The deposed president, residents say, is bad for business.

“We want him to leave,” said Ahmed Fahmy, a construction worker who lives here. “He has created many problems and affected tourism. Tourism is dead now.”

Added Mohamed Nasr, who operates a limousine service: “Everybody wants to” Mubarak to leave. “Tourism is now not good … My company is nothing. ”

Fahmy said road to the other side of Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital, where Mubarak has stayed on a strict police protection, since prosecutors began questioning him on Tuesday.

The sight of riot police helmet form a human chain around the perimeter of the official hospital black pyramid-shaped differed sharply with palm trees, souvenir shops and sunburned European tourists who wander in the past, looking with curiosity about them.

This week, the prosecutor formally arrested Mubarak of Egypt 15 days in connection with hundreds of activists were killed during the street protests that toppled the power February 11. His two sons, Gamal and Alaa was transferred to Tora prison in Cairo this week.

Egypt’s revolution succeeded in overthrowing a dictator once untouchable. But it has also crippled the country’s vital tourism industry, which according to some conservative estimates, accounts for 10% of the Egyptian economy.

Sharm el-Sheikh, a Mecca of international diving and nightclubs, which normally receives about 5 million tourists a year, was particularly affected.

The beaches of Sharm “as affectionately known locally, is all but deserted. Once bustling port in Namma Bay is usually calm, except for the last time puttering boat motor drag screaming tourists riding inner tubes.

Hotel operators felt they were below 30% capacity to what is normally the peak tourist season.

“You have to be 35% in just a tie,” said Mohammed Abbas, leader of Iberotel Lido Hotel. The last half of February, the hotel was 6% to 8% of capacity.

Abbas said the current free fall in tourism revenue is worse than the decline after three bombings in the Sinai to Egypt in 2004, and after a series of shark attacks last November.

A British tourist Jane Dixon said he did not think twice about getting her teenage son and daughter in Sharm el-Sheikh.

“Its no different from the possible threat to London, she says, sitting in a rooftop pool overlooking the Red Sea.

“You are as likely to be riding the tube, he added, referring to the London Underground system.

However, political instability plaguing Cairo Dixon kept visiting the pyramids.

His 15 year old son, Josh, was surprised to see the power of riot police outside the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh.

“It was very good,” he said. “I did not know the president was going to stay there. There are guards everywhere fear. I’m pretty sure.”

When asked why tourists do not come any more, the hotel and nightclub operator Mestekawy El Adly had a simple answer: the revolution.

“For the first time in the history of Egypt 7,000 years ago, a pharaoh in the study. All his family is under consideration,” said Mestekawy.

But Mestekawy, who says he opened his first store and hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh when he was little more than a campsite in the desert, in 1980, Egypt’s hopes largely peaceful revolution that will pay long- term.

“Egypt is no longer slaves. Egypt is free and open to the world by peaceful means, “he said.” It will bring back tourists in large numbers and that is what the country needs. ”

Egypt has a long way to go before its security forces to embrace transparency.

The secret police approached CNN camera man, because he was shooting the sunset on the Red Sea on Friday. Without showing any identification, plain-clothes officers attempted to confiscate the camera, until a final sentence does not state secrets were shot.

Nearby, workers outside a souvenir shop called the motto frequent passing tourists.

“Welcome to Egypt,” they said.

“We came to the conclusion that it is appropriate to restrict the offices fundamental political and government are more than two consecutive five years,” Castro said at the opening of a crucial meeting of the Communist Party.

After its 1959 revolution, Fidel Castro was in power until 2006, when illness forced him to hand the reins to his younger brother Raul Castro.

Raul Castro was officially elected in 2008.

At the Congress of the Communist Party – the first 14 years – Castro also said that it was time for “the systematic renewal of the parts chain and administrative tasks,” as President of the Party and the Council of Ministers.

Cuba Marks Bay of Pigs

But he also said the Cuban leader did not prepare the younger generation to take over when they are not “reserve deputies, who were sufficiently pepared.

