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Crisis: How a vegetable cart

changed a region



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Chris Kinsville-Heyne: Quick CV

� Royal Masonic School for Boys, UK

� Graduated:

�Wadham College, Oxford (English)

�Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

Courses Passed:

Jungle Survival (Belize)

Arctic Survival (Norway)

Escape & Evasion (Denmark)

Resistance to Interrogation (US)

Helicopter Pilot Selection (UK)

Marksman, (Pistol, Rifle, Support Weapons, UK)

Bobsleigh Pilot (Olympic run, Lillehammer, Norway)

NATO Spokesperson (Belgium)



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� Military Staff College, UK

� NATO Spokesman (Bosnia)

� Senior Media Trainer - UN TrainingAdvisory Team (UK)

� Associate Director, Weber Shandwick

(UK & KSA, for STC )

�Personal Communications advisor toPresident of Saudi Telecom,

Abdulrachman Al Yami

� Country Director, Hill & Knowlton (Qatar

for Qtel, Doha)

�Part of McKinsey Consultant team

�Communications Advisor to CEO, Dr

Nasser Marafi, and Qtel Board



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(Media Training, Crisis Communication &

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Advisor to:

�U.S. State Department, Washington�UK Civil Service, London

�Ministry of Presidential Affairs, UAE

�Abu Dhabi Tourism

�Al Ain Municipality



Agenda:

�Tunisia

�Egypt

�Bahrain

�Libya



Distance between Tunis and Rome = 600kms (372 miles)

Tunis and Dubai = 4441kms (2760 Miles)



Jan. 4, 2011 ± Bouazizi dies of his burns. Huge funeral

adds momentum to protests against unemployment and

repression.

Dec. 17, 2010 ± In

Tunisia Mohamed

Bouazizi sets fire to

himself in the central

town of Sidi Bouzid in

protest at confiscation

by police of hisvegetable cart.

Local people

demonstrate in support.



Jan. 14 ± After days of

clashes in which dozens

are killed, and having

made empty promises of reforms and elections,

Tunisia¶s President Zine al-

Abidine Ben Ali flees to

Saudi Arabia.



Atransition governmenthas promised elections

within six to seven

months.

The country is being led

by interim President

Fouad Mebazaa, the

former parliamentary

Speaker.



Political parties: Under President Ben Ali, Tunisia

was effectively under one-party rule.

But several other parties exist. They include:

The Movement of Socialist Democrats,

Party of People's Unity,

Unionist Democratic Union,

Renewal Movement (Ettajdid),

Democratic Initiative Movement,

Social Liberal Party

and the Green Party for Progress.



Army: It is widely believed that the Tunisian army's chief of staff played a

key role in undermining Mr BenAli in the days before he fled Tunisia.General RachidAmmar is believed to have resigned, refusing to order the

army to fire on unarmed protesters and effectively withdrawing the

military's support from the former president.

Analysts say that the chief of staff is now the power behind the scenes in

Tunisia and may have political ambitions of this own.



In the offices of La Presse, the oldest state-run newspaper in

Tunis, international editor-in-chief Hmida Ben Romdhane is

still stunned by the changes.

"Its like night and day, black and white," he marvels.

"The changes of the last week have been so huge and

rapid, we think we are dreaming."



The main Tunisian parties in exile include

the al-Nahda party (Renaissance) led by

Rachid Ghannouchi, based in Britain, and

the Congress for the Republic in France

led by Moncef Marzouki.

It is not known if they have a support base

inside the country.





Jan. 25 ± Thousands of Egyptians demand an end to

President Hosni Mubarak¶s

rule and clash with police in

a ³Day of Wrath´ inspired by

Ben Ali¶s downfall.



Jan. 26 ± In

unprecedentedscenes, police fight

with thousands of

Egyptians who defy

a government ban toprotest against

Mubarak¶s rule.



Jan. 28 ± At least 24 people are killed and more than 1,000 hurt in clashes

throughout Egypt. Mubarak extends a curfew to all cities.

² Mubarak orders troops and tanks into cities overnight to quell

demonstrations. Thousands cheer at the news of the intervention of the

army, which is seen as neutral, unlike the police who are regularly deployed

to stifle dissent.



Jan. 29 ± Mubarak sacks his cabinet but refuses to step down.

² Protesters stream back into Cairo¶s central Tahrir Square in the

early hours after Mubarak¶s announcement.

² Thousands of protesters roam the streets after a curfew starts.

Egyptians form vigilante groups to guard property against looters.



Jan. 31 ± The army says it will not use force against Egyptians staging protests.It says freedom of expression is guaranteed to all citizens using peaceful

means.

² Egypt swears in a new government. Suleiman says Mubarak has asked him

to start dialogue with all political forces.

² Thousands in Tahrir Square hours after curfew, in a good-natured gathering,

call for the president to quit.



Feb. 1 ± Mubarak declares he will surrender power when his term ends in

September, offering a mixture of concessions and defiance in a televised

statement.

² Around one million Egyptians protest throughout the country for

Mubarak to step down immediately.



Feb. 3 ± Gunmen fire on anti-government protesters in

Cairo, where about 10 are killed and more than 830 injured

in fighting. The U.N. estimates that 300 people have died in

the unrest.



