-- Issue's editorial 
One of the most prominent problems in our society is the neurotic control of the past on our present life. It appears as if this past is so established in our present as to leave no way out. This past, with all its sad and happy memories, haunts every one of us not only as memories but as a set of values or rather as a telescope through which we see our present and our future. Hence our inertia not only to search into this past but also to set ourselves free of its tormenting dominance. We have given the past the chance to corrupt our thought and therefore many of us have been led into misinterpretation of even the nearest events in this past. Take for an example our interpretation of the Revolution. Some of us would say that the revolution was a crime and some others would defend it as a virtue. In some way or another, many of us are still living in the past or living on the past and have become unable to face the present or to know how to deal with the future. 
Unless we shake the dust of the past off our shoulders, we will ultimately end up with the utter state of decay, stagnation and loss. But to liberate ourselves from the past we should first be disillusioned of the clumsy belief that the past was all spotless or was all foul. Let us first of all begin with a fully developed recognition of our past with all its defects and achievements. More importantly, let us grasp the past as experiences and lessons so as to be adequately armed when confronting the future. 

-- Issue's Editorial 
We would like first to ask the prime minister Dr. Al-Aryani who has been in different ways dealing with the economic issues in this country for a long time whether he is implicated in any way in the current devastated economy of Yemen? We ask this question because all of us know why the former prime minister, Dr. Faraj Bin Ghanem resigned. Unfortunately, the political schemes to win the loyalty of certain powerful groups was the only apparent reason for that memorable resignation. 
So, the problem lies first and foremost not in the economic reform but in the political reform which should be started with re animating the question of poetical accountability. We believe that this accountability should not be restricted to wrong policies of the present but also of the past, especially in our case where examples of irresponsible policies abound. However, the present government is unwilling to admit acts of transgression so as not to expose those in the government who are really responsible for the ongoing deteriorating economic situation in Yemen. 
In this time of the so called financial and administrative reform program, we are still unable to discover those lawbreaking officials who are placing the entire future of the nation at stake. 

11/5/1999. 
Main Headlines: 
1- Following the Court's decision of death sentences to a number of terrorists, the Minister of Interior and other officials in the government receive threats of assassination from Abu-Hamzah in London. 
2- An official source describes the above threats as meaningless. 
3- Shiekh Al-Ahmar calls for integrity and transparency by the Supreme Election Committee. 
4- A delegation from the Foreign Ministry flies to Kuwait in preparation for the re-opening of the Yemeni Embassy in Kuwait. 
5- Our country hails the borders demarcation accord signed between Oman and the UAE. 
6- A group of journalists, lawyers and doctors announce an initiative to create an independent body for the purpose of defending Public rights and liberties. 
7- In Jahm, Mareb, an oil pipe line explodes as a result of tribal clashes. 
8- In Mahweet, the trial of the accused in the barbaric killing of a young man proceeds. 

-- Issue's Editorial 
The open and blatant war that's being launched nowadays in Turkey against the Freedom of Faith clearly manifests the narrow-minded mentality of the military institution and the secular regime in Turkey. The recent ferocious war against the Islamist Party of Virtue, which was launched because those "dupes" in the military can not tolerate seeing a veiled woman in the parliament, is in reality a war against Turkey, its rebirth and the will of the majority of the Turkish people. 
Those Secularists in Turkey could have acted wisely had they not blocked the way in front of the Islamic current which in all cases can not be abated. 
Muslims in the world who have seen through the TV screens the despicable brutality the Turkish soldiers inflicted against the defenders of the persecuted member of parliament (the veiled woman) can realize to what extent this Secular regime can go in its hatred and aggression against Muslims and against Islam. 
As we strongly condemn the antagonistic activities of the Turkish government against The Party of Virtue and against the Freedom of Faith, at the same time we appeal to the Yemeni parliament and government to send a letter of objection to the Turkish government through the Turkish ambassador to our country. Such a step should give new life to ties of sympathy among Muslims all over the World. As for Islam as a faith we are quite confident that it will ultimately triumph over cruelty and aggression and the those secularists are fighting a losing war. 
"Thy Lord is watching." 
 

-- Issue's Editorial 
It is a truth firmly established that our country rejects terrorism and condemns all acts of extremism and crime. This fact stems form the principal attitude which calls for the enhancement of security, stability and peace through the complete eradication of terrorism everywhere. 
In this regard, the verdict that has been issued by Abyan Primary Court in case no 1 for the year 1999 against the suspects involved in the kidnapping and killing of foreign tourists has come to reassert this attitude to fight the powers of evil and hatred under any circumstances. This verdict, based on strong evidences that condemn the suspects, was concluded on the spirit of a fundamental principle of Justice in Islam. No matter how lousy the yelling of the devil's agents is, the hand of justice will prevail and those who are now threatening revenge can never escape condemnation. 
Just as the security authorities had been able to arrest terrorism in the so called Aden-Abyian Islamic Army, they are at the same time on full alert to confront every blood sucker who, disguised under the name of religion, are taking sacred innocent lives that were God's gift. 

-- Issue's Editorial 
As the Zionist gangs are preparing to compete in the recent elections between the Likud and the Labor Party, regimes in the Arab countries are pleasing themselves by nourishing the hope and gambling with the odds that these elections would come up with the government of the so called "doves" and that there would be no more hawks in the Zionist state. It seems that these disgraced regimes are still unable to assimilate the lessons of contemporary history which show that there can never be doves nor hawks among the Zionist gangs. The truth is that these gangs are all vultures which have been for a long time taking the sadists delight in devouring the bodies of men, women and children of the Arab people in Palestine. 

The apparent political disparity between the Zionist Rightists and leftists by no means suggest that either one of them is willing to concede even one meter of the seized land to the Palestinians. We, supported by historical facts, are strongly convinced that the internal conflict between the Likud coalition and the Labor Party regarding the issue of the Arabs is a conflict over means to achieve exactly one goal: namely, how to secure a homeland for the Zionist gangs who have been pouring into Palestine from every corner in the globe. Therefore, the Arab rulers who bet on the winning of the terrorist Eyhoda Barak over the other terrorist Netanyahu are very much like the person who prefers to be slaughtered by a golden knife than by an iron knife.