Prime Minister Adel Safar, a Ba’ath Party member who was agriculture minister in the previous cabinet, who resigned last month.

The announcement came as Syria was invaded by anti-regime protests and clashes between protesters and security forces, a conflict which has left dozens dead. The Syrian government said Thursday that one of its soldiers was shot in the city of Banias.

Syria has kept its foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, Minister of Defense and Ali Habib. But there are new faces in other positions, including their central interior, finance and media affairs, told Syria TV.

The opposition has demanded the repeal of the declaration of emergency in the country and end one-party rule in Syria, among others, the winds of change in the Arab world led by Syria during the last month.

Al-Assad has introduced several measures to appease opposition activists, such as the audit is to end the state 48-year-old emergency and give citizenship to stateless persons in the Kurdish region.

But activists say the government has cracked down violently on peaceful demonstrators. This claim is disputed by the Syrian government, which accuses armed groups to attack security forces and citizens.

A reading above the pool called the factory owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company, to collect a sample of the spent fuel pool on Tuesday. However, radiation levels are well below what would be if there was damage to the fuel rods, “said Hidehiko Nishiyama, the chief spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Commission of Japan.

“We need more analysis to identify the exact status of spent fuel from Unit 4,” he said.

Tokyo Electric said Thursday that the sample was the first time they took a reading of one of the pools of spent fuel. Water temperature at point 4 of the pool was 90 degrees Celsius, more than twice normal playback, and cooling water was poured into the reservoir on Wednesday.

The company said it suspects the fuel rods were damaged due to insufficient coolant in the time since the crisis began, but could not specify when.

Nishiyama said Thursday evening that the fuel rods have not been subjected to “any particular damage.” Officials are always looking for action from the water sample before reaching a final conclusion, but said that the radiation reading was “very likely due to dirt” blown into homes severely damaged in the reactor No. 4.

Tokyo Electric Power Company reported a cumulative radiation reading above the pool of 84 mSv Tuesday, about a third of the annual allowable dose to plant workers in an emergency. Samples of pool water showed a concentration of radioactive iodine-131, the reactor most commonly measured by-product of 220,000 becquerels per liter – more than 730 times the amount considered safe for consumption in Japan.

Outside observers have expressed concern about the status of spent fuel in reactors 1, 3 and 4 several times during the crisis a month in Fukushima Daiichi, about 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo. Temperature sensors in these basins has been since mid-March, workers have been spraying water into the damaged houses these reactors at a near-daily basis to keep winning.

The battle began on March 11, when Japan’s post-tsunami magnitude 9 earthquake eliminated the cooling system. Tokyo Electric estimated the height of the wall of water 14-15 meters (45-48 feet) – the level of Nishiyama said that the new standard to the barriers around the Japanese nuclear plants.

The sea wall around Fukushima Daiichi is 5 m. Following the tsunami, the cores of three of Fukushima Daiichi six reactors were damaged by overheating and explosions resulting hydrogen has exploded outside the buildings around the reactors 1 and 3.

The large amount of radiation emitted by the plant, largely in the first two weeks of the disaster, but the Japanese authorities to assess the crisis high on the international scale that measures nuclear accidents. Level 7 The term is Fukushima Daiichi on an equal footing with the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union, but Japanese officials say their facility has only 10 percent of the radioactivity released at Chernobyl.

Plant workers are pouring hundreds of tons of water per day for three reactors, which were damaged as a result, and at least one reactor, Unit 2, is believed to be highly radioactive water leaks. A wide spread radioactive contamination around the plant in March and the adjacent Pacific Ocean, although the data published in the ministries showed radiation levels decline in recent weeks.

Engineers have taken steps this week to contain the disaster, pumping radioactive water from the trenches and tunnels of service in a storage tank for steam condensers No. 2 reactor. And they hang up is necessary to transfer approximately 10,000 tons in a facility designed to handle low-level radioactive waste Tokyo Electric said Thursday.

