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Yemen research
YEMEN
1000 BC – Ancient trade routes,
called Saba. (Yemen). Trade in Frankincense. (ABC Yemen timeline).
0000 – Jesus Christ was born and
lived
527 – The Persians (Iran) took
control of Saba.(Yemen). (ABC timeline Yemen).
897 – The Zayidi dynasty took power
in north Yemen, a strict Islamic state until 1962. (ABC Yemen
timeline).
1454 – The Kathirids took power in
south Yemen, until 1967. (ABC Timeline Yemen).
1513 – Ottoman Turks took power. (ABC
Yemen timeline).
1636 – Zayidis imams and the Ottoman
occupation. (ABC Yemen timeline).
1839 – The British took over the port
of Aden. Sheikh signed treaties with the British. (ABC Yemen
timeline).
1839 – Aden was under British rule.
(Internet Yemen timeline).
1869 – When the Suez canal opened in
1869 Yemen became a major refuelling port for the British. (Internet
Yemen timeline).
1918 – The Ottoman empire dissolves
and north Yemen gains independence. Ruled by Imam Yahya. (Internet
timeline Yemen).
1948 – Imam Yahya is assassinated.
His son Ahmad succeeds his father. (Internet timeline Yemen).
1962 – Iman Ahmad died, he was
succeeded by his son, but army officers seized power. Set up Yemen
Arab republic YAR. Sparking civil war between Royalists backed by
Saudi Arabia and others backed by Egypt. (Internet timeline Yemen).
1 Sept 1965 – South Arabia (Yemen)
British speaker of the State council was killed by Arab nationalists.
Attempt to kill a British police superintendant in August. Two weeks
later 7 British children were injured in a grenade attack at Aden
airport terminal.
22 November 1966 – South Arabia
(Yemen) DS-3 aircraft was blown up in midair by a luggage bomb. 28
people were killed.
1967-75 – Castro sent weapons to
Cairo to the NLF in south Yemen. Cuban agents were sent on fact
finding missions to north and south Yemen 1967-68.
1968-71 – Lev Alexayevich Bausin was
a KGB agent in south Yemen 1968-71.
1968-75 – Several missions sent to
south Yemen to support NLF FATAH Ismail both politically and
military.
1971 – The Iran electronics
industries IEI contacted the Texas based Emerson energy systems to
repair TOW and FGM-77A dragon systems for Palestine and Yemen. (AT
Schulz Buying secrets Iran Westview press 1989).
1972 – Border clashes between YAR and
PDRY, ceasefire by Arab league. (Internet timeline Yemen).
27 June 1975 – In Germany Peter
Lorenz was kidnapped in west Berlin by June the 2nd
movement terrorists. The German government released the five
terrorists who were allowed to fly to South Yemen.
1976-82 – The Aden (South Yemen)
regime supported the Ethiopian officers commanded by Mengistu Haile
Mariam. They sent Yemeni military units to support of the latter
against Somalia aggression, and asking the Cubans to do the same.
Cuba joined in first with a group of officers, headed by general
Arnaldo Ochoa, a move followed later by deployment of larger Cuban
forces against the Somali invasion. Also as part of the alliance with
the Aden regime. Cuba granted some small scale support to the
Dhofaris in their armed struggle against the monarchy in Oman.
1977-90 – South Yemen and the Stasi.
The south Yemen secret police were set up and trained by the Stasi.
It was there that the Stasi supplied Susanne Albrecht with false ID
papers to enable her to enter Czech in 1980. Shared with the KGB, the
east German Stasi had about 50 people in south Yemen until 1990.
(Stasi files ©2003 A Glees).
1978 – Ali Abdallah Salem was made
president of YAR. (Internet Timeline Yemen).
1979 – Fighting between YPR and PDRY
(North and South), efforts to unite the two states. (Internet
timeline Yemen).
1982 – The Soviets built and used a
large naval facility in the peoples democratic republic of Yemen
(south).
1982 – An earthquake killed 3,000
people. (Internet timeline Yemen).
13 Dec 1982 – A 6 earthquake killed
2,800 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.
1986 – Saeed M Badeeb. The Saudi
Egyptian conflict over north Yemen 1962-70. Boulder Colo Crestview
press Washington DC American Arab affairs council 1986.
