Yemen President Saleh's regime to fall

Iron of 32 years, the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh rule fists seemed to totter on Monday after three army generals, including his longtime confidant, defected, requesting to resign and tanks and armored vehicles deployed to protect the demonstrators.

Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh, who is the Chairman and influential tribe Hashid is the powerful commander of an armored division first publicly announced his defection, al Jazeera reported.

At the same time as the defections in the army, Al Jazeera said the governor of the southern province of Aden from Yemen, Ahmad

Qaatabi, also joined the protesters.

A confrontation could emerge as tanks and armored vehicles belonging to the elite Republican Guard headed by Saleh's son and heir apparent time were deployed outside the presidential palace in the southern suburbs of the inhabitant