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discredited for having collaborated with the Mubarak regime — dozens of organisations have been legalised or are in the process of being so. As in Tunisia, it is hard to know how much influence each of these parties has. There are many organisations with liberal, secular leanings, such as the social
Facebook to EFTA_R1_02032801 EFTA02691184 23 schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world." A Google executive, Wael Ghonim, was critical to administration of the social links that expressed desires for a better life, while summoning righteous anger as a motivation. "We
in the post-conflict phase, the wartime obstacles will prove to be the easy part. The situation in Libya is much more challenging than in Egypt and Tunisia, where the military broke with the strongman and showed him the door, averting full- scale war, and enabling the preservation of the state machinery
d. In fact, the opposite is needed. The United States and other Western governments ought to adopt the demand put forward in a letter last week by Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who was one of the leaders of the revolution: that the military "quickly announce specific dates for the process of transferr
in Bahrain, where Shiites are a distinct majority and Iran had claimed sovereignty as recently as 1970. The protests that began this past January in Tunisia had nothing to do with any of this. They started when a struggling street vendor in that country's desolate heartland publicly set himself on fire af
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023462 →und, but by relatively well-educated middle-class young people used to communicating with each other via Facebook and Twitter. It is no accident that Wael Ghonim, Google’s regional head of marketing, emerged as a symbol and leader of the new Egypt. The protesters’ grievances centered around the fact that the a
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023473 →Entities connected to both Tunisia and Wael Ghonim

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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Hosni Mubarak
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George W. Bush
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Yemen
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Damascus
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Cairo
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Bill Clinton
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Marc Rich
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Morocco
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Fatah
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Bahrain
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Mahmoud Abbas
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West Bank
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Muslim Brotherhood
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Tripoli
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Osama bin Laden
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Riyadh
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