Yemen

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).

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 2^nd 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).

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).

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.

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.

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 – yahoo news. 10 Jan 2015. AFP Washington. Said Kouachi aged 34 went to Yemen in 2011. He got training from al Qaeda.

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.

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.

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.

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. Agency Tunis Afrique press. 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.

15 Jan 2015 – Five Yemenis have been released from Gitmo, prisoners transferred. 122 remain. CNN wire. Cannot ensure they wont join al Qaeda.

18 Jan 2015 – Shiite rebels abduct Yemen’s president’s chief of staff. CNN int. Abduction of Yemen’s president’s chief of staff in Sanaa.

21 Jan 2015 – Yemen is at risk of fragmenting, a danger to the US. New York Times. Robert F Worth.

22 Jan 2015 – CNN. Yemen chaos threatens White House anti terror campaign. Stephen Collins.

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 – The Jerusalem Post. Yemen falls into Iran’s orbit as region caught asleep. Risk for sea traffic for Israel and other countries in the Arabian peninsula.

22 Jan 2015 – al Qaeda uses Snowden leaks to avoid surveillance. Whaleoil blog.

23 Jan 2015 – Jerusalem Post. Yemen coup is trouble for the Jewish community in Sanaa.

23 Jan 2015 – Yemen crisis. BBC UK. Yemen is the poorest of the Arab countries.

23 Jan 2015 – US fears chaos as govt of Yemen falls. New York Times.