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Yemen Separatists Or Pirates

IN AN ACT certain to heighten tensions between the government of Yemen and the competing Southern Transitional Council separatist government the STC seized the equivalent of 255 million USD June 17 in freshly printed bank notes, the notes to have been delivered to the Central Bank of Yemen in Aden.

The 64 billion riyals value in bank notes was being delivered by convoy.

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