The 50 most powerful people in the world!

Whether it was the government of the United State or Google, or even Al-Qaeda, being on top of these organizations is a tremendous source of power.

In Newsweek’s list of the 50 most powerful people in the world, US President Obama came first, he was followed by Chinese President Hu Jintao, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

From the Middle East, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud came 10th, followed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the 11th, Iraqi PM Nuri Al-Maliki at 21st, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (25), Osama bin Laden (42), Hassan Nasrallah (43), Amr Khaled (48).

1: Barack Obama
2: Hu Jintao
3: Nicolas Sarkozy
4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate (4. Ben Bernanke, 5. Jean-Claude Trichet, 6. Masaaki Shirakawa)
7: Gordon Brown
8: Angela Merkel
9: Vladimir Putin
10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
12: Kim Jong Il
13-14: The Clintons
15: Timothy Geithner
16: Gen. David Petraeus
17: Sonia Gandhi
18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
19: Warren Buffett
20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
21: Nuri al-Maliki
22-23: The Philanthropists
24: Nancy Pelosi
25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
26: Mike Duke
27: Rahm Emanuel
28: Eric Schmidt
29: Jamie Dimon
30-31: Friends of Barack
32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
33: Rex Tillerson
34: Steve Jobs
35: John Lasseter
36: Michael Bloomberg
37: Pope Benedict XVI
38: Katsuaki Watanabe
39: Rupert Murdoch
40: Jeff Bezos
41: Shahrukh Khan
42: Osama bin Laden
43: Hassan Nasrallah
44: Dr. Margaret Chan
45: Carlos Slim Helú
46: The Dalai Lama
47: Oprah Winfrey
48: Amr Khaled
49: E. A. Adeboye
50: Jim Rogers

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