Mass rally in the Yemen for and against Saleh - Reuters

Supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh take to part in a rally showing their support in Sana'a, Yemen 22 April 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Ammar AwadBy Mohamed Sudam and Mohammed Ghobari

SANAA | Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:05 pm EDT

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemenis the streets of Sanaa and Taiz Friday in flooded rival demonstrations for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, gave a guarded welcome to Gulf Arab Plan for a three month transition which makes.

He told supporters in Sana'a, Yemen arrangements "in line with the Constitution of Yemen" - the objections to the plan are language - mask could and also promised, but "Challenge with challenge to confront" had to without bloodshed.

"Guns can be used today but do not use exclude them tomorrow." We are against war, "Saleh told."

Ten soldiers in three attacks by tribesmen and al Qaeda fighters in several provinces to life came, officials said.

In the southern city of Taiz, riot police fired in the air to keep large, said mass unruly demonstrators of Pro and anti-Saleh apart, but there were no serious injuries, witnesses.

A sea of anti-Saleh demonstrators flooded perhaps in the hundreds of thousands, the streets of third city of Taiz, Yemen and an epicenter of opposition to the 69-year-old President.

But Northwestern in Yemen town of Hajja, a 12-year-old boy killed when security forces opened fire on a crowd of anti-government protesters in the city to prevent witnesses told of Reuters by phone.

"Friday of the reconciliation," Yemeni waving flags and pictures of the President turned tens of thousands of Saleh loyalists out in Sanaa, which they have a capital, for what called.

Their numbers were by protesters demanding Saleh's immediate departure, spilling their usual protest area around Sana'a University "Last chance Friday" in the nearby Siteen Street, mark matched where was a heavy security presence.

Raised the concern that Saleh of the security forces and Republican Guard with troops loyal to General Ali Mohsen, protection of the demonstrators in Sanaa renegade clash could.

Demonstrators expressed skepticism about the latest golf plan to mitigate Yemen's descent into more violence and chaos.

The proposal of the Six Nations calls for Gulf Cooperation (GCC) Saleh to hand his Vice President a month after signing an agreement authorized. A leader of the opposition he insert interim cabinet with the preparation for the presidential election would appoint two months later charged a Yemeni official said.

IMMUNITY FROM CRIMINAL

The plan, presented Thursday, provides also immunity against criminal prosecution with Saleh, his family and his Adjutanten--anathema to stop his enemies, which would also protest the proposal.

Protesters Manea Abdullah said "We each initiative depend will not, that does not require, that this man can be immediately". "We are adhering to the requirements of the revolution for immediate departure and persecution of those who killed our comrades."

Saleh's long Gulf and Western allies worried that chaos in the Yemen will open more opportunities for ambitious al Qaeda fighters, trying to bring about an orderly transition after three months of protests against Saleh's 32-year rule.

Protests in the southern port of Aden was later in the evening on Friday, as called for Saleh's departure to avoid thousands of demonstrators temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).

Many demonstrators trust although organized opposition, still can ready to do a deal, the parties to implement not Saleh.

"This guy a liar, we believe not all others also if the opposition accepts the golf initiative", said Abdulnasser Ahmed.

"Every time, if he agrees something, saves then." We know his ways and hence the rest of the world. That is, why should the world support our demands that he go. "

Anti-Saleh tribesmen in the lawless Eastern Province of Maarib, a local official had said troops try, a major route for gas shipments to secure two soldiers kill, wounding 18 and destroy a tank and an armored vehicle in an ambush.

Tribesmen disturb the main street of Sanaa after Maarib, where most of the Yemen gas is produced, are impossible for trucks to distribute cooking gas to the rest of the country made.

Deficiency have quadrupled cooking gas prices on the black market to 5,000 rials ($20) from 1,200. Angry residents blocked roads in some areas Sanaa with empty gas bottles. The crisis led others to anti-Saleh protests, where have they scrawled on gas bottles "left".

