Yemeni PM leaves Saudi hospital, Saleh still under treatment!

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Xinhua / The Hindu / SANAA, August 7, 2011.

In this file image taken from a prerecorded video and broadcast July 7, 2011 on Yemen state TV from Saudi Arabia, Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh makes his first public appearance since he was injured in a blast at his palace compound in June, 2011 - AP.

Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar, who was injured in a bomb attack on June 3 along with President Ali Abdullah Saleh and many other officials, left the Saudi hospital on Saturday and is expected to stay in Riyadh for recuperation, while Saleh will remain in the hospital until he finishes treatment, a Yemeni government official told Xinhua.

“Prime Minister Mujawar, who was wounded along with President Saleh and other officials during the June 3 attack that targeted the presidential palace in Sanaa, left the Saudi hospital on Saturday for a Saudi government accommodation where he will stay for recuperation,” Mr. Saleh’s press secretary Ahmed al-Soufi told Xinhua.

“I have also phoned the Yemeni government officials accompanying President Saleh in the Saudi military hospital in Riyadh and they confirmed to me that President Saleh will remain in the hospital until he finishes his treatment,” al-Soufi added.

“There is no confirmation that President Saleh will leave the hospital very soon,” al-Soufi said.

The embattled president and other 87 high-ranking officials were hospitalized in Riyadh a day after the attack that left 12 of Mr. Saleh’s bodyguards and a government official dead.

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DESPOT ALI ABDULLAH SALEH: Yemen’s Dangerous Hunger Crisis!

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Ellen Knickmeyer / thedailybeast.com / Jul 18, 2011 9:51 PM EDT.

Scenes of severely malnourished Yemeni children in the Therapeutic feeding center at the Al-Wahda teaching hospital, Aden, Yemen, August 11, 2010., Brent Stirton / Getty Images.

In one of the cities at the center of Yemen’s revolution, tanks and soldiers of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s loyalist forces occupy the main hospital, turning away the civilian sick and wounded, and using the hospital as a vantage point to shell residential neighborhoods at night.

Prices of water as well as food have soared amid Yemen’s political crisis, so that ever more poor families are resorting to drinking water from rain and other contaminated sources, and new reports of cholera outbreaks are reaching the capital, Sana’a. Yemeni cities are emptying of day laborers and other poor, aid officials and residents told me, as men return with their families to their villages in hopes of escaping hunger.

Months of violent political crisis are depleting the savings and stockpiles of more and more Yemenis, so that not only beggars, but neighbors, come round to quietly ask for food.

“There’s no work, no water, no electricity, no security. When we sleep, my family and I are not sure if we will live until morning, because of the shelling on the houses, and the bullets all night,” says Ali Qassim Abdullah, a 44-year-old father of three young children. Abdullah spoke in Yemen’s southern city of Taiz, where loyalist units commanded by the son of Yemen’s president are accused of nightly—and sometimes random—artillery fire.

“The whole world is watching this happen to us in Taiz. And no one speaks or objects,” Abdullah told a Yemeni reporter in Taiz who helped me talk to civilians.

It’s not surprising that Saleh’s government, and his son and nephews in charge of loyalist security forces, are neglecting and even compounding the suffering of civilians. It was Saleh who has driven the country into chaos since protests started in February, and who ignored the fundamental needs of his people throughout his more than three-decade rule.

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YEMAN RESISTANCE: Protesters set up transitional council!

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SANAA | Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:35am EDT / reuters.com.

Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh at Tagheer square in Sanaa July 16, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Suhaib Salem.

(Reuters) - Yemeni protesters formed a transitional council of opposition figures on Saturday to lead efforts to try to force President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power.

Youth groups, which have been at the forefront of more than five months of protests against Saleh's three decade rule, told a news conference that the 17 member council would include former Yemeni President Ali Nasser Mohammed and leaders of several opposition groups, including exiles.

They named General Abdullah Ali Aleiwa, a former defense minister, as their choice for armed forces commander.

An official from an anti-Saleh coalition of mainstream opposition parties, said the Joint Meeting would not support the new council. The coalition has also called for a transitional body.

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Yemen forces fire on protests, Gulf to send envoy!

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By Mohammed Ghobari and Khaled al-Mahdy / SANAA/TAIZ | Thu May 12, 2011 9:56am EDT.

(Reuters) - Government forces fired machine guns on Thursday to halt a protest against Yemen's entrenched president, wounding dozens, and Gulf states sought to revive talks on a power transition to stem the rising bloodshed.

An opposition leader told Reuters the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC) was due in Sanaa on Saturday to try to resurrect a deal to end the crisis which fell through last month when President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign.

