The new elected President vows to crush all terrorists
By Nasser Arrabyee,05/03/2012
Al Qaeda is forcing detained soldiers to train its fighters on modern tanks and artilleries and other heavy weapons that it looted after attacking troops positions yesterday in south Yemen, local sources said on Monday.
About 60 soldiers were detained and taken to the Taliban-style Al Qaeda-declared Islamic Emirate of Jaar in the southern province of Abyan on Sunday morning. More than 110 soldiers were killed and more than 150 other injured when Al Qaeda operatives attacked camps and positions in Dawfas area, at the circumference of Zinjubar, the capital of Abyan.
About 20 from Al Qaeda fighters were killed and dozens were injured, according to sources in Jaar.
"The detained soldiers from Dawfas battles were seen today Monday in Jaar training Al Qaeda fighters on the looted tanks and artilleries," said the local sources.
Although American and Yemeni fighters jets tried to bomb the looted heavy weapons yesterday, they failed to destroy everything, said the sources.
The newly elected president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi vowed to crush all hideouts of the terrorists in Abyan and other places and no single terrorist can stay after that.
"The confrontation would continue with all force until the last terrorist is killed," said President Hadi in meeting he held Monday with American, British, and Saudi officials and diplomats.
The country's military supreme committee held also a meeting with the 10 ambassadors who helped Yemenis to get out of their political crisis for discussing more serious confrontations with Al Qaeda which exploited the one-year unrest.
The families of the dead and injured soldiers demanded -in a statement sent to media on Monday- that the new elected President Hadi should strike with an iron fist on those who were responsible for the massacre of Dawfas.
The families demanded that the minister defense and minister of interior should resign and an investigation committee should be formed.
Meanwhile, 6 Al Qaeda suspects on board of car bomb were arrested early morning in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to security authorities. Earlier the week, an other car bomb was discovered and confiscated. The authorities were looking for three car bombs that were made in Arhab area, about 30 km north of the capital, where Al Qaeda has historic activities. Arhab is the village of the extremist cleric Abdul Majid Al Zandani, who is accused by US and UN of being a global terrorist.
Last Wednesday February, 29, 2012, Al Qaeda threatened to attack places outside the battle field if the government troops did not withdraw from the circumference of Zinjubar within ten days.
" We, Ansar Shariah in the State of Abyan, would give the government an ultimatum of 10 days for withdrawing all the troops from the circumference of Zinjubar, and compensate the displaced persons," said Abu Hamzah Jalal Beledi, Emir Ansar Shariah in the State of Abyan, in a statement sent through SMS by an assistant of his called himself Abu Al Waleed.
" If the troops not withdrawn, we would attack outside the battle field, and we might have to implement the plan of the flooding river," said the top leader of Al Qaeda in Zinjubar.
Al Qaeda threat came only two days after the command of the troop units around Zinjubar gave an ultimatum of one week to Al Qaeda operatives to leave the city of Zinjubar otherwise the troops will storm the city.
The threats of Al Qaeda to strike outside the battle field came also one day after security authorities said they had intelligence that three car bombs are somewhere ready to implement suicide attacks against Yemeni government and Western interests in Yemen.
The security authorities are searching for the three car bombs almost everywhere, the security sources said to official media.
Monday, 5 March 2012
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Al Qaeda threatens to implement " Flooding River" Operation in Yemen, after 10-day ultimatum
By Nasser Arrabyee,29/02/2012
Al Qaeda threatens to attack outside the battle field, if troops not withdrawn, and security authorities looking for three car bombs
Al Qaeda threatened to attack places outside the battle field if the government troops did not withdraw from the circumference of Zinjubar within ten days, said the top leader of Al Qaeda in Zinjubar on Wednesday.
" We, Ansar Shariah in the State of Abyan, would give the government an ultimatum of 10 days for withdrawing all the troops from the circumference of Zinjubar, and compensate the displaced persons," said Abu Hamzah Jalal Beledi, Emir Ansar Shariah in the State of Abyan, in a statement sent through SMS by an assistant of his called himself Abu Al Waleed.
" If the troops not withdrawn, we would attack outside the battle field, and we might have to implement the plan of the flooding river," said the top leader of Al Qaeda in Zinjubar.
Al Qaeda threat came only two days after the command of the troop units around Zinjubar gave an ultimatum of one week to Al Qaeda operatives to leave the city of Zinjubar otherwise the troops will storm the city.
The threats of Al Qaeda to strike outside the battle field came also one day after security authorities said they had intelligence that three car bombs are somewhere ready to implement suicide attacks against Yemeni government and Western interests in Yemen.
The security authorities are searching for the three car bombs almost everywhere, the security sources said to official media.
Al Qaeda threatens to attack outside the battle field, if troops not withdrawn, and security authorities looking for three car bombs
Al Qaeda threatened to attack places outside the battle field if the government troops did not withdraw from the circumference of Zinjubar within ten days, said the top leader of Al Qaeda in Zinjubar on Wednesday.
