Year of Global Uprisings from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street
2 Jan 2012 Today we look back at 2011 a year that saw the U S killing of Osama Bin Laden the ouster of a dictator in Egypt and the death of one in Libya the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan and the expansion of the secret U S drone war in Afghanistan Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula