Yemen wants to send troops to save Palestinians

SANAA: President Ali Abdullah Saleh has urged countries neighbouring Israel to let Yemeni troops in to fight alongside the Palestinians.

"If our brothers in the countries (bordering Israel) allow it, we are prepared to send our sons and our youth to fight alongside our brothers in Palestine," Saleh told a rally Tuesday night in the city of Hajjah, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of the capital.

"The next battle will be decisive when the borders are open before the mujahedin and the Arab fighter to support their Palestinian brethren," Saleh said, quoted by the official SABA news agency.