" We, Ansar Shariah in the State of Abyan, would give the government an ultimatum of 10 days for withdrawing all the troops from the circumference of Zinjubar, and compensate the displaced persons," said Abu Hamzah Jalal Beledi, Emir Ansar Shariah in the State of Abyan, in a statement sent through SMS by an assistant of his called himself Abu Al Waleed.
" If the troops not withdrawn, we would attack outside the battle field, and we might have to implement the plan of the flooding river," said the top leader of Al Qaeda in Zinjubar.
Al Qaeda threat came only two days after the command of the troop units around Zinjubar gave an ultimatum of one week to Al Qaeda operatives to leave the city of Zinjubar otherwise the troops will storm the city.
The threats of Al Qaeda to strike outside the battle field came also one day after security authorities said they had intelligence that three car bombs are somewhere ready to implement suicide attacks against Yemeni government and Western interests in Yemen.
The security authorities are searching for the three car bombs almost everywhere, the security sources said to official media.
Challenges facing the new President of Yemen
By Nasser Arrabyee/29/02/2012
The Yemen new elected President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi is facing at least four major challenges.
It seems that overcoming these challenges will be impossible without international and regional support and serious cooperation from the internal players with the new President.
The international and regional support focusses on Al Qaeda terrorism more than the three other major challenges: the south issue, the Sa'ada issue, and the issue of deteriorating economy, which can be the main reason of all the other three major issues.
The internal players have their own focuses and political calculations which are different from those of the Americans and Saudis who lead the international and regional interest in Yemen.
Although the American and Saudi officials were behind the political settlement which led to the current peaceful and smooth transfer of power, but without sincere cooperation from the Yemeni conflicting influential players, nothing can be achieved in the ground.
Last Monday February 27,2012, the leaders of political parties who were behind the one-year anti-Saleh protests, did not attend an official ceremony for congratulating the new elected President Mr. Hadi and paying farewell for the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The big ceremony, which was held in the presidential palace, was attended by the UN envoy to Yemen crisis Jamal Bin Omar, the chief of Arab League, Nabil Al Arabi, the chief of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Abdul Latif Al Zayani, and heads of all diplomatic missions in Yemen.
The justification of of the leaders of the political parties( who lead the current unity government) for not attending the ceremony was not to anger their followers who did not want them to say goodbye for the former president Saleh.
However, the ceremony was viewed by the supporters and observers inside and outside Yemen as an unprecedented historic event.
" I am handing the flag of the republic, freedom, and democracy, and unity, to my brother, colleague, His excellency President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi," said former president Saleh in the ceremony as he handed the flag of Yemen to the new president Hadi.
On his part, the new President Hadi said," two years from now, I will be standing where Ali Abdullah Saleh is standing now, and I will be handing the power to the new elected president".
The political leaders who did not attend Such a historic ceremony, did not violate the political agreement of the settlement or the constitution and laws of Yemen, but they will be losers in the eyes of the coming generations, according to political analysts.
" The JMP leaders should have ignored and forgotten the small and personal things between them and former president Saleh, and they should have attended such a historic and symbolic event," said Najeeb Ghallab, political analyst and politics university professor.
" They should have contributed to teaching the coming generations that this is the best and the only way to transfer the power from one to another," Ghallab added.
The JMP ( Joint Meeting Parties) is the coalition of six parties under the dominance of the Islamist party, Islah.
Before the settlement, the JMP was the opposition, but now a leader from them, Mohammed Salem Ba Sundwa, is the prime minister of the unity government which is divided equally between Saleh's party and the JMP, which includes Islamists ( Suna and Shia), Socialists and Nasserites.
Being a prime minister for a unity government, Mohammed Ba Sundwa should not have sided with the JMP, say the Saleh's supporters who have 16 ministers of the 35-member cabinet.
The House of Representatives officially demanded on Tuesday that the prime minister Ba Sundwa should publicly apologize for not attending the ceremony of paying farewell to the former President Saleh.
On Saturday February 25th, 2012, the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from a one-month medical trip in US.
Saleh returned to his own house in the capital and would exercise his political activity as a head of his party, the People's General Congress ( PGC).
For the fourth consecutive day, Saleh has been receiving thousands of men and women in his own house who come to get reassured about his health.
On Tuesday February 28, Saleh received more wishers especially women in his magnificent mosque, Al Saleh Mosque, which is only meters from the presidential Palace.
Saleh's house was not large enough for the increasing number of wishers, so he moved to his grand mosque which is large enough for about 50,000 people.
At least three TV channels owned by Saleh's party, cover the activities of Saleh in his house and mosque.
The Yemen new elected President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi is facing at least four major challenges.
It seems that overcoming these challenges will be impossible without international and regional support and serious cooperation from the internal players with the new President.
The international and regional support focusses on Al Qaeda terrorism more than the three other major challenges: the south issue, the Sa'ada issue, and the issue of deteriorating economy, which can be the main reason of all the other three major issues.
