If only he could have agreed to the peace terms that everyone else agreed to earlier, he could have avoided this. This situation will not turn out well for anyone. The Guardian:
Yemen's embattled president survived an apparent attempt to kill him on Friday as fighting intensified in Sana'a amid warnings that the country is sliding inexorably into all-out war.
Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled Yemen for 32 years, emerged lightly injured but defiant from his compound in the capital after shells or a missile hit a mosque inside, killing three guards and a cleric and injuring two other senior government figures.
The incident fuelled growing anxieties that the Arab uprisings, which have brought dramatic changes to Egypt and Tunisia, are turning Yemen – the Arab world's poorest country – into something far more volatile and dangerous.