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YEMEN CRISIS: 40 militants killed in airstrikes, clashes!

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• July 6, 2011 
• AP 
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Yemeni women take part in a demonstration in Sanaa calling for the departure of all figures in the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been hospitalised in Riyadh for nearly a month for wounds sustained in an explosion at the presidential palace - AFP.

At least 40 militants linked to al Qaida have been killed in two days of airstrikes and clashes with government forces, Yemen's state news agency said on Wednesday.

The report by the SABA news agency said the government attacks began after militants tried to storm a military camp in the southern province of Abyan, where Islamist fighters have seized control of several towns.

The militant takeovers are part of widening chaos in Yemen since protests broke out in February calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is being treated in Saudi Arabia for wounds sustained in an attack on his palace last month. The SABA report added that two government soldiers were killed and 20 others injured in the Abyan fighting.

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YEMEN CRISIS: 'Qaeda' ambush kills 10 Yemeni soldiers!

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July 7, 2011 

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Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed 10 soldiers when they ambushed them on a road in southern Yemen, where the jihadist network has a stronghold, a military official said on Thursday.

The gunmen opened fire on the vehicle in which the soldiers were travelling on Wednesday north of the city of Loder, in Abyan province, killing them all, the official told AFP.

Only the driver survived, although he was wounded, a medical official said.

A witness said he saw three armed men shoot at the soliders, adding they prevented people from carrying away the soldiers' bodies, only allowing them to take the driver to hospital in Loder.

An official at the hospital confirmed the wounded driver was admitted to the facility, which also later received the bodies of 10 soldiers after the attackers left the scene of the shooting.

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YEMEN CRISIS: 11 die in Yemeni army, Al Qaeda clashes!

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• June 27, 2011 
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Yemeni army officers lifted by anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen - AP.

At least 11 people, inluding six Al Qaeda militants, were killed and 35 injured in clashes between the armed forces and Al Qaeda militants in Yemen's port city of Aden Sunday, Xinhua reported on Monday.

"Three soldiers, six Al Qaeda militants and two passers-by were killed in shelling in the eastern entrance of Aden Sunday (and) another 15 soldiers and about 20 Al Qaeda elements were wounded," a military official said, requesting anonymity.

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Yemen Crisis: Allies say Yemeni president to return home in days!

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By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press – 5 hours ago.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's president plans to return home within days after treatment in Saudi Arabia for serious injuries in an attack on his palace, officials said, as hundreds of thousands of his opponents rallied in the streets Friday to say he would not be welcome back.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh was badly burned in the June 3 blast at his palace, which wounded other members of his senior leadership and killed at least 11 guards. In his absence, Yemen's opposition parties have sought to persuade the ruling party to join them in a transitional leadership that would effectively shut out Saleh, who has resisted tremendous pressure at home and abroad to step down.

But loyalists have insisted the president will return and resume his duties, and Saleh's powerful son Ahmed, who commands some of the country's best trained military forces, has remained behind in Yemen to help maintain his father's hold.

Ruling party official Yasser al-Yamani said plans to welcome the embattled leader are under way.

"He will return home after medical reports said he is getting better," he told The Associated Press Friday.

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Yemen Crisis: Militants Launch More Attacks in Southern Yemen!

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VOA News.

Armed militants have attacked government buildings near the southern Yemeni town of Houta, which they assaulted on Wednesday. 

Residents told Reuters news agency the attackers in the Thursday assault briefly took over a security forces administrative building and council offices before retreating.

On Wednesday, the al-Qaida-linked group Ansar al-Sharia, or Supporters of Sharia (Islamic law), attacked Houta before dawn, briefly seizing key areas of the provincial capital and battling with government security forces. 

This internecine tribal was, appears, to be going nowhere, while the Al Qaida is poised to occupy parts of Yemen;  Will the real common man of Yemen, ever, live under true democracy?

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Syrian Crisis! Yemen's power struggle!

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By Jeb Boone, / Correspondent / June 12, 2011.

Yemeni fighters loyal to rebel tribal leader Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar inspected damage to his house in Sanaa on June 7. The powerful Ahmar family has emerged as one of the primary challengers to Saleh's regime / Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Newscom.

With President Saleh convalescing abroad, there is an urgent need to establish a clear political order not only for Yemen's security but also its economy, which could collapse within months.

Sanaa, Yemen

In Yemen's capital, a dusty city of more than 2 million surrounded by rugged mountains, security forces roam the streets to keep a lid on the rebellion after President Ali Abdullah Saleh abruptly left the country.

