President Saleh has other security preoccupations

President Saleh has other security preoccupations The new factor in 2010 has been that rich foreign countries, very concerned however about al-Qaeda attacks coming out of Yemen, have been throwing their own balls into the game. They add big new complications to what was already complicated.

The West wants President Saleh to make al-Qaeda his number one security priority.Counter-terrorism teams from Britain and the United States have been in Sanaa looking for information and delivering advice.

But President Saleh has other security preoccupations. He is also fighting an insurgency in the north, and a separatist movement in the south.