Yemen continues to crumble on Tuesday, Reuters reports:
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule seems near collapse. His exit would spell uncertainty for his broken country and discomfiture for U.S. and Saudi friends, still backing their “ally” against al Qaeda.
The killing of more than 50 protesters in Sanaa on Sunday has turned a trickle of defections into a torrent as Yemeni diplomats, military officers, tribal leaders and politicians hasten to declare support for the anti-Saleh opposition.
This map of reserves, production and pipelines is also from IHS:
(For more on the tribal and other nuances amongst opposition groups, we recommend this dispatch from Sana’a in Foreign Affairs on February 25.)
He was a corrupt and repressive ruler who started gunning down his own people, so don’t think we should do anything to save him. Let him go down, although in this case not at all sure if there will be any kind of democratic tradition.
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