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Re: Yemen: Riots over Fuel Costs. 11 Dead (now 36 dead)

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 18:19:09

If that wasn't bad enough, now this:

Posted on Fri, Aug. 12, 2005
FIFA suspends Yemen soccer association

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ZURICH, Switzerland - FIFA on Friday suspended Yemen's soccer association because of interference by the country's political authorities.

The suspension takes effect immediately and includes all matches involving Yemen's national and club sides playing abroad, as well as matches involving foreign teams played in the country.

"On several occasions both FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation had warned the Yemeni Ministry of Youth and Sport that it needed to respect FIFA's principles of independence, democracy and due process for its member associations," FIFA said in a statement.

But "the government chose a path of persistent disrespect of these principles," world soccer's governing body added. "Blatant governmental interference in local football affairs in contravention of FIFA principles cannot be accepted."

FIFA has also suspended financial assistance and the Yemeni association will be unable to vote at international soccer meetings.

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Re: Yemen: Riots over Fuel Costs. 11 Dead (now 36 dead)

Unread postby lotrfan55345 » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 18:21:06

AS we all know, soccer fans are verrry agressive...
(for the rich enough in Yemen to care about it of course...)
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Re: Yemen: Riots over Fuel Costs. 11 Dead (now 36 dead)

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 20:27:44

Well at least somebody seems to have learned from this:
Iraqi Cabinet Rejects Move to End Subsidies Yemen's Fatal Riots Invoked in Decision

A proposal by the Iraqi finance minister to reduce the enormous fuel and food subsidies that consume roughly a third of the government's budget and largely crush economic growth has been rejected by the cabinet after a recent similar move in Yemen set off fatal riots there.

The subsidies, which artificially produce some of the lowest gasoline and heating fuel prices in the world and finance free basic foodstuffs, have been singled out by financial institutions inside and outside Iraq as a crippling burden when the country is trying to create a free-market economy as it grapples with insurgent violence and sabotage of its oil and electricity infrastructure.

"They've reached the point where they've become insane," the finance minister, Ali Abdulameer Allawi, said of the subsidies just before he presented the plan to the cabinet in late July. "They distort the economy in a grotesque way and create the worst incentives you can think of."
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Re: Yemen: Riots over Fuel Costs. 11 Dead (now 36 dead)

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Sun 14 Aug 2005, 02:52:14

Hope they wake up and smell the...ah never mind.

http://www.yobserver.com/cgi-bin/yobser ... cgi/1/7732
Without sufficient investment Yemeni coffee was unable to compete with the prices set by large international companies. Farmers began to abandon coffee as a crop, turning to qat and fruit production.

A further factor in the demise of Yemeni coffee production was the crippling taxes levied by the Imamate that could reach a tenth of the harvest. Invasions and conflict between the Imam and tribal leaders led the Imam to send his army to coffee producing regions where they uprooted the trees.

A decrease in rainfall and water shortages further damaged the coffee plantations, as have pests and plant diseases. Qat production has now increased to cover 70% of the land on which coffee was once cultivated.
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Yemen oil attack

Unread postby Eli » Sat 23 Jun 2007, 11:31:37

I can't tell but from reading the article it sounds like just maybe the authorities are trying to spin this story a little bit.

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Re: Yemen oil attack

Unread postby Twilight » Sat 23 Jun 2007, 12:40:45

Yeah, the Afghan soldier and the KFOR police who did the same were also mentally unbalanced. But then, that's what extremism is, isn't it?
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Another Oil Facility Attack in Yemen

Unread postby DomusAlbion » Thu 08 Nov 2007, 12:45:41

This is the second attack by Yemeni tribesmen this week: link
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Re: Another Oil Facility Attack in Yemen

Unread postby DantesPeak » Thu 08 Nov 2007, 13:00:32

There was another news story today that Yemen is sending 32 tribesmen to jail for plotting to blow up pipelines and attacking oil facilities.

One wonders if there is a big movement here, and if they are successful, if Yemen will have any production left.
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Rocket Attack on US Oil Workers in Yemen

Unread postby DantesPeak » Sun 06 Apr 2008, 18:46:33

No injuries have been reported:
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SANAA: Blasts Smash Windows at Yemen Complex, No One Hurt
`There were no casualties. The cause of the explosion is being investigated,` the official told Reuters.
Reuters illustrative photo An apparent mortar attack smashed windows at a complex housing Americans and other Westerners in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, but there were no casualties, a Yemeni security official said.
"There were three blasts believed to have been caused by mortar shells. There is broken glass, but no casualties," the official told Reuters, adding that the unknown attackers escaped.
Residents said earlier they saw police arriving outside the high-security area in the southwest of the capital of the poor Arab state, which has been the scene of frequent attacks by Islamic militants, disgruntled tribesmen and Shi'ite rebels.
An al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for a failed mortar attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen last month that wounded girls at a nearby school and a group of soldiers.
The U.S. State Department offered free flights out of Yemen to non-essential diplomats and family members after the attack.
The group had earlier claimed responsibility for deadly attacks on Spanish and Belgian tourists in the Arabian Peninsula country.
Yemen, the ancestral home of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is viewed in the West as a haven for Islamic militants, dozens of whom are jailed for involvement in bombings of Western targets and clashes with authorities.
The oil-producing country joined U.S.-led efforts to fight terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. cities and has itself witnessed a number of attacks targeting foreign tourists, oil installations, and U.S. and French ships.
Yemen is one of the world's poorest outside Africa, and a 2007 World Bank report noted domestic production of crude oil had declined steadily since 2001. Poverty and unemployment are fuelling discontent in parts of the country.

