Yemen's Saleh whereabouts in question after attack


SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in an attack in his compound, was reported by al Arabiya television on Saturday to have left for Saudi Arabia, but a Yemeni official and Saudi source denied he had gone.

Any departure by Saleh could make it extremely difficult to him to return to Yemen where he is fighting a four-month uprising against his rule that has brought the impoverished country Arabian Peninsula country to the brink of civil war.

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