Happy Friday! Here is a news roundup for Libya, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and other countries for Friday, March 4.
[Previously: Mar. 2]
Libya - The People:
The cyber activist group/internet hacker group - Anonymous - released press statement that continues to circulate widely on the internet. The group issued a statement of solidarity with the Libyan people.
In lands that have been plundered and tyrannized, the Arab Revolution of 2011 has been smoldering for decades. What finally turned resignation into rebellion.
(Photo: Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum for Newsweek)
Tahrir Square, Cairo. While protests continue, our correspondent in the city suggests that something close to normalcy is beginning to return.
Protesters wake up near a tank in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 6.
They’re ‘our’ SOBs: U.S. has history of backing despots — when they’re useful
No one knows for sure if President Franklin D. Roosevelt really said, of the U.S.’s support for the corrupt Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.”
Most likely he didn’t. It hardly matters. The fact the quote has, for 72 years, taken on a life of its own — it has been held up as the defining, cold-hearted mentality behind U.S. foreign policy — does.More:
Check out our full visual archive.
A collection of Al Jazeera’s most powerful images from today’s protests against Mubarak
Via SHINY FUCKING CURLS
“Their bed for yet another night: the sidewalk” from @TravellerW, as protesters in Tahrir Square bed down for the night. [x]
Allha ya7mehom.








![“Their bed for yet another night: the sidewalk” from @TravellerW, as protesters in Tahrir Square bed down for the night. [x]
Allha ya7mehom.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg3y64Z79Z1qzsvrjo1_500.jpg)
