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he shah. And it also has aided the recruitment efforts of Bin Laden and other Islamist terrorists since the early 1980s. We should not forget that Bin Laden's original and ultimate goal was to spark a revolution to overthrow the Saudi government, just as his deputy's, Ayman Zawahiri, was to overthrow Muba
pushed the old order over the brink. And so, in those big, public spaces in Tunis, Cairo and Manama, Bahrain, in the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Tobruk, millions of Arabs came together to bid farewell to an age of quiescence. They were done with the politics of fear and silence. Every day and every
eld as a world power. Al-Qaeda attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, to provoke America into what it calls a "bleeding war" in Afghanistan. Bin Laden's goal was to recreate the quagmire that bled dry the Soviet Union in the 1980s with America as the victim. George W. Bush gave him a bonus — a war i
ilitary Council, which post gives him authority over several thousand troops. 3) Key NTC figures whose political base is in Benghazi, Al Bayda and Tobruk in eastern Libya—the cradle of the uprising—and who are well represented in the NTC and who aspire to high political office but hail from western L
he shah. And it also has aided the recruitment efforts of Bin Laden and other Islamist terrorists since the early 1980s. We should not forget that Bin Laden's original and ultimate goal was to spark a revolution to overthrow the Saudi government, just as his deputy's, Ayman Zawahiri, was to overthrow Muba
pushed the old order over the brink. And so, in those big, public spaces in Tunis, Cairo and Manama, Bahrain, in the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Tobruk, millions of Arabs came together to bid farewell to an age of quiescence. They were done with the politics of fear and silence. Every day and every
Entities connected to both Bin Laden and Tobruk

Osama bin Laden
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSON
Donald Trump
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Samantha Power
PERSON
al-Qaeda
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Yemen
LOCATION
Middle East
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Tunisia
LOCATION
Bahrain
LOCATION
India
LOCATIONthe Soviet Union
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