Thursday, March 29, 2012

Missing Dictators: A 2010 Photo Shows How Much The Mideast Has Changed

In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, center, with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, and his Yemeni counterpart Ali Abdullah Saleh, center left, pose for a group photo with Arab and African leaders during the second Afro-Arab summit in Sirte, Libya.

2010 Photo Encapsulates Mideast Transformation -- Yahoo News/AP

BEIRUT (AP) — Laughing for the cameras, the Arab leaders appear nothing if not secure in their power, four longtime members of the Middle East coterie of rulers-for-life.

How times have changed. The photograph from an October 2010 Arab-African summit shows the leaders of Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia, all of them now deposed — and in one case dead — since the Arab Spring revolutions began sweeping through the Middle East last year.

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My Comment: Good riddance I say .... but with a realization that the future leaders in the region could make this batch tame in comparison.

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