Arab World Protests: The Week In Libya, Egypt, Yemen And More

Syria's nearly month-long uprising entered a grisly new phase this week, with protesters reporting casualties after security forces opened fire onto thousands on Friday.

Elsewhere in the Arab world, Egypt's protesters stepped up their challenge to the country's military, with tens of thousands demanding the persecution of ousted president Hosni Mubarak for alleged corruption.

View the latest developments in Arab world's unrest below. Captions are courtesy of the Associated Press.

Syria

• • • • • A mass protest calling for sweeping changes in Syria's authoritarian regime turns bloody, with the government and protesters both claiming to have sustained heavy casualties as the country's three-week uprising enters a dangerous new phase.

Comments

[Richard Pearce]

09:21 AM on 04/11/2011

Relying on the AP to tell you what is going on in the ME is like relying on Fox to tell you what is going on in the US.
 
The filtering, spinning, and torquing is so bad, what gets through only compounds existing ignorance of reality, while those who have managed to become informed despite the efforts to 'inform' people have (thanks to the internet) access to sources that actually are informative, so they don't have to take the articles and use the skills that eastern europeans (amongst others) developed during the days of the Soviet empire to slip beneath the surface and find what is hidden underneath.

[friendsofidf]

09:25 AM on 04/11/2011

I agree. It's really hard to determine if the Arab sources thr AP uses are lying or not until it's too late! But NYT writer Judith Miller "got it right" from her Arab source,Curveball, about WMD? OOPS..he and Chalabi LIED! No shock!

[Ergon]

07:32 AM on 04/11/2011

Wondering how American news gets massaged?
How AP works
"Since most newspapers don't have their own reporters in Israel or the Palestinian Territories, they obtain their news on this region from wire services. AP is usually the only global wire service taken by U.S. newspapers.
Although AP is a cooperative, which means that it is "owned" by all the news organizations that use its news, in reality there is almost no oversight of its work. Editors around the country simply accept its reporting at face value.
The trouble is, however, that its reporting is consistently Israeli-centric.
The "control bureau" for the region, through which all news reports are funneled, is located in Israel. Its editors are living in Israel, their families are frequently Israeli, and quite often they themselves are Israeli citizens.
Even when an AP report carries a Palestinian dateline and even a Palestinian byline, in the large majority of cases the article was actually written in Israel, frequently by an Israeli editor.
A study of AP's reporting found that it had reported on Israeli children's deaths at a rate seven times greater than they reported on Palestinian children's deaths – even though Palestinian children were killed first and in far greater numbers"
http://israelpalestinenews.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/israeli-army-strikes-gaza-after-school-bus-hit-%E2%80%93-deconstructed/
This blog will deconstruct AP's daily reporting on Israel-Palestine: it will discuss its editors' word choices, editorial decisions, and headlines. It will especially explore which "context" AP's editors on this beat have chosen to include and which to ignore.

[friendsofidf]

09:04 AM on 04/11/2011

Mallarky! The AP uses Arab/Palestinian sources when covering stories all the time. A lot of the time it is later learned that the Arabs LIED about what actually happened...even though the AP reported it as fact! VERY BAD TRY!

[INDIVIDUALTERRY]

10:45 AM on 04/11/2011

AP = Arab Palistinian....thats funny.

[Ergon]

05:30 PM on 04/11/2011

Thinking Americans who note the one-sided reporting of AP and the bias of MSM towards Israel might disagree with you. It's 'Malarkey', btw.

[cliffhammond]

03:03 AM on 04/11/2011

On Sunday (now yesterday), the Arab League met in Cairo and decided to ask the U.N. Security Council to convene an emergency meeting regarding Israel's air and artillery attacks on Gaza. They plan to ask that a no-fly zone be initiated and enforced over Gaza in order to protect civilians. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-04/11/c_13822345.htm

[Erewhon7]

06:53 AM on 04/11/2011

Arab League demands a no-fly zone against IDF,, and fly-at-will zone for Righteous Islamic Heavy Mortars.

[messy]

08:13 AM on 04/11/2011

Does anyone here know the SIZE of Gaza?, What they're asking is a UN no-fly zone in Southern Israel.

[Antifascist-08]

11:44 PM on 04/10/2011

HP sensationalizing and war mongering.

[Erewhon7]

06:47 AM on 04/11/2011

Apologist nonsense.

