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Extracts from An Element of Luck by Michael A Crouch:
Introduction
1. A day of reckoning
2. Full circle: "It should never have happened"
3. Returning "home"
2. Full circle: "It should never have happened"
The author, having reflected on the British legacy to Yemen, recounts what it was like to…
Extracts from An Element of Luck by Michael A Crouch:
Introduction
1. A day of reckoning
2. Full circle: "It should never have happened"
3. Returning "home"
1. A day of reckoning
1964: the author details what was to be the most extraordinary of the various attempts made on his life. He was living…
Michael Crouch was a political officer who served throughout the then Aden Protectorates and in Aden itself from 1958 until the British withdrawal in 1967. In his book,An Element of Luck, he described his experiences at the time and reflected on them during subsequent visits to Yemen.…
The Abyan kidnap trial
1.The trial begins
2.The accused
3.Witnesses in thetrial: four Yemeni drivers
4.Witnesses in the trial: a soldier and a sheikh
5.Statements fromdefendants
Witnesses in the kidnap trial:a soldier and a sheikh
FEBRUARY 11, 1999. The next witnesses were a soldier who had been…
The Abyan kidnap trial
1.The trial begins
2.The accused
3.Witnesses in thetrial: four Yemeni drivers
4.Witnesses in the trial: a soldier and a sheikh
5.Statements fromdefendants
Witnesses in the trial:four Yemeni drivers
FEBRUARY 8, 1999. Four Yemeni drivers who were kidnapped along with the…
The Abyan kidnap trial: evidence
February 6, 1999
The three accused who appeared at the first hearing on January 13 were joined by two more, Abdullah Muhsin Salih al-Junaidi ("Abu Hadhifa") and Hussein Muhammad Salih ("Abu Huraira"), a Tunisian.
Judge Najib al-Qadiri warned the defendant Abu al-…
The Abyan kidnap trial
1.The trial begins
2.The accused
3.Witnesses in thetrial: four Yemeni drivers
4.Witnesses in the trial: a soldier and a sheikh
5.Statements fromdefendants
The accused
Case No. 1 (1999), Zinjibar court.
Judge: Najib al-Qadiri
Charges: Premeditated murder of foreign tourists…
The Abyan kidnap trial
1.The trial begins
2.The accused
3.Witnesses in thetrial: four Yemeni drivers
4.Witnesses in the trial: a soldier and a sheikh
5.Statements fromdefendants
The first session
THE TRIAL opened on January 13, 1999, with onlythree of the 14 defendants in court (the others were…
What the police saidthey found
Pictures issued by the Yemeni authorities showing evidence connected with the alleged bombing plot in Aden
Mines and rocket-launchers
Books and video cassettes issued by "Supporters of Shariah"
Laptops and communication equipment…
Suspects in the Aden 'bomb plot'
Eight of the 10 men on trial in Aden hadBritish nationality. The other two had been living in Britain but were believed to be Algerians who had entered Yemen using false French passports.
The menwerecharged with "membership of an armed group and possession of…
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
