[quote]President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen has agreed to step down under a 30-day transition plan aimed at ending violent unrest over his 32-year rule.
Officials in the capital Sanaa confirmed the government had accepted the plan drawn up by Gulf Arab states.
Mr Saleh will hand power to his vice-president one month after an agreement is signed with the opposition, in return for immunity from prosecution.
At least 120 people have died during two months of protests.
The US has welcomed the announcement; a statement from the White House urged all parties to "swiftly" implement a peaceful transfer of power.
Opposition leader Yassin Noman was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying he welcomed news of the handover but would not take part in a proposed national unity government.
The opposition have been insisting they will not accept immunity from prosecution for Mr Saleh and his family.
If Mr Saleh steps down as expected, he will join Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak as the latest Arab leader to lose power because of a popular revolt this year.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13178887[/url]
About time he pissed off, Gaddafi is next now
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[QUOTE=SexyDergon;29394245]:frogbon:[/QUOTE]
What's sad is that once again, over a hundred people had to die for the dickhead to leave, and he'll probably get away with it.
Rather a "peaceful" transition of power then what's happening in Libya.
This isn't necessarily good, Al-Qaeda is extremely strong in Yemen and among the large local tribes.
[QUOTE=captainHOE;29395281]This isn't necessarily good, Al-Qaeda is extremely strong in Yemen and among the large local tribes.[/QUOTE]
Screw Al-Qaeda, their strength has been overestimated scince this whole retarded war on terror thing started.
[QUOTE=Random94;29395352]Screw Al-Qaeda, their strength has been overestimated scince this whole retarded war on terror thing started.[/QUOTE]
Yemenite Al Qaeda is nearly stronger than the Yemenite Army, and more Yemenite soldiers have been killed than Al Qaeda insurgents were... If it wasn't for US support, Al Qaeda/some other Islamist group would've grabbed the control long time ago.
[QUOTE=captainHOE;29395281]This isn't necessarily good, Al-Qaeda is extremely strong in Yemen and among the large local tribes.[/QUOTE]
Would it be better to have an authoritarian dictator who tortures anyone who disagrees with him? The
chances of a militant islamist taking over power is slim. It didn't happen in Egypt, and it probably
won't happen in Yemen either.
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;29396168]Would it be better to have an authoritarian dictator who tortures anyone who disagrees with him? The
chances of a militant islamist taking over power is slim. It didn't happen in Egypt, and it probably
won't happen in Syria either.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it would be better for everyones sake that a (relatively) secular tyranny will head Yemen than a religious tyranny. Yemen, Egypt and Syria are completely different from each other. You can't deduce that just because it didn't happen in Egypt (yet, at least), it won't happen in Yemen. The MB in Egypt is different than Al-Qaeda, and different from the MB in Syria and so on and so forth.
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By the way, in Syria, the regime has killed over 20,000 people in the duration of one month in order to keep the Syrian branch of the MB on the leash. Saleh didn't, and couldn't, destroy the Yemenite Al Qaeda so decisively.
[QUOTE=captainHOE;29396094]Yemenite Al Qaeda is nearly stronger than the Yemenite Army, and more Yemenite soldiers have been killed than Al Qaeda insurgents were... If it wasn't for US support, Al Qaeda/some other Islamist group would've grabbed the control long time ago.[/QUOTE]
No they wouldn't, these "al qaeda operatives" happen to be simple rebels that are casusing violence due to political reasons associated with the country before al-qaeda was even known of rather than installing a theocratic government, also i bet AL-qaeda does not even exist as a unified organization, i bet it is a group of isolated militant networks that rarley cooperate with each other.
For example those bombings in iraq wasnt because of al qaeda wanting to overthrow the government, they were because of tensions between Sunnis and Shiites, or how the taliban are attacking the afghan government , they are not doing it on behalf of al qaeda, they are doing it because they want to restore themselves to power, because they were the previous government, so that is understandable.
Yemen is important to the US militarily and geographically, I don't think they'd let Al Qaeda to just start up its own government there.
Didn't Gadaffi say he would step down but now we are launching drone strikes on Libya?
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