Anthony Shadid The New York Times
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Conflicting reports of how Gaddafi died
Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi's last moments on Thursday were as violent as the uprising that overthrew him.
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In Arab world, confused Osama legacy
The words were not uncommon in angry Arab capitals a decade ago: Osama bin Laden was hero, sheikh, even leader to some. But after his death, a man who once vowed to liberate the Arab world was reduced to a footnote in the revolutions and uprisings remaking a region that he and his followers had struggled to understand. In the Middle East, reactions...
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Free of Gaddafi, a city tries to build a new order
The signs in Bayda still read the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State of the Masses. It was never much of a state, nor did the people have much say. Now two weeks after its liberation, residents of this highland town have the task of making it so, a challenge that may prove pivotal to the course of Libya's revolt.Far from the front, in mood ...
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Obama suggests Mubarak should step down now
Just hours after President Hosni Mubarak declared Tuesday night that he would step down in September as modern Egypt's longest-serving leader, President Obama strongly suggested that Mr. Mubarak's concession was not enough, declaring that an "orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now."While the meaning of the...
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Conflicting reports of how Gaddafi died
Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi's last moments on Thursday were as violent as the uprising that overthrew him.
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In Arab world, confused Osama legacy
The words were not uncommon in angry Arab capitals a decade ago: Osama bin Laden was hero, sheikh, even leader to some. But after his death, a man who once vowed to liberate the Arab world was reduced to a footnote in the revolutions and uprisings remaking a region that he and his followers had struggled to understand. In the Middle East, reactions...
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Free of Gaddafi, a city tries to build a new order
The signs in Bayda still read the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State of the Masses. It was never much of a state, nor did the people have much say. Now two weeks after its liberation, residents of this highland town have the task of making it so, a challenge that may prove pivotal to the course of Libya's revolt.Far from the front, in mood ...
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Obama suggests Mubarak should step down now
Just hours after President Hosni Mubarak declared Tuesday night that he would step down in September as modern Egypt's longest-serving leader, President Obama strongly suggested that Mr. Mubarak's concession was not enough, declaring that an "orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now."While the meaning of the...
