[OneTimeLurker]

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/factbook/le/popula.html

Don't know that you can extrapolate beyond the main number. I am sure you could find then number of guest workers if you look around. There were only 15K Syrian troops there though...not a massive presence. Their security service was had a similar sized presence though from what I understand.

[cdrw]

Yup - thats the difficulty. When the population is around four million and there are upwards of one and a half million foreign nationals ... the foreign nationals are a potentially huge swing factor in the size of protests. As far as I know the foreigners don't vote therefor their opinion doesn't really count but they can sure make headlines. Regardless of the foreigners inclusion in the four million I don't think the size of street demonstrations is even remotely accurate in predicting how an actual vote would go.

There are now reports that the pro-Syrian PM is going to be re-appointed as an emotional response to the big demos!! Unbelievable.