| Post-Saleh, worst is yet to come Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:42 PM PDT 
CAIRO: Even at the best of times, Yemen looks like a nation about to unravel. Now that the US-allied president has left the country for medical treatment and may not return, citizens of the poorest Arab country are contemplating a future that could be even worse than the last 33 years under authoritarian rule. The question of who would ultimately replace Saleh could unleash new and unpredictable power struggles among the country' s powerful tribes, the youth movement that has led the anti-Saleh protests and remnants of the leader' s regime, including his son. In the meantime, the numerous conflicts and economic and social problems that were already leading Yemen to ever greater disorder and hardship before this year' s unrest broke out look certain to remain unaddressed as the political crisis deepens. All that is of great concern far beyond Yemen' s borders, especially by the US government, which had relied on Saleh in battling one of the most active branches of al-Qaida. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has an estimated 300 hard-core members taking sanctuary in Yemen' s forbidding mountains, plotting attacks on targets in Europe and the United States while enjoying the protection of tribal chiefs at odds with Saleh' s regime. |
| 'Terrorists may be spreading killer E.Coli Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:41 PM PDT 
LONDON: The deadly E. Coli outbreak could have been spread by terrorists, say doctors, who add that rogue groups may have deliberately implanted the killer germ into fresh produce. Though Germany has been the centre of the outbreak, Britain could also be hit as our fruit and vegetable supply is also vulnerable to attack, reports the Daily Star. The chilling warning comes as German health officials said a toxic batch of bean sprouts are probably behind the latest deadly outbreak. Scientists have warned people to avoid vegetables which are a popular ingredient in Chinese stir fry dishes. Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, chief doctor for hygiene at Germany' s Vivantes Hospital in Berlin, was quoted, as saying: "It is quite possible there' s a crazy person out there who thinks: ' I' ll kill a few people or make 10,000 ill.' " It is a mistake not to investigate in that direction," he added. |
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