HIS enemies likened the spectacle to a vampire rising from a coffin. His allies hailed it as the indomitable machis-mo of a leader who sometimes calls himself "the Knight of the Arabs". How-ever portrayed, the entirely unexpected return to Yemen on September 23rd of its president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, after months of treatment in Saudi Arabia for wounds inflicted by a bomb attack in a mosque in his presidential compound that killed several of his aides, was cer-tainly dramatic.
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机译：他的敌人将奇观比作是从棺材里升起的吸血鬼。他的盟友称赞它是一位领导人不屈不挠的男子气概，他有时称自己为“阿拉伯人的骑士”。不管怎么说，在总统沙特阿拉伯因在总统府清真寺内炸弹袭击造成的炸伤炸死伤了他的数名助手之后，该国总统阿里·阿卜杜拉·萨利赫（Ali Abdullah Saleh）于9月23日完全回到了也门，确实很戏剧化
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