Links 6 January 2011
Tunisian blogger and activist Slim Amamou was detained yesterday — the world found out because, after his disappearance, he appeared on the FourSquare location service as being at the Ministry of Interior in Tunis (wonder who is the mayor of that place?)
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Economist reviews Peter Bergen's "The Longest War."
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Report on the relationship between organized crime and AQIM in the Sahel [PDF].
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Michael Aoun: ""Egypt seems to be moderate towards Israel alone and not towards other segments of Egyptian society."
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"Un peuple entier est en train de se libérer." #sidibouzid
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Hassan Nafae talks about Coptic extremists, except they haven't blown up anybody.
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Wikileaks cable on Israel-US coordination of Gaza siege and anti-Hamas measures.
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"Vous avez vu Moubarak à la télévision? Comment voulez-vous qu'un octogénaire malade et si mal entouré nous sorte d'une crise aussi grave?"
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Miller has some balls giving advice considering the Clinton administration's failure.
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Lynch on "the accelerating decay of the institutional foundations and fraying of the social fabric... of the so-called "moderate," pro-Western Arab regimes."
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First AQIM cell in Western Sahara, or Moroccan reaction to recent uprising?
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What the colonel says...
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Just over 6000 Muslim Brothers arrested in 2010.
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Green tea prevents Alzheimer - good for the Maghreb, explains much about Mashreq.
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Carnegie's special site on the future of Sudan.
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That Vanity Fair story on Julian Assange.
- Cosmo Goes Beyond the Burqa in the Middle East - NYTimes.com
Middle East version of Cosmopolitan to launch.
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