By Hassan Al-Haifi
May 24, 2011
The confrontation betwseen the security forces of Ali Abdullah Saleh and the guard detail of the Paramount Sheikh fo the Hashid Tribe continues for the second day in a row. The casualty toll for today according to Suhail Satellite TV is 7 dead and 25 injured. On the Government's side the casualty toll is unknown. A truce had been declared between the warring parties, when leading tribal dignitaries tried to broker a cease fire, which then was broken late last night and again early this morning, when apparently government forces tried to regain some of the buidlings occupied by members of the Hashid Tribe. A war call was issued to all tribesmen to prepare for the worst, as apparently the President has decided to carry out his pledge that a civil war is in the making if the rest of the country does not allow him to continue ruling to complete what he calls his "constitutional tenor". This fighting comes after several mediation efforts by the Gulf Cooperation Council failed to get Ali Saleh to sign the agreed deocument which has also been signed by his own party leadership, the member parties of the Joint Meeting Parties, and witnessed by the GCC Secretary General Abdul-Latif Al-Zayyani, the US Ambassador to Yemen,Gerald Michael Feierstein, and other members of the Government and social dignitaries.
The followers of Sheikh Al-Ahmar are reported to have captured a tank on the Mareb Road, which is about a kilometer from the Road that links Sana'a to the Airport, upon which the compound of Sheikh Sadik overlooks.
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