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| Yemeni premier back home from Riyadh |
| 2011-08-25 |
| Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawer has returned to Yemen from a Saudi hospital in Riyadh after a months-long struggle to survive. Mujawer is the first government official to come back to the Yemeni capital of Sana'a following a rocket attack on the presidential palace on June 3, which injured a number of brass hats, including Yemen's President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... , AFP reported on Tuesday. Upon his arrival, Mujawar thanked Soddy Arabia for its hospitality and medical treatment. "The health condition of other officials is improving quickly and [they] will be back to Yemen soon," he said. Mujawar's return comes one day after Yemen's Chairman of the Shura Council Abdulaziz Abdulghani, also injured in the attack on the presidential palace, died in Riyadh. Saleh, who has reportedly been released from a Saudi hospital, said he plans to return to Yemen soon. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... opposition leaders have vowed not to allow him back to rule in Yemen. Senior Yemeni official Howver Barakani said the date of Saleh's return to Yemen is still unclear, saying, "The decision rests with the president, and with his doctors." He said the result of the probe into the rocket attack on the presidential palace would be released after the end of the holy months of Ramadan, pledging a crackdown on Saleh's opponents. "We were tolerant after the incident in the palace mosque and agreed to meet the opposition, but we are no longer holding out a hand to these murderers, these criminals and hard boyz ... those who planned and carried out" the attack, he added. In a popular revolution that began in late January, hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have been taking part in regular mass demonstrations in the nation's major cities. The major demands of the protesters include an end to rampant government corruption and unemployment and ouster of the country's US-backed Ali Abudullah Saleh. Hundreds of protesters have been killed and many more injured since Yemen's popular uprising began as a result of a brutal crackdown on the anti-government protests by military forces and bands of thugs loyal to Saleh's dictatorship. |
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