A “United Nations conflict” has started. The United Kingdom and France have taken the lead in enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya. British warplanes and French Rafale and Mirage jets have begun flying sorties over Benghazi and other parts of Libya. A Moammar Gadhafi loyalist fighter jet was seen being shot down in an Associated [...]
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World powers launch against Libya’s Gadhafi
March 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Global Issues Tagged With: 2011 libyan uprising, 2011 middle eastern uprisings, libya, moammar gadhafi, uprising
Top 5 Mid-East governments at risk of toppling
By Sachin Seth
Feb. 15, 2011 1 Comment
The Egyptians weren’t the first peoples in the Arab world to rise up against an oppressive government in 2011. Before that Facebook group was made, the people of Tunisia rose up against their (now former) president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, kicked him out, and have had an acting president since mid-December. Egypt got so much [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues, Terra, The Internal Blogs, The News Tagged With: abdullah saleh, ahmadinejad, algeria, bahrain, bouazizi, bouteflika, democracy, demonstration, egypt, hosni mubarak, iran, jordan, khlaifa, protest, syria, tehran, tunisia, uprising, yemen
West is moving too slow on Egypt
By Sachin Seth
Feb. 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Is Egypt ready for democracy? The question itself is insulting, and I’m not even Egyptian. The main concern? If Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak leaves immediately, and elections are held within two months, the government will be too fragile and Islamists will overtake Parliament, much like what happened after the Shah of Iran was overthrown in 1979. But, [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues, Terra, The Internal Blogs, The News Tagged With: cairo, doug saunders, egypt, hosni mubarak, muslim brotherhood, protest, uprising
