Fighting! Nice, fresh fighting! Getcher fresh fighting right here![Christian Science Monitor] Fresh fighting
... as opposed to day-old stale fighting...
broke out in Yemen's capital today, heightening concerns that increasing division among armed tribal factions and splits in Yemen's armed forces may lead the Arab world's poorest nation into full-blown civil war.
Today the elite Republican Guard, led by President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
's son, engaged in fierce festivities with soldiers loyal to dissident Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who once served as the "iron fist" of Mr. Saleh's regime but is now one of his most powerful rivals.
The fighting has broken a three-day period of calm that provided some hope that Saleh would return to a peace plan designed by other Gulf nations, reports Raidió TeilifÃs Éireann. Diplomats had urged Saleh to stay in Soddy Arabia where he spent three months recuperating after a rocket attack, but he returned on Sept. 23, triggering much unrest.