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Gunfight in Abyan
A reconstruction of the events that led to the deaths of four tourists held hostage in Abyan, and discusses the questions that still need to be answered
Text last updated 8 January 1999
THE ABDUCTION of 16 tourists - and the subsequent deaths of four of them - has left a trail of…
LATE in 1998, two very different groups of travellers set out from Britain for Yemen.
One group, on an adventure tour with Explore Worldwide, went in search of history and a traditional culture. The others - a group of young men from a Muslim background - intended, according to their families, to…
Kidnapping of tourists, 28-29 December 1998
Text last updated 16 February 1999
THE ABDUCTION of 16 tourists in Abyan on December 28, 1998, was not only the largest kidnapping in Yemen's recent history, it was the first in which hostages died.
Until then, the tribal practice of kidnapping foreigners…
Abu al-Hassan and theIslamic Army of Aden-Abyan
Report dated January 1999
(Abu al-Hassan was eventually executed)
ABU AL-HASSAN (full name: Zain al-Abdin Abubakr al-Mihdar) is 32 years old and comes from an important tribe in Shabwa province. He belongs to the salafi religious sect which has…
Abu al-Hassan and theIslamic Army of Aden-Abyan
Report dated January 1999
(Abu al-Hassan was eventually executed)
ABU AL-HASSAN (full name: Zain al-Abdin Abubakr al-Mihdar) is 32 years old and comes from an important tribe in Shabwa province. He belongs to the salafi religious sect which has…
Documents
1.Supporters of Shariah: "Yemen communique No. 1"(11 October1998)
2.Supporters of Shariah: "Yemen hostage communique No. 1"(30 December1998)
3.Supporters of Shariah press release(20 January 1999)
4.Supporters of Shariah: extracts from newsletter(1998-1999)
Supporters of Shariah: press…
Abu Hamza and theSupporters of Shariah
Text last updated 7 March 1999
THE KIDNAPPING of 16 western tourists in Abyan on 28 December 1998 and an alleged bomb plot in Aden have both been linked to an extreme Islamist organisation called Supporters of Shariah (SOS) which is run by Abu Hamza al-Masri,…
Chronology
A record of events surrounding the Yemen "bomb plot" and kidnapping
1998
July 3: Malik Nasser Harhara flies to Yemen with his mother; she returns on August 20.
October 11: Abu Hamza al-Masri of the London-based Supporters of Shariah, issues a communique on behalf of the Islamic Army of…
Dazed and confused
More than seven months after ten young men from Britain were arrested on bomb plot charges in Aden, the British are still unsure what to make of it ...
(Text last updated August 1999)
THE ADEN TEN: Or should they be "The Aden Eight" as the Daily Telegraph maintains? All ten were…
PART ONE: NAMES, DEFINITIONS AND VOTING RIGHTS
CHAPTER ONE: NAMES AND DEFINITIONS
Article 1: This law shall be called the General Elections law.
Article 2: For the purpose of this law, the following words and expressions shall have the following meaning unless the context requires otherwise.…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
