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SANAA (Reuters) - When riots erupted this month over an anti-Islam film made in California, Houthi rebels, long confined to remote corners of Yemen by then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, covered the capital Sanaa in posters, banners and graffiti denouncing the United States. Western diplomats and Sunni Islamists were taken aback by the sudden show of strength in a city from which the Shi'ite rebel group had long been banished. "They really have a very broad strategy to increase their influence on politics and society - we believe for very negative purposes," said one senior Western diplomat. ...More...