re: #275 MandyManners

Yemeni forces killed two al-Qaeda fighters in a shootout near the capital Sanaa today. But as Yemen battles to stamp out the country’s resurgent terrorist network, a leading economic analyst warned that the country was only a year away from economic collapse.

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The economic issue is a big part of the reason Radical Islam has achieved popularity in Yemen. Poverty does not lead to revolution, it can act as wood for the fire when coupled to a revolutionary movement and a certain amount of social disorganization.