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Qaddafi's Downfall Could Bring Chaos to Libya - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Libya analysis opinion revolution state protests

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  • Colonel Qaddafi spent the last 40 years hollowing out every single institution that might challenge his authority
  • Optimists hope that the opposition’s resolve persists; pessimists worry that unity will last only until Colonel Qaddafi is gone, and that a bloody witch hunt will ensue afterward.
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  • Some domestic and exiled intellectuals hope that Libya can resurrect the pluralistic society envisioned by the 1951 Constitution, though without a monarch.
  • “We want one country — there is no Islamic emirate or Al Qaeda anywhere,” Mr. Abud al-Jeleil told Al Jazeera. “Our only goal is to liberate Libya from this regime and to allow the people to choose the government that they want.”
  • in terms of whether Libyans are primed for Al Qaeda’s narrative, I don’t think that’s as ominous as some might suspect
  • Experts also believe Colonel Qaddafi used the threat of a Muslim takeover the way many Arab leaders did — exaggerating the menace to win sympathy from a United States prone to seeing Islamic revolutions under every Koran.
  • the experience of eastern Libya, where ad-hoc committees have taken control of local affairs, is a strikingly positive sign
  • I don’t think that any movement is in the position, in terms of resources and ideological power, to monopolize the political process
  • “Nobody has an interest in permanent anarchy,”
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Egyptian bloggers brave police intimidation - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets -... - 1 views

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Egypt #jan25 media bloggers

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Why I Was Wrong about the Arab Revolutions | Stephen M. Walt - 2 views

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    Smart social scientists always own up - sometimes gleefully - when they get things wrong.
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teaching (comparative) politics - Al-Jazeera documentary on Egyptian bloggers... - 0 views

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Egypt #jan25 protests internet bloggers

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ei: Israel investing $1.6 million in "new media warriors" - 0 views

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  • Speaking on a panel called "New Media as a Strategic Weapon," Benayahu told the audience in Herzliya that Israeli soldiers are now forced to be more aware of the fact that new media users can be documenting their actions at all times.
  • "Visual material is what is most compelling online. It's evidence. It's proof in a way that a written statement isn't. If there is a big operation going on and we can provide visual evidence of what's happening, then other people can use that to make arguments and discuss things."
  • "Our version is supported by named sources and with medical documents. In a properly functioning society, the army's version, which has been spread by anonymous sources, would not be considered worthy of publication,"
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  • "I don't think it's a matter of Israel's propaganda machine's own success or failure that is causing this amount of misunderstanding among general publics, mostly in the West," he said. "The misconstruction and confusion are largely caused by the absence of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices -- in fact reasonable and objective voices altogether -- when it comes to the conflict in Palestine, from mainstream US media."
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