That's interesting - Yemen supported Iraq in the Gulf War which was going on about that time. Yemen has a few political parties of note- one is the Baathist Party, which is also found in Saddam Hussein's Iraq and which was born in Syria.
I wonder if the Baathist party sent an operative to the US under his name on purpose , not unlike the 1993 WTC bomb plotter Michell Malkin often talks about ...
Colorado.
Thank you piasa.