1986 – Thousands of people were
killed in political rivalry. Pres Ali Nasser Muhammad fled the
country. Later sentenced to death for treason. (Internet timeline
Yemen).
1989 – There was a Marxist Socialist
Communist government in south Yemen. (The looming tower. Lawrence
Wright ©2006 US).
1990 – Unified republic of Yemen with
Saleh as president. (Internet timeline Yemen).
1991 – Yemen opposed the US led
action against Iraq in the Gulf war. Return of 800,000 Yemenis from
Gulf Arab states. (Internet timeline Yemen).
1992 – al Qaeda and a 1992 bombing in
Yemen and the training terrorists who shot down American helicopters
in Somalia the same year. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006
US).
1992 – Food price riots in major
towns. (Internet timeline Yemen).
December 1992 – Bombing of a hotel in
Yemen that targeted US servicemen on their way to Somalia as part of
a UN force.
29 December 1992 – A bomb explodes in
a hotel in Aden where US troops had been staying, while en route to a
humanitarian mission in Somalia. The bomb killed two Austrian
tourists, the US soldiers had already left. Two Yemeni Muslim
militants trained in Afghanistan were injured in the blast, and were
later arrested. US intel agencies said that this was the first
terrorist attack involving bin Laden and his associates.
29 Dec 1992 – A bomb exploded at the
Movenpick hotel in Aden Yemen. Another bomb exploded in the parking
lot of the Goldmohur hotel nearby. (The looming tower. Lawrence
Wright (c)2006 US).
30 October 1997 – Yemini kidnappings.
al-Shaif tribesmen kidnapped a US businessman near Sanaa. The
tribesmen sought the release of two fellow tribesmen, who were
arrested on smuggling charges, and several public works projects they
claim the government promised them. They released the hostages on 27
November 1997.
1998 – The Yemeni parliament revised
a law that set the minimum age of marriage at 15. The new ruling made
girls marriage age much younger at age nine. (You cant read this
book. Nick Cohen ©2012 UK).
December 1999 – The CIA intercepted a
phone conversation at a Yemini house, that was an al-Qaeda logistics
centre. They learned about from Mohamed al-Owhali, who was convicted
in the embassy bombing case. The house was owned by Ahmed al-Hada a
Yemini citizen.
2000 – Fahad al-Quro, was arrested
for his role in the 2000 USS Cole attack, he was a suspected bagman
who carried money to fund a January 2000 meeting in Malaysia.
3 January 2000 – Attack on the USS
the Sullivans fails. A cell of Yemeni terrorists try bombing the USS
the Sullivans in Aden harbour, but failed when their overloaded skiff
sank.
October 2000 – USS Cole attack in
Yemen.
Oct 2000 – The US naval vessel USS
Cole was damaged in a suicide attack in Aden, Blamed in al Qaeda. 17
US personel were killed. (Internet timeline Yemen).
Oct 2000 – A bomb exploded at the
British embassy. Four Yemenis who are jailed, say they are in
solidarity with Palestinians. (Internet Yemen timeline).
12 October 2000 – Attack on the USS
Cole in Aden Yemen. A small dingy carrying explosives rammed the
destroyer USS Cole killing 17 sailors and injuring 39 others.
Supporters of bin Laden were suspected.
12 October 2000 – 17 US marines were
killed and 38 injured in an attack on the destroyer USS Cole docked
in the port of Aden Yemen. A year later the inquiry into the bombing
continued.
12 October 2000 – The attack on the
USS Cole was organised by al-Qaeda and suicide bombers Ibrahim
al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa.
12 October 2000 – Two suicide bombers
attack the USS Cole while refuelling at a facility in Aden, killing
17 people.
12 October 2000 – Two men in a skiff
pull alongside the American destroyer USS Cole. They detonate an
explosive that rips through the hull and kills 17 US sailors. Yemeni
authorities capture suspects. Among them is Tawfiq bin Atash former
head of bin Laden’s bodyguards, who attended the 2000 meeting in
Malaysia.
2001 – A small state of Saudi Arabia
called Afar on the border of Yemen. The region which produced most of
the 9/11 hijackers in 2001. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).
7 Jan 2001 – Blast at Yemen’s
Socialist party building. BBC London UK. Socialist party office in
Yemen.
Mid June 2001 – Attack on US embassy
in Sana Yemen is thwarted by authorities.
