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9/11 attacks

Abdali tribe

Abdul Aziz, King

Abdullah, Sheikh Tariq

Abidah tribe

Abu Ghraib

Abyan

Aden

1986 events in

1994 war in

Bombay government and

British capture of

port development since 1990:

under Abdali tribal rule

under British rule

under Marxist rule

under northern Zaydi rule

under Ottoman rule

Aden Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA)

‘Aden Group’

Aden Trades Union Congress (ATUC)

al-Afifi, Dr Mundai

Afghanistan

jihadism in

Afghan War veterans

Ahmad, Imam

Ahmad Feyzi Pasha

al-Ahmar, Sheikh Abdullah

al-Ahmar, Brigadier-General Ali Muhsin

al-Ahmar, Brigadier-General Ali Salih

al-Ahmar, Hamid

al-Ahmar, Hamid (Sabafon)

al-Ahmar, Hussein

al-Ahmar, Muhammad Salih

al-Ahmar, Sadeq

Alaini, Muhsin

Albright, Secretary of State Madeleine

Ali, Salim Rubaya

al-Amer, Field Marshal,

Amnesty International

al-Amoudi

Amran

al-Amri, General Hassan

Arab Cooperation Council (ACC)

Arafat, Yasser

Asir

al-Asiri, Abdullah Hassan

al-Asnag, Abdullah

ash-Shaabi, Feisal

Attash, Walid Muhammad bin (Khalid)

Audhali tribe

Aulaqi tribe

Al-Ayyam
newspaper

Ba-Oom, Hassan

Ba-Wazir, Salim Umar Said

Baader-Meinhof

Bab al-Mandab

al-Badawi, Jamal

Badr, Imam

Al-Bahah

al-Bahri, Nasir

Bajammal, Abdul Qadr

Baker, Secretary of States James

Bakil tribal confederation

Balharith tribe

Bani Hushaish

Basharaheel, Hisham

Bayoomi, Hassan Ali

Bayt al-Affash clan

Bayt al-Ahmar

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International)

Beeston, Richard

Beihan, Sharif of

Belgium

Beni Shaddad

Bent, Mabel

al-Bidh, Ali Salim

bin Laden
see
Laden, bin

Bin Laden Group

Bodine, Barbara

Bosnia

Bradley, John

Bremer, Paul

Britannia
(royal yacht)

Broeck, Pieter van der,

Buqshan, Abdullah

Buqshan, Ahmad Said

Burke, Jason

Burren oil company

Burrowes, Robert D.

Bush, Vice President George H.W.

Bush, President George W.

Caprotti, Signor

Carapico, Sheila

Carter, President Jimmy

Castro, Fidel

Charles, Sir Arthur

China

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

civil war

in north Yemen (1962–70)

Republicans

Royalists

1994 with south

Clinton, President Bill

coffee

Cole
, USS

Cuba

dahbash

Dammaj

Dar al-Hadith

Dar al-Mustafa

Dathina tribe

de La Roque, Jean

Dhali tribe

Dhamar

Dhofar

diesel subsidy

Djibouti

Douglas-Home, Prime Minister Alec

Dubai Ports International

Duria Dawla

Dutch East Indies

East Germany

East India Company

Eastern Aden Protectorate (EAP)
see
protectorates

Eggert, Konstantin

Egypt

in Yemen (1962–70)

Elbaneh, Jaber

Elizabeth II, Queen

al-Fadhli, Ahmad

al-Fadhli, Haidara

al-Fadhli, Mustafa

al-Fadhli, Sultan Nasir

al-Fadhli, Tariq

al-Fadhli, Walid

Fadhli tribe

Farid, Salih

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Federation of South Arabia

Feisal, King

Ferid, Ahmad bin

Finlay, Robert,

Ford Corporation

France

frankincense

Free Yemeni Party

Front for the Liberation of South Yemen (FLOSY)

George VI, King

Germany

al-Ghadir, Sheikh Naji

al-Ghamdi tribe

al-Ghashmi, President Ahmad

Gladstone, William

Gorbachev, Mikhail

GPC (General People’s Congress)

