But before we get to that:
"At least 40 militants linked to Al Qaeda have been killed in two days of airstrikes and clashes with government forces, Yemen’s state news agency said yesterday.
Related: CIA Sees Window in Yemen
Civil War Door Opens For Amerika in Yemen
"CIA-Duh" Takes Control of Yemen
Make that 260.
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, said the report by the SABA news agency.
Related: "CIA-Duh" Consolidation in Yemen
So if you are for the people you are a "terrorist?"
The militant takeovers are part of widening chaos in Yemen since protests broke out in February....
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"Competing rallies in Yemen after leader’s TV message" July 09, 2011|Associated Press
SANA, Yemen - Supporters and opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh staged competing marches in Yemen’s capital yesterday, a day after his first television appearance in a month, highlighting the deep political rift that could tear apart this impoverished, gun-ridden nation.
Saleh appeared on state TV late Thursday, a first since flying to Saudi Arabia a month ago to treat wounds sustained in an attack on his palace. The leader was shown with casts on his arms, visibly weakened after a series of operations, which reinforced speculation that he will not return to Yemen soon.
Related: Saleh Seriously Wounded
It was an inside job?
Saleh did not say whether or when he plans to return, adding a new twist to a five-month-old rebellion against his authoritarian regime.
The uprising has battered Yemen’s economy and destabilized the Arab world’s poorest nation, which is also home to one of Al Qaeda’s most active branches.
The United States and others worry Al Qaeda could exploit chaos in Yemen to expand its bases in Yemen’s weakly governed provinces.
You really reach a point where you say since this is 100% war prop, why wouldn't the rest be?
Saleh backers responded to the video by firing guns in the air in celebration, and at least 11 people died from gunshot wounds across Yemen. In the capital Sana, thousands of Saleh supporters rallied outside his palace, bearing large photos of the leader and the Saudi monarch, thanking him for hosting Saleh.
Much larger crowds filled squares across Yemen, including the university square in Sana not far from Saleh’s palace, indicating that the footage of the injured Saleh could deepen the country’s divide instead of paving the way for a the political transition sought by the opposition, Yemen’s Gulf Arab neighbors and the West....
My comment on this paragraph is how it is so upside down.
Yes, the MAJORITY of PEOPLE -- including ELEMENTS of the GOVERNMENT that have DEFECTED -- are somehow deepening the divide and blocking the peace sought by themselves, the oppressive regime, and the allies in the region (and beyond) that supported the dictator all these years. (Blog editor dejectedly hangs head and stares at pos paper on his desk wondering what's the use anymore. Unreadable and irredeemable)
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"A senior White House envoy asked Yemen’s president yesterday to sign a deal that would have him transfer power to his vice president and step down in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Shouldn't that be up to the Yemeni people?
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has promised in the past to sign the deal, brokered by Gulf countries, then balked at the last minute.
Then his mosque was bombed.
White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan’s meeting with Saleh was the strongest sign yet of US pressure. The two met at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, where Saleh is recovering from wounds sustained in an attack on his compound last month.
And the US wants him to move aside, huh? I think they already did.
The White House said Brennan urged Saleh to sign the pledge “expeditiously.’’ Brennan said assistance will flow to Yemen when the deal is implemented. Saleh has not said whether he will try to return to Yemen.
I was told he would be back in days weeks ago, sigh.
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"The White House counterterrorism chief briefed Yemen’s vice president on Washington’s push for a swift transfer of power.
John Brennan met with Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi yesterday in a bid to revive a power transfer deal proposed by Yemen’s neighbors. Hadi has headed the government since embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh left for Saudi Arabia to be treated for wounds he suffered in a June 3 attack on his compound in Sana, Yemen’s capital.
So it will just be another AmeriKan lackey taking over?
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