President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
's regime for two months.
Sources said that the police forces attacked the protesters using batons and firing live bullets in the air to disperse the protesters wounding seven of them.
President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
's regime has been facing nationwide protests in 15 provinces demanding the fall of his regime since two months.