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Jacobin magazine
January 12, 2017
The Obama government has locked up whistleblowers; he personally intervened to prevent the release of the Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye. Trump's threat to the freedom of the press is very real and very dangerous, but he didn't build these weapons himself. In a month's time, when PresidentÃâà...
The Guardian
November 3, 2016
A supporter of the Islamic State, thought to be the Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye, captured with admirable precision in a single sentence its ideological genealogy: “The Islamic State was drafted by Sayyid Qutb, taught by Abdullah Azzam, globalised by Osama bin Laden, transferred to reality byÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 2015
When a Yemeni journalist, Abdulelah Haider Shaye, demonstrated just how targeted these killings can actually be in practice – by exposing the US slaughter at Majala – he was framed and jailed in Yemen as an al-Qaida collaborator, and his release was initially blocked by the personal intervention ofÃâà...
NBCNews.com
January 20, 2015
Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye, who interviewed al-Awlaki, was sentenced to five years in prison in 20011. The White House said it was “concerned and disappointed” at the journalist's early release. Two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News earlier this month that one of the twoÃâà...
Antiwar.com (blog)
November 2, 2014
After all, as Jeremy Scahill reported several years ago, President Obama personally intervened to ensure that Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye would remain in prison after having been tortured and subjected to a trumped up trial. On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni PresidentÃâà...
VICE News
May 27, 2014
The most notable intervention by the White House came in February 2011, when Barack Obama “expressed concern” to the Yemeni government about the pending early release of Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a journalist who had collected evidence in 2009 from the site of an attack in al-Majalah.
Index On Censorship
March 10, 2014
Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has produced critical investigative reports on the US military's activities in Yemen, including drone attacks. He also accessed and interviewed members of Al-Qeada. For this he was smeared as an Al-Qaeda supporter, and held in a Yemeni jail for three years atÃâà...
Democracy Now
July 25, 2013
Prominent Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been released from prison after being held for three years on terrorism-related charges at the request of President Obama. Shaye helped expose the U.S. cruise missile attack on the Yemeni village of al-Majalah that killed 41 people, including 14Ãâà...
Huffington Post
May 31, 2013
The Obama administration gave no such leniency to Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist who had access to top officials in the militant Islamist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and reported on evidence that the United States had conducted a missile strike in al Majala for which theÃâà...
The Nation.
March 13, 2012
At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama “expressed concern” over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom Obama said “had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP.” It turned out that Shaye had not yet been released at the time ofÃâà...
