The Obama administration had his support of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in private and be avoided by criticizing him directly in the public, maintained, even as his supporters on peaceful demonstrators, fired because he was considered an important ally in the fight against the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda. This position has been fueled criticism of the United States in some circles for hypocrisy for noise, to urge a repressive autocrat in Libya, but not strategic allies such as Yemen and Bahrain.
Position began to move, last week said Government officials. While Mr Saleh go publicly not pressed American officials who they said that they now display influence in Office as untenable, and they believe that he should leave allies.
A Yemeni official said that the American position, changed when with Mr Saleh began the negotiations on the terms of his potential departure a little more than a week ago.
"The Americans push since for the transmission, which makes the beginning of" these negotiations, the official said, but not so publicly said, because "they were still in the negotiations."
These negotiations Center now on a proposal for Mr Saleh to the hand is held to an interim Government led by its Vice President until new elections are. This principle is "not controversial" the Yemeni official said only the timing and mechanism for how he would go.
It remains in the quarrel between the student-led demonstrators, however, rejected any proposal which would give power to a leading official of the Government of Saleh.
Washington had long with Mr Saleh a cautious relationship of interdependence. The United States weapons has made available, and the Yemeni leader the US military and the c.i.a. to Al Qaeda blow to forts put. The State Department cable from WikiLeaks has published a close-up view of this uneasy interdependence: Mr Saleh said General David H. Petraeus, then the American commander in the Middle East, that the United States a friend can missile strikes against Al Qaeda, as long as the fiction, that Yemen they conducting was maintained.
"We will continue to say the bombs are us, not to sell," Mr Saleh said, according to a cable sent by the American Ambassador. Mr Saleh resisted but at other times of American requirements. He said in an ironic assessment of the United States, Daniel Benjamin, the State Department's counterterrorism chief, that Americans are "hot-blooded and hasty", if you need us, but "cold-blooded and if we need British."
The Sana'a negotiations began after Government armed linked prompted a wave of defections of senior government officials of the following week more than 50 protesters at an anti-Government rally on 18 March, killed. The American and Yemeni officials, the talks discussed the condition of anonymity on because the talks are private and still under way.
It is not clear whether a safe passage for Mr Saleh is the United States and discuss his family in another country, but seems, that be the direction of the discussions in Sana'a, the capital.
Organization for Washington would the key to his departure, a transfer of power from to, the operation would continue to allow the fight against terrorism in Yemen.
Referred to an official of the Administration, affecting last week said that "direct negative impact on the security situation in the country had has the distance between the President and the demonstrators."
"Groups of various stripes - Al-Qaeda, Houthis, tribal elements and secessionists - use the current political turmoil and emerging markets are cracks of the military and security services to the own advantage," the official said. "Until President Saleh to resolve the political impasse with the announcement may like and whenever he meet on his previous commitment to tangible opposition steps will be followed by calls for further deterioration threatens the security situation in the Yemen."
In recent days, American officials in Washington have indicated the change of in position.
This "concrete steps", other officials said, could include type to demand he step down.
A State Department Briefing recently was a spokesman Mark toner, to scrutinise whether it had planned for a post-Saleh Yemen. ""While he directly, he said the question answered, in part, goes", that fight against terrorism in the Yemen every individual."
Laura Kasinof reported from Sana, Yemen, and David E. Sanger from Washington.
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