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2006 in Yemen

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2006
in
Yemen

Decades:
See also:Other events of 2006

The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Yemen.

Incumbents

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Events

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February

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  • February 9 - U.S. forces are searching for the USS Cole attacker who escaped from prison last Friday. According to Interpol, an al-Qaeda operative who had been sentenced to death for plotting the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 escaped with a group of convicts from their prison last week in Sana'a.[1]

September

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  • September 23 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, in office since 1978, is re-elected as President of Yemen with 77.2% of the votes, prompting allegations of electoral fraud from the Yemeni opposition coalition.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "US searches for Yemen fugitives". BBC News. 9 February 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Yemeni leader wins by landslide". BBC News. 23 September 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2015.