Anti-government protests spread to Yemen

The French news agency AFP says some Yemeni students carried a banner that read "learn from the Jasmine Revolution," a reference to the Tunisian uprising.

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Unlike Yemen and other Arab countries where Islamists are seen as the main alternative to existing regimes, Tunisia is better equipped than most in the region to become a proper democracy - it has a fairly well educated population and the previous regime hadn't completely destroyed the civic structures needed to support a functioning representative system.

I won't hold my breath on any revolutionary changes in Arab countries.
I think the situation is that it suites the regimes to sell such situation to the west and demand support for their brutal dictatorial corrupted regimes, because it scares the west that Islamists are the only alternative.

The French news agency AFP says some Yemeni students carried a banner that read "learn from the Jasmine Revolution," a reference to the Tunisian uprising.

B92

Unlike Yemen and other Arab countries where Islamists are seen as the main alternative to existing regimes, Tunisia is better equipped than most in the region to become a proper democracy - it has a fairly well educated population and the previous regime hadn't completely destroyed the civic structures needed to support a functioning representative system.

I won't hold my breath on any revolutionary changes in Arab countries.
I think the situation is that it suites the regimes to sell such situation to the west and demand support for their brutal dictatorial corrupted regimes, because it scares the west that Islamists are the only alternative.