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| Yemen's Saleh remains defiant |
| 2011-04-22 |
| [Iran Press TV] Yemen's President 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. ... has remained defiant against the Yemeni opposition's calls for his resignation, arguing that a power shift should only occur "based on the constitutional legitimacy." Addressing a group of his female supporters on Wednesday, Saleh said "change should be made via ballot boxes and based on the constitutional legitimacy", Yemen's news agency SABA reported. "Those who want power or [want] to gain the seat of power should do it by heading to the ballot box. Change and departure will be through voting under the legal framework of the constitution," Saleh claimed. The beleaguered Yemeni president stressed that he will remain in office until his term expires in 2013 and that he will not yield to "conspiracies and coups." Saleh's speech coincided with anti-government protests that were organized by the Yemeni opposition to condemn Tuesday's bloody crackdown on peaceful demonstrators and to honor the deaders of the ongoing brutal repression by Yemeni government forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ION WORLD NEWS > WHAT YEMEN'S NEW JIHADIST THREAT MEANS TO THE US? Govt. by + for PRO-ISLAMIST MILTERR'ISM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-22 03:01 |