Saudis may be key to a Yemen solution — analysts
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DUBAI — Powerful Saudi Arabia where wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh is recuperating could be the key to solving the political turmoil in Yemen by pressing the veteran leader to transfer power or at least by impeding his return, analysts say.
A much weakened Saleh still clings to power from his sickbed, oblivious to four-months-old protests, growing international pressure and Friday’s attack that could have killed him and other top figures in his embattled regime.
Wounded by an explosion as he prayed at a mosque inside the presidential compound in Sanaa, Saleh was transferred late on Saturday to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, but he has not stood down as president.
Saleh’s presence in Riyadh “might provide an opportunity for the kingdom” to revive its efforts toward a political settlement in neighboring Yemen, whose stability is “a strategic interest to Riyadh,” said Ibrahim Sharqieh, deputy director of the Brookings Doha Center..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110609com3.html
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