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Syria Still Unscathed
—but True Test Awaits

OPINION

Feb 26, 2011 2:00 PM CST

Syria Still Unscathed —but True Test Awaits

David Ignatius: If Assad delays reforms, he could suffer Mubarak's fate

(Newser) - Syria has reason to be worried about the Arab revolution sweeping its neighbors, writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post . After all, it "has an authoritarian regime dominated by a corrupt Baath Party—a relic of the age of dictators that is being swept away in so many other...

Libya Protests: Moammar Gadhafi's Security Forces Crack Down on Protesters in Tripoli

Gadhafi Arms
Civilian Supporters

UPDATED

Feb 26, 2011 8:02 AM CST

Gadhafi Arms Civilian Supporters

Plus: Security forces violently crack down on protesters

(Newser) - Terrified protesters in Libya say that Moammar Gadhafi is arming civilian supporters so that they can, as one protester tells the AP , "drive around the city and terrorize people." Says another, "People are panicked, they are terrified. Few leave their houses. When it gets dark, you can't...

Americans Evacuated From
Libya Finally Reach Malta

Feb 25, 2011 3:55 PM CST

Americans Evacuated From Libya Finally Reach Malta

167 US citizens trapped by storm reach safe harbor

(Newser) - A ferry carrying Americans and other foreigners evacuated from Libya has finally arrived in Malta, the AP reports. Though the US and other governments recommended that their citizens leave Libya when the current unrest started earlier this week, the 167 Americans and 118 other foreigners were stuck at the Tripoli...

Arab Awakening
Embarrasses
Al-Qaeda

OPINION

Feb 25, 2011 1:31 PM CST

Arab Awakening Embarrasses Al-Qaeda

Jihadis had nothing to do with any of this

(Newser) - Change is sweeping across the Middle East, and you can bet al-Qaeda is grinding its teeth over it. Why? “Because Jihadists have played no role whatsoever in the great revolution,” writes Yassin Musharbash for Der Spiegel . The uprisings have exposed the fact that, “contrary to the propaganda...

Moammar Gadhafi Addresses Supporters in Libya: 'Get Ready to Fight,' 'We Can Triumph Over Enemies'

Gadhafi to Supporters:
'Get Ready to Fight'

Feb 25, 2011 12:49 PM CST

Gadhafi to Supporters: 'Get Ready to Fight'

Libyan leader vows to 'triumph over enemies'

(Newser) - The rebels are closing in and other nations are seeking sanctions against Libya, but Moammar Gadhafi has no plans to step down. The Libyan leader addressed supporters in Tripoli's Green Square today, urging them to put the rebels "to shame" and insisting, "We can triumph over the enemies,...

Next Big Question:
What Will Saudis Do?

OPINION

Feb 25, 2011 12:45 PM CST

Next Big Question: What Will Saudis Do?

Op-ed: King Abdullah has difficult choice to make soon

(Newser) - One crucial voice has yet to be heard from amid this Arab revolution, observes Jackson Diehl in Washington Post —Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah's regime is clearly nervous about the unrest, especially in next-door Bahrain, which also has a majority Shiite population that lives under Sunni rule. Abdullah will soon...

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi Offers Families $400

Gadhafi's Desperation:
He Offers Families $400

Feb 25, 2011 11:14 AM CST

Gadhafi's Desperation: He Offers Families $400

But protesters continue to advance toward Tripoli

(Newser) - With protesters closing in on the capital and the international community uniting against him, Moammar Gadhafi is apparently hoping a little bribery will help his cause. He's promising to give families $400 apiece, reports Global Post , a sum that might speak more of the nation's living standards than anything else....

Gadhafi Forces Dig In
as Uprising Nears Tripoli

Feb 24, 2011 7:04 PM CST

Gadhafi Forces Dig In as Uprising Nears Tripoli

A major city near the capital falls

(Newser) - Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles that killed at least 17 people. But rebels made new gains, seizing a military air base. The...

Yemen President Orders Forces to Protect Protesters

Feb 24, 2011 8:50 AM CST

Yemen President Orders Forces to Protect Protesters

After two were killed in Sanaa clashes on Tuesday

(Newser) - Thousands gathered in a Sanaa square in Yemen yesterday, just one day after supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wielding clubs, tried to force them out. Amnesty International says two were killed in the Sanaa clashes late Tuesday, the capital’s first fatalities since protests began. Saleh said last night...

Desperate Foreigners
Flee Libya Chaos

Feb 24, 2011 1:23 AM CST

Desperate Foreigners Flee Libya Chaos

Governments scrambling to get their citizens out

(Newser) - Countries around the world are scrambling to get their citizens out of Libya by air, sea, and land. Turkey has launched the biggest evacuation effort in its history, sending ships to take away the estimated 25,000 Turkish citizens who have been working in Libya, AP reports. Hundreds of Americans...

