Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 13

28-Mar-2011

Political Comment (28 March 2011)

Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi is vowing to fight on despite the successful imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya by the coalition enforcing UNSC Resolution 1973. The US has succeeded in partially relinquishing its de facto leadership of the coalition forces. Syria has finally joined the ranks of countries facing open popular discontent. A massacre by security forces in Yemen may precipitate a final...