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During the recent Iranian election protests, cyber activists organized via social-networking tools to share information and updates about unfolding events around the world, as well as to engage people within the country. The emerging power of social-networking platforms has implications for U.S. national security and foreign policy. The U.S. government must prepare itself to participate in future global conversations and information-sharing online or via cellular phones.

During the recent Iranian election protests, cyber activistsorganized via social-networking tools to share information and updates about unfolding events around the world, as well as toengage people within the country. The emerging power ofsocial-networking platforms has implications for U.S. nationalsecurity and foreign policy. The U.S. government must prepareitself to participate in future global conversations andinformation-sharing online or via cellular phones.

In a rambling and often incoherent address, he repeatedly called the protesters rats, saying they're young people who take drugs and who have been encouraged by foreigners. i'm a revolutionary, he said. i will die here. damn those who try to stir unrest across libya, he finished. but it's too late. in the east the country's second biggest city of benghazi is in the hands of the protesters. the bbc's jon leyne is in eastern libya. >> there is still a fear that colonel gadhafi's troops could try to mount attacks in the eastern part of the country, although all the regular army and all the police...

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