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days to press the government to sack officials linked to Qaddafi. The President's eyes welled up as he spoke before the General National Congress in Tripoli. He decried what he described as the empowerment of some lawmakers backed by gunmen and warned of the need to eradicate Qaddafi-era schemes, includ

are going to leave the U.S. economy with 2 million fewer jobs and $433 billion less in economic growth by 2019. Another recent think-tank study, by the Brookings Institution, found that austerity had already cost the U.S. economy more than 2 million jobs since the recession. The CAP study suggests those jobs are not com

ement dismissed the decision as "of no value." Turkey insisted the ship "was providing aid to Libya's UN-recognized government based in the capital, Tripoli, and accused the EU of ignoring countries and companies sending arms to the rival Libyan National Army, led by Gen. Khalifa Hitler, which controls

year, though they have exchanged insults." To the Times, "rarely have relations between a president and a speaker been this toxic." Darrell West of the Brookings Institution says their relations are at an "all-time low." Adds West, "There have been other presidents and speakers who didn't see eye-to-eye, yet they maintai

ll — he should b= less preoccupied with red lines of his own making than with the blurring 4 the lines drawn in Arab sands decades ago. On the map, Tripoli, on the Med=terranean Sea, lies within the borders of Lebanon and is the country's s=cond-largest city. But Tripoli, staunchly Sunni, with an Alawit

amar Rabinovich, a fo=mer ambassador of Israel to the United States (1993.1996), currently is ba=ed at Tel Aviv University, New York University, and the Brookings Institution. Tamara Wittes is Director of the Saban Cent=r at the Brookings Institution. 12 EFTA_R1_00107025 EFTA01785163 Article 6.</=ont> The Atlantic