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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): And we turn to the shifting political winds in the Arab world and what the future holds when and if the immediate upheaval subsides. We begin with a recap of the news from Libya, Tunisia and Syria.
A warning: What you are about to see contains some disturbing images.
From Libya today came word the public will no longer be allowed to view the battered corpse of Moammar Gadhafi, as hundreds have lined up to do since Friday.
FAWZI EL-FAKIH, Libya: The terrorist is gone. The regime is gone. Now we have to look for a new future. I just came here to see and make sure that he is finished, and every piece of my body knows that he is gone, finished, is gone, finished now.
PBS Newshour 10/24/2011
More Excerpts from Part-1
GWEN IFILL: In neighboring Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab spring, the moderate Islamic party Ennahda appeared to have won Sunday's election for a national assembly. Turnout was nearly 90 percent in the country's first truly democratic vote, and Tunisians reveled in it.
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DIA TREKI, Resident of Tunisia (through translator): There is nothing stronger than the feeling of voting. I passed my exams, I had children, but I have never felt anything like that in all my 40 years. To decide the future of your country, there is nothing better than that.
Now if Americans could be that dedicated to voting we would have a better political climate. Dia Treki is absolutly correct, "To decide the future of your country, there is nothing better than that."
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