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Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

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by Victoria Clark


  Walker, Jonathan, Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962–1967, Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2005

  Waterfield, Gordon, Sultans of Aden, London: John Murray, 1968

  Waugh, Evelyn, Remote People, London: Duckworth, 1931

  Wavell, AJ.B., A Pilgrim in Mecca, London: Constable & Co., 1912

  Wedeen, Lisa, Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008

  Weir, Shelagh, A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen, Austin, TX: University of lexas, 2007

  Wenner, Manfred W, The Yemen Arab Republic: Development and Change in an Ancient Land, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991

  Wild, Anthony, Coffee: A Dark History, London: Fourth Estate, 2004 Wright, Lawrence, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11, London: Penguin, 2006

  Wyman-Bury G., The Land of Uz, Reading: Garnet Press, 1998 (1911) —Arabia Infelix: Or the Turks in Yemen, Reading: Garnet Press, 1999 (1915) —Pan Islam, London, Macmillan, 1919

  Yacoob, Abdol Rauh, ’Anglo-Ottoman Rivalries in South West Arabia Prior to and During the First World War, 1906–1919’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, London University, 1995

  Zabarah, Mohammed Ahmad, Yemen: Traditionalism versus Modernity, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1982

  INDEX

  9/11 attacks

  Abdali tribe

  Abdul Aziz, King

  Abdullah, Sheikh Tariq

  Abidah tribe

  Abu Ghraib

  Abyan

  Aden

  1986 events in

  1994 war in

  Bombay government and

  British capture of

  port development since 1990:

  under Abdali tribal rule

  under British rule

  under Marxist rule

  under northern Zaydi rule

  under Ottoman rule

  Aden Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA)

  ‘Aden Group’

  Aden Trades Union Congress (ATUC)

  al-Afifi, Dr Mundai

  Afghanistan

  jihadism in

  Afghan War veterans

  Ahmad, Imam

  Ahmad Feyzi Pasha

  al-Ahmar, Sheikh Abdullah

  al-Ahmar, Brigadier-General Ali Muhsin

  al-Ahmar, Brigadier-General Ali Salih

  al-Ahmar, Hamid

  al-Ahmar, Hamid (Sabafon)

  al-Ahmar, Hussein

  al-Ahmar, Muhammad Salih

  al-Ahmar, Sadeq

  Alaini, Muhsin

  Albright, Secretary of State Madeleine

  Ali, Salim Rubaya

  al-Amer, Field Marshal,

  Amnesty International

  al-Amoudi

  Amran

  al-Amri, General Hassan

  Arab Cooperation Council (ACC)

  Arafat, Yasser

  Asir

  al-Asiri, Abdullah Hassan

  al-Asnag, Abdullah

  ash-Shaabi, Feisal

  Attash, Walid Muhammad bin (Khalid)

  Audhali tribe

  Aulaqi tribe

  Al-Ayyam newspaper

  Ba-Oom, Hassan

  Ba-Wazir, Salim Umar Said

  Baader-Meinhof

  Bab al-Mandab

  al-Badawi, Jamal

  Badr, Imam

  Al-Bahah

  al-Bahri, Nasir

  Bajammal, Abdul Qadr

  Baker, Secretary of States James

  Bakil tribal confederation

  Balharith tribe

  Bani Hushaish

  Basharaheel, Hisham

  Bayoomi, Hassan Ali

  Bayt al-Affash clan

  Bayt al-Ahmar

  BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

  BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International)

  Beeston, Richard

  Beihan, Sharif of

  Belgium

  Beni Shaddad

  Bent, Mabel

  al-Bidh, Ali Salim

  bin Laden see Laden, bin

  Bin Laden Group

  Bodine, Barbara

  Bosnia

  Bradley, John

  Bremer, Paul

  Britannia (royal yacht)

  Broeck, Pieter van der,

  Buqshan, Abdullah

  Buqshan, Ahmad Said

  Burke, Jason

  Burren oil company

  Burrowes, Robert D.

  Bush, Vice President George H.W.

  Bush, President George W.

  Caprotti, Signor

  Carapico, Sheila

  Carter, President Jimmy

  Castro, Fidel

  Charles, Sir Arthur

  China

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

  civil war

  in north Yemen (1962–70)

  Republicans

  Royalists

  1994 with south

  Clinton, President Bill

  coffee

  Cole, USS

  Cuba

  dahbash

  Dammaj

  Dar al-Hadith

  Dar al-Mustafa

  Dathina tribe

  de La Roque, Jean

  Dhali tribe

  Dhamar

  Dhofar

  diesel subsidy

  Djibouti

  Douglas-Home, Prime Minister Alec

  Dubai Ports International

  Duria Dawla

  Dutch East Indies

  East Germany

  East India Company

  Eastern Aden Protectorate (EAP) see protectorates

  Eggert, Konstantin

  Egypt

  in Yemen (1962–70)

