The New Dark Age

7 October 2011 — williambowles.info

Women’s rights trio wins Nobel Peace Prize
CBS News
(CBS/AP) OSLO, Norway – Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to secure women’s rights, …
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/07/501364/main20117103.shtml

U.S.-Yemen ties strained over fighting terrorism
San Francisco Chronicle
Antigovernment protesters rally in Sanaa, Yemen. The United States hopes to avoid being drawn into the civil unrest through its fight against terrorism. Sanaa, Yemen — Ties between the United States and Yemen are being strained by a growing …
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/06/MNVK1LE1UF.DTL

YEMEN: Al Qaeda group remains threat to US
Los Angeles Times
REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON — Despite the drone-launched missile strike that killed Anwar Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric, the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen remains a significant terrorism threat to the United States, according to Obama …
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/10/yemen-al-qaeda-group-remains-threat-to-us.html

Killed al-Qaida propagandist lived on Long Island
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — An al-Qaida propagandist killed last week in a US airstrike in Yemen went to a high school on Long Island. Newsday (http://bit.ly/pE0q8L ) reports on its website Thursday that 25-year-old Samir Khan lived in Westbury for about a decade …
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP58d7bbbb421a45cc888a933d8999eeb4.html

Nobel’s Karman ‘the mother of Yemen’s revolution’
eTaiwan News
The 32-year-old Karman has been an activist for human rights in Yemen for years, but when she was arrested in January, it helped detonate protests by hundreds of thousands demanding the ouster of Saleh and the creation of a democratic government. …
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1728918

US Predators kill 5 AQAP fighters in southern Yemen
Long War Journal
By Bill RoggioOctober 6, 2011 Unmanned US Predators operated by the CIA and the Joint Special Operations command killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters during an airstrike in southern Yemen yesterday. The strike took place in the Al …
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/10/us_predators_kill_fi.php

Yemen Oil Export Pipeline Blown up, Flows Cut: Officials
CRIENGLISH.com
One of Yemen’s main oil export pipelines carrying Marib crude was blown up on Thursday, cutting a flow of an estimated 125000 barrels a day through the line to Ras Issa terminal on the Red Sea, officials said. “An explosive device bombed the main oil …
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/10/07/2021s661557.htm

GCC plan remains only option in Yemen: UAE daily
WAM – Emirates News Agency
WAM Abu Dhabi, Oct 07th, 2011 (WAM)—Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is hoping to use the killing of Al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar Al Awlaqi and another American citizen, magazine editor Samir Khan, inside Yemen by special American forces to gain …
http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1289995390636&p=1135099400124&pagename=WAM%2FWamLocEnews%2FW-T-LEN-FullNews

From Israel’s Bus 300 Affair to the Al-Awlaki Assassination
FrontPage Magazine
It is perhaps the ultimate irony that the Israeli “Bus 300” affair is once again popping up in the media just days after the al-Qaeda terrorist with the US passport, Anwar al-Awlaki, was liquidated by a drone in Yemen. Many of the points being raised …
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/07/from-israels-bus-300-affair-to-the-al-awlaki-assassination/

Yemen: Congrats to Tawakkol Karman · Global Voices
By Amira Al Hussaini
Congratulations are pouring in from all corners as the winners of this year’s much anticipated Nobel Peace Prize winners are announced. Yemeni journalist and activist Tawakkol Karman joins Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf and Liberian …
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/10/07/yemen-congrats-to-tawakkol-karman/

Nobel’s Karman ‘the mother of Yemen’s revolution’ | The Associated …
By The Associated Press
Tawakkul Karman is known among Yemenis as the “iron woman” and the “mother of the revolution,” a mother of three who has long been an activist for human rights and whose arrest in January helped detonate a mass uprising against the …
http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/10/nobels-karman-mother-yemens-revolution

Yemen: No Evidence Awlaki Was Actually Killed — News from …
By Jason Ditz
Though this hasn’t happened yet in the case of cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni government is reporting they don’t have any actual evidence that Awlaki was killed either. According to security officials, the last information that have is that he …
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/06/yemen-no-evidence-awlaki-was-actually-killed/

Is Obama Passing on Opportunities to Strike al Qaeda in Yemen …
By Marc Thiessen
The operation that tracked down Anwar al-Awlaki was a major success, but as
these charts show, since 2008 the United States has carried out just 14
drone strikes against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen.
During that …
http://blog.american.com/2011/10/is-obama-passing-on-opportunities-to-strike-al-qaeda-in-yemen/

6 October 2011
Secret panel approves executions of Americans
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 18:56

5 October 2011
Criticism over the sudden CIA-led drone strike in Yemen that killed two American citizens last week has promoted questions over which authorities can approve such secretive assassinations.
Post-Mubarak Egypt: Plus ça Change …
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 16:00 Ashraf Ezzat
There are a few academic definitions of ‘revolution,’ but they all come down to one sentence: ‘Dramatic change in a relatively short period of time.’

UN resolution on Yemen should reflect real situation, Russia says
Strategic Culture Foundation 05/10/2011 at 17:26

4 October 2011

When It Comes to State-Sanctioned Murder, Morality Matters Most
Dissident Voice 04/10/2011 at 16:00 Charles Davis
The recent extrajudicial killing of two American citizens, most notably radical Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, has spurred a curious debate over whether the action, personally ordered by President Barack Obama, was right or wrong — curious for its conspicuous focus not on whether assassinations are right or wrong, but on whether they are ‘legal’ or not.