Abdulelah Shaye, Emergency Oil Reserves, Birth Control, SWIFT Financial Service (2012)

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http://thefilmarchive.org/ March 15, 2012 Abdulelah Haider Shaye or Abd al-Ilah Haydar Al-Sha'i (born c. 1977) is a prominent Yemeni journalist who has gained notoriety for his reporting of the December 17, 2009 al-Majalah bombing in Yemen, his interviews with al-Qaeda leaders, and the controversial nature of his arrest and imprisonment in 2011. He has used his relation through marriage with radical Islamic cleric Abdul Majeed al-Zindani to help him gain interview access to Al Qaeda leaders, including the late Yemeni-American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.[1] After the al-Majalah bombing, he reported that the site of the bombing was littered with remnants of U.S. Tomahawk missile and cluster munitions, contradicting claims by the government of Yemen that the bombing was their own. This fact—that the U.S. had been responsible rather than the Yemeni air force—was evaded by U.S. Pentagon officials[2] but later confirmed by Amnesty International,[3] The Telegraph newspaper,[4] and a release of secret materials by Wikileaks.[5] He also reported that 21 children and 14 women had been killed in the bombing.[6] In January 2011, Shaye was arrested by the Yemeni government. After 34 days of confinement, he was convicted of "terrorism-related charges" in a trial regarded by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Committee to Protect Journalists, and the International Federation of Journalists as a sham trial and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.[1][7] After a public outcry from tribal leaders in Yemen over Shaye's imprisonment, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh was prepared to release Shaye, but he was swayed otherwise by a call from U.S. president Barack Obama on February 2, 2011 citing his "concern" over Shaye's imminent release.[6] [8] [9] Journalist Jeremey Scahill reports that, according to his sources in Yemen, Saleh rescinded his pardon primarily due the call from Obama. Scahill suggests that Yemen's counter-terrorism funding from the United States may have motivated Saleh's cooperation.[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) provides a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardised and reliable environment. SWIFT also markets software and services to financial institutions, much of it for use on the SWIFTNet Network, and ISO 9362 bank identifier codes (BICs) are popularly known as "SWIFT codes". The chairman of SWIFT is Yawar Shah, who was born and raised in Pakistan, and the CEO is Gottfried Leibbrandt, who is from the Netherlands. The majority of international interbank messages use the SWIFT network. As of September 2010, SWIFT linked more than 9,000 financial institutions in 209 countries and territories, who were exchanging an average of over 15 million messages per day (compared to an average of 2.4 million daily messages in 1995).[1] SWIFT transports financial messages in a highly secure way but does not hold accounts for its members and does not perform any form of clearing or settlement. SWIFT does not facilitate funds transfer; rather, it sends payment orders, which must be settled by correspondent accounts that the institutions have with each other. Each financial institution, to exchange banking transactions, must have a banking relationship by either being a bank or affiliating itself with one (or more) so as to enjoy those particular business features. SWIFT is a cooperative society under Belgian law and it is owned by its member financial institutions. It has offices around the world. SWIFT headquarters, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura are in La Hulpe, Belgium, near Brussels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT