Saleh Returns to Yemen as Escalation Feared

Violence continues to rock Yemen as the president returns with hopes of signing a truce with anti-government forces.

So much for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh being the fourth leader to fall victim to the Arab Spring. The despot has returned to Yemen after spending three months in Saudi Arabia recovering from an assassination attempt by anti-government forces. Yemen has been rocked by violent unrest since January, and last week it had been reported that Saleh, who's ruled Yemen for three decades, would remain in Saudi Arabia instead of returning to Yemen to inflame tensions there further. Saleh returned to Sanaa, the capital, to call for "a truce and a ceasefire" with the opposition forces, but observers fear his coming back could pitch Yemen into all-out civil war.