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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Any that I’ve missed?

Sudan - Bashir the butcher has announced he will not "seek reelection" after 22 years.
Jordan - King Abdullah may have headed it off early enough.
Syria - could be another wildcard like Libya, which no one was talking about a week ago.
Lebanon - Hezbollah's grip might not be as tight as they would like.

14 posted on 02/21/2011 7:55:20 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Maybe, if they are fighing each other, they will be too busy to plan major attacks on Europe, Russia, and the US.

It is difficult to know which side is the preferrable one.

At least, in Wisconsin, the sides are more defined. :)


18 posted on 02/21/2011 8:01:03 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Pan_Yan; All

From the BBC:

1533: Leading ratings agency Fitch downgrades Libya’s credit rating from BBB+ to BBB to reflect the “eruption of political risk” in the country, and warns another downgrade may be in the offing.

1530: Libya’s army chief, Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabir, is reported to have been put under house arrest after siding with the protesters, according to a former Libyan official, reports the Libya al-Yawm website.

1525: Tim Niblock, an expert on Libya at Exeter University, says it is fairly clear that Col Gaddafi has lost control over the main part of the military in eastern Libya: “There are brigades under two of his sons who are still apparently active a bit, but those are probably marginal by now,” he tells the BBC World Service’s Newshour programme. “Two key figures are supporting the rebellion and have done, especially one of them, from a very early stage. They feel that the regime has corrupted itself.”


24 posted on 02/21/2011 8:03:46 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Pan_Yan; rightwingintelligentsia
Syria - could be another wildcard like Libya, which no one was talking about a week ago.

Not likely. The opposition, wherever it is, tried to get demonstrations going a few weeks ago. No one showed up. Probably the Syrians remember Assad père and what he did to the town of Hama. (Strangely (he, he) our MSM leading lights seem to have forgotten this story completely.)

32 posted on 02/21/2011 8:12:57 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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