The company dumped water over 9,000 tonnes less radioactive in the Pacific Ocean last week to make way for the most dangerous liquid fled No. 2 reactor – a move the Japanese authorities described as a measure of emergency, but angry fishermen in the country.

The government ordered the evacuation Monday extended in several cities outside the radius of 30 kilometers was declared danger zone in the early days of the disaster, warning that prolonged exposure to levels of radiation that may pose a long-term hazard to human health. And data from the Japanese government this week reported earnings of low-level radioactive strontium, a byproduct the second reactor, in two of these cities in the days following the disaster.

Strontium-90 is considered a health risk, not only because of its radioactive half life of 29 years, but because part of it is absorbed by bone, if ingested, according the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There is no acceptable standard for strontium under Japanese regulations, but Japan Science Ministry said that the figures reported were not high enough to constitute an immediate hazard to human health.

The Japanese government has tried to limit the damage to farmers in Fukushima and other provincial governments from the factory is located in the contamination, lifting bans on agricultural products surrounding areas, if they pass three tests in three consecutive weeks.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, government’s point man on the crisis, announced Thursday that kakina, a leafy green, Tochigi Prefecture was now safe for navigation. The decision follows a ban on outdoor shiitake mushrooms grown from 16 towns and villages damaged facility adjacent to its list of forbidden foods Wednesday.

The ladies and children from Baida — a village just southeast of the coastal city of Banias and north of Damascus — are protesting the incarceration of men from the community.

It is the latest demonstration in nearly a month of unrest across Syria, and recently there’s been a lot of instability in Banias.

The people marched on the road connecting Damascus and Latakia, and security forces started shooting to scare them, said the witness, who didn’t want to be identified for security reasons.

The women chanted, “Where are the men of Baida?”

The folks had been detained Tuesday after taking part in protests against the government, and their arrests virtually emptied the village of men.

There was clearly no immediate government response, and the development could not be independently confirmed.

The place is Camp Ashraf, where 34 people were killed and more than 300 others were wounded on Friday in a confrontation between Iraqi security forces and people in the camp, the base of the dissident People’s Mujahedeen Organization.

The Iranian exiles in Iraq have said that Iraqi security forces invaded their refugee camp, but security forces said their members were attacked by the group.

Ali al-Dabbagh said the Cabinet on Monday “decided to reaffirm its committment” to close down the site and end of the presence of the PMOI, which the government calls a “terrorist group.”

“The group must leave Iraqi territory by using all methods, including political and diplomatic and in cooperation with the U . N . and international organizations” and the Iraqi government statement said officials must take into account where the group’s members want to live.

The PMOI, also known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, has opposed the Iranian government for decades, and the group was sheltered in the camp during the era of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq under Saddam and Iran fought a bloody war in the 1980s.

Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, relations between Iran and Iraq have improved. Most Iraq’s new government consists of Shiite Muslims, the majority religion in Iraq, and official attitudes toward the PMOI changed.

The camp has been the subject of debate in Iraq since American forces relinquished control of it in 2009.

The Iraqi government has previously proposed dismantling the camp, a move its residents strongly oppose, as they fear being deported to a hostile Iran.

Iran has long urged Iraq to get rid of Camp Ashraf and the opposition group there, and Iraq’s failure to do so is a point of tension between the two countries. Tehran considers the PMO to be a terrorist outfit, as does the United States. The European Union does not.

In a brief audio message aired on Al-Arabiya television, Mubarak said the Egyptian government’s probe into his finances is aimed at tarnishing his reputation and undermining his “history.”

“I cannot keep silent facing this continued falsified campaign and the continued attempt to undermine my reputation and the reputation of my family,” he said.

The statement came as the Egyptian attorney general’s office announced that Mubarak and his sons had been summoned for questioning.

Mubarak, in the taped message, said he has consented to allow the public prosecutor to contact governments all over the world “to take all the proper legal steps to reveal” whether he and his family own any properties or real-estate outside of Egypt. He also claimed he has no bank accounts abroad.

