While President Obama calls Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi a threat to his own people, just one month before attacking Libya the president asked Congress to increase U.S. aid for Qaddafi's military to $1.7 million.
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Libya isn't the only repressive Arab regime benefiting from U.S. military aid. Obama wants $120 million for Yemen next year, including $20 million for a military accused of brutally putting down a popular revolt, and $11 million to promote democracy and human rights, something critics say doesn't exist in Yemen.
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SANA, Yemen — More than 100,000 people converged on Yemen’s capital for a second Friday of dueling demonstrations over the fate of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who faces a rising tide of international sentiment in favor of his departure.
In the city of Taiz, three protesters were killed and 33 wounded by gunfire, a doctor at a local field hospital said. Witnesses said that security forces and plainclothes snipers fired on protesters as they were marching to the governor’s office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/world/middleeast/09yemen.html?_r=1&ref=world
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