The internal players have their own focuses and political calculations which are different from those of the Americans and Saudis who lead the international and regional interest in Yemen.
Although the American and Saudi officials were behind the political settlement which led to the current peaceful and smooth transfer of power, but without sincere cooperation from the Yemeni conflicting influential players, nothing can be achieved in the ground.
Last Monday February 27,2012, the leaders of political parties who were behind the one-year anti-Saleh protests, did not attend an official ceremony for congratulating the new elected President Mr. Hadi and paying farewell for the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The big ceremony, which was held in the presidential palace, was attended by the UN envoy to Yemen crisis Jamal Bin Omar, the chief of Arab League, Nabil Al Arabi, the chief of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Abdul Latif Al Zayani, and heads of all diplomatic missions in Yemen.
The justification of of the leaders of the political parties( who lead the current unity government) for not attending the ceremony was not to anger their followers who did not want them to say goodbye for the former president Saleh.
However, the ceremony was viewed by the supporters and observers inside and outside Yemen as an unprecedented historic event.
" I am handing the flag of the republic, freedom, and democracy, and unity, to my brother, colleague, His excellency President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi," said former president Saleh in the ceremony as he handed the flag of Yemen to the new president Hadi.
On his part, the new President Hadi said," two years from now, I will be standing where Ali Abdullah Saleh is standing now, and I will be handing the power to the new elected president".
The political leaders who did not attend Such a historic ceremony, did not violate the political agreement of the settlement or the constitution and laws of Yemen, but they will be losers in the eyes of the coming generations, according to political analysts.
" The JMP leaders should have ignored and forgotten the small and personal things between them and former president Saleh, and they should have attended such a historic and symbolic event," said Najeeb Ghallab, political analyst and politics university professor.
" They should have contributed to teaching the coming generations that this is the best and the only way to transfer the power from one to another," Ghallab added.
The JMP ( Joint Meeting Parties) is the coalition of six parties under the dominance of the Islamist party, Islah.
Before the settlement, the JMP was the opposition, but now a leader from them, Mohammed Salem Ba Sundwa, is the prime minister of the unity government which is divided equally between Saleh's party and the JMP, which includes Islamists ( Suna and Shia), Socialists and Nasserites.
Being a prime minister for a unity government, Mohammed Ba Sundwa should not have sided with the JMP, say the Saleh's supporters who have 16 ministers of the 35-member cabinet.
The House of Representatives officially demanded on Tuesday that the prime minister Ba Sundwa should publicly apologize for not attending the ceremony of paying farewell to the former President Saleh.
On Saturday February 25th, 2012, the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from a one-month medical trip in US.
Saleh returned to his own house in the capital and would exercise his political activity as a head of his party, the People's General Congress ( PGC).
For the fourth consecutive day, Saleh has been receiving thousands of men and women in his own house who come to get reassured about his health.
On Tuesday February 28, Saleh received more wishers especially women in his magnificent mosque, Al Saleh Mosque, which is only meters from the presidential Palace.
Saleh's house was not large enough for the increasing number of wishers, so he moved to his grand mosque which is large enough for about 50,000 people.
At least three TV channels owned by Saleh's party, cover the activities of Saleh in his house and mosque.
Monday, 27 February 2012
U.S. Teaming With New Yemen Government on Strategy to Combat Al Qaeda
Source: New York Times, By ERIC SCHMITT, 27/02/2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is embarking on an ambitious and potentially risky plan to help the new government in Yemen overhaul its military to combat the Qaeda franchise that has exploited the political turmoil there to seize control of large swaths of the country’s south.
The plan’s two-pronged strategy calls for the United States and Yemen to work together to kill or capture about two dozen of Al Qaeda’s most dangerous operatives, who are focused on attacking America and its interests.
At the same time, the administration will work with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to train and equip Yemeni security forces to counter the organization’s wider threat to destabilize the country and the government of its newly installed president, Abed Rabu Mansour Hadi.
This approach mirrors the White House’s global counterterrorism strategy in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: to employ small numbers of Special Operations troops, Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary teams and drones against elements of Al Qaeda that are committed to striking the United States, while arming and advising indigenous security forces to tackle costlier long-term counterinsurgency campaigns.
John O. Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser, spelled out the new plan in a visit to Sana, the Yemeni capital, before last week’s elections, as well as in telephone interviews.
One main proposal, he said, is to pay Yemeni troops directly rather than through their commanders. The current system has spawned corruption and shifted soldiers’ loyalty to individual commanders rather than to the government.
“We’re trying to ensure that the aid is very tailored, so it goes to those units that are professional, that fall within a command and control structure that reports to Hadi, that are addressing Al Qaeda and domestic threats to Yemen, and are not engaged in any political shenanigans,” Mr. Brennan said by telephone after making his seventh trip to Yemen in the last three years.
