Arab dictatorships

'''Arab dictatorships' are Arab countries which are ruled by a despot - may it be a king, a "president", a general or a religious cleric. Most of the Arab dictatorships are in a very poor economic situation, due to various degrees of international economic sanctions, local corruption and tyrannical reign which suffocates personal enterprise. The human rights conditions in Arab dictatorships are often poor. Massacres and arbitrary executions are still common there. Some of the Arab dictatorship support terrorism by supplying money, people and weapons to terrorist organizations. Syria, for example, is accused by the United States in sponsoring Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad. Some of the Arab dicatorships are pro-western and pro-American, although most of them encourage anti-Americanism as a way to divert people's rage away from them.

List of Arab Dictatorships

(still partial)

• Egypt - president: Hosni Mubarak.
• Iraq - dictatorship until 2003 when Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Jordan - king: Abdullah II son of Hussein bin Talal the Hashemite.
• Libya - Moammar Al Qadhafi
• Saudi Arabia - monarchy with Wahhabi influence.
• Sudan - Lt. Gen. Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir
• Syria - president: Bashar Assad
• Tunisia: Pres.Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
• Morocco: King Mohammed VI
• Mauritania Pres. Walad Taya

See also: Arab League. Category:Arab

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