane Novak, lerror lales: Zionist Jihadis, American Pirates and Other Bedtime lales from Yemen’,
mypetjawa
, 16 January 2009.

27.
Ibid.

28.
Craig Whitlock, ‘Bounties a Bust in Hunt for al-Qaeda’,
Washington Post
, 17 May 2008.

CHAPTER 7: KEEPING UP WITH THE SAUDIS

1.
Nathan Vardi, ‘The World’s Billionaires: Sins of the Father’,
Forbes.com
, 18 March 2002.

2.
WH. Ingrams,
A Report on the Social, Economic and Political Condition of the Hadhramaut
, London: HMSO, 1936, p. 54.

3.
Judith Miller and Jeff Gerth, Honey Trade Said to Provide Funds and Cover to bin Laden’,
New York Times
, 11 October 2001.

4.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1871182.stm

5.
Adam Robinson,
Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist
, New York: Arcade Publishing, 2002, p. 19.

6.
Ingrams, op. cit., p. 111.

7.
Mabel Bent and Theodore Bent,
South Arabia
, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p. 108.

8.
http://yemenonline.info/news-1139.html

9.
Andrew England, ‘Al-Qaeda in Yemen - a threat to Saudis’,
Financial Times
, 23 April 2009.

10.
http://news/bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8130543.stm

11.
Thomas Pritzkat, ‘The Community of Hadhrami Migrants in Saudi Arabia and the Rationale of Investors in the Homeland’, in Leveau et al., op. cit., pp. 319–418.

12.
Day, op. cit., p. 413.

13.
Ibid., p. 400.

14.
Jaime Pueblo, ’Yemen Must Grow into GCC,
The National
, 1 June 2009.

15.
Dr Christopher Boucek, Chatham House seminar, 19 January 2009.

16.
‘Rebellion, Migration or Consultative Democracy? The Zaydis and their Detractors in Yemen’, by Bernard Haykel, in Leveau et al., op. cit., p. 198.

17.
Phillips, op. cit., p. 161.

18.
‘Government Warns of Secret Extremist Schools that Attract More than 300,000 Yemenis’, Associated Press, 16 April 2005.

19.
www.sabanewsnet/en/news170941.htm

20.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022485.php

21.
Andrew McGregor, ‘Yemen’s Sheikh al-Zindani’s New Role as a Healer’,
Terrorism Monitor
, vol. 4, no. 8; Bernhard Zand, ‘Are Koran Schools Hotbeds of terrorism?’,
Der Spiegel
, 20 March 2007;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeFr5t19aQs
.

22.
Evan Kohlmann, ‘In Too Deep: Terrorism in Yemen’,
National Review
, 17 January 2003
.

23.
http://treas.gov/press/releases/js1190.htm
;
http://hamptonroads.com/node/235681

24.
Gregory D. Johnsen, ‘Profile of Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani’,
Terrorism Monitor
, vol. 4, no. 7.

25.
Mohammed al-Qadhi, Yemen Accuses US of Targeting Islam’,
Yemen Times
, 5–7 April 2004.

26.
Gregory D. Johnsen, ‘Yemen’s al-Iman University: A Pipeline for Fundamentalists?’,
Terrorism Monitor
, vol. 4, no. 22.

27.
Nasser Arrabyee, ‘Al-Qaida “not behind tourist attack” in Yemen’,
Gulf News
, 10 July 2007.

28.
‘Yemen Fighters Dying in Iraq’,
Yemen Times
, 25–28 January 2007.

29.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/186601.php

30.
Vicken Cheterian, ‘Et l’Irak accouche d’une nouvelle generation de djihadiste’,
Le Monde Diplomatique
, December 2008.

31.
Richard A. Oppel Jr, ‘Foreign Fighters in Iraq are Tied to Allies of US’,
New York Times
, 22 November 2007.

32.
http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2008/07/19/yemenis-murdering-in-iraq/

33.
Burke, op. cit., p. 11.

34.
http://www.jihadica.com/new-issue-of-Saada-al-malahim/

35.
http://www.al-tagheer.com/news.php?id=8664

36.
Muhammad al-Kibsi, ‘Yemen Security Breaks New Terrorist Cell’,
Yemen Observer
, 17 August 2008.

37.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/05/world/worldwatch/entry5364480.shtml

38.
http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2008/09/21/al-qaeda-in-yemen-timeline/

39.
Gregory Johnsen and Shari Villarosa, ‘Al-Qaeda in Yemen’, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Seminar, 7 July 2009.

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