Abdulmalik, a 13-year-old boy from Yemen’s capital city Sana’a, started chewing khat leaves at the age of seven. “My father would pass me small handfuls at weddings,” he told The Media Line. “But I didn’t start chewing every day until I turned 12 and started to work. Khat gives me energy for work.”
If there were any doubts about the budding alliance between US President Barack Obama and his newly-inaugurated counterpart in Yemen, Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, the Yemeni president dispelled them in his first official visit to the United States over the weekend.
The body of a Yemenite Jewish leader who was stabbed to death in an anti-Semitic attack was brought to Israel for burial.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamist militant, was killed in Yemen on Friday in a CIA drone strike described by President Barack Obama as \”another significant milestone\” in efforts to defeat al Qaeda.
Yemen’s embattled leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was lightly injured Friday in an attack by opposition figures on the presidential palace, his spokesman said.
Though Israel lives in a dangerous neighborhood, surrounded by countries whose leaders or people wish its destruction, over the years it had adjusted to the status quo, more or less figuring out how to get by while keeping an eye on gradual change.
Yemen\’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, blamed Israel for planning and funding protests in several Arab states. \”There is an operations rooms in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world,\” Saleh reportedly said Tuesday during a speech at Sanaa University, adding that the operations room is \”run by the White House.\”
Protests in Egypt entered a third day as protesters took to the streets in Yemen to demand a new government.
Jewish institutions throughout the United States are reassessing their security following last Friday’s mail bombing attempt of two Jewish institutions in Chicago.
Agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are in Chicago to beef up security at Jewish institutions.
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