Violence Video: Police use live bullets, tear gas & water cannon on protesters in Yemen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M0_nsOXpxw&feature=player_embedded&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatreallyhappened.com%2F&has_verified=1

Yemeni security forces fired live bullets, tear gas and water cannon on two pro-democracy demonstrations on Saturday, killing three people, one a 15-year-old student. Hundreds more were injured as the government clamped down on a growing protest movement, according to witnesses. The violence began with a pre-dawn raid on a central square in the capital, Sanaa, where thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been camped out for the past month to demand the end of President Ali Abdullah Salehs' reign.

An ally in the Obama's administration's fight against al-Qaida, Saleh has been in power for 32 years. Doctors and eyewitnesses said security troops surrounded the square with police cars and armoured personnel carriers shortly after midnight and began calling on protesters through loudspeakers to go home. At 5 a.m. (0800 GMT), security forces stormed in, firing tear gas and live ammunition. One protester died from a bullet to the head, which may have come from a sniper on the rooftop of a nearby building, witnesses said. A few hours later, another protester was shot dead in a nearby street.

[also see>The long planned war on Yemen http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2009/12/long-planned-war-on-yemen.html In 2009- US spent tens of millions of dollars boosting Yemen's coastguard and border security and providing helicopters with night-vision cameras. The US has also provided intelligence gathered over Yemen by unmanned drones.

The UK has also invested heavily in aid to Yemen. It has quadrupled its development assistance since 2007, allocating £105m between 2009 and 2011, though no figures on funds for military training were available Both the US and UK have trained Yemen's counter-terrorism unit