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Arab spring News : Apr 26, 2012

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Bin Laden Was Worried About Arab Spring, Says US Intelligence Chief
Voice of America
April 26, 2012 Bin Laden Was Worried About Arab Spring, Says US Intelligence Chief Gary Thomas | Washington It was nearly one year ago – May 2, 2011 – that US commandos killed the world’s most wanted terrorist. After a decade of false leads and dead
Is the Arab Spring a Failure?
Huffington Post (blog)
I have been puzzling over Year Two of the Arab Spring. The signals remain mixed. The apparent power of the Muslim Brotherhood and others of similar fervency is frankly worrisome. The economies of these countries — Egypt particularly — are in the
Gulf Countries Splurge at Home
Wall Street Journal
Gulf states are embarking on their biggest spending spree on record as they lavish funds on domestic projects—from new housing and hospitals to mosque restoration and job creation—largely as a defensive response to the Arab Spring uprisings that
The Dalai Lama on The Arab Spring: “World belongs to humanity…each country
CNN (blog)
Coming up this evening on “Piers Morgan Tonight,” the program welcomes His Holiness The Dalai Lama for an hourlong exclusive interview. In Rochester, Minn. following his annual physical at the Mayo Clinic, His Holiness joins Piers Morgan for a
Cerabino: ‘Arab Spring‘ near Delray? Kings Point man fights board
Palm Beach Post
“We’re having our Arab Spring,” Koitz said. Koitz, at 57, moved full-time into the adults-only community last year, leaving New Jersey for good with a real estate license and a quest to become the condo real estate king at Kings Point.

Palm Beach Post
Egyptian Activist Sees Democracy Sprouting After the Arab Spring
Freepress Online
One of the reasons for the intense excitement about the Arab Spring, as it developed, was the sense that democratic reform had passed the Arab World by as it swept through Eastern Europe, parts of Asia and Latin America. It had become the Empty Quarter
Arab Spring: Working with the true democrats
The Commentator
The Foreign Office must be prepared to deal very robustly with those who regard violence, threats and intimidation as a legitimate part of the political process – for they are the ones most likely to unravel the gains of the Arab Spring.

The Commentator
Arab Governments Playing Games, Serving Themselves
Al-Bawaba
The developments, both before and after the Arab Spring, have created unstable conditions in the region. For instance, the Iraqi government does not want to show an Arab face. Even at the recent Arab summit, Iraq served as a strong voice of Iran.

Al-Bawaba
The Arab springtime of nations?
Sunday’s Zaman
JERUSALEM — Two things stand out in the Middle East since the Arab Spring began — one that happened, and one that did not. What happened was that for the first time in modern Arab history, authoritarian regimes and rulers were toppled, or seriously
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