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| South Yemen leader pulls out of reconciliation talks |
| 2013-11-28 |
| [Pak Daily Times] A south Yemeni separatist leader on Wednesday walked out of national reconciliation talks meant chart a new constitution for US-allied Yemen, setting back efforts to keep the fragile country together. The move could prompt other politicians to quit the talks and deepen instability in a country afflicted by Sunni Islamist krazed killers, Shia Musselmen rebels and a southern separatists. The Conference of National Reconciliation, launched in March as part of a 2011 Gulf-brokered power transfer deal that eased long-serving President 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... out of office, has been struggling with demands by southern separatists to restore South Yemen, which merged with North Yemen in 1990. Lack of progress on this issue has raised Western concern that the power transfer deal could unravel, deepening nationwide disorder, boosting al Qaeda's most deadly franchises and unsettling adjacent oil exporting heavyweight Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . |
| Posted by:Fred |