That s the bigger enemy for them. the al qaeda leader in yemen is the number two at al qaeda core across the globe. so they re trying to keep out the sort of growth of isis drawing people away there al qaeda. we ve seen it all over the globe. but it is happening in yemen and certainly there will be a competition between the two and certainly al qaeda will want to keep a hold of its people, want to have the strongest fight that it can. but the reality is that the isis message is becoming pervasive and the propaganda and the bloody pictures that they were able to get through that attack in the mosques in sanaa on friday that plays to their strengths. this is the model that al qaeda continues to use. the most dramatic pictures and it tries to win over young recruits. and they will probably be hoping to do precisely that through what they re doing at the moment. nic robertson, knows this
U.s. being an ally with a now ousted president using this country as a launching pad drones what now that the u.s. presence is gone? well, certainly there are drone possibilities just beyond the borders of yemen from saudi arabia and across the sea from djibouti. but what you lack is the sort of connectivity on the ground with spies on the ground people within al qaeda maybe even isis who can provide tiny anysnippets of information. and with a civil war going on, al qaeda and isis in yemen only have to look at their brethren in syria to see, look make use of the civil war grow your areas, get stability in those areas, take over towns set up operational bases and take
Control of chunks of territory to use them potentially to attack let s say the united states in the future. so the implications for these pull out of the last troops an everything that has been happening over the past few months it s very serious, brooke. so isis could capitalize. we re reporting that the lives lost during prayer at the mosques in the capital city in yemen on friday isis claiming responsibility there. i m curious, though this is al qaeda headquarters for al qaeda and arabian peninsula. can you not that i care how al qaeda feels about the isis presence now in yemen because they re both enemies of the united states but i know there has been this sort of competition. you know right now they have a common enemy with the houthis. al qaeda has claimed that it successfully claimed another 30 houthis. so they re both trying to fight the same enemy here.
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People who might be prone to violence anyway. and then this will adopt that person after the fact as being an isis supporter. jan, berger, thank you very much. now to the crisis in yemen. it s being called one of the most dangerous countries in the world and there is growing concern that this ally to counterterrorism is on the brink of civil war. and may be turning in to a breeding ground for terrorist. and now the united states and britain are pulling out. 125 special operations forces have evacuated. the embassy has closed. and britain has also removed its military troops. all of this as rebels have taken over the province of sanaa and international airport. proceed test protests are rampant. nic robertson has been following all this therefrom london.