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Arabia
Unrest at Yemen University
2003-12-26
Three security guards have been wounded, one of them seriously, in clashes with armed students in the capital, where security was beefed near the university yesterday.
Wonder what course of study they're enrolled in?
Clashes broke out at the University of Sanaa on Wednesday when a group of lunatics students, mainly members of the opposition Al-Islah Islamic party, tried to force union elections to be held without referring to official organizing bodies or unions.
That confirms my hunch. "Look out! The theology department's at it again!"
Eyewitnesses told AFP that tough guys armed men had entered classrooms and started to shoot in the air and fire off teargas canisters. Three guards who tried to arrest the group were wounded, one seriously. Three members of the group were arrested and questioned by the security services.
Civil, well-reasoned discourse, Islamic style...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#9  Glenn #7: Stalin
Posted by: ed   2003-12-27 2:26:30 AM  

#8  Tancred, post #2
I'm assuming you mean B.C.E.
Posted by: Larry Everett   2003-12-26 6:28:59 PM  

#7  Was it Lenin or Stalin?

"Is not votes that count, is who counts votes."
Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds)   2003-12-26 3:07:30 PM  

#6  "I won!? I didn't even know I was running..."
Posted by: tu3031   2003-12-26 2:38:03 PM  

#5  I think it was more along the lines of having an election and not telling the other parties.
Posted by: Fred   2003-12-26 2:22:10 PM  

#4  "... tried to force union elections to be held without referring to official organizing bodies or unions."

I can be dense at times... and those are my better moments.
What this means to me is they want to have an election without telling anyone whom they're voting for. I thought their preference is to have an election, then tell everyone whom they voted for.
...hmmm...
Sounds like the same thing. Never mind.
Posted by: Larry Everett   2003-12-26 1:45:46 PM  

#3  At a steady trot.
Posted by: Lucky   2003-12-26 11:16:59 AM  

#2  It is well known that modern Yemen is rushing pell-mell from the 13th to the 15th century.
Posted by: Tancred   2003-12-26 10:15:28 AM  

#1  "... entered classrooms and started to shoot in the air and fire off teargas ..."

Fred I was going to crab your edit but see this is an exact quote. Sounds like a stinky mess. Rhetorically, was this an attempt to rally support, or intimidation?

"... questioned by the security services." At what voltage? Or are those gentlemen into hand tools?
Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds)   2003-12-26 1:16:40 AM  

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