"Government is the entertainment wing of the military-industrial complex."[1]
Yemen's President Saleh responded to the news by saying that the opposition were "leftovers of Marxists, the Taliban and the imamate [Yemen's ousted monarchist rulers]".
That's quite a coalition. Politics does indeed make for strange bedfellows.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/2011817173728370398.html
[1] Frank Zappa