Obama: Libya's 'Outrageous'
Violence Must Stop

Feb 23, 2011 4:46 PM CST

Obama: Libya's 'Outrageous' Violence Must Stop

Italy's foreign minister puts death toll at 1,000

(Newser) - President Obama made his first public statement on Libya's unrest this afternoon, calling the violence "outrageous and unacceptable" and warning Moammar Gadhafi that the US was considering a "full range of options," reports AP . He said Hillary Clinton would head to Geneva to consult other nations. Gadhafi,...

First Western City Falls
to Libyan Protesters

1K THOUGHT DEAD

Feb 23, 2011 7:56 AM CST

First Western City Falls to Libyan Protesters

More than 1,000 believed dead

(Newser) - Libyan opposition forces seized control of Misurata today, raising flags that predate Moammar Gadhafi’s reign in celebration. It’s the first city in the western part of the country to fall, the Wall Street Journal reports; much of the East is already under protester control. Those flags were also...

Libya's Ambassador to UN:
Be Tougher on Gadhafi

Feb 22, 2011 5:30 PM CST

Libya's Ambassador to UN: Be Tougher on Gadhafi

Says Security Council's condemnation isn't strong enough

(Newser) - The UN Security Council today condemned Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's crackdown on anti-government protesters and demanded an immediate end to the violence. A press statement agreed to by all 15 council members expressed "grave concern" at the situation. Libya's deputy UN ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi, who has called for Gadhafi...

How Gadhafi Blew It

analysis

Feb 22, 2011 2:38 PM CST

How Gadhafi Blew It

Among other things: Libya's rich, but most citizens live in poverty

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi has always talked about instituting reform—usually via his son, Seif—but has never quite gotten around to it, writes Andrew Solomon in the New Yorker . "The regime has always wanted credit for its beneficent decrees, without accepting blame for its failure even to try to turn...

Gadhafi: I Will Die
Here as a Martyr

Feb 22, 2011 10:27 AM CST

Gadhafi: I Will Die Here as a Martyr

'May Allah curse those rats'

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi isn't going anywhere. In a furious speech delivered on state TV today, the AP reports that he called himself a warrior and said he was willing to die as a martyr. Speaking from a podium set up at a bombed out building that appeared to be his Tripoli...

Libya Unrest Could
Push Gas to $5

Feb 22, 2011 9:42 AM CST

Libya Unrest Could Push Gas to $5

BP, Statoil have pulled out of country

(Newser) - Trips to the gas station could get a whole lot more painful soon, now that the unrest sweeping the Middle East has hit an oil-producing nation. Crude prices shot up 7% yesterday, and were still rising this morning, after BP and Norway’s Statoil evacuated workers from Libya, USA Today...

In Ravaged Tripoli,
Bodies Left on Streets

Feb 22, 2011 7:59 AM CST

In Ravaged Tripoli, Bodies Left on Streets

Opposition in control in South

(Newser) - As Libya seemingly slips out of his control, Moammar Gadhafi’s forces rained what witnesses described as “small bombs” down on Tripoli last night, as helicopters, special forces, and foreign mercenaries shot freely at protesters. “It was an obscene amount of gunfire,” one witness tells the New ...

Libyan Ambassador
to UN: It's 'Genocide'

Feb 22, 2011 2:16 AM CST

Libyan Ambassador to UN: It's 'Genocide'

Deputy UN ambassador urges Moammar Gadhafi to step down

(Newser) - Libyan ambassadors in at least seven countries—including the UK and India—as well as Libya's Justice Minister have resigned in protest over the hundreds of deaths caused by the Gadhafi regime as it attempts to cling to power, reports the Guardian . "What's going on in Libya is a...

Gadhafi:
'I'm in Tripoli,
not Venezuela'

Feb 21, 2011 7:02 PM CST

Gadhafi: 'I'm in Tripoli, not Venezuela'

Libyan makes bizarre appearance on state TV

(Newser) - The rumors of Moammar Gadhafi's Venezuelan vacation are greatly exaggerated: The embattled Libyan leader made a bizarre, minute-long appearance on state TV at 2am local time, declaring, "I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Do not believe the channels belonging to stray dogs." Gadhafi appeared in a...

Fighter Jets Open Fire
on Protesters in Libya

Feb 21, 2011 12:41 PM CST

Fighter Jets Open Fire on Protesters in Libya

Two pilots land in Malta, choosing to defect rather than bomb protesters

(Newser) - Libya made good on its threats to get bloody today, sending fighter jets to fire on protesters in Tripoli, Al Jazeera reports, though it cautions that reports are difficult to verify because Libyan intelligence has shut down all landline and wireless communications. But two military pilots seem to confirm the...