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2010-01-25 Arabia

Three Yemeni soldiers killed in checkpoint attack

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1 Yemeni Militants have repor offered a truce deal to SAUDI ARABIA, ostensibly on the pretext of avoiding unecessary civiloian casualties.

* NEWS KERALA > WATER WOES [Sanaa] COULD UNDERMINE YEMEN'S DRIVE AGZ AL-QAEDA. Yemen's natural groundwater systems could be exhausted come 2015-2017???

ARTIC > CARNEGIE FOUNDATION > Approxi 80% of all Yemeni water is directly or indir used for local forms of agriculture, but EURO PERT > claims that 1/2 of this is used to grow QAT, A MILD NARCOTIC PLANT USED IN YEMENI CULTURE-SOCIETY AS A "CHEW" [e.g. similar to "chewing tobacco" in the US]. IOW QAT > SOCIO-RECREATIONAL PURPOSES, NOT GROWING EDIBLE FOOD PER SE.

* ION SAME > CHINESE COUPLES CAN NOW HAVE TWO CHILDREN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-25 20:53|| 2010-01-25 20:53|| Front Page Top

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