The Short List - June 6, 2011

• Yemeni President Saleh has fled to Saudi Arabia to seek medical care for wounds suffered in a rocket attack on his palace last week.  It is unlikely he will return to Yemen, and so as the Arab Spring continues a power vacuum has been created and many will try to fill the breach.  The United States wonders what becomes of its counter-terrorism efforts against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.


• Israeli troops fired on Palestinian protesters in the contested Golan Heights as the protesters marched onto the territory.


• An update from Libya says the rebels have claimed the northwestern town of Yafran.


• In Sudan, with South Sudan's independence day just over a month away, provocative and violent moves by the Sudanese army as not seen as a way to prevent independence, but to redraw the border and the oil wealth(NYT) that lines it.


• Fewer then one fourth of states have taken steps to create healthcare marketplaces that are part of the ACA legislation.  Only Louisiana has declared they will not make such a marketplace, allowing the federal government to step in.


• Rick Santorum is officially running for President, expanding the Republican field even further.