Ongoing turbulence the Rial in nearby deep of around 250 dollars of 214 record driven has nine weeks. It is more difficult to points of sale, sell dollars become find, residents say.

Suspected al Qaeda fighters with violence flared up with seven soldiers killed, when their convoy under fire in Maarib, came on Friday, an official said.

A soldier killed and another injured when the army clashed with armed thought to al Qaeda Yemen-based wings are trying to use a post office in Zinjibar, in the southeastern province of Abyan. The armed men later away accelerated on motorcycles.

The toll in a clash Thursday night in the southern province of Lahej rose to five soldiers killed and three wounded, according to a local official. Two fighters were also killed.

(Additional Mohammed Mukhashaf in Aden and Erika Solomon in Dubai, writing of Alistair Lyon, editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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The arms race against hackers

Somali pirates and their weapons, among the fishing boats in the port city of Hobyo Jehad Nga

By Ira Boudway

April 14 the International Chamber of Commerce reported that piracy at sea had struck a high. In the first three months of this year, according to the Chamber of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), there were 142 attacks, more than in the first quarter of each year since the Office of maintenance of the track in 1991. Somali pirates were responsible for most of these attacks, which have increased considerably in number and level of violence since 2006, when the Islamic Authority on the coast of Somalia began to crumble in the wake of an invasion to the U.S.-backed by Ethiopian troops. Last year, pirates used guns to at least 243 attacks and took 1,181 hostages. They are now equipped with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. They are taking freight transporters in bulk and tankers with their teams and demanding multimillion-dollar ransom.

In addressing this 21st century threat of former version, shipowners, often at the instigation of their insurers, have resorted to tactics, old and new - barbed wire, pipes and fire rooms without danger for long distance, dazzlerset laser acoustic devicesmore recently, armed guards. They have little choice: while the international naval forces have intensified their patrols - creating an international recommended Transit Corridor across the Gulf of Aden in 2009 - pirates responded by broadening the scope of their operations, launching their skiffs of mother vessels far at sea, as well as the coast. Accordingly, the shipping industry was left to to fend by himself to a few square miles of 2.8 million of the ocean. "The Indian Ocean is essentially the book Wild West," says John s. Burnett of Maritime & underwater security Consultants (MUSC) in London.

Two years ago, a consortium of 11 industry groups, including the International Chamber of Shipping and the Baltic and International Maritime Council, began publishing a set of best management practices (BMP) for ships passing through areas of high risk. According to BMP, now in its third iteration, the speed of a ship and her freeboard (the distance between the level of the sea and the bridge) are paramount. Boats with more bridges 25 feet above the water is rarely attacked. And no ship travelling at over 18 knots was flown successfully. The more lucrative targets, especially oil, are also the most vulnerable. Superpétroliers called ships (very large crude carriers) generally move at a maximum speed of 14 knots and, when fully loaded, their bridges are only 12 feet above the waves, explains Michael g. Frodl, a consultant for emerging risks that evaluates piracy for popular Lloyd of London associated with insurers. "I'm an out-of-shape 50 years", he said. "With a rope, even I could figure how to get more than 12 feet.".

When hackers attempt to Board, BMP suggests establishing a Citadel, or a space secure under the bridge where the crew can close engines while they hide and wait for help to arrive or for hackers to abandon the ship. "Some people think just put a lock on the door of the room engine is a Citadel," explains Peter Dobbs, a senior underwriter to Catlin, one of the principal underwriters at Lloyd's. "Good citadels control the ship, have independent supply air and satellite telecommunications, within two or three cords of security and can probably be found by the pirates." Even the most advanced Citadel, however, does overcome pirates if even a crew member is left outside. In the case of the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship that made headlines in April 2009 as the first ship flying American to be seized by pirates off the coast of the African coast in more than 200 yearsmost of the crew of 20 members themselves locked in the engine room. The captain, Richard Phillips, suspended above the deck and was finally taken hostage on a lifeboat pirate. He was rescued days later by Navy SEAL snipers.

