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Arab Spring: One more bites the dust

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Sunday, November 27, 2011 20:30
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011 1:26 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Quote:

Yemen's autocratic leader agreed Wednesday to step down after months of demonstrations against his 33-year rule, pleasing the U.S. and its Gulf allies who feared that collapsing security in the impoverished nation was allowing an active al-Qaida franchise to step up operations.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh is the fourth leader to lose power in the wave of Arab Spring uprisings this year, following longtime dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

But the deal ushering Saleh from power grants him immunity from prosecution and doesn't explicitly ban him from the country's political life — raising doubts that it will address Yemen's many problems.

The deal opens the way to what will likely be a messy power struggle. Among those possibly vying for power are Saleh's son and nephew, who command the country's best-equipped military units; powerful tribal leaders; and the commander of a renegade battalion.

Saleh had stubbornly clung to power despite nearly 10 months of huge street protests in which hundreds of people were killed by his security forces. At one point, Saleh's palace mosque was bombed and he was treated in Saudi Arabia for severe burns. When he finally signed the agreement to step down, he did so in the Saudi capital of Riyadh after most of his allies had abandoned him and joined the opposition.

The power transfer will be followed by presidential elections within 90 days. A national unity government will them oversee a two-year transitional period.

The deal falls far short of the demands of the tens of thousands of protesters who have doggedly called for democratic reforms in public squares across Yemen since January, sometimes facing lethal crackdowns by Saleh's forces.

Protesters camped out in the capital of Sanaa immediately rejected the deal, chanting, "No immunity for the killer!" They vowed to continue their protests.
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Saleh, believed to be in his late 60s, addressed members of the Saudi royal family and international diplomats at the signing ceremony, portraying himself as a victim who sought to preserve security and democracy but was forced out by power-hungry forces serving a "foreign agenda." http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemeni-leader-saudi-sign
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This one looks more worrisome to me, however, especially given the part I underlined.

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Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:30 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Again I hope this will work out well, that they'll get something better instead of ending up with something worse, because no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse, that's something I've been learning this year with Egypt and Libya. But I do hope things go good in Yemmon.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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