WASHINGTON – The Obama administration, anxious to deny al-Qaida’s most dangerous offshoot more space in which to flourish, urged Yemen’s wounded president Monday to immediately step aside and clear the way for a transfer of power aimed at averting all-out civil war. The administration’s call came as U.S. diplomats worked with Saudi Arabian and European officials to revive a plan to replace Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh with a national unity government and end violence that has killed scores of people and splintered the regime, the Yemeni military and the country’s powerful tribes. There was no sign that Saleh, who was in Saudi Arabia being treated for a wound he sustained Friday in a…
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