Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas ( ar, حيدر أبو بكر العطاس; born April 5, 1939) was appointed

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Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...

when the

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and

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united in 1990 to form present-day

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. Al-Attas served until 1994. He is a member of the

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. Before unification, al-Attas served as

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(1985–1986) and

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(1986–1990) in the southern PDRY. When

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in southern Yemen seceded in May 1994, al-Attas served as the Prime Minister of the secessionist

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until the rebellion ended less than two months later.

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