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Saleh returns to Yemen

Fear of civil war as fighting escalates

AFP,Sanaa
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for a truce hours after returning from a three-month stay in Saudi Arabia to Sanaa, which has been rocked by ferocious fighting between his forces and dissident troops.
The United States, meanwhile, called for a "full power transfer" and urged the veteran leader to step down.
Saleh's surprise return from Riyadh, where he had been recovering from a June 3 bomb attack on his Sanaa compound, was celebrated by tens of thousands of supporters gathered at Sanaa's Sabiin Square, near his palace, for the weekly Muslim Friday prayers.
The 69-year-old Saleh, who has since January faced massive street protests demanding he step down, did not make an appearance at the prayers.
Renewed clashes between security forces loyal to Saleh and dissident tribesmen killed 18 people in the north of the capital, the opposition said yesterday.
The armed tribesmen fighting
Saleh's security forces were loyalists of dissident tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, Hamid's brother.
The exchanges intensified late yesterday and explosions were heard across the neighborhood, residents said.
Earlier medics and tribal sources said 107 people have died in this week's clashes between rival army units backed by tribal forces and in attacks by Saleh's forces on anti-regime demonstrators.
A presidency official said that Saleh had on his return urged an end to violence.
For Saleh, "there is no alternative to dialogue and negotiations to end the bloodshed and resolve the crisis," he added.
State news agency Saba said the president was to make "an important speech to mark the 49th anniversary" of the September 26, 1962 revolution which brought down the imamate, a form of clerical rule, and saw Yemen proclaimed a republic.
The soaring violence has raised longstanding fears that Yemen, which faces a Shia rebellion in the north and the growing influence of al-Qaeda in the south in addition to a southern separatist movement, isheadingforfull-blown civil war.
UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar told AFP late Wednesday that the deteriorating security situation, and the reluctance of both sides to reach a political resolution, raises "the risk of civil war breaking out."
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, warned on Thursday that Yemen was at a "dangerous crossroads".