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Female anti-government protesters gesture while chanting slogans during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, April 17, 2011, to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The country's anti-government movement took up the issue of women's rights in the conservative Muslim nation as thousands of demonstrators seeking the president's ouster denounced his comments against the participation of women in protest rallies. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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An injured anti-government protestor gestures as he arrives to a field hospital during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Opposition parties in Yemen have urged the international community, regional powers and human rights groups to help stop the bloodshed in their country. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A Yemeni army officer raised aloft by anti-government protesters holds a boy and waves a national flag during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, April 4, 2011.

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An anti-government protester in Sanaa, Yemen, reacts during a demonstration Tuesday demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's resignation. (Associated Press)

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Yemeni soldiers in charge of protecting anti-government protesters stand guard during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, on Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Anti-government protesters fill the streets Sunday in the capital of Sanaa, repeating their demand that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh resign. Turmoil continues to rock the whole country. In some areas, residents have pushed out police and soldiers and set up local militias for self defense. (Associated Press)

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Yemeni girls shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, March 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Anti-government protestors demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, carry the body of Mujahed Abdul Haq, his posters seen right, who was killed last Friday in clashes with Yemeni security forces, during his funeral procession in Sanaa,Yemen, Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A Yemeni army officer lifted by anti-government protesters reacts as he joins a demonstration demanding the resignation of longtime Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Female anti-government protesters pray during a demonstration Wednesday demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. On the same day, the parliament enacted sweeping emergency laws after the embattled president asked for new powers. (Associated Press)

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Female anti-government protestors pray during a demonstration Wednesday demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. On the same day, the parliament enacted sweeping emergency laws after the embattled president asked for new powers. (Associated Press)

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A protestor waves his national flag while atop a lamp pole during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Mr. Saleh, who has ruled Yemen for 32 years. (Associated Press)

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An anti-government protester salutes Yemeni army soldiers who joined them during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Protesters demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a demonstration Monday in the national capital, Sanaa. (Associated Press)

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Three Yemeni army officers join anti-government protestors demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, the nation's capital, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. Witnesses said government supporters have attacked protesters camped out at a square in Sanaa. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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An anti-government protester shouts during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A female anti-government protester chants slogans demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh following clashes with Yemeni police in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, questions witnesses Abdirizak Bihi (left), director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center, and Melvin Bledsoe, whose son converted to Islam during college and left for Yemen, during a hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 10, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)