“I will reserve my legal right to sue anybody who attacked me or tried to undermine my reputation,” he added.

Mubarak stepped down from the presidency February 11 and handed over capacity to the military — three decades of his iron-clad rule ended by an 18-day revolution.

The identical day he stepped down, Switzerland’s government moved to freeze any assets in the country’s banks that might belong to Mubarak or to his family, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said at the time. A political candidate statement from the department said the Swiss Cabinet had frozen all funds belonging to Mubarak or “his circles.”

The Swiss government did not know what assets, if any, the banks have, a spokesman for the Swiss embassy in Washington said in February.

Last month, Mubarak was brought to Cairo for questioning. Egypt’s Attorney General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud issued an order freezing assets of Mubarak and his family and prohibited them from leaving the country.

Bas Eenhoorn, mayor of Alphen aan den Rijn, told reporters that the 24-year-old suspected shooter — identified only as Tristan V — fired a computerized rifle and killed himself before police became available.

The suspect, whose complete name is being withheld until a formal investigation is concluded, is a Dutch national who has been living with his father, police told SBS. Computer equipment and other materials were confiscated from the father’s apartment after the shooting.

A farewell note was discovered at the suspect’s mother’s home. Police told SBS that the suspect claimed in the observe that he’d placed explosives in several commercial areas in Alphen.

The areas were evacuated as police conducted a search. As of 11 p.m., no explosives were found.

Three of the wounded mall victims are in critical condition, officials said Saturday night. The motive of the shooting was not known and no indication was given in the note.

Eenhoorn plans to hold meetings Sunday with a few of the victims, SBS reported.

Gadhafi’s forces attacked the western city of Ajdabiya on Friday with a barrage of artillery fire at the city’s western gates. Ajdabiya has changed hands several times already, and rebels were forced to flee again in a war that is now viewed in some circles as unwinnable for the opposition, even with NATO air support.

NATO, meanwhile, was on the defensive Friday after reports of casualties apparently caused by the airstrike. British Royal Navy Rear Adm. Russell Harding said NATO forces may have hit rebel tanks near the eastern oil town of al-Brega on Thursday.

Opposition members said five people were killed when missiles struck a rebel formation on the eastern Libyan battlefront.

It was the second time NATO has been blamed for civilian deaths, Last week, opposition leaders said NATO airstrikes killed 13 civilians in the al-Brega area. NATO is investigating that strike as well.

“I’m not apologizing,” Harding, the deputy commander of the NATO operation, said of the latest incident. “The situation on the ground is fluid, and we had no information the opposition forces were using tanks.”

Harding said NATO had only recently learned that opposition forces had tanks. In the past, it was Gadhafi’s tanks that had taken aim at civilians, he said.

“There’s a lot of vehicles going back and forth,” he said. “It is very difficult to distinguish who is operating the vehicles.”

The airstrikes also injured 14 people, and an additional six are missing, said Gen. Abdul Fattah Yunis, a commander of the rebel forces.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the incident unfortunate and said he strongly regretted the loss of life.

“We are conducting operations in Libya in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolution with the aim to protect civilians,” he said. “This is also the reason why our aircraft target military equipment that could be used to attack civilians, but I can assure you that we do our utmost to avoid civilian casualties.”

Sorrow quickly turned to anger at a hospital where the wounded were taken, complicating matters for opposition fighters, already demoralized by the superior firepower of the Libyan army.

“NATO, NATO, NATO! They shouldn’t hit the revolutionaries. We’re helpless,” one person screamed.

Ahmed Abu Bakr, a doctor who came to Libya from Germany to volunteer, said he I never thought that he would be treating the wounded from friendly fire.

“I am very unhappy,” he said. “They came here to help us, not injure us.”

After the aerial attack Thursday morning, Gadhafi’s troops pushed the rebels back, retaking territory and moving the front line farther east, Yunis said.

