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Topic: Middle East (page 31)

Lebanese intellectuals and journalists protest during a vigil sit-in to show their support to the Syrian protesters who demonstrate against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Martyrs square, in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the military muscle to level pockets of resistance, but the conflict has robbed him of almost all international support. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Mandy Van Deven

A former Libyan prisoner, left, is greeted by his relatives after being released from Abu Salim in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009

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Egyptian riot police and demonstrators throw stones at each other during clashes in Cairo, early Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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FILE- In this Friday, July 22, 2011, a citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian anti-regime protesters gather during a rally in al-Assy square in the western city of Hama, Syria. The Arabic on banner reads:"we will never forget our martyrs and prisoners." Activist Ibrahim Qashoush's lyrics moved thousands of protesters in Syria who sang his jaunty verses at rallies, telling President Bashar Assad, "Time to leave." So when his body was dumped in the river flowing through his hometown, his killers added an obvious message: His throat was carved out. Qashoush's slaying underlines how brutal Syria's turmoil has become as authorities try to crush a persistent uprising. His fellow activists are convinced he was killed by security forces and fear it could mark a new campaign to liquidate protest leaders.(AP Photo/Shaam News Network, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO (AP)

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Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak is seen on a TV screen as he enters the courtroom on a hospital bed, outside the Police Military Academy complex in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into a Cairo courtroom on a gurney Wednesday at the start of his historic trial on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian pro-government supporters carry a giant national flag during a rally in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Thursday, July 28, 2011. A global campaigning organization said Thursday that one person disappears in Syria every hour and that almost 3,000 people have gone missing since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad more than four months ago. The online activist group Avaaz.org said its investigation has identified 2,918 Syrians who were arrested or abducted by force by security troops and whose whereabouts are now unknown. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

FILE- In this Friday, July 22, 2011, a citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian anti-regime protesters gather during a rally in al-Assy square in the western city of Hama, Syria. The Arabic on banner reads:"we will never forget our martyrs and prisoners." Activist Ibrahim Qashoush's lyrics moved thousands of protesters in Syria who sang his jaunty verses at rallies, telling President Bashar Assad, "Time to leave." So when his body was dumped in the river flowing through his hometown, his killers added an obvious message: His throat was carved out. Qashoush's slaying underlines how brutal Syria's turmoil has become as authorities try to crush a persistent uprising. His fellow activists are convinced he was killed by security forces and fear it could mark a new campaign to liquidate protest leaders.(AP Photo/Shaam News Network, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO (AP)

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Druze men wave Palestinians and Syrian flags as they stand near the border fence between Israel and Syria on May 15, 2011

Hugh Macleod, Annasofie Flamand

Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami hold a banner during an anti-American rally through the streets of Karachi May 6, 2011

Pakistani protesters burn a representation of an American flag during a rally to condemn U. S. drone attacks targeting al-Qaida and Taliban militants' hideout in Pakistani tribal belt of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border, on Thursday, July 7, 2011 in Mutan, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) (AP)

US more unpopular in Arab world than under Bush

Glenn Greenwald

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FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 file photo Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second from right, is met by his half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, left, in Argandab district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government _ a symbol of cronyism and a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Karzai administration. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, file) (Associated Press)

Two protesters carry posters with pictures of unidentified relatives in Syria, with the Syrian flag colors painted on their faces during an anti-Syrian regime rally near the Syrian embassy in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Syrian troops fired Tuesday on residents who set up makeshift roadblocks to prevent the advance of tanks ringing the city of Hama, which has become a flashpoint of the uprising against autocratic President Bashar Assad, activists said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Bassem Mroue

Lebanese anti-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to support the Syrian demonstrators who protest in Syria against Bashar Assad's regime, in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, Friday July 1, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities around Syria on Friday in one of the largest outpourings against the regime of President Bashar Assad since the uprisings began more than three months ago. At least six people were killed in various clashes, activists said. (AP Photo) (AP)

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Muslim Brotherhood female supporters hold banners with colors of the Syrian independence flag with Arabic that reads "Your brothers in Egypt, we support our people in Syria, Muslims support Muslims to relieve them from injustice", during an anti-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Cairo, Egypt Friday, June 24, 2011. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters gathered near the Syrian embassy in Cairo following the weekly Friday prayers chanting anti-Syrian regime. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

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In this Wednesday, May 18, 2011 picture, two Egyptian boys wear headbands reading "Muslim Brotherhood" as they and other supporters attend a Muslim Brotherhood electoral rally in the Munib neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. Once forced underground, the Brotherhood is likely to be part of Egypt's new government, fueling fears of Islamic rule. But the Brotherhood's own identity is on the line, and there is pressure from inside and out for it not to go down a sharp-right Islamic road. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

A woman holds an Egyptian flag in front of riot police during a protest in Cairo January 26, 2011. Thousands of Egyptians defied a ban on protests by returning to Egypt's streets on Wednesday and calling for President Hosni Mubarak to leave office, and some scuffled with police. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) (Â© Asmaa Waguih / Reuters)

Marianne Mollmann

Syrian troops arrive at a hill overlooking Turkey-Syria border, about three kilometers inside Syria, as Syrians waiting to enter Turkey rush to the crossing point near the Turkish village of Guvecci in Hatay province, Turkey, Thursday, June 23, 2011. Syrian activists claimed that troops backed by tanks and snipers have entered a village along the Turkish border as the regime expands its crackdown on a pro-democracy movement that has posed the gravest challenge to President Bashar Assad's rule(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

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Syrian troops push to Turkish border

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Burhan Ozbilici

Bahraini Shiite Muslims chant slogans to free prisoners during a sermon Friday, June 10, 2011, in Diraz, Bahrain, when Sheik Issa Qassem, Bahrain's top Shiite cleric, said Bahrain should free political prisoners and that the nation's reputation is being damaged by prosecuting doctors, teachers, youths, women, clerics and other professionals arrested during the crackdown on anti-government protesters. Many Shiite Muslim clerics, including Sheik Ali Salman, leader of the largest opposition party, attended midday prayers in Diraz, an unusual move to show their solidarity with Qassem. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain's crackdown: From the streets to the court

Natasha Lennard

FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2011 file photo, Bahraini women shout "God is greater" in the streets of the Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sanabis in Manama, Bahrain, shortly after riot police dispersed anti-government protesters who began a march after the funeral of a woman they claim died of tear gas inhalation the day before. The Shiite groups that speak on behalf of protesters, who took to the streets four months ago to demand greater rights, have shown no rush to embrace the appeals for dialogue by the Sunni monarchs they accuse of creating a two-tier society in the strategic Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) (AP)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she arrives and meets African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping, right, at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, POOL) (AP)

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