Yemen’s opposition agrees to Gulf transition plan

Ali Abdullah Saleh

SANAA, (Reuters) – Yemen’s opposition has agreed to  take part in a transitional government under a Gulf-negotiated  peace plan for veteran leader Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside,  an opposition source told Reuters yesterday.

Yemen’s Western and Gulf Arab allies have tried to mediate a  solution to a three-month crisis in which protesters, inspired  by revolts against autocratic rule in Egypt and Tunisia, have  demonstrated relentlessly for the end of Saleh’s rule.

As opposition leaders met in Sanaa to discuss the plan,  Yemeni forces killed three protesters at separate rallies  outside the