Two parties quit resumed Yemen crisis talks citing Houthi threats
 

* Yemeni parties resume talks to resolve political crisis * Two parties quit talks saying they threatened by Houthis * Shi'ite Houthis are dominant force in Yemen today SANAA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Two parties walked out of resumed talks on Yemen's political crisis on Monday after saying they had received threats from the country's dominant Houthi movement. Yemen's years-long political crisis risks escalating into a full-blown civil war pitting regional, political, tribal and sectarian rivals against each other in a nation that shares a long border with top global oil exporter Saudi Arabia. Western countries also fear that further chaos in Yemen could give more space to a branch of al Qaeda based there, which has attempted to launch attacks on international airliners. Islah, a big opposition party that merges Islamist and tribal interests, and the smaller Nasserist Organisation, quit Monday's first round of talks saying they had been threatened by a Houthi representative at the negotiations, Mehdi al-Meshaat.

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