Senior American officials say the Qaeda group in Yemen poses the most immediate threat to the United States and its allies. It was responsible for failed plots to blow up a commercial airliner as it approached Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009, and for planting printer cartridges packed with explosives on cargo planes bound for Chicago in October 2010.
The American-backed campaign against the group has had mixed results in the past year. An American drone strike last September killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric who was one of the group’s top operatives, and Samir Khan, another American who edited the group’s English-language online magazine. Their deaths deprived the group of its two most skilled operatives focused on attacking America.
But in the political tumult that surrounded Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, many Yemeni troops in the past year abandoned their posts or were summoned to Sana to help support the tottering government. The United States pulled out about 75 Special Forces trainers and support personnel in Yemen, and counterterrorism training ground to a halt.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the group’s formal name — stepped in to fill the vacuum. In response, the C.I.A. and Special Operations forces have carried out nearly a dozen drone strikes against Qaeda operatives in Yemen since last May, according to The Long War Journal, a Web site that tracks the attacks.
With Mr. Hadi now in power and pledging to work closely with the administration to fight Al Qaeda, Mr. Brennan said the administration would slowly start resuming security aid that was suspended last year.
Mohammed Albasha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy here, reiterated on Sunday that “the fight against Al Qaeda is a national and religious duty.”
One major unanswered question is how much influence Mr. Saleh’s son and nephews will retain over the security forces, including the Republican Guard and the Central Security Forces, some of whose members have been trained and equipped by the United States. It is a practical and ethical dilemma for the administration, given that many Yemeni security forces used scorched-earth tactics to suppress pro-democracy protesters.
“The Yemeni people who for one year stayed at demonstrations, they didn’t do this just for Saleh to leave, but for his whole regime, and that especially means those who are leaders in the armed forces,” said Ali al-Mamari, a Yemeni member of Parliament who quit the ruling party last spring after violence was used against protesters.
“After the past year, the Yemeni people now are thinking that America is helping them, and the American role is respected,” he said. “If the Americans continue to support the son and nephews of Saleh in the same way, the stance of the Yemeni people will change toward America.”
Some independent analysts also warned that the administration’s approach amounted to picking and choosing favorite Yemeni generals, which could backfire over time. “Any time the U.S. gets into where it’s favoring certain generals or trying to play generals off each other, it is a very dangerous game,” said Gregory Johnsen, a Princeton scholar who closely tracks militants in Yemen.
The United States has allocated $53.8 million in security assistance for Yemen this year, up from $30.1 million last year, according to State Department figures.
American officials, including Mr. Brennan and Gerald M. Feierstein, the American ambassador to Yemen, say the administration will consider Yemen’s requests for security assistance case by case once Yemen submits a long-term strategic plan for how it plans to address threats from Al Qaeda.
A high-level Yemeni military delegation is expected in Washington next month, the first of a series of reciprocal visits.
American officials say they envision sending trucks, troop carriers and transport helicopters, to give Yemeni forces greater mobility to attack militant fighters in their desolate redoubts. Ammunition, spare parts and other logistical support is also likely, the officials said.
“There are some things we couldn’t do last year because of the political crisis,” Mr. Feierstein said. “There has been a hiatus. We have not done training because the Yemeni units were not in a position to continue with the training. They had other priorities.”
U.S. Teaming With New Yemen Government on Strategy to Combat Al Qaeda
Source: New York Times, By ERIC SCHMITT, 27/02/2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is embarking on an ambitious and potentially risky plan to help the new government in Yemen overhaul its military to combat the Qaeda franchise that has exploited the political turmoil there to seize control of large swaths of the country’s south.
The plan’s two-pronged strategy calls for the United States and Yemen to work together to kill or capture about two dozen of Al Qaeda’s most dangerous operatives, who are focused on attacking America and its interests.
At the same time, the administration will work with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to train and equip Yemeni security forces to counter the organization’s wider threat to destabilize the country and the government of its newly installed president, Abed Rabu Mansour Hadi.
This approach mirrors the White House’s global counterterrorism strategy in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: to employ small numbers of Special Operations troops, Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary teams and drones against elements of Al Qaeda that are committed to striking the United States, while arming and advising indigenous security forces to tackle costlier long-term counterinsurgency campaigns.
John O. Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser, spelled out the new plan in a visit to Sana, the Yemeni capital, before last week’s elections, as well as in telephone interviews.
One main proposal, he said, is to pay Yemeni troops directly rather than through their commanders. The current system has spawned corruption and shifted soldiers’ loyalty to individual commanders rather than to the government.
“We’re trying to ensure that the aid is very tailored, so it goes to those units that are professional, that fall within a command and control structure that reports to Hadi, that are addressing Al Qaeda and domestic threats to Yemen, and are not engaged in any political shenanigans,” Mr. Brennan said by telephone after making his seventh trip to Yemen in the last three years.
Senior American officials say the Qaeda group in Yemen poses the most immediate threat to the United States and its allies. It was responsible for failed plots to blow up a commercial airliner as it approached Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009, and for planting printer cartridges packed with explosives on cargo planes bound for Chicago in October 2010.
