Hadi from Senegal is a technical director of a factory.

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Hadi al-Marai,who head Iraq's Press Freedom and Observation center says the outcome could have been worse.

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Aides to Hadi have accused Saleh -- both of whom are in the same political party -- of being behind the rising tensions, whether by sitting quietly as his supporters chastised Hadi or siding against the vice president.

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Al-Hadi was "clearly in the senior ranks, " a member of a now-defunct 10-person governing council.

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Al-Hadi had been a key paramilitary commander in Afghanistan from the late '90s into this decade.

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