SANA'A: UN special envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar demanded that President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hado set up a committee which would have for main task to overview all new presidential decrees and ensure that they are within the parameters of the power-transfer proposal which was signed last November by President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Joint Meeting Parties. Among other issues, Benomar's arrival coincided with a crisis within the military as Saleh's loyalists and family members refused to comply with Hadi's orders when the latter ordered their demotions. Quite famously, General Mohaemd Saleh al-Ahamr defied Hadi for three weeks, flexing his military muscles and warning of more “heat to come” if al-Islah, Yemen's Islamic faction and main opponent to Saleh, insisted in targeting the former regime. After much debate and stern reproach from the international community and the UN Security Council permanent members in regards to Saleh and his coterie, the general eventually gave in, handing his powers to his predecessor. Since President Saleh and most of the General People's Congress, the party he hounded back in 1984, Benomar conceded that Yemen needed a third body to overview the fairness of the process and ensure that indeed no faction was pushing another out of the game. The GPC so far has been angered by the seemingly one sided demotions wave as only Saleh loyalists were pinpointed so far with figure such as rebel General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar not having been troubled. Analysts are now warning that the political argument could now move to a more personal vendetta in which Saleh clan and al-Ahmar clan would oppose each other.
