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By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Sudam
SANAA (Reuters) - Opponents of Yemen's president stepped up a campaign on Friday to force him out, but Ali Abdullah Saleh was defiant as he addressed thousands of supporters and urged the opposition to join...
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Anti-government protesters attend a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the northwestern city of Saada April 15, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/al-Houthi Rebel Group/Handout
By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Sudam
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Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:42am EDT
SANAA (Reuters) - Opponents of Yemen's president stepped up a campaign on Friday to force him out, but Ali Abdullah Saleh was defiant as he addressed thousands of supporters and urged the opposition to join peace talks.
"We call on the opposition to consult their consciences and come to dialogue and reach an agreement for the security and stability of the country," Saleh told supporters at a rally.
Worried that al Qaeda's active Yemen wing will exploit a prolonged standoff in the impoverished country, Yemen's Gulf Arab neighbors have offered to mediate an end to the crisis.
Saleh's opponents have rejected that offer, however, fearing that talks in Riyadh, long an ally of Saleh, would seek to keep him in office until his term ends in 2013.
A shrewd political operator, Saleh has warned of civil war and the break-up of Yemen if he is forced to step aside before organizing parliamentary and presidential elections.
He has offered the new elections this year as part of political reforms, but says he should stay in power to oversee the change or hand over to what he calls "safe hands."
Yet even before the protests inspired by Egypt and Tunisia, Saleh was struggling to quell a separatist rebellion in the south and cement a truce with Shi'ite rebels in the north.
Saleh's speech on Friday came as hundreds of thousands protested against him in Sanaa, Aden and Taiz, and clerics and tribal leaders who were once his allies issued a statement saying the president must go now and his relatives in the military and the security forces must be dismissed.
"It's only a matter of days before this regime is over. This revolution cannot be defeated. Our aim to bring down corrupt family rule," preacher Abubakr Obaid told worshippers near Sanaa University, where protesters have camped out since February.
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Tunisian and Egyptian leaders and their families, brought down in popular uprisings in January and February, are facing legal action over corruption and the deaths of protesters.
Diplomatic sources say talks had stalled in recent weeks over Saleh's desire for immunity from prosecution for himself and his family. The Gulf plan announced on Sunday appeared to promise Saleh immunity, and he accepted it the next day.
The opposition coalition, which includes the Islamist Islah party, said on Thursday it refused to go to Riyadh talks because it wanted to focus on forcing Saleh out within two weeks.
Opposition leader Mohammed al-Mutawakkil said dissidents could reach a deal that protects Saleh from prosecution, leaving the timing of a power transfer as the main holdup.
At least 116 people have died in two months of protests which security forces have attacked with live fire and tear gas.
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