Guantanamo Bay

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Gulf War (1991)

al-Hada, Ahmad

Hadda

Hadhramaut

Marxist rule in

migration from

al-Qaeda in

Sufism in

al-Hafiz,
Habib
Omar

Haile Selassie

Haines, Sir Stafford Bettesworth

Hajja

al-Hakimi, Farook

Halliday, Fred

Hamdan-Sanaa tribe

al-Hamdi, President Ibrahim

al-Harithi, Ibrahim

al-Harithi, Qaid Sinan

Hashid tribal federation

Hayel Saeed conglomerate

Herbert, Aubrey

Al-Hikma Association

al-Hitar, Hamoud

Hodeidah

honey

Hull, Edmund

Hunt Oil Inc.

Hunt, Ray L.

Hussein, Saddam

al-Huthi, Abdul Malik

al-Huthi, Hussein Badraddin

al-Huthi rebellion
see
Saada wars

Ibb

al-Idrisi, Muhammad

imamate

imams

foreign policy

government

al-Iman, University

India

Indians

Indonesia
see
Dutch East Indies

Ingrams, Doreen

Ingrams, Harold

Iran

Iraq

jihad in

Irshad

al-Iryani, Abdul Karim

al-Iryani, President Abdul Rahman

Islah

Islam

and the PDRY

Salafi

Shafai Sunni

Shiite;
see also
Zaydis

Sufi

teaching in Yemen

Wahhabi Sunni

Islamic Jihad

Ismail, Abdul Fattah,

Israel

Italy

Jaar

Jalalabad, battle of

Japan

Al-Jawf

Jeddah, treaty of

Jemaah Islamiyah

Jews

jihadism

Johnsen, Gregory

Johnston, Charles

Joint Meeting for Political and National Reform (JMP)

Jordan

al-Kaff, Abubakr

Kaplan, Robert

Kathiri sultans

Kawkaban

Kenya

al-Khaiwani, Khaled

Khawlan tribal federation

Kuwait

Laden, Awad bin

Laden, Mohammed bin

Laden, Osama bin

Hadhrami roots

plan for Arabian Peninsula

and Tariq al-Fadhli

Yemenis’ attitude to

Lahej, Sultan Muhsin of

Lenczowski, George

Limburg

Lindh, John Walker

Lloyd, Selwyn

Local Development Associations (LDA)

Louis XIV, King

Lower Yafai Sultanate

Macmillan, Harold

al-Mahdi Muhammad, Imam

Mahfouz, Khaled

Mahfouz, Salim Ahmad bin

Mahra

Al-Mahweet

Al-Majallah
newspaper

al-Makki, Hassan

Malaya (Malaysia)

al-Mansour, Mohammed Ahmed

al-Mansur Ali, Imam

al Mansur, Imam

Maoism

al-Maqaleh, Abdul Aziz

Marib

Marib Dam

al-Masri, Abu Hamza

al-Mihdar, Abu Hassan

Miles, Oliver

Military Economic Corporation (MECO/YECO)

Millennium Challenge

Mitchell, Lt.-Col. Colin (‘Mad Mitch’)

Mocha

Mohammed, the Prophet

Mohammed, Salih Mushin

Muhammad Ali

Mukalla

Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Holy Places (Mecca and Medina)

Mussolini, Benito

Mutahhar al-Din, Imam

al-Mutawakkil, Yahya

Muwaffaq

al-Nabi, Khaled Abdul

Najran

al-Nashiri, Abdel Rahim

Nasir (Muhammad), Ali

Nasser, Gamal Abdul

National Democratic Institute (NDI)

National Liberation Front (NLF)

National Security Bureau (NSB)

Naumkin, Professor Vitaly

Nayef, Prince Muhammad bin

Niebuhr, Carsten

Numan, Ahmad

Obama, President Barack

oil

Masila field

in PDRY

in YAR

Oman

O’Neill, John

Ottoman Turks

Oxy oil company

Pakistan

Palestinians

Palmerston, Lord

People’s Democratic Republic of South Yemen (PDRY)

