"We stand like mountains," thundered the President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Can demonstrate a head of state and against whom the brother tried a few hours a coup and six emissaries who announced on the same day that he no longer owed allegiance? It seems that Saleh, who ruled Yemen since 1978, is willing to do anything to stay in power.
The current situation resembles the situation in Libya last three weeks ago. After Saleh tried to end the growing protests against him and his regime, a part of political officials at the highest levels declared their solidarity with the demonstrators. They are led by General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a half brother of president Saleh.
However, a leader of the circle he remains loyal to Saleh, including several relatives in front of key positions in the army and police. Shortly after al-Ahmar and dozens official announced her rebellion, the Defense Ministry also issued a statement. It states that the military will protect the "constitutional legitimacy, security, stability and unity of the country." Saudi Arabia's role is crucial, because thanks to the lush remittances in recent years has much influence over Sana'a as the United States, which sent advisers and unmanned aircraft to the country south of the Arabian peninsula to fight Al cells Qaeda.
Perhaps it was the change in position of General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar only a sober and successful military coup benplácito enjoyed the Riyadh? Or perhaps, as some Arab observers presume, was the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Chalif al-Thani, who pulled the strings in the attempted coup on Monday? That just his half-brother Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and his cousin Mohammed Ali Al-Ahmar, the two commanders of the army, rebel against Saleh, is a shame in Arabic logic of family honor, although it is something really unusual.
At the end of the day was the current Emir of Qatar who overthrew his own father. And also in other Gulf countries the transfer of power between different members of a family are not always produced in a peaceful manner. But who is General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar who had read a statement on the Qatari station Al Jazeera and then visited the protesters Saleh in Sanaa? So far Al-Ahmar has not excelled in their struggle to defend democracy or combating corruption.
Some critics point out that the only opposition to Saleh by the unscrupulous general who recruited Islamist rebels to fight the rebel Shiite Houthi not make it a symbol of change. While the Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kirbi today traveled to Riyadh with a message from President Saleh to King Abdullah.
It was not immediately known if the message is a call for help or if Saleh wants to assess which side is Saudi Arabia. A Saudi diplomat responded to this question with a distinguished book, "This is an issue that pertains only to Yemen." 
The current situation resembles the situation in Libya last three weeks ago. After Saleh tried to end the growing protests against him and his regime, a part of political officials at the highest levels declared their solidarity with the demonstrators. They are led by General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a half brother of president Saleh.
However, a leader of the circle he remains loyal to Saleh, including several relatives in front of key positions in the army and police. Shortly after al-Ahmar and dozens official announced her rebellion, the Defense Ministry also issued a statement. It states that the military will protect the "constitutional legitimacy, security, stability and unity of the country." Saudi Arabia's role is crucial, because thanks to the lush remittances in recent years has much influence over Sana'a as the United States, which sent advisers and unmanned aircraft to the country south of the Arabian peninsula to fight Al cells Qaeda.
Perhaps it was the change in position of General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar only a sober and successful military coup benplácito enjoyed the Riyadh? Or perhaps, as some Arab observers presume, was the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Chalif al-Thani, who pulled the strings in the attempted coup on Monday? That just his half-brother Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and his cousin Mohammed Ali Al-Ahmar, the two commanders of the army, rebel against Saleh, is a shame in Arabic logic of family honor, although it is something really unusual.
At the end of the day was the current Emir of Qatar who overthrew his own father. And also in other Gulf countries the transfer of power between different members of a family are not always produced in a peaceful manner. But who is General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar who had read a statement on the Qatari station Al Jazeera and then visited the protesters Saleh in Sanaa? So far Al-Ahmar has not excelled in their struggle to defend democracy or combating corruption.
Some critics point out that the only opposition to Saleh by the unscrupulous general who recruited Islamist rebels to fight the rebel Shiite Houthi not make it a symbol of change. While the Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kirbi today traveled to Riyadh with a message from President Saleh to King Abdullah.
It was not immediately known if the message is a call for help or if Saleh wants to assess which side is Saudi Arabia. A Saudi diplomat responded to this question with a distinguished book, "This is an issue that pertains only to Yemen."
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