Sunday, 05 September 2010 16:09

TEHRAN, 26 Dec -- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Friday told Tehran-based channel II that “Yemen is facing the problem of terrorism and al-Qaeda network,” adding “I believe Yemen’s internal crisis cannot be resolved except through dialogue and not by the military.”  He described the U.S. support of Yemen as “suspicious and aimed at the Islamic world,” stressing “the solution to the crisis in Yemen should be regional as Yemen is passing through difficult circumstances and committing massacres against the people of Yemen is not in the interest of anyone.”  On the border fighting between Yemeni Shiite insurgents and the Saudi military, he said “if Saudi Arabia is concerned about the integrity of its border, then it can preserve it without having to intervene in Yemen’s affairs.”

Sunday, 05 September 2010 16:09

BYAN, 21 Dec -- Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen Monday told a rally in al-Mahfid district in Abyan that their war was with the United States and not the Yemeni army.  The rally was held at a suspected al-Qaeda training camp to protest the killing of dozens of civilians in government raids last Thursday and one militant told the crowd: “Soldiers, you should know that there is no problem between us and you.  Our problem is with America and its agents.”  Later an explosion killed two people during the rally and wounded 14 others and security officials blamed al-Qaeda for the blast but al-Jazeera television said unexploded munitions from Thursday’s bombing was the cause.