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things are heading next is lying. Just ask Hosni Mubarak, who, despite having nearly half-a-million soldie
ce. And it was already past midnight. We began climbing into the heart of the Heights, planning to go around the southern edge of the Syrian base at Banias. The vegetation was sparser but we still ran the risk of making noise from the stones and larger shards of rock as we weaved our way up. Within 10 mi
things are heading next is lying. Just ask Hosni Mubarak, who, despite having nearly half-a-million soldie
ace. And it was already past midnight. We began climbing into the heart of the Heights, planning to go around the southern edge of the Syrian base at Banias. The vegetation was sparser but we still ran the risk of making noise from the stones and larger shards of rock as we weaved our way up. Within 10 mi
nd YouTube videos from Tunisia, protests broke out across much of the rest of the Arab world. Within weeks, millions were on the streets in Egypt and Hosni Mubarak was gone, shown the door in part by his longtime backer, the U.S. government. The Obama administration was captivated by this spontaneous outbreak of
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023462 →In Riyadh, Saudi officials watched with alarm. They became furious when the Obama administration betrayed, to Saudi thinking, a longtime ally in Mr. Mubarak and urged him to step down in the face of the street demonstrations. The Egyptian leader represented a key bulwark in what Riyadh perceives as a gre
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023462 →three soldiers shot have been identified as Muhammad Awadh Qanbar and Murad Hajoo, who died in Maddiyah. A third soldier was shot in the port city of Banias. In Tartus, Der'aah and the Kurdish city of Qamishli, Alawite elite units have replaced the regular army with orders to crush the demonstrations. S
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023470 →Entities connected to both Hosni Mubarak and Banias

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Cairo
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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Tunisia
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Yemen
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Bill Clinton
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Damascus
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Saddam Hussein
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Middle East
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Marc Rich
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Fatah
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Jerusalem
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West Bank
LOCATIONSinai
LOCATIONthe West Bank
LOCATIONthe Gaza Strip
LOCATIONMediterranean
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Morocco
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