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"Attacks on Yemen Oil Plants Kill 5"
Sep 15th - 2:21am

By DONNA ABU-NASR Associated Press Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - Suicide bombers tried to strike two oil facilities in Yemen with explosives-packed cars, but authorities foiled the attacks and four bombers and a security guard were killed, the government said Friday."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "They also came days after al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued a videotaped threat of attacks on the Persian Gulf and on facilities he blamed for stealing Muslim oil.

Friday's attacks happened 35 minutes apart, targeting a Yemeni oil refinery in the northeast province of Mareb and a Canadian-Yemeni oil storage facility at the Dubba Port in Haramut province _ scene of a 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg, an Interior Ministry statement said."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Fourteen of 23 al-Qaida prisoners who escaped from jail in February remain still at large."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yemen is the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and was the scene of the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors."

http://www.tkb.org/Country.jsp?countryCd=YM

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IBM Technology Translates Arabic Media Broadcasts to English ~ Technology to help us.....
MarketWatch ^ | Sep 14, 2006 Last Update: 9:09 AM ET | Steven Tomasco IBM Media Relations

Posted on 09/14/2006 2:59:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Critical Mention, Inc. to Commercialize as Subscription Service for Business, Government and Media

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY, Sep 14, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- IBM

Under the agreement, IBM Research will provide Critical Mention a multi-year license to its speech-to-text translation solution for Arabic and English sources, with the ability to expand to other languages in the future.

"The ever-shifting nature of the market compels business professionals to quickly and easily monitor a wide range of foreign events and world media," said Arthur Ciccolo of IBM Research. "The unique TALES technology, combined with Critical Mention's advanced real-time search and monitoring system, will benefit organizations from all industry segments."

The TALES system combines three core technologies: search, speech-to-text conversion, and statistical machine translation. If a user selects a news source and a particular video clip, for example, the spoken words in this foreign language file are converted into written words. Then, TALES translates the written foreign-language text into the target language, English in this case. To provide the most accurate results, TALES uses statistical machine translation that employs automatically extracted word-to-word and phrase-to-phrase translations as used by the United Nations' simultaneous translators. The statistical model for translation improves TALES effectiveness in capturing the meaning of the news it translates.

Critical Mention is adapting the speech-to-text conversion, and statistical machine translation components to integrate with its existing TV search & monitoring platform, CriticalTV, to provide subscribers with real-time monitoring of Arabic TV.

(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...

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http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=15100

"Yemen Foils Suicide Bombings"
Written by TML Staff
Published Friday, September 15, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In an unrelated development, at least six people were killed in a stampede during a presidential election rally in the south of the country.

Some 20 people were injured. Earlier in the week dozens were killed and at least 100 injured in a similar incident."