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Subject: GADDAFI DEAD The Arab Spring SPECIAL UPDATE (UPDATE 431)

"It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars, it will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses, more confident, far-seeing, capable, and prudent. For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."-Carl Sagan


Posted by: SC Matt Klassen

Posted by: derka derka
Now Gaddafi is dead, there's only one more target that needs to be dealt with.

David Cameron.


The person who made the Avatar movie?



And this is the lowest form of intelligence on the flood.

  • 10.21.2011 3:23 PM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

LIBYA
The NTC is allowing for the UN to send a 3rd party investigative group to look into the circumstances of Gaddafi's death, after questions were raised by Russia suggesting Gaddafi was executed rather than killed in a crossfire during his trip to hospital in Misurata

the NTC maintains he died in crossfire when a firefight broke out around the ambulance he was being carried in.

  • 10.21.2011 3:59 PM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

TUNISIA
Due to a massive voter turn out (more than 90% of the country) election results will be announced later today or early tomorrow, due to the extra time needed to count the votes. The Election committee did not expect such enthusiastic turnout and were caught unprepared.

The views of the currently leading al Nahda party can be found here. They are pro-western, and follow a Malaysian/Turkish model for allowing Islam to exist but refusing to allow extremism in rule.


LIBYA
The NTC has called for an investigation into how Gaddafi died, after allegations going both ways have emerged.

The NTC also Announced Libya's formal Liberation yesterday, and said elections will happen in the next 6 to 8 months

Gaddafi's second son Saadi, fled to Niger and has been arrested by authorities there. They will hand him over to the NTC.

EGYPT
Parliamentary elections are to be held in a matter of weeks, and Presidential Elections to be held in early 2013. There is growing concern in the populous that the SCAF will only allow people to run who had connections to the Mubarak regime, resulting in no change. People are stirring and suggestions of armed revolution in the coming months are floating.


YEMEN
The Yemeni government has accepted and agreed to a UNSC resolution that called for Saleh to step down in exchange for immunity, and that condemned the Government's crack down.

The government said they would work with the UN on this matter.


Syria
The US has withdrawn it's ambassador for security reasons and closed it's embassy in Syria, It is one of the last to do so from western nations.

  • 10.24.2011 8:08 AM PDT