Posted on 05/20/2009 7:28:39 AM PDT by La Lydia
"This is the first food I've eaten in four days," Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17-year-old Somali girl says while opening a packet of high-energy cookies from the U.N. World Food Program (WFP). Habiba, and 150 other refugees, just spent three days crossing the hazardous Gulf of Aden, fleeing the conflict in Somalia and arriving on the beach of Bab al Mandeb, in the extreme west of Yemen.
Refugees who make it to land receive automatic political asylum, but survivors sometimes report being forced overboard in deep waters far off shore by traffickers. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has buried more than 500 bodies recovered on the beaches around al Mandeb....
Though safe for now, she and other refugees are unlikely to settle in Yemen, which can barely feed its own people...Yemen's food problems stem from multiple sources going back many years. During the first Gulf War in 1991, Yemen supported Iraq politically, but not militarily. In retaliation, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait expelled as many as 1 million Yemenis. The Yemenis and their families relied heavily on remittances. As a result, unemployment skyrocketed and inflation has run rampant ever since. Recently, rebel activity and border conflicts with Saudi Arabia have prevented Yemen from developing oil reserves in the north....
Yemen's oil-refining industry relied on crude from Iraq and Kuwait, which dried up during the war, and the U.S. has slashed its economic aid....
Yemenis consume more water than its aquifers can supply. Some fear the Western part of the country will run out of water in its aquifer in 10 years...
The new arrivals will have to decide whether they want to make their new life here in the camp or risk traveling illegally to the surrounding gulf nations for a better opportunity to work....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Somalis are a global cancer and trouble with a capital T.
Let me get this straight:
Yemen has problems taking on refugees and yet willingly accepts and then releases al-Qaeda militants and terrorists within its own country?
Call the bin Ladens.
Yes.
The Saudi Oil Billionaires should be handling this one - WE HSOULD STAY OUT OF IT.
The more money they are FORCED to spend on Islamic charities, the LESS money they have to bankroll Wahhabist Madrassehs, Mosques and clerics in the west.
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