sway. it had the power of the mosques. whenever there was corruption in society, the muslim brotherhood could say, we don t act that way, that s not who we are, that s not what we believe in, and generally they were popular in a lot of poor cairo slums. when they came to power, as ashraf was describing they were terrible at governing. they didn t reach out to other people. they were bullies. they were intellectual and religious bullies. they allowed many extremist clerics to open television stations, filling the society here with some very radical messages. the sanai, usually a place filled with tourists, usually from italy, wear skimpy bathing suits and drink beer on the beach, when the muslim brotherhood came to power it became a wasteland where people were being kidnapped, soldiers being kidnapped, repeated attacks against israel, repeated
combat troops out of afghanistan by the end of 2014, the fight against al qaeda is increasingly turning to yemen. as nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel reports, the escalation of violence under scores the new threat. reporter: the suicide bomber was disguised as a soldier. he tucked into a crowd at a rehearsal for a military operate in sanai, detonated a bomb and killed nearly a hundred people. yemen s defense minister narrowly escaped with his life and officials say it s likely the work of al qaeda in yemen. while the u.s. has decimated al qaeda elsewhere, the militant group has grown in yemen because the country hasn t had an effective government for a year. but the arab spring finally toppled yemen s former president and the new president is trying to re-establish order and crack down on al qaeda. u.s. military officials tell nbc
sanai. walk us through what happened there. reporter: we re hearing by the monitoring events in yemen, told a short while ago by medics on the scene there 33 anti-government protesters killed in the capital today and tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators camped out what is the main staging ground for the anti-government there in sanai. earlier today clashes between security forces and pro government loyalists and anti-government demonstrators. told by eyewitness on the ground rocks were hurled and anti-demonstrators threw rocks back and they started shooting to disperse the crowd. more injuries they think they will find later and over a hundred injured right now and trying to get them to hospitals and difficult for ambulances to
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