[Debate] Yemen Off MSM Radar

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

All this just over the last couple of days!

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1m Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen BREAKING : Kidnapped by gunmen - American citizen working for
Red Cross in Hodeidah city late afternoon today. http://bit.ly/JhwFqz

5m Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
Witty #Yemen newspaper : Does our Parliament, last elected in Apr
2003, qualify for the Guinness Book of World Records?
http://bit.ly/JhwprD

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What? | #Yemen UN Envoy Bin Omar in capital Sanaa since Thursday. Now,
his "political adviser" Mark Wheeler arrives. http://bit.ly/IcTzlj

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
Sums up the entire revolution. | Rare #Yemen comment by Robert Fisk :
Yemen has got its former dictator's sidekick back http://ind.pn/IcNq8s

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
I guess I'm screwed, then. | CIA escalation of drone campaign in
#Yemen : Kill men with guns & beards. http://bit.ly/IcMoJF

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | Ex Minister AlHittar : Ansar AlSharia made up of AlQaeda
militants, Harak separatists & Saleh supporters. http://bit.ly/IcLGvW

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Dubai's DP World policy on Aden issue : shut up & pray it goes away.
| #Yemen : Aden port full strike continues. http://bit.ly/IcKRTT

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
Blame squarely on idiotic adults waging war. | Unexploded ordnance &
landmines killing more children in #Yemen :UNICEF.
http://bit.ly/JxCRdl

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | South Region army officer arrested. Allegedly gave hundreds
of army's artillery shells to AlQaeda militants. http://bit.ly/JxBI5w

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | Am uncomfortable with the fact that a unit under Gen Ali
Muhsin AlAhmar is now in the fight against AlQaeda.
http://bit.ly/JxzLGd

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | 135th Infantry Brigade (Gen Ali Muhsin AlAhmar's command)
sets off on deployment to Abyan to fight AQaeda, on Pres Hadi orders.

1h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | Army forces have retaken control of the eastern part of
Zinjibar city, Abyan from AlQaeda fighters. http://usat.ly/IcHQmx

2h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
Video | #Yemen : A small slice of the AlQaeda clashes going on today
in Lauder, Abyan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe8NnVM9Oik&feature=youtu.be

3h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
@tobba3 | Not the 1st time that our fishermen are harrassed for no
reason by Oman & the international navies in the Gulf of Aden.

3h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
Not a good start to engaging youth. | #Yemen Human Rights Min Hooriya
Mashur storms off stage, due to youth heckling. http://bit.ly/I0He5R

10h Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | Beautiful skies & a bit of electricity in Sanaa today - a
rare "feel good" day in the capital.

20 Apr Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
Almost everyone in Sanaa I discuss with thinks that a war between
Saleh & rivals is inevitable, & is in fact the only way out for
#Yemen.

20 Apr Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | AlQaeda threatened 30 car bombs throughout the country, if
army tries to take over Zinjibar or Jaar - I hope its mere rhetoric.

20 Apr Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
@YemenPeaceNews | No, Zinjibar & Jaar have been firmly under AQ control.
 In reply to Yemen Peace Project

20 Apr Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
#Yemen | Bloody battles with AlQaeda rage all day around Zinjibar -
now, army has reportedly advanced into the city. http://bit.ly/I67gQS

20 Apr Haykal Bafana ‏ @BaFana3
French reporters travel undercover to Al Qaeda territory. | #Yemen :
Meeting the fighters of Ansar al-Sharia.
http://www.france24.com/en/20120419-reporters-exclusive-yemen-fighters-ansar-al-sharia-partisans-jaar-waqar-al-qaeda-abyan-south-soldiers-hostage

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Yoshie Furuhashi
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