Yemen Quotes

Yemen, a risky country? That's not true. - Maura Tonetto

Yemen is definitely the concern. It's been a haven for terrorist activity. You don't want to jump to conclusions. It's just in this day and age of connecting the dots, there's a few dots that need to be connected here. - Rick Smith

Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently reunited, back in 1990. You have about 16 to 17 million people; you have about 50 million guns. It's basically a country that is pretty trigger happy. It's very generous, very hospitable to foreigners, but on the other hand, there's always that element of risk. - John Andrews

Yemen [has so far] spent 8 billion riyals [US $44 million] to purchase weapons from the tribesmen. We need to control the situation. - Abu Bakr

We remain confident of our growth outlook for the second half of 2001 and all of 2002. - Alex Yemenidjian

We have more strategic alternatives available to us than we realized, and we need more time to properly explore all our alternatives. - Alex Yemenidjian

We had a case confirmed yesterday which reaffirms there has been regular exposure of Somalia to the virus, probably from Yemen. - Bruce Aylward

We felt that there were indeed concerns ... our posts in the region, and this region including Yemen, have been on a high state of alert for a long time since the Africa bombings,and in connection with recent events we have asked posts to look very closely at their security procedures. - Richard Boucher

We do not know exactly what is going on behind the scenes in terms of reactions to the incident and its direct impact on Yemeni-US relations, which have been extremely tense in the past phase. - Mounir Mawri