The American-backed campaign against the group has had mixed results in the past year. An American drone strike last September killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric who was one of the group’s top operatives, and Samir Khan, another American who edited the group’s English-language online magazine. Their deaths deprived the group of its two most skilled operatives focused on attacking America.
But in the political tumult that surrounded Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, many Yemeni troops in the past year abandoned their posts or were summoned to Sana to help support the tottering government. The United States pulled out about 75 Special Forces trainers and support personnel in Yemen, and counterterrorism training ground to a halt.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the group’s formal name — stepped in to fill the vacuum. In response, the C.I.A. and Special Operations forces have carried out nearly a dozen drone strikes against Qaeda operatives in Yemen since last May, according to The Long War Journal, a Web site that tracks the attacks.
With Mr. Hadi now in power and pledging to work closely with the administration to fight Al Qaeda, Mr. Brennan said the administration would slowly start resuming security aid that was suspended last year.
Mohammed Albasha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy here, reiterated on Sunday that “the fight against Al Qaeda is a national and religious duty.”
One major unanswered question is how much influence Mr. Saleh’s son and nephews will retain over the security forces, including the Republican Guard and the Central Security Forces, some of whose members have been trained and equipped by the United States. It is a practical and ethical dilemma for the administration, given that many Yemeni security forces used scorched-earth tactics to suppress pro-democracy protesters.
“The Yemeni people who for one year stayed at demonstrations, they didn’t do this just for Saleh to leave, but for his whole regime, and that especially means those who are leaders in the armed forces,” said Ali al-Mamari, a Yemeni member of Parliament who quit the ruling party last spring after violence was used against protesters.
“After the past year, the Yemeni people now are thinking that America is helping them, and the American role is respected,” he said. “If the Americans continue to support the son and nephews of Saleh in the same way, the stance of the Yemeni people will change toward America.”
Some independent analysts also warned that the administration’s approach amounted to picking and choosing favorite Yemeni generals, which could backfire over time. “Any time the U.S. gets into where it’s favoring certain generals or trying to play generals off each other, it is a very dangerous game,” said Gregory Johnsen, a Princeton scholar who closely tracks militants in Yemen.
The United States has allocated $53.8 million in security assistance for Yemen this year, up from $30.1 million last year, according to State Department figures.
American officials, including Mr. Brennan and Gerald M. Feierstein, the American ambassador to Yemen, say the administration will consider Yemen’s requests for security assistance case by case once Yemen submits a long-term strategic plan for how it plans to address threats from Al Qaeda.
A high-level Yemeni military delegation is expected in Washington next month, the first of a series of reciprocal visits.
American officials say they envision sending trucks, troop carriers and transport helicopters, to give Yemeni forces greater mobility to attack militant fighters in their desolate redoubts. Ammunition, spare parts and other logistical support is also likely, the officials said.
“There are some things we couldn’t do last year because of the political crisis,” Mr. Feierstein said. “There has been a hiatus. We have not done training because the Yemeni units were not in a position to continue with the training. They had other priorities.”
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Yemen new President sworn in and former president Saleh returns as normal politician and head of his party
By Nasser Arrabyee/ 25/02/2012
The Yemen new President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi took the constitutional oath before the Parliament on Saturday in presence of members of unity government and chiefs of diplomatic missions in Yemen.
After one year of wars of words and bullets, almost every one of the MPs and ministers of the conflicting parties, before the swearing in ceremony started, was hugging and kissing everyone as a sign of greeting and congratulating for ending the long standing crisis.
The majority of MPs belong to Saleh's party.
Earlier in the day, the supreme elections committee granted Hadi a certificate of winning as an elected president. Hadi won with 65 percent of the 10 million registered voters. Sone 6.5 million eligible voters voted for Hadi.
At the dawn of Saturday, the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh had arrived in the capital Sanaa and stayed in his own house.
Saleh will attend the installation ceremony of his successor Hadi on Monday, February 27th, 2012. Saleh will keep as a president of his party, the People's General Congress. (PGC).
Last Tuesday, the overwhelming majority of Yemenis voted for Hadi as a new president ending the 33-year long reign of the President Ali Abdullah Saleh,71.
The new President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, was the sole candidate of consensus in exceptional elections viewed by the majority of Yemenis and international and regional community as the only way to rescue Yemen from a civil war.
Mr Hadi, 67, was highly supported by the international community when the two conflicting factions within Saleh's regime failed to end the one-year political crisis to the interest of one side.
Hadi is respected by almost all groups including those who defected from Saleh's regime and joined the youth revolution but failed to have what they called " revolutionary legitimacy" to be rulers.
Much of the respect given to Hadi from all Yemeni is because he is from the south which complains from being marginalized by the northerners.
Hadi served as vice president since after the 1994 civil war which erupted only four years after south and north united.
The last presidential elections was in 2006 when the former president Saleh was elected in an election described by the international community as " reasonably free and competitive" .
