He promised a dollop of cash to help countries such as Tunisia and Egypt along the road to freedom.
Before the current economic crisis Arab nations such as Tunisia experienced consistent growth.
"I've been to sandy places such as Tunisia and the Sahara and seen those endless dunes, but the dunes here were the most intense shade of red I've ever seen in my life, " said Day.
Zebari acknowledged there have been attackers in Iraq from a range of countries -- Saudi Arabia, Gulf states, and North African countries, such as Tunisia and Morocco -- reflecting remarks made Friday to a House panel by Gen.
Countries such as Egypt and Tunisia don't have to build a capitalist system from scratch.
Ankara has also been generally supportive of Islamist political parties in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
In recent years, we have seen how large numbers of young people in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, armed with little more than mobile phones, can fuel revolutions.
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They complain that it alternately builds up and disowns vile dictators, such as Saddam Hussein, props up corrupt and unpopular regimes, as in Saudi Arabia, and turns a blind eye to the unsavoury activities of its allies, in places such as Bahrain and Tunisia.
The success of Islamist political parties such as the Ennahda Party in Tunisia and the Justice and Development Party in Morocco as the most organized and popular political forces inevitably means that America will have to either learn to engage these movements or risk diminishing its influence in the region.
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Although Libya's three main cities Tripoli in the west, Benghazi in the east and Misrata in the coastal middle are largely peaceful, fighting still often breaks out on the fringes, in places such as Zwara near the border with Tunisia, in the citadel of Zintan, in Beni Walid south-east of Tripoli, and in the southern desert towns of Sebha and Kufra.
For a society that remains mostly poor or tenuously middle class it was not the possession of big assets that rankled so much as the flaunting of baubles, such as the flashy cars and villas in Tunisia's most exclusive districts.
Civil liberties groups have protested against the requirement that the male citizens of certain countries with links to terrorism, such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and North Korea, register and be fingerprinted at immigration offices.
' But such battlefield clairvoyance, which he had occasionally displayed as a corps commander in Tunisia and Sicily, often eluded him as an army group commander.
Since Mr Ben Ali's fall, there has also been a resurgence of hardline Islamists such as the Salafist movement, some of whom want to see Sharia law introduced to Tunisia.
Some notably China, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Tunisia, Vietnam and Uzbekistan are now blocking entire internet services such as YouTube, Skype and Google Maps.
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