No date – Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Saudi national of Yemeni descent behind the bombing of the USS Cole.
al Qaeda operations chief in the Arabian peninsula until his capture
in 2002 had cells in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen.
Feb 2002 – Yemen expels more than 100
foreign Islamic scholars. British and French nationals. Anti terror
and suspected al Qaeda members. (Internet Yemen timeline).
15 February 2002 - American and Yemeni
officials discuss the possibility of deploying a small number of US
special forces to Yemen, to find suspected terrorists who live or may
have lived in Yemen.
1 March 2002 – US officials say that
President Bush approved plans to send up to 100 US troops to Yemen to
train the Yemeni military to fight terrorists.
Oct 2002 – The supertanker Limburg
was badly damaged in an attack, blamed on al Qaeda, off the Yemeni
coast. (Internet timeline Yemen).
6 October 2002 – A suicide attack on
the French super tanker Limburg was staged by the Islamic army of the
Abyan in Aden working with al-Qaeda.
6 October 2002 – An explosive laden
boat rammed the French oil tanker Limburg which was anchored about 5
miles off al-Dhabbah Yemen. One person was killed and 4 wounded.
Al-Qaeda was suspected.
3 November 2002 – The CIA fired an
AGM-114 hellfire missile from a predator UAV at a vehicle carrying
Abu Ali al-Harithi a suspected planner of the USS Cole attack. Also
in the vehicle was Ahmed Hijazi a US citizen, both were killed.
April 2003 – The ten main suspects in
the USS Cole bombing escape from custody in Aden. (Internet timeline
Yemen).
March 2004 – Two militants suspected
of bombing the USS Cole were re-arrested. (Internet timeline Yemen).
Jan 2009 – AQAP was founded in Jan
2009 as a merger between Yemeni and Saudi Arabian branches of al
Qaeda. (Yahoo news. 10 Jan 2015).
2011 – Said Kouachi aged 34 went to
Yemen in 2011. He got training from al Qaeda. Yahoo news. 10 Jan
2015. AFP. Washington.
30 Sept 2011 – Anwar al Awlaki died
in a drone strike in al Jawf Yemen. He was born in the US. Al Qaeda.
Linked to 9/11 and the Paris attack.
25 Feb 2012 – al Qaeda suicide
bombing kills at least 26 people in Yemen. (Chch Star NZ. Today in
history 25 Feb 2015).
10 June 2014 – Influx of African
refugees to Yemen. Illegal migrants from Africa, Smuggling of
Africans to Yemen. 70 to 100 a day. 500,000 from 2006 to 2013. One
million people. Illegal migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, Rapes and
terrorism. Yemen news agency. Saba. Abdullah Bakhash. Sanaa.
1 Aug 2014 – Yemen repatriates eight
Saudi al Qaeda members. Arab news Jeddah. Saudi Arabia.
15 Aug 2014 – al Qaeda in Yemen calls
for attacks on the US. Al Jazeera America. AQAP.
19 Aug 2014 – AQAP and ISIC. Yemen
Times. Sana.a al Qaeda in the Arab peninsula AQAP. Al Manbar website
of AQAP.
20 Aug 2014 – al Qaeda in Yemen,
solidarity with Muslims. AQAP ISIS. CNS news.
2 Oct 2014 – YSP top choice for PM.
Yemen Times Sana. The Yemen Socialist party. Amat Al-Alin Alsonwa,
PM.
16 Oct 2014 – al Qaeda south Yemen.
Cihan news agency, CNA.
29 Oct 2014 – The US and the west are
faced with a unified Jihadist threat that has the capacity, in the
history of terrorism, Yemen the key to this. The Fiscal Times
Reuters.
31 Oct 2014 – Yemen Socialist party,
unions, new government. Yemen Post.
20 Nov 2014 – Ottoman scripts added
to digitised library in Yemen. World Bulletin. Sanaa 20,000 works,
digital library.
11 Dec 2014 – AQAP hints at terror
threat in new video. Pjmedia, AQAP media al Malaham.
13 Dec 2014 – Yemeni troops kill
Saudi al Qaeda members, who were dressed as women. FARS news agency.
6 Jan 2015 – Slavery exists in Yemen.
Yemen Times Sanaa. Its Illegal, according to Yemen’s penal code.
Slavery exists in many parts of Yemen today.
8 Jan 2015 – A car bomb kills 37
people at a police academy in Sanaa. 3news NZ. 66 people were
wounded, a terrorist bombing, al Qaeda suspected.
8 Jan 2015 – A car bomb explodes
outside a police college in Yemen. Jenifer Post. Sanaa, killing and
wounding dozens of people. Al Qaeda suspected.
10 Jan 2015 – al Qaeda in Yemen urges
Jihad. Yahoo news.
10 Jan 2015 – Yahoo search. Samir
Khan was connected to Anwar al Awlaki of al Qaeda AQAP in Yemen.
12 Jan 2015 – Human trafficking
slavery. Africa news service. Ethiopian women as property are sold
for $US 2,000 in Yemen. The purchase of a women and her children, she
and her children are property slaves.
13 Jan 2015 – Were the Paris attacks
the first case of al Qaeda and ISIS working together. Independent UK.
15 Jan 2015 – Five Yemenis have been
released from Guantanamo bay. Five were captured in Pakistan and held
in the US as suspected al Qaeda fighters. Men in their 30s and 40s.
One was 17 years old. Agency Tunis Afrique Press.
15 Jan 2015 – Five Yemenis have been
released from Gitmo, prisoners transferred. 122 remain. Cannot ensure
they wont join al Qaeda. CNN.
17 Jan 2015 – Yemen detains two
Frenchmen as al Qaeda suspects. Al jazeera America. There are 1,000
al al Qaeda militants in Yemen from 11 Arab and non Arab countries.
18 Jan 2015 – Shiite rebels abduct
Yemen’s president’s chief of staff. Abduction of Yemen’s
president’s chief of staff in Sanaa. CNN.
21 Jan 2015 – Yemen is at risk of
fragmenting, a danger to the US. New York Times. Robert F Worth.
22 Jan 2015 - Yemen chaos threatens
White House anti terror campaign. Stephen Collins. CNN.
22 Jan 2015 – Saudi Arabia’s
nightmare is now unfolding in Yemen. Yemen Houthi. Khaled Abdullah
Ali al Mahdi, presidential palace in Sanaa Yemen was taken over by
Iran backed Shiite rebels.
22 Jan 2016 – Yemen falls into Iran’s
orbit as the region is caught asleep. Risk for sea traffic for Israel
and other countries in the Arabian peninsula. Jerusalem Post.
22 Jan 2015 – al Qaeda uses Snowden
leaks to avoid surveillance. Whaleoil blog.
23 Jan 2015 – Yemen coup is trouble
for the Jewish community in Sanaa. Jerusalem Post.
23 Jan 2015 – Yemen crisis. Yemen is
the poorest of the Arab countries. BBC UK.
23 Jan 2015 – US fears chaos as govt
of Yemen falls. New York Times.
25 Jan 2015 – US anti terror ops
suspended in Yemen. VOA.
25 Jan 2015 – You will see al Qaeda’s
ranks swell. Yemen crisis, says US navy seal Scott Taylor. Fox news.
20 March 2015 – At least 46 people
were killed and hundreds of people were injured in the attacks on two
mosques. Suicide bombings. In Sanaa on Friday, causing chaos.
Fighting between Sunnis and Shiites. Fox news.
28 June 2015 – Yemeni Houthis attack
an oil refinery in Aden. Houthi forces fired missiles at an Aden oil
refinery, starting a large fire in the southern Yemen port city.
Reuters. Yahoo Maktoob news.
19 Oct 2015 – UNICEF says that
537,000 Yemeni children are at risk of malnutrition. Twitter. RT.
5 Nov 2015 – 40,000 people have been
made homeless after cyclone Chapala hit Yemen. Rob Verger. Vice news.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Sudan research
SUDAN
1880s – Auguste Mariette
was an archeoloist from France. He was in Egypt and Gebal Barkal in
Sudan. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).
1924 – The British colonial rulers of
Sudan. That same year they made laws to abolish slavery in Sudan. (A
crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).
1972 – Khashoggi helped arrange a
revolving loan of $200 million. It was to be raised by 31 banks and
guaranteed by the Saudi central bank. It was for a giant project that
originally included sugar, cattle, textiles, minerals and cement.
(Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
2 March 1973 – In Sudan the US
ambassador, Cleo A Noel jr and diplomat George C Moore were taken
hostage and killed. The Fatah organisation were suspected.
2 March 1973 – US ambassador to Sudan
was assassinated. Cleo A Noel and other diplomats were killed, at the
Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum by members of Black September.
1 March 1974 – Saudi Arabian embassy
in Khartoum was seized by Black September terrorists. Diplomats were
taken hostage. The terrorists murdered two Americans and one Belgiun
diplomat.
1975 – Carlos the Jackal aka Ilich
Ramirez Sanchez lived in Khartoum Sudan at the Meridien hotel, he
impersonated a French arms dealer. A Socialist member of the PFLP.
Carlos kidnapped 11 member of the OPEC oil producing cartel in Vienna
Austria. He then flew to Algeria for ransoms. (The looming tower.
Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
1976-82 – As part of Cuba’s
alliance with Mengistu Haile Mariam’s regime in Ethiopia, Cuba
engaged in political and military support for the Liberation movement
of southern Sudan. It was headed by John Garang, against the Arab
Muslim regime in Khartoum.
1978 – In Sudan another BCCI branch
was due to open. This was unusual because every other bank in Sudan
was nationalised.
1980 – A payoff to an African central
banker Swaleh Naqvi asked Akbar Bilgrami to take senior official from
Sudan’s central bank on a shopping trip at Harrods in London. BCCI
paid more than $100,000. In return the official put millions of
dollars of Sudan’s foreign exchange reserves into BCCI.
1988 – Famine that killed 250,000
people. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).
1989 – The leader of Sudan sent a
delegation to Peshawar Pakistan. Al-Qaeda Sudan relations.
Late 1989 to late 1991 – Bin Laden
relocated al-Qaeda infrastructure to Sudan. Most of al-Qaeda’s
fighters moved to Sudan. (Inside al-Qaeda. ©2002 R Gunaratna).
1990s – Human trafficking, quarter of
a million Sudanese have been kidnapped and sold into international
sex slavery. (The secret history of the American empire. John
Perkins. ©2007 US).
1991 – Sudan Islamic banking
http:reference.allrefer.com for the Sudan.
1991-96 – In 1991 bin Laden left
Saudi Arabia and moved to Sudan where he remained until 1996.
April 1991 – Saudi Arabia expels bin
Laden so he takes up residence in Sudan.
Late 1991 – In Sudan members of
Egyptian Islamic Jihad were being trained in the use of explosives.
Sudan’s intelligence worked closely with al-Qaeda. (Inside al-Qaeda
©2002 R Gunaratna).
1992 – Nizam al-Zakah fi al-Sudan
Omdurman Islamic university printing and publishing p192 Sudan.
Muhammad Bashir Abdulqadir.
1992 – Bin Laden moved to Sudan
Khartoum in 1992, flying from Afghanistan, with 4 wives and 17
children. There were 4 million horses in Sudan, the horses were used
for transport and farm work. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright
©2006 US).
1993 – Sudan is placed on the State
departments list of countries that sponsor terrorist activities. Bin
Laden’s followers try to get components of nuclear weapons and
begin to work with Sudan’s NIP to develop chemical arms.
1993 – The 1993 census in Sudan was
cancelled due to civil war in the south. (Economic gangsters. Raymond
Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)2008 US).
1993 – The Third World relief agency
TWRA a Sudan based fake humanitarian organisation. It was used as a
go between for the suppliers and fighters in Bosnia. TWRA had links
with Islamists like Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind sheikh,
involved in the 1993 WTC bombing and bin Laden.
1993 – Cofer Black transferred from
London to Khartoum Sudan. He arrived as the CIA station chief.
Sudan’s government sponsored terrorism and the US had imposed
economic sanctions. A Muslim Brotherhood inspired political party,
called the National Islamic Front, led by Hasan al-Turabi had taken
power. Turabi proclaimed Solidarity with terrorists both Socialist
and Islamic. Hamas, Hezbollah, Egypt’s Islamic group, Algeria’s
Islamic Salvation Front, Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin Laden.
(Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).
May 1993 – Pakistan crackdown on Arab
radicals in spring. So bin Laden sent money to fly 480 of these
Jihadists to Khartoum. They became part of bin Laden’s businesses.
Money went to Egyptian Islamists for printing presses and weapons.
