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former ruling party, the NDP. Yemen The Gulf Cooperation Council's compromise initiative was finally accepted by both the opposition and President Saleh last week. The compromise agreement stipulates, inter alia, that President Saleh will relinquish power within thirty days, on the proviso that he a

to issue arrest warrants, potentially to Qaddafi and three of his sons, among others. On May 3ffi, Turkish Prime minister Erdogan called on Colonel Qaddafi to step down from power. Morocco On February 24th, the Moroccan Youth Movement organized protests in seventy cities across the Kingdom. Protesters

st to investigate possible crimes against humanity and war crimes in Libya. He plans to also ask ICC judges to issue arrest warrants, potentially to Qaddafi and three of his sons, among others. On May 3ffi, Turkish Prime minister Erdogan called on Colonel Qaddafi to step down from power. Morocco On Fe

he Jabaliya refugee camp. Her father, an electrician, is adding a second story to their house now that material is available from the tunnels. Ms. Saleh will get her own room for the first time in her life, but she views her good fortune in context. "For the vast majority in Gaza, things are not imp

iddle East these dictators remain the exception to the rule, and this is why quasi monarchies of the iron-fisted Assad or the crazed and tyrannical Qaddafi are now under assault. THE PLACE where benevolent autocracy has struck deep and has systematic roots is Asia. Any discussion of whether and how de

required to hold the state together. To be sure, Egypt's Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali neither ran police states on the terrifying scale of Libya's Qaddafi and Syria's Assad nor stifled economic progress with such alacrity. But while Mubarak and Ben Ali left their countries in conditions suitable for t

s closest analogy to Libya — without oil, said Paul Sullivan, a Georgetown political scientist. "The brutality of the Assad regime in Syria and the Saleh regime in Yemen is still being felt," he said. "But with the demise of Muammar el-Qaddafi, the light at the end of the tunnel is a lot less dint."

E7lir ;New Uork atinicr, Qaddafi's Death Places Focus on Arab Spring's `Hard Road' By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK TUNIS - Like the flight of Tunisia's dictator or the trial of Egypt's, t

pring's `Hard Road' By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK TUNIS - Like the flight of Tunisia's dictator or the trial of Egypt's, the capture of Col. Muammar el- Qaddafi on Thursday afternoon captivated the Arab world, giving a renewed sense of power and possibility. But the photographs of his bloody corpse that cir

e Muslim Brotherhood, while the death of the Coptic pope last month leaves the country's 8 million Copts leaderless at a critical moment. In Yemen, Saleh's successor, a weak interim president (dubbed Mrs. Saleh by some) presides over a precarious transition. If there are strong leaders waiting to eme

There was the good King Hussein, the wily but indispensable Arafat, the enigmatic yet much-courted Assad, the cruel Saddam, the crazy (like a fox) Qaddafi, and the plodding but reliable Mubarak. The United States built its policies on these men and their regimes without much regard to broader politica

nt for Yemen Yemen's two leading parties have agreed to participate in a unity government following the end of Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year reign. Saleh and the opposition parties that brought about his ouster agreed to a deal brokered by the Gulf States in which Saleh will resign within 30 days and

alled for Al-Asad to step down and critics say the threat to the Syrian population by its president is no less than was the threat to Libyans from Qaddafi that was cited by Obama as the motivating factor in the U.S. call for a regime change in Libya. Some say the direct threat to Egyptians when Obama

ge and willing to do something about it. But does Yemen have sufficient cohesion in its makeup to prevail over its combustibility? The prospect of Saleh coming back as president touches in Tawakkul Karman a self-destructive anger. "If [he] returns and is president, people will blow themselves up. We

by aggressive men. Libya, in its civil war, has women far more prominent as victims than as leaders. Iman al-Obeidi, who complained of gang rape by Qaddafi soldiers, was then forcibly abducted by agents of the government from a hotel lobby where she was meeting with journalists.[21] After release from