Press Review [Archives:2003/08/Press Review]

Annas weekly, 17 Feb. 2003.
Main Headlines:
-JMP to draw up a vision on national farces aligning
-German judiciary sets March 3, a date for deciding al-Mouyad case
-Gangsters kill a young man injure another in a street in the capital
In a leading front-page article the newspaper confirms that Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and many other world capitals have witnessed in recent days demonstrations in protest to a US possible attack on Iraq.
Millions of demonstrations in Europe, Asia, and Africa carried banners that condemn war: “No Blood for Oil. Drop Bush instead of Bombs”. However, under intensive security measures, which humiliated the Arab nation and assassinated the spirit of initiative and rejection, hundreds of Arab demonstrators in Arab capitals stormed the streets to say No war.
Meantime, the Arab leaders prepare for a new round of submission and cowardice to announce renunciation of the Iraqis’ blood through an Arab summit. Only those who have high voices and flagrant stances were enthusiastic for this summit. The free and live people of the world who are able to select their rules and bring them down themselves whenever those rulers violate their will, have taken to the streets to protest the war on Iraq.
They also showed solidarity with the Arabs who fight each other’s and race to woo America. We are in a critical historical stage at a time the whole world rise up to support an Arab issue. We also see the Arabs, peoples and rulers, let their brethren down. This is because they have been deprived of their freedom, which all live peoples and nations enjoy and submitted, to despotism and suppression exercised by all regimes against their peoples. We are declaring our protest and sorrow for the humiliation, which was driven by leaders and rulers of Arab countries, and we say to the men and women of Europe, Asia and Africa and in every spot in the world that witnessed a voice against the war and stood against the American arrogance: ” You are the best and your women who applaud for the fall of “Bush” are better than our men, leaders, educated people, and intellectuals, who knelt down to their knees to Bush’s ambassadors, and presented nothing but more concessions and acts of treason toward Allah, the nation, the history.
 

ATTARIQ weekly, 18 Feb. 2003.
Main Headlines:
-Parliament Speaker: Weapons law not yet referred to parliament
-YSP& Islah statements indicate differences on woman candidacy to elections
-RAY party calls for conducting charges before enforcing them
A front-page article by the editor in chief says there are indicators on probable war in the Arab region. Grouping of world peace is joining force nowadays in the face of the Anglo-Saxon war.
There are serious indicators that the real goal of the war against Iraq does not lie in disarming it and changing its regime. It is rather aimed at dominating its oil wealth and forces a control on quarter of world oil reserve as well as an inlet to political re-division of the area.
The U.S., as a colonialistic mentality has its justifications, which are wrapped with other issues. Many of the neo-colonialism thinkers consider the present division is an outcome of Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France, during the world war1. The U.S. was then still a state having limited global capabilities and preoccupied with its own affairs. The U.S. was always in lake of a strong motivating factor to make it embark on causing a new political division of the region, compatible with its international status as a sole superpower. The events of 11 September came to meet what Washington was looking for.
They have given Washington a strong reason to redeploy its forces and worldwide movements after the cold war epoch.
They have also provided Washington with an internal impetus, namely, “patriotic identity” to mobilizes the people towards a war whose dimensions and consequences are unknown.
26 September, organ of Yemen Armed Forces, 20 Feb. 2003.
Main Headlines:
-President Saleh lands relations with Germany and its stand opposing war
-Unified criteria must be applied in dealing with international resolutions
-Al-Mouyad issue to be decided end of March, German authorities a waiting American evidence
-World insurance companies delegation due in Sana’a this week
-Committee on preparation of national aligning charter, convenes Monday
-GPC party selects more than 85 percent of its candidates to parliamentary elections
“26 September” editorial says the balance of the exchange of interests and benefits the international relations are founded on, is at present placed at crossroads. This situation is caused by developments and escalations of the situation in the region and the world. The United States of America insists on waging war on Iraq despite the latter’s commitment implementation of international resolutions, the latest of which is resolution 1441, which president Bush claims that Iraq has not implemented and not cooperated with UN inspectors, using this allegation as reason for stepping up the option of war and for seeking another UN resolution to warn Iraq. The new U.S. direction leads to more dangerous aggravation of the situation and threatened world stability, security and peace.
Upon this U.S. feverish tendency to war could we understand the European and world stands rejecting the war, under pretext of disarming Iraq of its alleged mass destruction weapons.
Reports of UN chief inspectors, briefing the UN security council meeting on 14 February have given preponderance to views and stands of the forces opposing the war is so vital and sensitive region of the world with an important strategic situation for all world interests. Hence comes the rational and courageous German and French stand against the war and calling giving priority to the peaceful solution to the present crisis between Iraq and the U.S., supported by Britain.
France, Germany and other world countries that follow suit, have not taken this stand but out of their realization of danger of the situation with regards to the war catastrophic impact and to undermining of the UN and international law, if America insisted to go to war without a UN mandate.
The U.S. administration hawks insist on their war policy although the facts on the ground show that UN inspectors regarding mass destruction weapons are performing their tasks in Iraq very well and with tangible Iraqi cooperation.
All this confirms there is not any reason for launching a war on Iraq. This is supported by several world countries, mainly France, Germany, Russia, China and Belgium, that adopt stands stemming from a political, moral and humanitarian vision and from their understanding of disasters, tragedies and pains wars would leave behind to humanity.
These countries have their bitter experiences with wars, unlike the U.S. that has not experienced such calamities within its borders. In this context, all should realize that the war is of no interest to anyone and would also lead to dismantling the international alliance against terrorism, which up till now the U.S. is leading.
Al-Shomou weekly, 22 Feb. 2003.
Main Headlines:
-Washington heads for assassination of military commanders, its embassy in Sanaa demands preventing religious preachers from assailing it
– Yemeni citizen disappears in Bangkok
-Saudi ambassador to Washington: We are committed to offer facilities for launching war on Iraq
-America behind incidents in Iran, Pakistan
-Ministers and officials practice corruption
-Head of Antiquities Authority defies cabinet decision
The newspaper’s political editor says the incidents of two military planes crash, one Iranian carrying senior military commanders from Revolutionary Guard and the second a Pakistani carrying airforce commander and a number of army officers have aroused strong skepticism on causes of their crash in this particular time and circumstances in the region.
The strongest of probabilities is that the two incidents are not ruled out to be machined and that the U.S. intelligence is behind them with the aim of destroying the strongest opponents to the American policy and its terroristic approach against the Arab and Muslim nations.
This U.S. strategy angers the high-ranking military commanders who are against the American arrogance and see in it a dangerous indicator aimed at life, safety and security of senior military commanders who are closely watched by the American intelligence and works for ending them in a terrorist manner.
This means that the United States is working in coordination with the Zionist entity in aiming at military commands of the Arab and Muslim armies. It is certain that the increase of these terrorist acts at this time and under these difficult circumstances in the region means that both American and Zionist intelligence organizations, that are supplied with information, have a list of names of the highest ranking military commanders who are against their policies.
Al-Raie al-A’am weekly, 18 Feb. 2003.
Main Headlines:
-RAY party to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections
-President Saleh to attend Arab summit meetings
-14 person droned, 2 others wounded with fire shots in Mukalla
-German & American intelligence entrapped al-Mouyad
-Army troops manage to release a kidnapped person from Sanhan tribe
-Differences inside Islah party on candidates to coming parliamentary elections
In its editorial the newspaper says at last was concluded the Cairo meeting of Arab league foreign ministers preparing for an emergency Arab summit. The meeting issued a closing statement following the traditional Arab statements indicating desire for not attaching any Arab state, if it would affect Arab leaders thrones and interests. Arab foreign minister emergency meeting has not come out with any thing new. The closing statement’s compromising shape clearly shows that the participants are merely employees for their regimes rather than officials responsible for issuing a decision and deciding matters concerning and threatening the nation.

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