title: 2006 in Yemen
text: # 2006 in Yemen
  
  The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Yemen.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Ali Abdullah Saleh
  * Vice President: Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi
  * Prime Minister: Abdul Qadir Bajamal
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February
  
  * February 9 - U.S. forces are searching for the USS Cole attacker who escaped from prison last Friday. According to Interpol, an al-Qaeda operative who had been sentenced to death for plotting the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 escaped with a group of convicts from their prison last week in Sana'a.
  
  ### September
  
  * September 23 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, in office since 1978, is re-elected as President of Yemen with 77.2% of the votes, prompting allegations of electoral fraud from the Yemeni opposition coalition.
  