Bloodbath Of Protestors Reported In Yemen

At Least 30 Killed In Yemen, Raising Fears Of A Broader Conflict

Just after Friday prayers, men armed with semiautomatic weapons began firing on protesters in the capital, nearly doubling the death toll of the weeks-long protest movement in one day.

At least 30 were killed in Yemen Friday as government loyalists opened fire on opposition demonstrators gathered at Sanaa University, according to medical workers at the scene.

Just after Friday prayers, men armed with semiautomatic weapons began firing on protesters from rooftops of buildings overlooking the area. Massive clouds of black smoke could be seen billowing from the edge of the demonstration area.

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More News On the Unrest In Yemen

Yemeni snipers open fire on protesters, kill 40 -- Yahoo News/AP
Yemen calls state of emergency after protest massacre -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Yemen president says 'regrets' Sanaa bloodshed -- Yahoo News/AFP
50 protesters killed in Yemen police firing -- M&C
Pro-government forces kill dozens of Yemen protesters, wound hundreds -- L.A. Times
Yemen troops shoot protesters dead -- The Guardian
At Least 30 Killed in Yemen Protests -- Voice of America
Protesters killed in Yemen’s capital by pro-government forces -- Washington Post
41 dead, 200 injured as Yemen police shoot at protesters -- Xinhuanet
Reports: Security Forces And Snipers Kill At Least 30 In Yemen -- NPR
Yemen declares national emergency after dozens killed in protest crackdown -- Haaretz
State of Emergency Declared In Yemen, At Least 30 Killed -- Radio Free Europe
Yemen opposition: No compromise possible with govt -- Reuters
Yemen deports foreign journalists -- Al Jazeera
Tribes raise the stakes in Yemen -- Wall Street Journal
Tensions in Yemen: An Inside View -- Voice of America
In pictures: Yemen unrest -- BBC
Yemeni forces open fire on protesters -- MSNBC Photoblog

Yemen News Updates -- November 4, 2010

Don't Mess With Yemen -- Steven Metz, New Republic

Not so long ago, few Americans, very much including policy wonks and military officers, knew anything about Yemen. Government officials couldn’t even find it on a map, though it was right there, sprawling across the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Yet over the past year or so, a flood of reports were splashed across America's front pages, cautioning that Yemen was on the verge of being transformed into the next Afghanistan—a place where Al Qaeda could live, train, even thrive and plot with impunity. On Christmas day 2009, a Yemeni trained terrorist tried to detonate a U.S. passenger aircraft in Detroit. And now two packages have arrived from Yemen, addressed to synagogues in Chicago, but, according to official reports, rigged to blow up the planes transporting them. Within the space of a few hours, then, Yemen went from a desert strip many Americans had never heard of to the epicenter of the war between Al Qaeda and the West.

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More News On Yemen

Yemen’s Drive on Al Qaeda Faces Internal Skepticism -- New York Times
South Yemen car bomb kills two, wounds 22: security official -- AFP
Source: Syringes surface in Yemen terror inquiry -- CNN
Atop Yemen Al-Qaeda, a militant who vows to hit US -- Arab News
Al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula Comes Into Its Own -- Voice of America
Germany bans passenger flights from Yemen -- Business Recorder
Inside Yemen: Impact of cargo and flight restrictions -- BBC
US Ban On Yemen Air Cargo To Be Lifted Within 2 Wks-Yemeni Exec -- Wall Street Journal
US Officials: Military Wants To Boost Aid To Yemen -- NPR/AP
US involvement in Yemen edging toward 'clandestine war' -- Christian Science Monitor
Yemen's local and global terrorism: No quick fixes -- The Economist
Western pressure on Yemen could backfire -- Mohideen Mifthah, Times Online
Why Yemen? -- Al-Ahram Weekly