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CHAPTER 8: AL-QAEDA, PLUS TWO INSURGENCIES

1.
www.yemenonline.info/print.php?sid=803

2.
Ayman Baggash al-Sayah, ‘Nearly 78% of investment projects in Aden have stalled, says a recent study’,
Yemen Times
, 22–24 December 2008.

3.
‘Yemen: Defusing the Saada Time Bomb’
, Middle East Report
, International Crisis Group, no. 86, 27 May 2009, p. 6.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Khaled Fattah, ‘Yemen: A slogan and six wars’,
Asia Times
, 9 October 2009.

7.
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero040306.html

8.
http://www.trendsmagazine.net/out_wordpress/wordpress/2007/05/07/the-other-insurgency/

9.
www.yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=581

10.
‘Al-Qaeda calls for Islamic Rule in South Yemen’,
Yemen Times
, 14–17 May 2009,

11.
Abdul Hameed Bakier, ‘Al-Qaeda in Yemen Supports Southern Secession’,
Terrorism Monitor
, vol. 7, no. 16, 11 June 2009.

12.
Tariq Alhomayed, ‘No to Secession in Yemen’,
Alsharq Al-Wasat
, 28 April 2009.

CHAPTER 9: CAN THE CENTRE HOLD?

1.
Yemen Corruption Assessment, USAID Yemen, September 2006, p. 12.

2.
Ibid., p. 4.

3.
http://www.hep.yemen.org/en/uploads/mpa_project_description.doc

4.
Mohamad al-Qadhi, ‘Biometric System Launched’,
Yemen Times
, 12–14 September 2005.

5.
Fuad Rajeh, ‘EU to Government: “Spending Reforms and Layoffs” Necessary for Development’,
Yemenpost.net
, 24 May 2009.

6.
Phillips, op. cit., p. 69.

7.
http://www.yobserver.com/reports/10013003.html

8.
Yemenpost.net
, 5 September 2009.

9.
Ian Black, ‘The Curse of Yemen’,
Guardian
, 12 August 2008.

10.
Sarah Phillips, ‘Cracks in the Yemeni System’, MERIP, 28 July 2005.

11.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr09100.pdf
, p.13.

12.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/2009_failed_states_index_interactive_map_and_rankings

13.
http://www.uam.es/otroscentros/TEIM/election_watch/Yemen/elections_results_Yemen.htm

14.
Phillips, op. cit., p. 96.

15.
Ibid., p. 156.

16.
Ibid., p. 162.

17.
Sarah Phillips, ‘Politics in a Vacuum: The Yemeni Opposition’s Dilemma’, in
Discerning Yemen’s Political Future, Viewpoints
, Middle East Institute, no. 11, June 2009, p. 11.

18.
Mohammed al-Qadhi, ‘Opposition groups gather to discuss Yemen’s woes’,
The National
, 19 May 2009.

19.
Nasser Arrabyee, ‘President blasts opposition parties’,
Gulfnews.com
, 9 March 2008.

20.
Phillips, op. cit., p. 70.

21.
Robert Kaplan,
Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and beyond
, New York: Vintage, 2006, p. 23.

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