Protest violence in Yemen kills five demonstrators

[JCMach1]

Source: The National

A grenade attack on anti-government protesters killed one person and injured dozens as government supporters and riot police clashed with pro-democracy demonstrators across Yemen yesterday. Four more people were shot dead by police in the southern port city of Aden, where violent clashes broke out for the third day between protesters and police.

In Taiz, south of the capital Sana'a, a protester was killed when armed men, accused of being government supporters, threw a grenade at a gathering of tens of thousands. He was one of dozens of people brought to hospital, where he died of his wounds, medics said. Taiz officials denied the attackers were supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh or his party.

Yesterday was the eighth consecutive day of protests against Mr Saleh...

Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/protest-violence-in-yemen-kills-five-demonstrators

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Grenades... :(

[No Elephants]

1. "Protest violence... kills five." Um, no. Anti-protest violence killed five.

[JCMach1]

2. +1

[Turborama]

3. A solemn K&R n/t

[Catherina]

4. Grenades against unarmed people. If these are our *friends*.... Any drones yet?

The WikiLeaks revelation making the rounds in the Yemeni capital Sana'a is the one where President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in an apparently jovial conversation with U.S. General David Petraeus, offers to lie to his countrymen about the perpetrators of drone strikes in the Yemeni countryside. "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours," Saleh said at the January meeting, according to a cable sent by the American ambassador at the time, Stephen Seche. The cable also reports that Saleh complained of drugs and weapons smuggling from Djibouti across the Red Sea, but stated he was content to have whiskey bootlegged in, "provided it's good whiskey."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2033511,00.html#ixzz1ELvmZp99