you know, as ambassador bodine has just mentioned i think he's overplayed his hand. just another attempt again to use the al qaeda card. it's not clear that in fact it is al qaeda that has taken over this city. if at all. >> warner: who else would it be? >> oh, it could be local tribesmen, southern... there's a southern secessionist movement. there's also a man who is the defender of the old leader who is one of the big leaders in that town and has his own men. >> warner: back to you, ambassador, how does this... how is this likely to play out? >> i don't think anyone has the real answer on that. it's going to have to be negotiated. if you run through the various options in that sense the statement that it is going to have to be a yemeni solution and somehow negotiated, i would think that if not the g.c.c., one of the g.c.c.- members probably not saudi will have to come in and broker some kind of a deal. or this is just going to continue to spin out of control. no one will win. absolutely no one. >> warner: professor, that scenario depends on saleh actually wanting t