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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

trade routes, and of the Mandeb

We hope that Yemen will soon Strait. It represents a link between
unite in love and brotherhood, Africa and Asia. It also opens onto
that it will thus achieve the peace
and security it deserves and that the Red Sea, which links the East to
it will begin to take sound and de- the West, the Arabian Sea and the
termined steps in the transition to Indian Ocean. The port of Aden
democracy.
lies on one of the world's busiest
maritime routes.

Although Yemen possesses a
number of strategic advantages,
the region is a difficult one to bring
under control because of its social
structure. Separatist movements
that emerged after the unification
of North and South Yemen also
being added to climate of turmoil
caused by various tribal, ethnic

and religious groupings brought
the disorder in the country to a
peak. The unification of North and
South in 1990 had been expected to
strengthen the country, but its
political, social and economic
problems actually worsened. A

rapidly rising population, poverty,
corruption, unemployment, infla-
tion, the consumption of natural
resources, the water problem, as
well as sectarian, ideological and
historical divisions, ethnic-sepa-
ratist Houthi unrest, intertribal
fighting and the increasing
strength of al-Qaeda, which has

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