http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Radars on Yemeni coasts to safeguard territorial waters from piracy [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 23/11/2008] Yemen has installed long-range radars to monitor pirate boats in the event of  approached the Yemeni territorial waters, the GPC-run almotamar.net reported on Saturday.
The website quoted sources from Ministries of Interior and Defense as saying that extra hundreds of soldiers have been deployed on several gunboats outfitted with the modern fighting equipment to repress piracy acts.
A source in the Defense Ministry revealed that the ministry is to establish two marine military bases in governorates of Hadramout and Hodeidah to reinforce the protection of the Yemeni territorial waters.
These security procedures aim to combat terrorist and trafficking acts as well as to guard against any acts may be launched by Somali pirates against ships off the Yemeni coast, the source made clear.