This is certainly the end of his
rule. Forty percent burns are awfully
close to the blast and recovery will take months depending on how deep the
burns are. I cannot imagine that he can
be brought up easily to communicate at all.
The head wound also means a swelling brain and likely an induced coma
while they wait for everything to stabilize and settle down. The point of all this is that he is no longer
running the country and his underlings are trying to bluff their way past that
in the hopes of his return.
As usual we have been fed a lot
of misinformation and the only thing we will get now is a death notice or in a
few months his reappearance. It likely
will not matter.
Someone will have to stand up as
his replacement as soon as possible.
The much maligned ‘Arab Street ’ has learned
that they have real power to challenge a thug regime and to make it buckle. They are now learning that it sometimes takes
weeks of pain but in time they will still buckle.
The toughest nuts remain Syria and Iran . The fall of Yemen will encourage those revolts.
Yemen leader President Saleh suffered 40 per cent burns, say USA
The president of Yemen
was far more seriously injured in an attack on his palace in the capital,
Sana'a, than previously stated and suffered burns to 40 per cent of his body
with bleeding inside his skull, according to US officials.
11:27PM BST 07 Jun 2011
The statement, which was accompanied by a call from Hillary Clinton,
the US
secretary of state, for "immediate transition", dealt a significant
blow to loyalist hopes that Ali Abdullah Saleh would resume office after a
period of convalescence in a Saudi Arabian hospital.
As he recovered from two operations to remove shrapnel and reconstruct
his skull, Mr Saleh's hold on power slipped further on Tuesday after fighters
from the Sharab and Same tribes, both led by senior military figures, took
control of most of Taiz , Yemen 's second city.
Mr Saleh's forces shelled residential areas, killing a number of
people, including children.
Despite deploying tanks and being reinforced from the air, they were
beaten.
Unless pro-regime forces stage a major fightback, Mr Saleh, 69, if he
were to return, faces the prospect of a Libya-style situation in which the
government controls only a portion of the country with revolutionary forces
holding sway in cities such as Taiz.
Senior officials in Mr Saleh's government, including the
vice-president, have insisted that he will return to Yemen within days.
But it is now thought likely that Mr Saleh will not recover for months.
He was wounded, along with a number of senior officials, in an attack
last Friday on his palace.
His injuries were initially thought to be caused by shellfire but US
officials said the attack was a bomb, pointing to insider involvement.
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