1986 civil war

education in

Islam in

jihadists from

qat in

repression in

tribes in

women in

USSR and

YAR and

People’s Republic of South Yemen (PRSY)

Phillips, Sarah

piracy

Popov, Dr Veniamin

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Portugal

Primakov, Yevgeny

protectorates

Eastern Aden (EAP)

Western Aden (WAP)

PSO (Political Security Ofice)

jails

links to jihadists

Al-Qadhi clan

al-Qaeda

in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Sada al-Malahim
magazine

in Saudi Arabia

in Yemen (AQY)

Qaiti sultans

al-Qarni, Fahd

al-Qasim dynasty

claim to Aden

foreign policy

government

qat

Qutb, Sayyid

Radfan

Raghib Bey

Red Cross

Al-Ribat

Rihani, Amin

Russia
see
USSR

Saada

wars

Sadat, Anwar

al-Salami, Khadija

Salih, Ahmad

Salih, President Ali Abdullah

as ally of US after 9/11

character

extended family

and First Gulf War

image in the south

and jihadists

and tribes

and unification

Salih, Amar Mohammed Abdullah

Salih, Tariq Mohammed Abdullah

Salih, Yahya Mohammed Abdullah

al-Sallal, President Abdullah

Sanaa

1905 siege of

1911 siege of

1968 siege of

al-Sanabani, Faris

Sanhan tribe

al-Saud, Prince Turki

Saudi Arabia

and bin Ladens

and Hadhramaut

and Saada wars

southern provinces of

and stipends to Yemeni tribes

Yemeni attitude towards

Yemeni émigrés and migrant workers in

and Yemeni Royalists

and Yemeni-Saudi jihadists

Yemeni tribes in

sayyid

Seiyun

Shabwa

Shackleton, Lord

al-Shadhili, Ali ibn Umar

Shafai (Sunni)

Shahara

Shamlan, Faisal bin

Sharif al-Din, Imam

Shibam

al-Shibh, Ramzi bin

al-Shihri, Said Ali

Shuqra

Sif

Six Day War (1967)

Sidey, Gillian

Sinan Pasha

Singapore

Somalia

Soqotra

South Korea

Southern Mobility Movement (southern secessionists)

Soviet Union
see
USSR

Spain

Stark, Freya

Stookey, Robert W.

Sudan

Suez Canal

Sullivans
, USS

Syria

Taiz

Tanzania

Tarim

Tekhnoexport

Thula

Tihama

Total (LNG plant)

Trevaskis, Ken

Trevelyan, Humphrey

tribes in Yemen

customs and law

northern highland

in the south

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

United Arab Republic (UAR)

United Nations

United States of America

relations with imams

and First Gulf War

and USS
Cole

Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom

USSR (Soviet Union, Russia)

arms supplies from

influence in PDRY

relations with imams

van der Meulen, Daniel

Victoria, Queen

Vikoil oil company

al-Wadei, Sheikh Moqbel

Wadi Doan

Wadi Hadhramaut

Wadi Harib

al-Wahayshi, Nasir

Walid (friend and driver)

‘War on Terror’

al-Wartalani, al-Fudayl

Waterfield, Gordon

Wavell, Arthur

al-Wazir, Abdullah,

Western Aden Protectorate (WAP)
see
protectorates

Whitaker, Brian

Wilson, Prime Minister Harold

Wolfowitz, Paul

World War I

World War II

Wright, Lawrence

Wyman-Bury, George

Yafai tribe

Yahya, Imam

al-Yaqoub, Jalal

Yemen (Republic of)

civil service

defence

democracy

and First Gulf War

literacy

population

revenues

revolution of 1962

unemployment

unification of

water

Yemen Arab Republic (YAR)

defence

economic migrants

1972 war with PDRY

1979 war with PDRY

Yemen, Democratic Republic of

Yemen, People’s Democratic Republic of South
see
People’s Democratic Republic of South Yemen (PDRY)

Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP)

Young, Robin

Zabid

Zaraniq tribe

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

al-Zawahiri, Ayman

Zaydi Shiites

al-Zindani, Abdul Majid

Zinjibar

al-Zubayri, Muhammad