  Elbaneh, Jaber

  Elizabeth II, Queen

  al-Fadhli, Ahmad

  al-Fadhli, Haidara

  al-Fadhli, Mustafa

  al-Fadhli, Sultan Nasir

  al-Fadhli, Tariq

  al-Fadhli, Walid

  Fadhli tribe

  Farid, Salih

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

  Federation of South Arabia

  Feisal, King

  Ferid, Ahmad bin

  Finlay, Robert,

  Ford Corporation

  France

  frankincense

  Free Yemeni Party

  Front for the Liberation of South Yemen (FLOSY)

  George VI, King

  Germany

  al-Ghadir, Sheikh Naji

  al-Ghamdi tribe

  al-Ghashmi, President Ahmad

  Gladstone, William

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  GPC (General People’s Congress)

  Guantanamo Bay

  Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

  Gulf War (1991)

  al-Hada, Ahmad

  Hadda

  Hadhramaut

  Marxist rule in

  migration from

  al-Qaeda in

  Sufism in

  al-Hafiz, Habib Omar

  Haile Selassie

  Haines, Sir Stafford Bettesworth

  Hajja

  al-Hakimi, Farook

  Halliday, Fred

  Hamdan-Sanaa tribe

  al-Hamdi, President Ibrahim

  al-Harithi, Ibrahim

  al-Harithi, Qaid Sinan

  Hashid tribal federation

  Hayel Saeed conglomerate

  Herbert, Aubrey

  Al-Hikma Association

  al-Hitar, Hamoud

  Hodeidah

  honey

  Hull, Edmund

  Hunt Oil Inc.

  Hunt, Ray L.

  Hussein, Saddam

  al-Huthi, Abdul Malik

  al-Huthi, Hussein Badraddin

  al-Huthi rebellion see Saada wars

  Ibb

  al-Idrisi, Muhammad

  imamate

  imams

  foreign policy

  government

  al-Iman, University

  India

  Indians

  Indonesia see
Dutch East Indies

  Ingrams, Doreen

  Ingrams, Harold

  Iran

  Iraq

  jihad in

  Irshad

  al-Iryani, Abdul Karim

  al-Iryani, President Abdul Rahman

  Islah

  Islam

  and the PDRY

  Salafi

  Shafai Sunni

  Shiite; see also Zaydis

  Sufi

  teaching in Yemen

  Wahhabi Sunni

  Islamic Jihad

  Ismail, Abdul Fattah,

  Israel

  Italy

  Jaar

  Jalalabad, battle of

  Japan

  Al-Jawf

  Jeddah, treaty of

  Jemaah Islamiyah

  Jews

  jihadism

  Johnsen, Gregory

  Johnston, Charles

  Joint Meeting for Political and National Reform (JMP)

  Jordan

  al-Kaff, Abubakr

  Kaplan, Robert

  Kathiri sultans

  Kawkaban

  Kenya

  al-Khaiwani, Khaled

  Khawlan tribal federation

  Kuwait

  Laden, Awad bin

  Laden, Mohammed bin

  Laden, Osama bin

  Hadhrami roots

  plan for Arabian Peninsula

  and Tariq al-Fadhli

  Yemenis’ attitude to

  Lahej, Sultan Muhsin of

  Lenczowski, George

  Limburg

  Lindh, John Walker

  Lloyd, Selwyn

  Local Development Associations (LDA)

  Louis XIV, King

  Lower Yafai Sultanate

  Macmillan, Harold

  al-Mahdi Muhammad, Imam

  Mahfouz, Khaled

  Mahfouz, Salim Ahmad bin

  Mahra

  Al-Mahweet

  Al-Majallah newspaper

  al-Makki, Hassan

  Malaya (Malaysia)

  al-Mansour, Mohammed Ahmed

  al-Mansur Ali, Imam

  al Mansur, Imam

  Maoism

  al-Maqaleh, Abdul Aziz

  Marib

  Marib Dam

  al-Masri, Abu Hamza

  al-Mihdar, Abu Hassan

  Miles, Oliver

  Military Economic Corporation (MECO/YECO)

  Millennium Challenge

  Mitchell, Lt.-Col. Colin (‘Mad Mitch’)

  Mocha

  Mohammed, the Prophet

  Mohammed, Salih Mushin

  Muhammad Ali

  Mukalla

  Muslim Brotherhood

  Muslim Holy Places (Mecca and Medina)

  Mussolini, Benito

  Mutahhar al-Din, Imam

  al-Mutawakkil, Yahya

  Muwaffaq

  al-Nabi, Khaled Abdul

  Najran

  al-Nashiri, Abdel Rahim

  Nasir (Muhammad), Ali

  Nasser, Gamal Abdul

  National Democratic Institute (NDI)

  National Liberation Front (NLF)

  National Security Bureau (NSB)

  Naumkin, Professor Vitaly

  Nayef, Prince Muhammad bin

  Niebuhr, Carsten

  Numan, Ahmad

  Obama, President Barack

  oil

  Masila field

  in PDRY

  in YAR

  Oman

  O’Neill, John

  Ottoman Turks

  Oxy oil company

  Pakistan

  Palestinians

  Palmerston, Lord

  People’s Democratic Republic of South Yemen (PDRY)

  1986 civil war

  education in

  Islam in

  jihadists from

  qat in

  repression in

  tribes in

  women in

  USSR and

  YAR and

  People’s Republic of South Yemen (PRSY)

  Phillips, Sarah

  piracy

  Popov, Dr Veniamin

  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

  Portugal

  Primakov, Yevgeny

  protectorates

  Eastern Aden (EAP)

  Western Aden (WAP)

  PSO (Political Security Ofice)

  jails

  links to jihadists

  Al-Qadhi clan

  al-Qaeda

  in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

  Sada al-Malahim magazine

  in Saudi Arabia

  in Yemen (AQY)

  Qaiti sultans

  al-Qarni, Fahd

  al-Qasim dynasty

  claim to Aden

  foreign policy

  government

  qat

  Qutb, Sayyid

  Radfan

  Raghib Bey

  Red Cross

  Al-Ribat

  Rihani, Amin

  Russia see USSR

  Saada

  wars

  Sadat, Anwar

  al-Salami, Khadija

  Salih, Ahmad

  Salih, President Ali Abdullah

  as ally of US after 9/11

  character

  extended family

  and First Gulf War

  image in the south

  and jihadists

  and tribes

  and unification

  Salih, Amar Mohammed Abdullah

  Salih, Tariq Mohammed Abdullah

  Salih, Yahya Mohammed Abdullah

  al-Sallal, President Abdullah

  Sanaa

  1905 siege of

  1911 siege of

  1968 siege of

  al-Sanabani, Faris

  Sanhan tribe

  al-Saud, Prince Turki

  Saudi Arabia

  and bin Ladens

  and Hadhramaut

  and Saada wars

  southern provinces of

  and stipends to Yemeni tribes

  Yemeni attitude towards

  Yemeni émigrés and migrant workers in

  and Yemeni Royalists

  and Yemeni-Saudi jihadists

  Yemeni tribes in

  sayyid

  Seiyun

  Shabwa

  Shackleton, Lord

  al-Shadhili, Ali ibn Umar

  Shafai (Sunni)

  Shahara

  Shamlan, Faisal bin

  Sharif al-Din, Imam

  Shibam

  al-Shibh, Ramzi bin

  al-Shihri, Said Ali

  Shuqra

  Sif

  Six Day War (1967)

  Sidey, Gillian

  Sinan Pasha

  Singapore

  Somalia

  Soqotra

  South Korea

  Southern Mobility Movement (southern secessionists)

  Soviet Union see USSR

  Spain

  Stark, Freya

  Stookey, Robert W.

  Sudan

  Suez Canal

  Sullivans, USS

  Syria

  Taiz

  Tanzania

  Tarim

  Tekhnoexport

  Thula

  Tihama

  Total (LNG plant)

  Trevaskis, Ken

  Trevelyan, Humphrey

  tribes in Yemen

  customs and law

  northern highland

  in the south

  Ukraine

  United Arab Emirates (UAE)

  United Arab Republic (UAR)

  United Nations

  United States of America

  relations with imams

  and First Gulf War

  and USS Cole

  Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom

  USSR (Soviet Union, Russia)

  arms supplies from

  influence in PDRY

  relations with imams

  van der Meulen, Daniel

  Victoria, Queen

 
; Vikoil oil company

  al-Wadei, Sheikh Moqbel

  Wadi Doan

  Wadi Hadhramaut

  Wadi Harib

  al-Wahayshi, Nasir

  Walid (friend and driver)

  ‘War on Terror’

  al-Wartalani, al-Fudayl

  Waterfield, Gordon

  Wavell, Arthur

  al-Wazir, Abdullah,

  Western Aden Protectorate (WAP) see protectorates

  Whitaker, Brian

  Wilson, Prime Minister Harold

  Wolfowitz, Paul

  World War I

  World War II

  Wright, Lawrence

  Wyman-Bury, George

  Yafai tribe

  Yahya, Imam

  al-Yaqoub, Jalal

  Yemen (Republic of)

  civil service

  defence

  democracy

  and First Gulf War

  literacy

  population

  revenues

  revolution of 1962

  unemployment

  unification of

  water

  Yemen Arab Republic (YAR)

  defence

  economic migrants

  1972 war with PDRY

  1979 war with PDRY

  Yemen, Democratic Republic of

  Yemen, People’s Democratic Republic of South see People’s Democratic Republic of South Yemen (PDRY)

  Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP)

  Young, Robin

  Zabid

  Zaraniq tribe

  al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

  al-Zawahiri, Ayman

  Zaydi Shiites

  al-Zindani, Abdul Majid

  Zinjibar

  al-Zubayri, Muhammad

 

 

 


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