Twelve paramilitary soldiers and two low-level government officials are still being held hostage separately.
A low-level government official eventually came out to hear the group's demands.
Yemeni officials have said their investigations limit official Yemeni involvement in the bombing to about six Arab Afghans in low-level government posts in and around Aden.
Voters like these interact constantly with low-level government officials, and their resentment has mounted to the point at which it trumps other political messages.
In the last week, the F.B.I.'s concerns were heightened by the government's decision to open a trial, probably in January, of half a dozen key suspects, mostly Arab Afghans who had low-level government jobs.
Both women were in relatively low-level government jobs at the time of their fateful tangles with much more powerful men, President Bill Clinton and Clarence Thomas, then a Supreme Court nominee.
Despite widespread public anger, the report named only relatively low-level government officials as responsible for the disaster which killed 442 people, and recommended sacking as their heaviest punishment.
Licadho alleges that the recruiters are paid off by facilitators or orphanage directors, who then bribe low-level government officials to create phony paperwork that can be submitted for adoption processing.
Another jirga is scheduled for Saturday between elders of the Zalikhel tribe, which has five members the government accuses of harboring militants, to try to secure the release of the paramilitary soldiers and two low-level government officials.
"I started my company in 1988; before that, I was a low-level government official," said Zhang Shuangwang, 66, chairman of the Yitai Group, one of the region's biggest privately owned coal and transport companies.
