Repressive regimes: Some fall, others continue to vex the U.S.

• Beyond the Arab Spring, these dictators and autocrats remain a thorn in America’s side

By Douglas Birch / The Bulletin
October 30, 2011

WASHINGTON — Moammar Gadhafi has joined the ranks of other powerful foreign leaders, many of them dictators or autocrats, who have battled the United States only to come to a bad end.

But even after the demise of Libya’s “Brother Leader,” plus Osama bin Laden, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Serbia’s....

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