Yemen

Yemen Violence

The temporary cease fire in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a was broken Thursday as the Republican Guard clashed with the First Armoured Division and local tribesmen. Two tribesmen were killed in the fight, while five others were wounded. This comes after a huge protest on Wednesday when hundreds of thousands of people calling for President Saleh’s outing and trial demonstrated near Change Square. Youth groups had said on Wednesday that they were going to have a peaceful march all the way to the president’s house, but when the actual marching occurred on Thursday, the groups, which were estimated in the tens of thousands, kept confined of First Armoured Division’s areas of control. The group chanted “Peaceful. Peaceful. No to civil war.” President Saleh returned to Yemen on Friday after recovering in Saudi Arabia after a failed assassination attempt.

This fighting could be very important to the struggling country. If the central powers become too weak, this could result in a civil war, which leaves the door open for the strong group of Al-Qaeda that the current government has been trying to control. The outcome of this struggle, a “civil war”, could lead to a takeover of by al-Qaeda while the main government is weak. This would be a problem for the US and most likely the rest of the Middle Eastern countries. Any country that has such loose base morals would be a danger to the American way of life, and the US should interfere to make sure that this will never happen.

Realist

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/29/169264.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/15/turkey-cyprus-idUSL5E7KF3FH20110915

September 30, 2011 at 09:22 am