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Libya warns against UK military Advisor - Aljazeera.net

Libya's deputy foreign minister has spoken out against a?British plan to send a team of military?officers to the North African country?to advise?the rebels.

Khaled?Kaim said Britain's attempt to help?the opposition forces would be futile.

"This is not in the interest of the UK," Kaim told The Associated Press news agency on Tuesday.

"This is an impossible mission. To organise who? They (the rebels) are different groups. There is no leader. They are not well-organised, and I am sure it will be a failure," Kaim said.

His comments came after the British foreign minister, William Hague,?announced that military advisers would join a group of British diplomats already co-operating with the Libyan National Transitional Council, based in the opposition stronghold of Benghazi.

"They will advise the National Transitional Council on how to improve their military organisational structures, communications and logistics, including how best to distribute humanitarian aid and deliver medical assistance," he said.

However, the foreign office said the team would not train or arm forces fighting troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader.

Hague insisted that the deployment would be "fully within the terms" of the United Nations Security Council resolution on Libya that authorised the set up of a no-fly zone over the country.

'Taking sides'

Hague's announcement sparked some criticism among supporters of British prime minister David Cameron's coalition government.

Several lawmakers from Cameron's Conservative Party called for the recall of parliament, now in recess, to debate the move. They argued that circumstances have changed since parliament approved British participation in the Libya no-fly zone last month.

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Peter Bone, one Conservative lawmaker, voiced concern that Britain seemed to be "taking sides in a civil war".

But Omar Ashour, director of Middle East studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter said the deployment of British advisers to Libya is a necessary step.

"[There are] training problems, logistical problems. Many of the forces in the [opposition] are merely civilians who have never taken up arms before. So there will need to be some training," Ashour told Al Jazeera.

"It's necessary right now especially because many Libyans - from Misurata and Benghazi - have been calling for direct boots on the ground."

EU armed escorts

The European Union, meanwhile, said it is ready, in principle, to provide armed escorts to secure UN aid convoys in Libya,?though UN officials said they do not?need such guards for the time being.

The proposal drew a warning from?Libya's deputy foreign?minister that sending armed escorts would be tantamount to a military operation.

The UN resolution bans the use of foreign troops in Libya.

Russia - a veto-wielding member of the Security Council - already has complained that the NATO action in bombing Libya's military has overstepped its mandate, and therefore is unlikely to approve any further extension of the alliance's operations.

"The UN Security Council never aimed to topple the Libyan regime," Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said in Belgrade on Tuesday. "All those who are currently using the UN resolution for that aim are violating the UN mandate."

The NATO-led international operation to enforce the no-fly zone and protect civilians has been criticised by Libyan pro-democracy forces?in recent weeks for failing to do enough to protect them from attack by pro-Gaddafi fighters.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil,?an opposition?leader touring Europe in search of more logistical support, said the Libyan opposition is not looking to other nations to remove Gaddafi.

"We are not looking or inviting anybody to kill him, and we don't have such a possibility, but we hope he and his regime can leave Libya as soon as possible," Abdul-Jalil said in Italy.

Stalemate

The military struggle for control of Libya has ground to a stalemate, with?pro-democracy fighters?backed by air strikes apparently capable of holding their ground in the east of the country, while Gaddafi continues to control Tripoli and the west, apart from the city of Misurata.

But Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, told state television on Tuesday that he was confident the rebellion would fail.
"I am very optimistic and we will win," Saif said on Allibya television. "The situation changes every day in our favour."

Meanwhile Libya's opposition leaders said that at least 10,000 people had died since the start of the conflict in February.

Mike Hanna, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Benghazi, said: "Given the intensity of the conflict, it doesn't come as a surprise.

"We have focused on areas like Misurata, where the humanitarian crisis is well documented; however it is happening throughout Libya, the full extent of the crisis is not known and there is no real idea of [casualty] figures."

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