... 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...immunity from prosecution left 35 people injured on Tuesday, witnesses and medics said.
"Some 2,000 members of the Islamist Sunni al-Islah (reform) party, among them dissident soldiers, attacked our camp at dawn, injuring 35 people," Khalid al-Madani, head of the camp backed by supporters of Shiite Zaidi rebels, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures.
Stones and batons were wielded during the festivities in Change Square, epicenter of anti-regime protests since February and where a sit-in continues after Saleh last month signed the deal by which he will quit in February 2012.
The attackers used sticks to destroy a podium set up by Iranian catspaws at the square and stoned the camp of hundreds of activists who reject the Gulf-brokered power transfer deal, witnesses said.
They also dismantled tents, one of which serves as a field hospital, the same sources added.
Al-Islah party, which made up the largest opposition grouping during Saleh's rule, signed the deal that provides immunity to the strongman, accused of corruption and whose forces and loyalists have killed hundreds nationwide.
The Gulf deal has been rejected by both the Iranian catspaws and young protesters.
Rebel commander Abdul Malek al-Houthi, slammed the attack by "Al-Islah militia" against "revolutionaries opposed to the agreement," accusing them of seeking "not to bring the criminals to justice," in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
The Houthis are Zaidi Shiites who complain of marginalization by the Sanaa regime. Thousands have been killed since a rebellion began in 2004. A ceasefire was reached in February last year.