Top 5 Tyrants to Follow in the Footsteps of Mubarak

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Who's Next? - A List By Freedom House | Foreign Policy
With Hosni Mubarak stepping down in Egypt, tyrants around the world may be anxiously wondering who will be the next to fall. Here are some gentle suggestions.

US magazine Foreign Policy picked out top 5 tyrants that are most likely to follow in the footsteps of Mubarak, who recently stepped down from power. These candidates are Kim Jong-il of North Korea, Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, The Castros of Cuba, and Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, in this order. As the aftereffect of Egyptian revolution is being felt around the globe, such prediction is drawing much attention.
While totalitarian regime in a modern society seems out of place, it certainly exists and is prevalent in some parts of the world. Such outdated dictatorship should be eradicated once and for all.
(btw these dictators are probably wetting their pants over the possibility of losing control lol)

 

[JW Frogen]

No this revolution seems to be confined to allies of the US, the others have no pressure not to mass murder to stay in power.

I think the real question here is can the US prevent Egypt from becoming a far worse Islamo Fascist tyranny under the guidance of the Muslim Brotherhood?

Because they would make Mubarak look like Nelson Mandela.

 

[waltky]

Muammar gettin' uppity again...

Libya defiant as hundreds of protesters feared dead
Sunday 20 February 2011 - Reports of clashes in Libyan capital, with protesters said to be preparing to march on Gaddafi's compound

Libya is defying international condemnation of a bloody crackdown that saw troops and mercenaries shooting unarmed demonstrators as the crisis spread to Tripoli and the death toll rose to more than 200. The most violent scenes so far of the wave of protests sweeping the Arab world were seen in its most repressive country, as Muammar Gaddafi resorted to force to crush what began last week as peaceful protests but may now threaten his 41-year rule.

BBC Arabic reported clashes involving automatic gunfire and teargas in the capital for the first time since unrest began. A promised address by Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son, on state TV failed to materialise. In dramatic and fast-moving developments demonstrators were reported massing in Tripoli's Green Square and preparing to march on Gaddafi's compound.

Tensions eased in the Gulf state of Bahrain after troops withdrew from a square in central Manama occupied by Shia protesters. Thousands of security personnel were deployed in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to forestall an opposition rally. Elsewhere in the region unrest hit Yemen, Morocco, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria. But the eyes of the world were on Benghazi and elsewhere in eastern Libya where shocked witnesses talked of "massacres" and described corpses shot in the head, chest or neck piling up in hospitals running short of blood and medicines.

Estimates of the total number of fatalities over six days of unprecedented unrest ranged from 173 to 285. Some opposition sources gave figures as high as 500. Two of Gaddafi's sons, Khamis and Saadi, and intelligence chief Abdullah Sanussi were reportedly commanding efforts to crush the protests in Benghazi, Libya's second city, where buildings were ransacked and troops and police forced to retreat to a compound to pick off demonstrators with sniper and artillery fire.

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Libyan protesters risk 'suicide' by army hands
Saturday 19 February 2011 - Gaddafi confronts the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule by unleashing army on unarmed demonstrators

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule as leader of Libya by unleashing his army on unarmed protesters. Unlike the rulers of neighbouring Egypt, Gaddafi has refused to countenance the politics of disobedience, despite growing international condemnation, and the death toll of demonstrators nearing 100. The pro-government Al-Zahf al-Akhdar newspaper warned that the government would "violently and thunderously respond" to the protests, and said those opposing the regime risked "suicide".

William Hague, the UK's foreign secretary, condemned the violence as "unacceptable and horrifying", even as the Libyan regime's special forces, backed by African mercenaries, launched a dawn attack on a protest camp in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Britain is scrambling to extricate itself from its recently cosy relationship with Gaddafi, initiated by then prime minister Tony Blair in 2004. That rapprochement saw Libya open its doors to British oil companies in exchange for becoming a new ally in the "war on terror" while Britain sold Gaddafi arms.

Hague's outspoken comments came a day after the government revoked arms export licenses to both Bahrain and Libya for their use of deadly force against protesters calling for a change in the regime. With internet services in Libya shut off for long periods, foreign journalists excluded and access already blocked to social networking sites, Gaddafi appeared determined to quell a revolt centred in the country's east, which has long suffered a policy of deliberate economic exclusion.

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[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - 6 months from now he'll be back in office...

Lawyer for Former Egyptian President Says He Can Leave Detention
March 13, 2017 - Egyptian media reports say a Cairo prosecutor authorized Monday the release of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, ending almost six years of legal matters.

The order came after an appeals court exonerated the long-ruling autocrat of participation in the killing of protesters in a 2011 riot that ended his nearly three-decade reign. Mubarak is still banned from leaving Egypt pending an ongoing corruption investigation, but “he can go home now when the doctors decide he is able to,” Mubarak’s lawyer Farid al-Deeb told reporters.

Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, sits in the defendants cage behind protective glass, during a court hearing as he listens to his son Gamal, left, in Cairo, Egypt​

The ex-leader has spent the last six years in detention in a military hospital in Cairo. He also served a three-year sentence in a separate corruption case while in the hospital. Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides were sentenced to life in prison in 2012, but another court overturned the verdict two years later, citing technical flaws in the prosecution. He was acquitted in March 2.

Hundreds of protesters were killed in clashes with police and Mubarak supporters during the 18-day uprising, part of the Arab Spring protests that swept the region. The military overthrew Mubarak's successor and Egypt's first freely elected civilian President, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013.

Lawyer for Former Egyptian President Says He Can Leave Detention