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Moreover, it has to go well beyond Israel's simple desire to instruct Mr Arafat to call off the uprising and start rearresting suspected terrorists.

A translated version of the video that set off the uprising arrived first in Egypt before reaching the rest of the Islamic world.

Taking back the city that set off the uprising would be a potent psychological victory for the government at a moment when some analysts had begun to write its obituary.

TUNIS — Passions unleashed by the revolution in Tunisia resonated throughout the region on Monday as an Egyptian and a Mauritanian became the latest of six North Africans to set themselves on fire in an imitation of the self-immolation that set off the uprising here a month ago.

"Tunis is the force that pushed Egypt, but what Egypt did will be the force that will push the world," said Walid Rachid, one of the members of the April 6 Youth Movement, which helped organize the Jan . 25protests that set off the uprising.

In addition to Mr. Aboul Fotouh, the presidential candidate, a procession of reformers sought to run for office on post-Islamist platforms, including some of the young members who, against their elders' advice, helped kick off the uprising against Mr. Mubarak.

Tunisians young and old tell of their pride at felling a dictator and touching off the uprisings that have spread across the Arab world.

These threats complemented the widespread arrests of activists and key protest organizers[9] in order to shut off the engine of the uprising.

A 1989 vote, widely viewed as fraudulent, helped set off the separatist uprising.

The truces faltered for weeks, then collapsed altogether in Najaf in early August, setting off the latest uprising.

Fathi Terbil, a lawyer whose detention in February set off the Libyan uprising, said he was frustrated by the reports of torture.