Yemen leader Saleh agrees to step down under Gulf plan

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: BBC

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.

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1. Recommend

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. paradoxically, this has to be bad news somehow

Any deal mid-wifed by the Saudi-dominated tyrants in the GCC will grow up to be a monster.

The bit about immunity from prosecution is rubbish; leaders like him should not ever be permitted to "leave with dignity" (as Mubarak had before him).

[Tx4obama]

3. K and R

Soon we can add Yemen to the short list of countries (Tunisia, Egypt and Ivory Coast) that have rid themselves of their dictator leader.
Countries on the other list that still need help in ousting their leaders are: Libya, Syria, Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, Mauritania, Cameroon.

[applegrove]

4. Too bad they cannot do the same thing in Libya and Syria. But those two despots will

never leave.