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C. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seized power in a 1969 coup and ruled the oil-rich nation virtually unopposed until now. He is the Arab world's longest-serving leader.
A. Tunisia is west of Libya. On Libya's western border, protesters forced Egypt's Hosni Mubarak from power earlier this month.
B. Doctors said they were beaten and ordered not to treat pro-democracy demonstrators who had been shot or severely beaten as they slept in the main square of Bahrain's capital. Protesters also were killed in Yemen.
D. Saudi Arabia has the most oil wealth and is one of the most religiously conservative nations in the region. It's absolute monarchy has been both pressured for reform and faced growing Islamist violence. But, it has not yet faced the public protests that are shaking its neighbors.