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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 09:19 AM Apr 2012

Juan Cole: Top 5 Stories from the Arab Revolutions Today

1. Syrian military forces subjected the Arba’in district of Hama to intensive machine gun fire on Monday...
2. Egypt has terminated the Mubarak-era natural gas deal with Israel.
3. Two airstrikes were launched in Yemen against militant fundamentalists on Monday, killing 7 of them.
4. On Monday, hundreds of protesters in the Shiite town of Bilad al-Qadim clashed with Bahrain police.
5. Libya’s petroleum output has risen 100,000 barrels a day since February, to 1.5 million b/d.
...The Libyan transitional government provided uniformed troops to Tripoli’s major airport on Monday

http://www.juancole.com/2012/04/top-5-stories-from-the-arab-revolutions-today.html

Lots of details and video reports at the link.

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Juan Cole: Top 5 Stories from the Arab Revolutions Today (Original Post) pampango Apr 2012 OP
Interesting and disturbing events. ananda Apr 2012 #1

ananda

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1. Interesting and disturbing events.
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 09:26 AM
Apr 2012

I wonder if the Syrian people will ever get freedom and parity.

As for Egypt, it looks as though the protesters should never have accepted
a military junta in charge.

And so it goes....

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