Yemenis
Target
Ritz-Carlton,
Say Ali Saleh
is There,
Under
Obama Care
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 1 --
With
accountability
for Bashar al
Assad a
matter of
debate in the
UN Security
Council, a
protest press
conference
about Yemen
has been
called for
February 2 in
front of the
Ritz-Carlton
Hotel on
Manhattan's
Central Park
South, where
the
organizers say
Ali Saleh is
staying.
Inner
City Press
asked German
Minister of
States, after
Tuesday's
Syria meeting
in the
Security
Council, if
his speech's
reference to
crimes against
humanity meant
opposition to
Assad getting
the same type
of immunity
deal that
Saleh has
received.
"It's too
early to say,"
Link
replied.
But
for Saleh, he
won
legislation in
Yemen for
immunity, and
now has been
granted
permission by
the Obama
administration
to come to the
US. (In Inner
City Press'
story one wag
called this a
foreign form
of "Obama
Care.")
Inner
City Press on
February 1
asked US
Ambassador to
the UN Susan
Rice about the
protesters'
report that
Saleh is
staying in the
Ritz-Carlton,
with a
security
detail of 35
officers.
Rice
insisted
that Saleh is
only in the US
for medical
treatment --
inconsistent
with a stay in
a luxury hotel
-- and said
that his
security is a
matter for
local
authorities.
(c) UN Photo
Saleh with Ban
Ki-moon,
"didn't
discuss
immunity" in
Nov 2011
Some
are
questioning if
NYPD is
providing
protection,
amidst a
scandal of
"profiling
Muslims." That
too, the
organizers
say, will be
addressed at
the press
conference.
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
Human
Rights Watch
is said to
have "flip
flopped" on
the
propriety of
Saleh's stay
in the US "it
was
'appalling'
that Saleh
would get
first-rate
treatment in
the U.S. while
hundreds of
Yemeni victims
are not
getting proper
medical care
or justice."
Then, after
who knows what
push back or (non)
communications,
HRW said it is
"not opposed
to Saleh
receiving care
in the United
States." In a
hotel?
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