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- Title: Yemen Admits Limited Qaeda Presence (Yemen-Report: Terror)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Qirbi on July 19 admitted that al-Qaeda has developed in his country, although in a limited way, as he put it in an interview with the London-based daily ASHARQ AL AWSAT, accusing the international terrorist network of encouraging a sectarian uprising in the north and a separatist movement in the south. "We deal with al-Qaeda members who have been arrested in connection with executing or planning terrorist actions through dialogue whereby we try to distance them from the path of violence, extremism and terrorism. We also refer many to courts to receive the punishment they deserve for the crimes they committed," he told the Saudi-owned newspaper. "The problem with al-Qaeda is that it is trying to get involved with separatist groups and the Houthis to spread chaos. But al-Qaeda members do not pose a problem as big as Western think tanks claim," he said, adding that reports that al-Qaeda has moved its headquarters from Iraq and Afghanistan to Yemen were "exaggerated." Yemen has been battling a wave of al-Qaeda attacks, as well as a rebellion by a Shiite sect linked to the Houthi clan in the north, and separatist sentiment in the south. Neighboring Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has said it fears instability in Yemen could allow it to become a launch pad for a revival of a 2003-2006 campaign by al-Qaeda militants to destabilize the US-allied ruling al Saud family. Rebels affiliated with the Houthi clan are based in the north, and have been involved in violent clashes with government forces since 2004, in which hundreds of people on both sides have been killed. Houthi fighters belong to the Zaid- minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. They want to restore to Yemen the Zaidi imamate that was overthrown in a coup in 1962. They also feel the Yemeni government is too closely allied with the United States.
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