Brian Whitaker

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Archive 1998-2001 2001 India moves missiles to Pakistani border The Guardian, 27 Dec 2001 India said yesterday that it had moved missiles and fighter aircraft to its border with Pakistan as part of the biggest military build-up between the nuclear neighbours for almost 15 years. | About al-bab AL-BAB has been in existence since the early days of the internet. Originally intended to be a website about Yemen, it began in February 1998 as "Yemen Gateway". Its web address, al-bab.com, alluded to Bab al-Yemen (also known as "al-bab"), the famous gateway leading into the old city of Sana’a. At the same time, this choice of namealso highlighted the site’s purpose, which was to provide an electronic gateway to information about Yemen. At the time I was working on a PhD thesis (uncompleted) about Yemeni politics. In the process I had amassed a lot of documents and other material. Knowing how difficult it can be to obtain information about Yemen, I decided to make them more wid

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