After about one year of anti-Saleh protests, Saleh now has gone, but his party and his supporters remain.
His party has 50 per cent of the ministries of the national unity government and his supporters were at least representing 50 per cent of the election turn out all our the country on this week's elections.
Saleh's party, the General People Congress(GPC), has now three operating Satellite channels, Yemen Today, Al Akeek, and Azal.
The vice chairman of the supreme committee of the elections Khamis Al Daini said the turn out " surprised every one".
Only 9 constituencies out of 301, which did not hold elections because of violent acts by those who refused the elections in the south because they demand independence.
The overall turn out was estimated at more than 70 per cent.
The Yemeni political leaders and international diplomats in Yemen described the elections as historic and as the only way to rescue the conflict-torn country from a civil war.
" The February 21st, is a historic day, and it protected Yemen from a civil war," said the UN envoy, Jamal Bin Omar, while visiting some of the polling stations in Sanaa on Tuesday.
"After elections,Yemenis will have a new social contract," added Bin Omar who orchestrated the Saudi-led and US-backed deal that led to such a political solution of the Yemeni crisis.
One day before elections, the former president Saleh called his supporters to vote for Hadi.
" Today, I would say good bye to the power, which should always be responsibility not a privilege," said Saleh from New York where he finished further medical treatments for burns and injuries he sustained in an assassination attempt last June.
Saleh declared he would attend the installation ceremony of Hadi which is expected to be held late this week or early next week.
" Saleh will definitely return and attend the installation ceremony," Saleh's secretary, Ahmed Al Sufi told the Weekly.
Al Sufi expected the installation ceremony to be held on Thursday February 23.
Saleh will return as a good and normal citizen as he always says,
Yemenis final goal not achieved yet:
The establishment of a civil state which protects rights and liberties of every one is the final goal, and changing Saleh with Hadi is the not the final goal of Yemenis.
The protesters in the streets still threaten to continue sitting in their tents until this final goal is achieved.
The 25-year old Mohammed Alwan, said Tuesday he is ready to stay in his tent all the two-year transitional period of Hadi or even more than that if the civil state is not established.
" Today I voted for Hadi, but I would keep staying in the tent until all our goals are achieved," said Mohammed shortly after he voted in a poll station inside the Sanaa university where the protests square is located.
Two big challenges
Before establishing the civil state which every one is dreaming, Yemenis with their new President Hadi need to open a comprehensive national dialogue to discuss and solve all big issues of those who refused the elections such as the issue of Al Houthi in northern province of Saada, and the issue of the south.
The second big thing to be done during the transitional period is the writing of a new constitution on which the would-be civil state will be based. France and Germany are helping Yemenis to write the new constitution.
In February 2014, a competitive presidential election is supposed to be held according to the new constitution. The elected president would set a date for parliamentary elections.
The Yemen new President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi took the constitutional oath before the Parliament on Saturday in presence of members of unity government and chiefs of diplomatic missions in Yemen.
After one year of wars of words and bullets, almost every one of the MPs and ministers of the conflicting parties, before the swearing in ceremony started, was hugging and kissing everyone as a sign of greeting and congratulating for ending the long standing crisis.
The majority of MPs belong to Saleh's party.
Earlier in the day, the supreme elections committee granted Hadi a certificate of winning as an elected president. Hadi won with 65 percent of the 10 million registered voters. Sone 6.5 million eligible voters voted for Hadi.
At the dawn of Saturday, the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh had arrived in the capital Sanaa and stayed in his own house.
Saleh will attend the installation ceremony of his successor Hadi on Monday, February 27th, 2012. Saleh will keep as a president of his party, the People's General Congress. (PGC).
Last Tuesday, the overwhelming majority of Yemenis voted for Hadi as a new president ending the 33-year long reign of the President Ali Abdullah Saleh,71.
The new President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, was the sole candidate of consensus in exceptional elections viewed by the majority of Yemenis and international and regional community as the only way to rescue Yemen from a civil war.
Mr Hadi, 67, was highly supported by the international community when the two conflicting factions within Saleh's regime failed to end the one-year political crisis to the interest of one side.
Hadi is respected by almost all groups including those who defected from Saleh's regime and joined the youth revolution but failed to have what they called " revolutionary legitimacy" to be rulers.
Much of the respect given to Hadi from all Yemeni is because he is from the south which complains from being marginalized by the northerners.
Hadi served as vice president since after the 1994 civil war which erupted only four years after south and north united.
The last presidential elections was in 2006 when the former president Saleh was elected in an election described by the international community as " reasonably free and competitive" .
After about one year of anti-Saleh protests, Saleh now has gone, but his party and his supporters remain.
His party has 50 per cent of the ministries of the national unity government and his supporters were at least representing 50 per cent of the election turn out all our the country on this week's elections.
Saleh's party, the General People Congress(GPC), has now three operating Satellite channels, Yemen Today, Al Akeek, and Azal.
