Yemeni Opposition Groups Form Council to Unite Against Saleh

Yemen’s opposition groups elected 143 members of a national council set up to forge unity against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

“Our concern about the country has pushed us to establish the council,” Mohammed Basindwah, the president of the National Dialogue Committee at the Joint Meeting Parties coalition, told reporters today in San’a, the capital. “It is meant to secure the country in case the regime starts a war.”