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/online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KE=WORDS=FOUAD+AJAMI&bylinesearch=true> February 10, 2013 -= Two years ago, on Feb. 11, 2011, the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak chttp://topics.wsj.com/person/M/Hosni-Mubarak/6479> stepped aside, overwhelmed by 18 days of protes=s. Silent and remote, he had ruled for three de

ssness, t=e fault line between a feeble secular camp and a cynical Muslim Brotherhood bent on monopolizing political power—th=t the true work of the Mubarak tyranny can be fully appreciated. The "=deep state" he presided over—a Ministry of Interior with nearly two=million functionaries, a police force th

sort=date:D:S:dl&partialfields=- wnnis:NOAVSVND&Ir=3D-langja> , a young Nigerian, a disciple of Awlaki, came=close to bringing down an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. It =as farewell to Kumbaya foreign policy: The world was a menacing place. Against the backgro=nd of the stirring Obama orato

on of the economic conditions faced by the majority of Egyptians. These were the factors that resulted in the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. The meeting between high-level Egyptian officials and the IMF's managing director have led various political forces to question the economic prog

better exert its political influence over the region. In 1997, China and Egypt concluded an agreement that did not end up coming into effect under Mubarak. According to the agreement, a Chinese- Egyptian common industrial zone would be established in the Suez, which would later have been developed into

version of healthcare reform, but a reform nonetheless; he pulled out of Iraq; he prevented another great depression; he saved the car industry in Detroit. These are no mean achievements. But how much paler is the reality of power than the promise of it. As candidate, his rhetorical ambition knew no b

regime the country now lives under. Egypt exists in a strange, unpredictable netherworld between military dictatorship and liberal democracy. Since Hosni Mubark's regime was overthrown in February, free media, political parties and civil society groups have flourished; there are daily strikes and street de

overthrown in February, free media, political parties and civil society groups have flourished; there are daily strikes and street demonstrations; Mubarak himself is on trial. But thousands have been summarily sentenced to prison by military courts. Bloggers who criticize the army have been harassed,

W. Bush gave him a bonus — a war in Iraq that bin Laden's protege Abu Musab Zarqawi turned into a civil war. Al-Qaeda's December 2009, attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, which failed because the suicide bomber misfired his bomb, was also intended to provoke America into another war, this time in Yeme