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Rockets Fired At Foreigners' Complex In Yemen - AFP
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES April 6, 2008 3:03 p.m.
(Updates with new information about attack, other details)
SAN'A, Yemen (AFP)--Three rockets were fired late Sunday at villas in Yemen's capital that house U.S. oil experts, next to a residential complex where other Westerners live, residents said.
A security source confirmed the incident but gave few details.
Residents told AFP that the rockets landed near the villas where American oil experts from the former Hunt Oil firm, now called Safer and owned by Yemen, live.
It wasn't immediately known if there were any casualties.
The villas are behind a residential compound in the Al-Hadda neighborhood of southwestern San'a. Foreigners, including Westerners and Arabs, live in the compound, which also houses the offices of Safer oil company.
Police cordoned off the area, residents said. They also closed off roads leading to the U.S. embassy in the northwestern sector of San'a.
A security source told the September 26 weekly mouthpiece of the defense ministry that three rockets had been fired at a building housing Yemenis and foreigners, shattering glass.
He didn't give further details.
Suspected al-Qaida militants have carried out several attacks in Yemen in recent years.

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Re: Rocket Attack on US Oil Workers in Yemen

Unread postby DantesPeak » Sun 06 Apr 2008, 18:57:16

U.S. Embassy in Yemen urges caution after rocket attack

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy in Yemen is urging Americans to exercise caution after an attack on a housing complex for foreigners in the capital.

An embassy statement says "three explosive rounds" hit the Haddah compound around 8 p.m. Sunday. There were no reports of injuries, it said.

Yemeni security officials say the complex was used by foreign companies in Sanaa. It's in an upscale neighborhood that houses Western diplomats, including Americans, they said.

The U.S. Embassy says it's advising "all U.S. citizens to exercise caution in this area of city."


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Re: Rocket Attack on US Oil Workers in Yemen

Unread postby mos6507 » Mon 07 Apr 2008, 04:28:52

You beat Cid to the punch on this one. I guess he was asleep or something.
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Re: Rocket Attack on US Oil Workers in Yemen

Unread postby IslandCrow » Mon 07 Apr 2008, 04:36:42

DantesPeak wrote:Yemen is one of the world's poorest outside Africa, and a 2007 World Bank report noted domestic production of crude oil had declined steadily since 2001. Poverty and unemployment are fuelling discontent in parts of the country.

With these (and other) attacks that seem fairly regular in Yemen, will the time come soon for US and other Western firms to say that that amount of oil left in Yemen is not worth their staying in the country? Then it will get even poorer.
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Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby Ferretlover » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 08:50:47

The Associated Press Mon, Apr 21, 2008
An unidentified ship fired on a Japanese oil tanker Monday off the eastern coast of Yemen, leaving a hole from which hundreds of gallons of fuel leaked, the ship's operator said. No one was injured.
The 150,000-ton tanker Takayama was attacked about 270 miles off the coast of Aden in southwestern Yemen while it was heading for Saudi Arabia, its Japanese operator, Nippon Yusen K.K., said in a statement.
None of its 23 crew members _ seven Japanese and 16 Filipinos _ was injured, the company said. The tanker had left the South Korean port of Ulsan on April 4.
Nippon Yusen spokeswoman Yuko Tsutsui said the attack left a 1-inch hole in the tanker's stern which was temporarily patched after hundreds of gallons of fuel leaked. …
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Re: Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby idiom » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 08:56:21

Pirates look at each other... "Where's the boom?"
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Re: Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby dorlomin » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 08:58:36

Piracy is getting a bit out of control round the horn of Africa. A French yacht was taken a couple of weeks ago and a Spanish fishing vessel just yesterday. This may not have been piracy as Yemen is an al Queda hotbed, but the seas are getting a little out of control.

Probibly wests navies need more cutters and corvettes than cruisers and carriers.
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Re: Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby Starvid » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 09:05:12

Fuckin pirates.

The French or some other badasses should clear them out.
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Re: Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby idiom » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 09:09:12

I dunno, if someone up to no good sank a dozen supertankers that would but a bit of an edge on the current crisis yes?

Hard to imagine being a crewman on that tanker and watching the missle streak in...
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Re: Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby dorlomin » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 09:17:36

Other than the USS Cole there was a suicide attack on a feighter or a tanker of some kind a couple of years back. Not very sucessfull though. Most tankers are now double hulled. It takes a great deal of ordninace to knock one out. RPGs and the like are way out of the league to be anything other than a nussance. Id think the only real danger would be starting fires.... on that note the rate of pay for crew on lpg carriers may be about to go up. There youd think an AK would make life rather warmer for the crewmen.
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Re: Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby frankthetank » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 09:51:39

US spends how much on a navy and doesn't take these bastards out?

If the US is as high tech as i think it is, couldn't a satellite spot these boats almost real time, relay that to a drone and then light up the ocean with a couple of hellfires?
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Re: Japan oil tanker attacked off Yemen

Unread postby Triffin » Mon 21 Apr 2008, 10:29:00

You'd think ..
We'd probably sink the tanker by accident instead ..

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