World: Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh: I’m not leaving until 2013, guys
- The peaceful and smooth transition of power is not carried out through chaos but through the will of the people expressed through elections.
- An official for Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh • Explaining that Saleh will not leave his post until at least 2013, continuing to anger the people who oppose his continuing rule. Protests against Saleh, however, keep getting stronger – on Friday, 100,000 people reportedly showed up in Sanaa alone, and thousands of others showed up in numerous other cities in the region. With such a strong groundswell of popular dissent, how long is Saleh going to keep this up, anyway? source