"I believe with all my heart heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly towards these objectives must be learned by experience". - Frank Knox
Sanaa,
July 17: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday
that a Shiite revolt in the country's northwest was over,
but military sources said the rebels had seized a village
in the area shortly after.
Military
and local sources said at least 19 people, including a local
official and 12 soldiers, were killed in a series of ambushes
and clashes yesterday.
"The
war in Saada province ended three days ago, and God willing,
it will not resume," Saleh said at the opening of a summer
youth camp in the capital Sanaa, referring to the four-year-old
rebellion in which thousands of people have died.
"We
had victims because of extremism, ignorance and backwardness,"
he added.
Mountainous
Saada province on the border with Saudi Arabia has been the
heartland of the on-off uprising launched by Zaidi Shiite
rebels in 2004.