27 April 1993 – Declaration of Jihad
against African Sudanese. Fatma issued from Kordofan El Obeid.
Quraishi M Tariq.
1994 – Four Arab veterans of the
Afghan war tried to kill bin Laden during 1994. The assassins opened
fire inside a Khartoum mosque where bin laden preached. They shot
several worshippers dead before they realised that bin laden was not
there. (Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).
January 1994 – By this time bin Laden
was financing at least three terrorist training camps in north Sudan,
where rebels from at least six nations received training.
Late 1994 – bin Laden was working
closely with the Sudanese intelligence services, Sudanese
intelligence were running paramilitary and terrorist operations in
Egypt and elsewhere. Bin Laden had access to Sudanese military
radios, weapons, and about 200 Sudanese passports. These passports
added to the false documents bin Laden had acquired for his aides,
and for the travel papers of Arab volunteers who were killed in the
Afghan Jihad. Three training camps in northern Sudan, a multinational
private army. (Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).
1995 – Using Iranian funds, al-Turabi
of Sudan helped Palestinian Islamic Jihad return to Israel where it
carried out terror operations. Hamas, Algerian Islamic Salvation Army
fighters, Iranian revolutionary guards, and al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya
also relied on the government of Sudan. By 1995 half of the 3,000
Iranian revolutionary guards sent to Khartoum Sudan had came from
Lebanon, of these more than 1,000 were Lebanese Hezbollah. (American
Jihad ©2002 S Emerson).
1995 – Mugniyeh was flying back to
Beirut from Sudan after a meeting with bin Laden. The US arranged for
his Middle East airways plane to make a unscheduled stop in Saudi
Arabia. But Saudi authorities refused to make him leave the plane.
1995 – An FBI source was Jamal
al-Fadl a Sudanese militant who fled bin Laden’s circle after
stealing a large sum of money from him in 1995. He was recruited by
the Americans in 1996. (al-Qaeda ©2003 J Burke).
17 August 1996 – Sudanese rebel
kidnapping Sudan’s peoples liberation army SPLA rebels kidnapped
six missionaries in Mapourdit including a US citizen, an Italian,
three Australians and a Sudanese. The SPLA released the hostages 11
days later.
Late 1990’s – al-Qaeda got uranium
in Khartoum, and hired Egyptian and Pakistani physicists to research
the development of unconventional weapons.
Nov 1996 – Sudan’s Jamal al Fadl
worked for Osama Bin Laden in Khartoum. He had lived in Brooklyn New
York. He was captured by the US. al Qaeda training camps and sleeper
cells, nuclear and chemical weapons. 93 known members of al Qaeda
then. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
1 November 1996 – Red Cross worker
kidnappings in Sudan. A breakaway group from the Sudanese people
liberation army SPLA kidnapped three international committee of the
Red Cross ICRC workers. Including a US citizen, an Australian and a
Kenyan. On 9 December the rebels released the hostages in exchange
for ICRC supplies and a health survey for their camp.
1998 – Famine caused by
war and drought. 70,000 people died. Wikipedia.
20 August 1998 – US unleashes cruise
missile strikes against suspected terrorist installations in Sudan.
In retaliation for the US embassy attacks in Africa.
20 August 1998 – Al Shifa, a
pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, was tied to the production of
chemical weapons for bin Laden. Cruise missile attack in retaliation
against bin Laden.
5-8 May 1998 – Contemporary
government application of zakat in Sudan. Seminar on contemporary
applications of Islamic economics. Casablanca Morocco. Abd al-Muem
al-Gusi.
September 2001 – Mohamed Atta, who
piloted a jet into the WTC, wired money to bin Laden’s former
paymaster in Sudan. Shaykh Said al-Masri (aka Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad)
on the eve of 9/11. (Alms for Jihad ©2006 Burr and Collins).
30 September 2001 – Resentful West
spurned Sudan’s key terror files. David Rose. The Observer.
2003 – Obligatory almsgiving, an
inquiry into zakat in the pre colonial bilael al-Sudan. Helsinki
oriental society p26. Holger Weiss.
January 2003 – Ibn Baz federation al
Afandi establishment African company Sudan al Amoudi group. Ibrahim
Muhammad Afandi (Alms for Jihad ©2006 Burr and Collins).
15 November 2006 – 32 people were
killed and 18 wounded in Darfur. Militia attack rebels Sudan.