[Avirahim]

09:32 PM on 04/10/2011

"Arab League to ask UN for imposing no-fly zone over Gaza'

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-04/11/c_13822345.htm

[friendsofidf]

09:34 PM on 04/10/2011

No shot! But..what else do they have to do besides keeping their people under wraps the best they can??

[friendsofidf]

09:37 PM on 04/10/2011

You're thrilled! Admit it! Noone is paying atention!

[Rubiconski]

09:07 PM on 04/10/2011

Israeli embassy in Cairo under siege by angry protesters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znR-io5r9XI

[friendsofidf]

09:35 PM on 04/10/2011

Expected! I doubt the Israeli Embassy officials ill be taken hostage like the Americans were in Iran in 1979!

[friendsofidf]

09:38 PM on 04/10/2011

Bet you consider that great news,huh?

[frameofmind]

01:11 AM on 04/11/2011

I do, it's very good news. The Isreali war criminals days are coming to an end.

[friendsofidf]

05:31 PM on 04/10/2011

Hey..the guy who hates women and their freedoms was scrubbed!

[ver1tas]

05:28 PM on 04/10/2011

I hope they don't give up until they get what they are asking for, and then never give up retaining that order, like we have.

[nelson rivera]

08:17 PM on 04/10/2011

I Hope These People get what they want too.

[friendsofidf]

05:25 PM on 04/10/2011

HP telling anyone what they need to know about the Arab uprisings is jokeful, hilarious,and really funny!. Phute knows more!

[wom122]

09:14 PM on 04/10/2011

You seem to be interested in what HP has to say.

[friendsofidf]

09:29 PM on 04/10/2011

I am interested in what they present, as it's so opposite of what the REAL world reports!

[friendsofidf]

09:33 PM on 04/10/2011

You 'seem' to hate Israel ! Your hate-posts give it away!

[Mrclouds]

05:07 PM on 04/10/2011

there is no Arab Spring the US is the biggest hypocrite it preaches human rights and freedom but it's breaks all of them, the real winner here is China.

[friendsofidf]

09:31 PM on 04/10/2011

how did you get to China in your circular thinking?

[Ngonyama]

10:14 PM on 04/10/2011

Take the square, make it imaginary and put it in a Bessel function, I suppose

[rightstroke]

11:22 PM on 04/10/2011

i seem to have missed you attacking syria for killing innocent civilians protesting...do you want to comment now

[Ergon]

07:22 AM on 04/11/2011

Yemen and Bahrain?

[KarlaElisa]

04:47 PM on 04/10/2011

Ahhh, it's Spring Break and I'm desperately trying to figure out which middle eastern revolution I'd like to visit...

[KIVPossum]

05:28 PM on 04/10/2011

We're going to Tunisia at the end of the week. Looking forward to it

[friendsofidf]

09:29 AM on 04/11/2011

Going from where?

[friendsofidf]

05:32 PM on 04/10/2011

Take all the Israel haters with you..I can't name them or it's scrubbed...but you know who they are!

[KIVPossum]

05:36 PM on 04/10/2011

Any time you call out a poster, I will remove your com.ment. Bet on it.

[Ergon]

07:25 AM on 04/11/2011

Calling them Israel haters would make you a Palestinian hater? Asking a serious question, trying to understand your psychology of course :)

[Enroh Mot]

04:34 PM on 04/10/2011

The peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Bahrain have been brutally crushed with the help of Saudi Arabia, not much news on that.

[HMDMSR]

03:30 PM on 04/10/2011

The return of the Arab revolution
Alex Callinicos

http://www.isj.org.uk/

[friendsofidf]

09:08 PM on 04/10/2011

Return? When was the last one?

[HMDMSR]

09:35 PM on 04/10/2011

That's covered in the article.

[ThomasVeil]

03:04 PM on 04/10/2011

With every week my respect for the people of the Arab world rises.
Their non-violence uprisings show that the picture that was usually painted of them in our media was completely upside down.

And they are not duped by fake-changes like Mubaraks step down. I hope their amazing courage will pay off.

[ver1tas]

05:23 PM on 04/10/2011

I 2nd that.

[friendsofidf]

09:11 PM on 04/10/2011

Really? Even when they applauded the military taking over Egypt? Now look at what they've got! You ARE kidding,right?

[logicanada]

03:00 PM on 04/10/2011

The Middle East seems to be heeding that old adage from India;

Those who beg in silence starve in silence.