Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Arab leaders on Saturday they were at the center of a "perfect storm" of economic and demographic trends that could swallow them up if they didn't quickly enact political reforms.  

"The region is being battered by a perfect storm of powerful trends," she said at a conference in Germany, according to Agence France-Presse.

She was referring to the growing number of young Arab people unable to find jobs or a political voice in countries ruled by aging autocrats.