16 February 2007 – US appeals court
upholds terrorist designation for Islamic charity. A Federal appeals
court upheld the US government decision to freeze the assets of an
Islamic charity, with alleged links to a Sudanese group that supports
terrorism. The Treasury department claims that Islamic American
relief agency USA is an affiliate of the Islamic African relief
agency. A Sudan based charity that US government says finances
al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The US court of appeals for the
district of Colombia agreed with a lower courts 2005 decision, saying
the charity was a branch of the Sudanese based agency. (Int Herald
Tribune, Site institute 15 Feb 2007).
9 Oct 2010 – Slavery. Africa news
service. $10 and $100, more than 10,000 people are in slavery in
Sudan today, most have been abducted.
7 November 2012 – Iranian warships
dock in port Sudan. Iran Daily Brief.
Dec 2013 – The British red cross
ICRC, since Dec 2013, have distributed more than 12 million food
rations to more than 43,000 people in south Sudan. (17 Oct 2015
Twitter.)
24 Dec 2013 – Fighting in south Sudan
as the UN finds mass graves. All things considered. Washington DC.
24 Feb 2014 – Mass
graves of Bor in south Sudan. Dug by the UN at the St Andrews
Episcopal church. Street children who were in the market. Irin news.
8 July 2014 – Dozens of children are
buried in south Sudan in mass graves. The truth Uganda. The war, 200
bodies mass graves.
6 Oct 2014 – Biggest ever UN
humanitarian operation ever. Food, starvation. South Sudan food
crisis, children AFP. The Guardian UK.
18 Oct 2014 – Sudan calls for support
to combat human trafficking. Trans national crime. Sudan Tribune
Khartoum.
20 Oct 2014 – South Sudan, sex
violence is rampant, a two year old girl was raped. UN. Rape and
other forms of sex violence in south Sudan. A two year old victim.
Reuters.
22 Oct 2014 – Human trafficking is on
the rise in east Sudan. MP on Radio Dabanga. Organised networks or
rings. Mohamed El Taher Oushan, member of parliament for the Kassda
state.
2 Nov 2014 – Arrests Communist party
Blue Nile. Radio Dabanga. Ed Damazin Sudan’s Communist party in
Blue Nile state.
4 Nov 2014 – Communist party in Blue
Nile. Radio Tamazuj. Lawyers of the Communist party members arrested.
Sudan’s Communist party members were detained in the Blue Nile.
Radio Debanga.
5 Nov 2014 – Sudan bans observers
from the scene of mass rapes. Sudan troops ban UN and African union
peacekeepers from a town in western Darfur, to investigate reports of
mass rapes of at least 200 women and girls. The Guardian UK.
21 June 2015 – South Sudan oposition
leader doubts government anti corruption crusade. WAU. Leader of
south Sudan peoples liberation party, PLP, Peter Mayen Majongdit.
Anti graft corruption related. Sudan Times.
19 Sept 2015 – Death toll rises to
183 in south Sudan from a tanker explosion. Maridi south Sudan.
Severe burns of patients. Fox news. NZ Herald. AP.
14 Oct 2015 – The Sudan
government is accused by the UN and UK of witholding rations from
Darfur peacekeepers. Food and other basic needs rations, at a Dafur
port. UNAMID. 190 food rations containers at port Sudan. Mass rapes
by troops in Darfur. Channel news Asia.
19 Oct 2015 – India has
been told not to welcome al-Bashir. The Int criminal court ICC is
seeking his arrest. Omar al-Bashir, war crimes against humanity.
Genocide in Darfur. Al-Bashr has two ICC arrest warrants issued in
2009 and 2010. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were made homeless
in refugee camps in Chad. Human rights watch.
23 Oct 2015 – The UN
says there are 300,000 war victims in South Sudan who face starvation
and death. The UN is demanding access. Twitter. Examiner. William
Lambar.
29 Oct 2015 –
Cannibalism and blood drinking. south Sudan conflict report. Photo.
Press TV. Twitter.
4 Nov 2015 – Plane
crashes near the int airport in south Sudan capital. AP.
4 Nov 2015 – 41 people
were killed in the south Sudan plane crash. The Russian built cargo
aircraft. Times of India. Telegraph UK. AFP. Arab news. IGAD.
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