The vice chairman of the supreme committee of the elections Khamis Al Daini said the turn out " surprised every one".
Only 9 constituencies out of 301, which did not hold elections because of violent acts by those who refused the elections in the south because they demand independence.
The overall turn out was estimated at more than 70 per cent.
The Yemeni political leaders and international diplomats in Yemen described the elections as historic and as the only way to rescue the conflict-torn country from a civil war.
" The February 21st, is a historic day, and it protected Yemen from a civil war," said the UN envoy, Jamal Bin Omar, while visiting some of the polling stations in Sanaa on Tuesday.
"After elections,Yemenis will have a new social contract," added Bin Omar who orchestrated the Saudi-led and US-backed deal that led to such a political solution of the Yemeni crisis.
One day before elections, the former president Saleh called his supporters to vote for Hadi.
" Today, I would say good bye to the power, which should always be responsibility not a privilege," said Saleh from New York where he finished further medical treatments for burns and injuries he sustained in an assassination attempt last June.
Saleh declared he would attend the installation ceremony of Hadi which is expected to be held late this week or early next week.
" Saleh will definitely return and attend the installation ceremony," Saleh's secretary, Ahmed Al Sufi told the Weekly.
Al Sufi expected the installation ceremony to be held on Thursday February 23.
Saleh will return as a good and normal citizen as he always says,
Yemenis final goal not achieved yet:
The establishment of a civil state which protects rights and liberties of every one is the final goal, and changing Saleh with Hadi is the not the final goal of Yemenis.
The protesters in the streets still threaten to continue sitting in their tents until this final goal is achieved.
The 25-year old Mohammed Alwan, said Tuesday he is ready to stay in his tent all the two-year transitional period of Hadi or even more than that if the civil state is not established.
" Today I voted for Hadi, but I would keep staying in the tent until all our goals are achieved," said Mohammed shortly after he voted in a poll station inside the Sanaa university where the protests square is located.
Two big challenges
Before establishing the civil state which every one is dreaming, Yemenis with their new President Hadi need to open a comprehensive national dialogue to discuss and solve all big issues of those who refused the elections such as the issue of Al Houthi in northern province of Saada, and the issue of the south.
The second big thing to be done during the transitional period is the writing of a new constitution on which the would-be civil state will be based. France and Germany are helping Yemenis to write the new constitution.
In February 2014, a competitive presidential election is supposed to be held according to the new constitution. The elected president would set a date for parliamentary elections.
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Yemen new president elected, what next?
By Nasser Arrabyee/ 21/02/2012
The overwhelming majority of Yemenis voted for a new president on Tuesday February 21st, 2012 ending the 33-year long reign of the President Ali Abdullah Saleh,71.
The new President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, was the sole candidate of consensus in exceptional elections viewed by the majority of Yemenis and international and regional community as the only way to rescue Yemen from a civil war.
Mr Hadi, 67, was highly supported by the international community when the two conflicting factions within Saleh's regime failed to end the one-year political crisis to the interest of one side.
Hadi is respected by almost all groups including those who defected from Saleh's regime and joined the youth revolution but failed to have what they called " revolutionary legitimacy" to be rulers.
Much of the respect given to Hadi from all Yemeni is because he is from the south which complains from being marginalized by the northerners.
Hadi served as vice president since after the 1994 civil war which erupted only four years after south and north united.
The last presidential elections was in 2006 when the former president Saleh was elected in an election described by the international community as " reasonably free and competitive" .
After about one year of anti-Saleh protests, Saleh now has gone, but his party and his supporters remain.
His party has 50 per cent of the ministries of the national unity government and his supporters were at least representing 50 per cent of the election turn out all our the country on this week's elections.
Saleh's party, the General People Congress(GPC), has now three operating Satellite channels, Yemen Today, Al Akeek, and Azal.
The vice chairman of the supreme committee of the elections Khamis Al Daini said the turn out " surprised every one".
Only 9 constituencies out of 301, which did not hold elections because of violent acts by those who refused the elections in the south because they demand independence.
The overall turn out was estimated at more than 70 per cent.
The Yemeni political leaders and international diplomats in Yemen described the elections as historic and as the only way to rescue the conflict-torn country from a civil war.
" The February 21st, is a historic day, and it protected Yemen from a civil war," said the UN envoy, Jamal Bin Omar, while visiting some of the polling stations in Sanaa on Tuesday.
"After elections,Yemenis will have a new social contract," added Bin Omar who orchestrated the Saudi-led and US-backed deal that led to such a political solution of the Yemeni crisis.
One day before elections, the former president Saleh called his supporters to vote for Hadi.
" Today, I would say good bye to the power, which should always be responsibility not a privilege," said Saleh from New York where he finished further medical treatments for burns and injuries he sustained in an assassination attempt last June.
Saleh declared he would attend the installation ceremony of Hadi which is expected to be held late this week or early next week.
" Saleh will definitely return and attend the installation ceremony," Saleh's secretary, Ahmed Al Sufi told the Weekly.
