Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'ọnwa Ọktoba afọ 2000, mmadụ iri na asaa n'Amerịka nwụrụ mgbe otu
mwakpo igbu onwe onye mere n'ụgbọ mmiri ndị agha US bụ USS "Cole" n'Aden, nke e mechara were ụta nye ndị al-Qaeda. Mgbe mwakpo nke Septemba 11 na United States gasịrị, Onye isi ala Saleh mesiri Onye isi ala US George W. Bush obi ike na Yemen bụ onye mmekọ na Agha ya na Iyi ọha egwu. N'afọ 2001, ime ihe ike gbara referendum gburugburu, nke o doro anya na ọ kwadoro ịgbatị ọchịchị na ikike Saleh.