7. http://www.merip.org/mero/mero040306.html
8. http://www.trendsmagazine.net/out_wordpress/wordpress/2007/05/07/the-other-insurgency/
9. www.yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=581
10. ‘Al-Qaeda calls for Islamic Rule in South Yemen’, Yemen Times, 14–17 May 2009,
11. Abdul Hameed Bakier, ‘Al-Qaeda in Yemen Supports Southern Secession’, Terrorism Monitor, vol. 7, no. 16, 11 June 2009.
12. Tariq Alhomayed, ‘No to Secession in Yemen’, Alsharq Al-Wasat, 28 April 2009.
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1. Yemen Corruption Assessment, USAID Yemen, September 2006, p. 12.
2. Ibid., p. 4.
3. http://www.hep.yemen.org/en/uploads/mpa_project_description.doc
4. Mohamad al-Qadhi, ‘Biometric System Launched’, Yemen Times, 12–14 September 2005.
5. Fuad Rajeh, ‘EU to Government: “Spending Reforms and Layoffs” Necessary for Development’, Yemenpost.net, 24 May 2009.
6. Phillips, op. cit., p. 69.
7. http://www.yobserver.com/reports/10013003.html
8. Yemenpost.net, 5 September 2009.
9. Ian Black, ‘The Curse of Yemen’, Guardian, 12 August 2008.
10. Sarah Phillips, ‘Cracks in the Yemeni System’, MERIP, 28 July 2005.
11. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr09100.pdf, p.13.
12. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/2009_failed_states_index_interactive_map_and_rankings
13. http://www.uam.es/otroscentros/TEIM/election_watch/Yemen/elections_results_Yemen.htm
14. Phillips, op. cit., p. 96.
15. Ibid., p. 156.
16. Ibid., p. 162.
17. Sarah Phillips, ‘Politics in a Vacuum: The Yemeni Opposition’s Dilemma’, in Discerning Yemen’s Political Future, Viewpoints, Middle East Institute, no. 11, June 2009, p. 11.
18. Mohammed al-Qadhi, ‘Opposition groups gather to discuss Yemen’s woes’, The National, 19 May 2009.
19. Nasser Arrabyee, ‘President blasts opposition parties’, Gulfnews.com, 9 March 2008.
20. Phillips, op. cit., p. 70.
21. Robert Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and beyond, New York: Vintage, 2006, p. 23.
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