Al Sufi expected the installation ceremony to be held on Thursday February 23.
Saleh will return as a good and normal citizen as he always says,
Yemenis final goal not achieved yet:
The establishment of a civil state which protects rights and liberties of every one is the final goal, and changing Saleh with Hadi is the not the final goal of Yemenis.
The protesters in the streets still threaten to continue sitting in their tents until this final goal is achieved.
The 25-year old Mohammed Alwan, said Tuesday he is ready to stay in his tent all the two-year transitional period of Hadi or even more than that if the civil state is not established.
" Today I voted for Hadi, but I would keep staying in the tent until all our goals are achieved," said Mohammed shortly after he voted in a poll station inside the Sanaa university where the protests square is located.
Two big challenges
Before establishing the civil state which every one is dreaming, Yemenis with their new President Hadi need to open a comprehensive national dialogue to discuss and solve all big issues of those who refused the elections such as the issue of Al Houthi in northern province of Saada, and the issue of the south.
The second big thing to be done during the transitional period is the writing of a new constitution on which the would-be civil state will be based. France and Germany are helping Yemenis to write the new constitution.
In February 2014, a competitive presidential election is supposed to be held according to the new constitution. The elected president would set a date for parliamentary elections.
The overwhelming majority of Yemenis voted for a new president on Tuesday February 21st, 2012 ending the 33-year long reign of the President Ali Abdullah Saleh,71.
The new President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, was the sole candidate of consensus in exceptional elections viewed by the majority of Yemenis and international and regional community as the only way to rescue Yemen from a civil war.
Mr Hadi, 67, was highly supported by the international community when the two conflicting factions within Saleh's regime failed to end the one-year political crisis to the interest of one side.
Hadi is respected by almost all groups including those who defected from Saleh's regime and joined the youth revolution but failed to have what they called " revolutionary legitimacy" to be rulers.
Much of the respect given to Hadi from all Yemeni is because he is from the south which complains from being marginalized by the northerners.
Hadi served as vice president since after the 1994 civil war which erupted only four years after south and north united.
The last presidential elections was in 2006 when the former president Saleh was elected in an election described by the international community as " reasonably free and competitive" .
After about one year of anti-Saleh protests, Saleh now has gone, but his party and his supporters remain.
His party has 50 per cent of the ministries of the national unity government and his supporters were at least representing 50 per cent of the election turn out all our the country on this week's elections.
Saleh's party, the General People Congress(GPC), has now three operating Satellite channels, Yemen Today, Al Akeek, and Azal.
The vice chairman of the supreme committee of the elections Khamis Al Daini said the turn out " surprised every one".
Only 9 constituencies out of 301, which did not hold elections because of violent acts by those who refused the elections in the south because they demand independence.
The overall turn out was estimated at more than 70 per cent.
The Yemeni political leaders and international diplomats in Yemen described the elections as historic and as the only way to rescue the conflict-torn country from a civil war.
" The February 21st, is a historic day, and it protected Yemen from a civil war," said the UN envoy, Jamal Bin Omar, while visiting some of the polling stations in Sanaa on Tuesday.
"After elections,Yemenis will have a new social contract," added Bin Omar who orchestrated the Saudi-led and US-backed deal that led to such a political solution of the Yemeni crisis.
One day before elections, the former president Saleh called his supporters to vote for Hadi.
" Today, I would say good bye to the power, which should always be responsibility not a privilege," said Saleh from New York where he finished further medical treatments for burns and injuries he sustained in an assassination attempt last June.
Saleh declared he would attend the installation ceremony of Hadi which is expected to be held late this week or early next week.
" Saleh will definitely return and attend the installation ceremony," Saleh's secretary, Ahmed Al Sufi told the Weekly.
Al Sufi expected the installation ceremony to be held on Thursday February 23.
Saleh will return as a good and normal citizen as he always says,
Yemenis final goal not achieved yet:
The establishment of a civil state which protects rights and liberties of every one is the final goal, and changing Saleh with Hadi is the not the final goal of Yemenis.
The protesters in the streets still threaten to continue sitting in their tents until this final goal is achieved.
The 25-year old Mohammed Alwan, said Tuesday he is ready to stay in his tent all the two-year transitional period of Hadi or even more than that if the civil state is not established.
" Today I voted for Hadi, but I would keep staying in the tent until all our goals are achieved," said Mohammed shortly after he voted in a poll station inside the Sanaa university where the protests square is located.
Two big challenges
Before establishing the civil state which every one is dreaming, Yemenis with their new President Hadi need to open a comprehensive national dialogue to discuss and solve all big issues of those who refused the elections such as the issue of Al Houthi in northern province of Saada, and the issue of the south.
The second big thing to be done during the transitional period is the writing of a new constitution on which the would-be civil state will be based. France and Germany are helping Yemenis to write the new constitution.
In February 2014, a competitive presidential election is supposed to be held according to the new constitution. The elected president would set a date for parliamentary elections.
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