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Arabia
Saleh sets new terms
2011-10-01
SANAA: YemenÂ’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in an interview published Friday that he will only step down if key rivals do not take over, a stance that could further hinder a long-stalled deal to ease him out of power.
A little unclear on the concept of transferring power? Once you're out you don't have any say over what happens next.
“Because if we transfer power and they are there, this will mean that we have given into a coup,” Saleh told The Washington Post and Time magazine.

Saleh has hung onto power despite eight months of mass protests demanding an end to his 33-year rule and a June assassination attempt that sent him to Saudi Arabia for three months of treatment for severe burn injuries. His surprise return to Yemen last week halted negotiations over a Gulf-brokered transition plan that had been revived despite days of heavy violence in the capital.

Over 100 people have been killed in violence that has rocked Sanaa for two weeks. Loyalist troops have been fighting with the forces of rebel Gen. Ali Mohsen and the fighters of tribal leader Sadeq Al-Ahmar, both of whom have joined the opposition.

Saleh wants Mohsen, whose defection in March dealt a great blow to the president, and Ahmar and his brother Hamid to be excluded from power.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  You don't want Saleh out of power.
Posted by: newc   2011-10-01 02:01  

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