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Arab States Weekly Review 9th – 15th April 2011

British and French governments criticised NATO for failing to destroy enough heavy weaponry used by Colonel Muamaar Qaddafi’s forces in Libya to enable rebels to break an ongoing stalemate.

Syria witnessed continued demonstrations with a government cracking down hard, arresting 100 people in a single day.

Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak was detained for up to 15 days for questioning about charges of corruption and abuse of office.