Yemen protesters seize elite military base

``Although the base was not particularly large -- the Republican Guards have bigger ones in the capital and elsewhere in Yemen -- its capture buoyed the protesters' spirits and signaled what could be the start of the collapse of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year-old regime... "Now the remainder of the regime will finally crumble," said another demonstrator, Mohammed al-Wasaby. "Our will is more effective than weapons. The soldiers loyal to Saleh just ran away."''