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Yemeni Military Committee orders release 2011 detainees
2012-01-24
[Yemen Post] The military Committee tasked with defusing tensions and clearing armed manifestations in the central Yemeni cities, held a meeting, attended by Gulf Cooperation Council states' and United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
Permanent members' ambassadors in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.

In a statement released following the meeting, the committee ordered the military units whether defected or loyal to outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
to release all prisoners with charges related to last year's events.

The release order came a day after Saleh's departure for US and two days following passing the controversial immunity law by Parliament.

The order is likely to spark enrage among the peaceful popular protesters who are adamant to put on trial everyone involved in killing the revolution's deaders and consider the opposition a partner of the toppled regime for signing the GCC deal and endorsing passing the immunity law for Saleh and his aides.

The Committee praised the GCC states' and UN permanent members' efforts aimed to defuse the year-long political dilemma and preserve the country's stability, unity and security.

Massive popular protests calling for Saleh's ouster combined by al-Qaeda anarchy in the south and Shiite rebellion in the far north has shaken Yemen to the bone, sending the poor state's economy to the brink of collapse and raising fears of the possibility of turning the fragmented-country into a failed state.
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