Posted on 03/21/2011 10:47:23 AM PDT by mojito
Yemeni President’s Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year-old iron-fisted rule appeared to be falling apart on Monday as top army generals defected and prominent diplomats resigned.
Yemen's defense minister tried to save Saleh’s regime from collapse by pledging to prevent any “coup against democracy.”
"The armed forces will stay faithful to the oath they gave before God, the nation and political leadership under the brother president Ali Abdullah Saleh...," said the statement, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
Tanks were deployed outside the presidential palace on Monday morning, as a top general announced his allegiance to the protest movement seeking to oust Saleh from power.
Tanks took up positions in key locations across Sanaa including at the presidential palace, the central bank and the ministry of defense, an AFP correspondent saw.
The deployment came as General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, an armored infantry division commander, said that he had joined the "revolution" along with other senior officers.
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Who the Hell is Obama?
Let them fight it out themselves.
The only US policy should be - let NO Yemenis into the country. Include Somalis, Sudanis, Arabs and North Africans. Would be the simplest, most cost-effective anti-terror measure we could ever implement.
Bit of an overstatement since North and South Yemen were different countries until November 1989. Not to mention the 1994 civil war.
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