http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110...foreign-policy
Yemeni President Won't Run Again
FEBRUARY 2, 2011, 11:58 A.M. ET
By HAKIM ALMASMARI
SANAA, Yemen—Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced he won't run for re-election when his term ends in 2013, and said he wouldn't attempt to pass on the presidency to his son.
His Wednesday statement before parliament brought an abrupt end to the leader's current bid to change the constitution to erase all term limits on the post.
Opposition leaders, however, called the president's concessions insufficient and urged their supporters to join renewed mass protests planned for Thursday. Ahead of that rally, ruling-party officials started pitching their own tents in Liberation Square, where the protests are to take place....