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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Volatile Yemen: Uprisings and Al-Qaeda [Watch (HLS stream): Volatile Yemen: Uprisings and Al-Qaeda](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WcyRFD4d.m3u8) (4:04)  _Published 2011-03-03. TIME World Editor Bobby Ghosh explains how protests to oust Yemen's Preseident Saleh could lead to instability and a strengnthened Al-Qaeda_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:10 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Stampede in Yemen’s Capital Kills at Least 78, Officials Say](/video/ZhPm43dm/) ### Stampede in Yemen’s Capital Kills at Least 78, Officials Say [AQAP's Role in the Al Qaeda Network: What You Need To Know](/video/jQ498jDt/) ### AQAP's Role in the Al Qaeda Network: What You Need To Know [TIME Explains: How Syria's War is Reviving Al Qaeda in Iraq](/video/krj38DUH/) ### TIME Explains: How Syria's War is Reviving Al Qaeda in Iraq --- ## Transcript >> I'm Bobby Ghosh with TIME Magazine, and I recently visited Yemen. But when I was there, it gave off the impression of a country that was coiled and ready for something. Ready to burst out a little bit. There was a lot of anger and frustration at the government. Yemen is a deeply, deeply poor country. It's very corrupt. And half the young people are neither in school nor in job. So, that tells you about the failure of the state to provide, but it also gives you an idea of the anger that was building up. What you've seen in the past two weeks is a-- is a-- is an uprising across the country. What's happened more recently is that it's no longer just young people. Just as the young people themselves were inspired by events outside, in Cairo. And too, there's other groups who are inspired by these young people to join. And so, you're getting now a broad spectrum of Yemeni society that is united behind the idea that President Saleh has to go. Yemen is a country where instability is very close to the surface. You have two internal civil wars already taking place. And then on top of that, you have Al- Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP, who are probably the most aggressive and most ambitious franchise of Al- Qaeda anywhere in the world. These are the guys who were responsible for the Christmas day bombing attempt in the U. S. The other problem is that because the government is so inefficient, and people outside of the big cities feel that they are not under the protection of the government, there are instance where people have turned to Al- Qaeda as a form of support, as a form of protection. I met this tribal sheik, Sheik al- Zamili. He's Shiite, which means Al- Qaeda regards him as a heretic. He works with American NGO's, which means that Al- Qaeda regards him as a-- as a collaborator. So, he's not the sort of person you expect to be in favor of Al- Qaeda. But he is. And the reason for that, he says, is that he's afraid of these Shiite militias in the north called the Houthi. -[ foreign language ] >> I' also-- I'm one of those who restricted Al- Qaeda. >> He says, " Look, the government is not doing anything for me. The government is not protecting me from the Houthi. Al- Qaeda is. So, I'll help Al- Qaeda. And that is something to be really worried about. President Saleh finds himself at a crossroads. He has essentially two choices at this point. He can either go all the way off to Barack and Ben Ali of Tunisia, which is to more or less quietly leave the scene, or he can take the Gaddafi sort of template and essentially start a civil was against his own people. And the hope is that he will take the former. The main challenge, though, for Yemenis, as well as for the international community, is what happens after Saleh is caught. How do you make sure that the country does not fall into complete political chaos, which then allows Al- Qaeda to expand its reach within Yemen and allows it to begin to pull out even more ambitious attacks on the rest of the world. So, Yemen's the sort of place where things can get very bad very quickly. 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