Feb 4 ± Thousands gather in Tahrir Square to press

again for an end to Mubarak¶s rule in a ³Day of

Departure´.

Feb. 5 ± Gamal Mubarak, son of the president, resigns

from the leadership of Egypt¶s ruling party.

Feb. 6 ± Opposition groups, including the banned

Muslim Brotherhood, hold talks with the government,

chaired by the vice-president. They say a core demand

for the removal of Mubarak is not met. The sides agree

to draft a road map for talks and a committee is set upto study constitutional issues.

² Banks re-open after a week-long closure.

² Thousands gather in Tahrir Square joining noon

prayers to honour ³martyrs´ killed in the bloodshed.



Feb. 8 ± Egyptians stage one of their biggest protests.

² Vice President Suleiman says Egypt has a timetable for the

peaceful transfer of power. He promises no reprisals against

the protesters.



Feb. 9 ± Four people are killed and several wounded in clashes between

security forces and about 3,000 protesters in the western province of New

Valley, south of Cairo.

² Pro-democracy protesters consolidate a new encampment aroundCairo¶s parliament building as Tahrir Square remains crowded. Protesters

say organisers are working on plans to move on to the state radio and

television building on Feb. 11.



Feb. 10 ± On the

17th day of

protests against

his rule, Mubaraksays Egypt is

heading ³day after

day´ to a peaceful

transfer of power

and he wascommitted to

protect the

constitution until

that happens.² He hands powers to his vice-president but spurned

protesters¶ demands that he quit office immediately. He also

expressed ³regret over protesters¶ deaths´.



Feb. 11 ± Mubarak steps down, handing over to the army and ending 30

years of rule.

² Suleiman says a military council will run the affairs of the Arab world¶s

most populous nation.

² Thousands break down in tears, celebrate and hug each other

chanting: ³The people have brought down the regime.´



http://www.simply-communicate.com/news/how-social-media-sparked-revolution

³With the Egyptian

Revolution, we

witnessed those in

power trying to stop

the revolt but they

couldn't because of

the sheer will of the

people.

Networks were themost powerful

weapons in this

revolution.´

Jasmine

Elnadeem



Bahrain:

The Gulf state has

responded to pro-democracy

demonstrations with

brutality, leaving three

protesters dead andseveral hundred injured ±

at the hands, it appears,

of security forces

recruited from Syria,

Pakistan and India.

Meanwhile, the military

has imposed a lock-down

on the capital, Manama.



The situation in Bahrain presents a dilemma for the United States

± and for the UK, too, whose links to Bahrain are historic and

close.



The West¶s interest in this unsettled and dangerous region

includes the containment of Iran and its nuclear programme as

well as the protection of vital sea routes by the US Fifth Fleet

and the Royal Navy.

Bahrain is crucial to both.

Those urgingAmerica to offer moral support to the pro-

democracy demonstrators must ponder the consequences of

destabilising a country that is part of the West¶s defence

against Iran.



The response from the White House has, so far, been tentative. The

President¶s spokesman has issued a bland appeal to Bahrain and allcountries in the region ³to respect the universal rights of their citizens´, an

appeal echoed by William Hague, the UK Foreign Secretary.

There has been no hint of support for the protesters ± in striking contrast

to Mr Obama¶s overt encouragement to demonstrators in Iran.



14 Mar 2011 Tension as Bahrain awaits protests.

Reports of citizen-run checkpoints in Gulf state as people

wonder whether neighbouring Saudi Arabia will send

troops.

"Who would want to do business here if there are Saudi tanks rolling across

the causeway?" asked Abdullah Salaheddin, a Bahraini banker, referring to the

26-kilometre causeway which connects the island kingdom to Saudi Arabia.



Libya earlier today«



Libya, normally one of the most closed countries in the

Middle East to journalists, has invited in scores in the past

ten days in a bid to demonstrate that television reports of the crisis in the country are exaggerated. They have been

handed letters saying they can report freely.

After a series of miscalculations, once taking reporters toZawiyah, a town still in rebel hands, officials have tightened

movements, detaining scores at checkpoints around the

capital, Tripoli.



9:06AM GMT 10 Mar 2011

Two BBC journalists, Feras Killani, and Goktay Koraltan, were seizedat a checkpoint in western Libya while trying to enter the city of

Zawiyah.

The pair were then held, beaten and given mock executions in the

most extreme case of the Gaddafi regime's harassment of

international journalists.



22.36 The Telegraph's Washington correspondentAlex Spillius has just

filed a report on Barack Obama¶s intelligence chief saying Colonel

Muammar Gaddafi will defeat the rebels in Libya.



Nato Secretary-GeneralA

nders Fogh Rasmussen is giving a live news conference for the organisation in Libya. He says a no-fly zone is a possibility, but would require a

clear mandate from the UN and further planning. A BBC reporter asks how unified

Nato's front can be when sources in the French government have already started

speaking about unilateral military action, but Mr Rasmussen says he will not

comment on anonymous rumours. He says that Nato will not stand idly by while

Gaddafi "systematically" attacks his people



13th March

Lieutenant General Ronald

Burgess, the US DefenseIntelligence Agency chief,

says that imposing a no-fly

zone on Libya would be an

"act of war":

My understanding as I've

studied in my schools, that

would be considered an act

of war.



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