All along Sanaa's major thoroughfares, they stare down the barrels of Russian DShK heavy machine guns mounted in the back of camouflage-painted pickup trucks. Meanwhile, protesters chant, "Stay away, Ali Saleh!"

Officials insist that the president, who was badly injured in a June 3 attack on his home and went to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, will return to reassume the post he has held for 32 years. But how long that may take is uncertain. In the interim, an elite power struggle could profoundly shape the future of Yemen.

"There are a lot of people who stand to benefit from continued violence," says Yemeni political analyst Abdul-Ghani al-Iryani. "Saleh's boys won't hesitate to use violence to honor their father and, of course, the political opposition is always looking for a way to keep themselves relevant."

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Hope this will end up as a power struggle between two tribal war lords and the people of Yemen would fall from the pan into the fire.

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Yemen Crisis: 500 Indians in Yemen pray for a ticket home!

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• June 12, 2011 
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• Yemeni anti-government protesters throw a boy in the air as they gather in Sanaa to celebrate what they said was the fall of Yemen's regime after embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in a blast - AFP.

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• The plight of these prisoners of war is going unheard.
  More than 500 Indian employees of the Al Thawra Modern General Hospital in Sana'a of Yemen are caught in a no man's land.
  Their passports are with the hospital authorities and the Indian government is doing precious little to bail them out.
  Why Indian embassy in Sana or MEA doing nothing, yet, except issuing alerts to leave?

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Yemen Crisis: Yemen says 30 killed in Islamist clashes in south!

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Reuters – 1 hour 45 minutes ago.

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen said its army killed 21 al Qaeda members on Saturday in a southern province whose main city was seized by Islamist militants during the country's bloody political crisis.

Nine Yemeni soldiers were killed in the fighting in Abyan province, whose capital Zinjibar fell to Islamist fighters last month, sparking fighting that has set nearly all its population to flight.

Oil giant Saudi Arabia and Western countries fear the chaos resulting from such clashes could give al Qaeda a foothold in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which straddles oil export routes and has been a cornerstone of U.S. counter-terrorism strategy.

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Yemen Crisis: Yemen's Interim Leadership Rules out Transition Deal for Now!

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Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo / June 07, 2011.

A tribesman loyal to tribal leader Sadeq al-Ahmar secures a street near al-Ahmar's house in Sana'a June 7, 2011.

Political wrangling is underway in Yemen's capital as President Ali Abdullah Saleh receives treatment in Saudi Arabia.  Elsewhere in the country, fighting continues between government troops and Islamic militants.

Fighting has flared again in Zinjibar as government forces try to retake the southern town they abandoned two weeks ago to Islamic militants. There are reports of at least 25 people killed in the southern city in recent days, just one of several areas of unrest in a nation uncertain of its future after a rocket attack wounded its president. Saleh is in Saudi Arabia and his exact condition is unclear. The acting president, Vice President Abd al-Rab Mansur Hadi, says Saleh will return to Yemen within days.

In the capital, protesters continued to call for the president to stay away. 

They will hang on till they are thrown out, whether it is now or after Saleh's return is mute point!

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Yemeni Celebrations: Protesters celebrate as Saleh leaves Yemen for treatment!

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AP/ The Hindu.

An anti-government protester is thrown in to the air by others while celebrating President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday Photo: AP.

Protesters danced, sang and slaughtered cows in the central square of Yemen’s capital on Sunday to celebrate the departure of the country’s authoritarian leader for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia after he was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound.

Saudi-owned television network Al-Arabiya reported President Ali Abdullah Saleh was undergoing surgery, but did not say for what. One of Saleh’s allies said the president, in his late 60s, was hit by jagged pieces of wood that splintered from the mosque pulpit when his compound was hit by a rocket on Friday.

There was no official announcement on who was acting as head of state. But under Yemen’s constitution, the vice president takes over for up to 60 days when the head of state is absent. Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi met Sunday with U.S. Ambassador Gerald Michael Feierstein, a strong indication that he is in charge.

Mr. Saleh’s absence raised the spectre of an even more violent power struggle between the armed tribesmen who have turned against him and loyalist military forces. Street battles between the sides have already pushed the more than three-month political crisis to the brink of civil war over this deeply impoverished and unstable corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

But for one day at least, the capital was celebrating. Protesters thronged Sanaa’s Change Square, the epicentre of the nationwide protest movement since mid-February calling for Mr. Saleh to step down immediately. Some uniformed soldiers joined those dancing and singing patriotic songs and were hoisted on the shoulders of the crowd. Many in the jubilant crowd waved Yemeni flags, joyfully whistling and flashing the “V” for victory signs.

Hope this bonhomie lasts!

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