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2017-12-03 Arabia
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Houthis: Saleh's overture to Saudi 'a coup'
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[Al Jazeera] Yemen's former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
 ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
has said he is open to talks with a Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
rebels, in what the fighters called "a coup" against their fragile alliance with the ousted president.
Saleh made the comments on Saturday, as deadly infighting between forces loyal to him and Houthi rebels continued for a fourth day.
The former allies have been fighting the Saudi-led coalition for control of the country since March 2015, when Riyadh and several other Arab Sunni states intervened to reinstate the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
In October, the Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen imposed a total blockade on the impoverished country after a rebel missile was shot down near Riyadh.
Last week, amid international pressure over the suffering of millions of Yemenis, some humanitarian aid was allowed to enter Yemen.
"I call on our brothers in neighbouring countries ... to stop their aggression and lift the blockade ... and we will turn the page," Saleh said in a televised speech on Saturday.
"We vow to our brothers and neighbours that, after a ceasefire is in place and the blockade is lifted ... we will hold dialogue directly through the legitimate authority represented by our parliament," added Saleh.
A Houthi front man was quick to denounce Saleh's comments, accusing the former president of staging a "coup".
"Saleh's speech is a coup against our alliance and partnership ... and exposed the deception of those who claim to stand against aggression," the front man said in a statement, carried by the rebels' Al Masirah TV.
Also responding to Saleh's speech, Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi stressed the need for dialogue and called on the former president to "be more mature".
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
in a statement, Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) ordered their supporters to "defend their homeland, their revolution, and their unity".
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