Tag Archives: Yemen
Yemen: 60 killed in suicide bombing
SMH A SUICIDE bomber killed dozens of people including soliders in Yemen’s capital yesterday at a military parade rehearsal near the presidential palace, a police official said. At least 60 soldiers died and about 120 people were injured in Sana’a, … Continue reading
Yemen: Islamic plane bomber thwarted
SMH The CIA have thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press … Continue reading
Filed under Children, Fellow-believers, Islamicism, Non-believers, Officials, Stupidity, Women
Middle East: Misogyny, thy name is Islam
Why Do They Hate Us? – By Mona Eltahawy | Foreign Policy But let’s put aside what the United States does or doesn’t do to women. Name me an Arab country, and I’ll recite a litany of abuses fueled by … Continue reading
Yemen: Happy fourteenth birthday — here’s your husband!
Butterflies and Wheels Fourteen-year-old Reem, from Sanaa, was 11 years old when her father married her to her cousin, a man almost 21 years her senior. One day, Reem’s father dressed her in a niqab (the Islamic veil that covers … Continue reading
Yemen: With up to 25 dead, it’s time to burn the veils
SMH Hundreds of Yemeni women have set fire to traditional female veils to protest the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising, as overnight clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people. In the capital Sanaa, the … Continue reading
Yemen: 16, 17-year-olds killed by drone strike
SMH The American son of the al-Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki was only 16 when he was killed by a US drone in Yemen… Abdel-Rahman Anwar al-Awlaki was among several people killed in a missile strike near the town of Azzan … Continue reading
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US: Muslim maniac attempts to break into plane cockpit
SMH. A Yemeni man arrested on a San Francisco-bound plane repeatedly shouted “Allah Akbar” as he tried to break into the cockpit, a court heard yesterday, as he made an initial appearance. Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al-Murisi appeared sullen as a … Continue reading
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Yemen: another endless, pointless war? Oh, goody!
SMH. The new head of Britain’s armed forces has refused to rule out military intervention in Yemen to stamp out the growing threat from al-Qaeda terrorists based there. General Sir David Richards, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said there … Continue reading
Filed under Calls for jihad or crusades, Islamicism, Religious wars, Stupidity, Troops
US: ‘Draw Muhammad’ artist placed on Islamic hit list
Comic Riffs A radical Islamic leader has placed Molly Norris — the artist who helped spawn the recent “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day!” before distancing herself from the campaign — on an execution hit list, according to the New York Daily … Continue reading
Filed under Human rights abuse, Islamicism, Stupidity, Women