He said the rebels notified NATO of their tank movement and of their presence.

“There is no tension between us and NATO; this is a war situation, and we realize that mistakes are made,” Yunis said.

Harding said Friday he did not feel NATO had to strengthen communications with rebels.

“I have to be frank, it certainly is not for us to improve communications. We have to see where civilians are being attacked and see if we can take action,” Harding said.

A U.S. official with understanding of the problem in Libya told CNN that CIA personnel remain in Libya to assess rebel strength and organization.

“They are the lead for anything that goes on,” the official said.

The official said, however, that they still haven’t got a full idea of the rebel structure and who is backing individual elements of their forces.

A few hours after the NATO strikes, civilians and rebels, fearing an approach by Gadhafi’s forces, began retreating from Ajdabiya, with hundreds of civilian vehicles loaded with rocket launchers and ammunition headed out of town in the direction of the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, 100 miles away.

Ajdabiya was a ghost town Friday, raising questions about whether the outgunned rebel forces could prevail, and whether NATO has the correct strategy to help.

U.S. Gen. Carter Ham, who led the Libya mission before NATO took control, told lawmakers in Washington that the likelihood of rebel forces marching to Tripoli and ousting Gadhafi by military force — even with NATO air power — was “low.”

Former CIA operative Robert Baer said NATO will have to put boots on the ground because “the no-fly zone is not working.”

“Not a surprise to me that NATO bombed the rebel force,” Baer told CNN. “We sort of got one foot in this, but not completely. The logic of this conflict is you have to put people on the ground.”

America ratcheted up pressure Friday on Gadhafi financially by extending sanctions to five senior Libyan government officials and two entities controlled by Gadhafi’s children.

The sanctions bar transactions with those on the list and freeze their assets that fall under U.S. jurisdiction.

On the diplomatic front, a former U.S. lawmaker left Libya on Friday after failing to obtain a direct meeting with Gadhafi.

Curt Weldon said he is, however, carrying a letter from the Libyan leader to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“I am disappointed that I didn’t get to sit down face to face with Colonel Gadhafi as promised, but I might have been able to get something even more significant — a path to a resolution of this conflict,” Weldon said in a statement on his departure. “Any time you are asked to play a part in advancing the cause of peace there is a moral obligation to say yes.”

A former Republican U.S. House member from suburban Philadelphia, Weldon had previously been to Libya in his work as a congressman. He said his return this time with a small, private delegation was intended to convey the Obama administration’s stance and reinforce the importance of a right away cease-fire.

The African Union planned to meet Saturday in Mauritania to discuss engaging the opposing sides in the Libyan conflict, in line with a statement from the South African government.

NATO has granted the committee permission to enter Libya and meet with Gadhafi in Tripoli, the statement said. They will also meet with opposition leaders in Benghazi on Sunday and Monday, it said.

Meanwhile, the World Food Programme said one of its humanitarian ships loaded with food, medical supplies and doctors has reached the besieged western city of Misrata, providing what it called a “lifeline” for trapped civilians.

“This is foreign aggression,” Foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Karti said in a statement. “We understand that it was an Israeli strike.”

Karti said Sudan will take action, but didn’t elaborate.

It wasn’t clear who was the target of the strike, which occurred Tuesday. The 2 people were Sudanese citizens, Karti said.

“We have no information that it would indicate there was a Palestinian in the car, as had been implied,” the foreign minister said.

The Israel Defense Forces had no comment on the report.

Israel has identified Sudan as one of the countries through which weapons are smuggled to Hamas and other militant groups operating in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, and to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Militants lately have stepped up their rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told an Israeli reporter in 2009 that “Iran is using all resources and footholds for shipping weapons to Lebanon,” this includes Sudan.

“We have information from trusted sources that this is done, first and foremost, through Syria and Sudan,” he said.

Sudan authorities said that Israel struck a Gaza-bound arms convoy in Sudan 2 yrs ago, an attack that killed 39 people.