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  • noun A person from Yemen or of Yemeni descent.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Yemen, or the Yemeni people.

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Examples

  • ABU BAKR AL-QIRBI, YEMENI FOREIGN MINISTER (via telephone): These are Yemeni armed forces attacks.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2010 2010

  • MOHAMMED ALBASHA, YEMENI EMBASSY SPOKESMAN: This frustrates a lot of the Yemeni people, first and foremost, because al Qaeda is targeting us before they are targeting anybody else.

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009 2009

  • ABUBAKER AL-QIRBI, YEMENI FOREIGN MINISTER: The refugees, unfortunately, take such accusation as an excuse for them to go to a third country, and this is why they want to blame the Yemeni government ad Yemeni authorities in order to get the sympathy of other countries for them to be allowed to travel to Europe or to the United States of America.

    CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2006 2006

  • ABU BAKR AL-QIRBI, YEMENI FOREIGN MINISTER: These are Yemeni armed forces attacks.

    CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009 2009

  • ABU BAKR AL-QIRBI, YEMENI FOREIGN MINISTER (BY TELEPHONE): These are Yemeni forces attacks.

    CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009 2009

  • INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT. org - IPT News: "RADICAL YEMENI CLERIC'S EXTENSIVE AMERICAN CONTACTS A SOURCE OF MAJOR CONCERN" (SNIPPET: "U.S. intelligence officials believe there are dozens -- perhaps hundreds - of Americans who have been in e-mail contact with the radical Yemeni cleric who is believed to have inspired and directed both the Fort Hood shooter and the failed Christmas Day airline bomber, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT. org - IPT News: "RADICAL YEMENI CLERIC'S EXTENSIVE AMERICAN CONTACTS A SOURCE OF MAJOR CONCERN" (SNIPPET: "U.S. intelligence officials believe there are dozens -- perhaps hundreds - of Americans who have been in e-mail contact with the radical Yemeni cleric who is believed to have inspired and directed both the Fort Hood shooter and the failed Christmas Day airline bomber, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT. org - IPT News: "RADICAL YEMENI CLERIC'S EXTENSIVE AMERICAN CONTACTS A SOURCE OF MAJOR CONCERN" (SNIPPET: "U.S. intelligence officials believe there are dozens -- perhaps hundreds - of Americans who have been in e-mail contact with the radical Yemeni cleric who is believed to have inspired and directed both the Fort Hood shooter and the failed Christmas Day airline bomber, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • There is a huge Egyptian influence in Yemeni Arabic, so the fact that the hard ā€œgā€ is Egyptian would explain alot.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Arabic Language Expertise in the Military 2010

  • Under the current proposal, special operations units would continue to train Yemeni security forces, as well as develop relationships with key Yemeni officers.

    Yemen Covert Role Pushed Julian E. Barnes 2010

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