Une femme interpellée pour avoir contacter d'Al-Qaida (AQPA)

Selon le Figaro une femme de 21 ans a été interpellée, mardi 1^er octobre à Paris, par la Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI). Elle est soupçonnée d'avoir voulu entrer en contact avec des représentants d'Al-Qaida dans la péninsule arabique (AQPA), basée au Yémen, qui est derriere  d'Inspire, le magazine de propagande en ligne à destination des jeunes islamistes radicaux occidentaux. L' interpellation a eu lieu  dans un appartement du quartier parisien de Belleville. Selon le Figaro Le 19 septembre, un homme de 26 ans converti à l'islam avait déjà été arrêté dans le Calvados. Il a ensuite été mis en examen pour "apologie" et "provocation" au terrorisme sur Internet et a "reconnu son implication, d'une part en qualité d'administrateur du site djihadiste Ansar Al-Haqq" . ( Le Figaro)

Israel digging 5 km away from Lebanese offshore reserves

Lebanese Caretaker Energy Minister Jebran Bassil accused Israel  of digging a well 5 kilometers from Lebanese offshore reserves.

“We will treat Israel as it is treating us,” Bassil said to local As Safir newspaper.

He added that Lebanon was discussing with USA the possibility of resolving the dispute with Israel.

Former South Yemen president under Hizbullah protection

Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubaker al-Qirbi said on Wednesday that  exiled former South Yemeni president Ali Salem al-Baid is living in Beirut under the protection of Hizbullah reported Naharnet.

Qirbi's comments were published  in pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper.

U.S. envoy to Sanaa Gerald Feierstein had told Al-Hayat in March 2012 that the United States believes Hizbullah and Hamas are helping Iran to expand its influence in Yemen at the expense of the country's Gulf neighbors.

Baid, the last president of the region before union and a member of the Southern Movement is opposed to national talks that began in Sanaa on March 18 and still campaigns for southern independence.

After the former North and South Yemen united in 1990, the south broke away in 1994, triggering a short-lived civil war that ended with the region being overrun by northern troops. ( Naharnet) ( Picture: credit Julie's IB econ BLog)