Links 7-13 February 2012

Long overdue...

• Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature - The National
  Charles Glass.
• Blasphemy may extend to Twitter friends - UPI.com
  Bloody Saudis.
• Inside Syria’s whirlwind of war - Salon.com
  Paul Mutter.
• The govt withdrew NGO draft law, says MP | Egypt Independent
  Excellent.
• Clinton: We need Assad's consent to put troops in Syria | The Cable
  Er… don't think you'll get it.
• Dear Israel Lobby, We Give Up -- Please Give Us an Acceptable Way of Insulting You | | AlterNet
  Is that asking too much?
• Daily Kos: What I Learned at the Airport in Bahrain
• Dar Al Hayat - Oil in a Week - Sudan's Oil and Compromise
  Walid Khadduri
• Syria: 'the regime put in our lives a system of killing people'
• Egypt’s Never-Ending Revolution - NYTimes.com
  Steve Cook
• U.S. officials: Al Qaida behind Syria bombings | McClatchy
• New Texts Out Now: Joshua Stacher, Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria
  Dr. Josh's book is out!
• Egypt's Other Revolution: Modernizing the Military-Industrial Complex
  Shana Marshall
• Egypt's army ruler urges good U.S. ties after NGO raids | Reuters
  Still playing games.
• Newest Identified SCAF Member brings count to 22 - Egypt Data Blog
  Tentative.
• Tunisie : l’islamisation orchestrée : Nawaat
  On Islamization campaign by Nahda
• Homs bloodshed spills over into Lebanon - The Independent
  Fisk.
• Malaysia Deports Writer Wanted by Saudi Arabia - WSJ.com
  Horrible - expected from KSA, but shame on Malaysia.
• Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood urge 'jihad' against Syrian regime | Egypt Independent
• IMF deal critical for Egypt, say economists - FT.com
• 42 reasons to dismiss Susan Rice’s rage
  Rami Khouri: "Susan Rice’s anger and disgust with the Russian-Chinese veto were largely hollow and meaningless, because in reality they reflected more U.S. hubris and pride than any credible diplomacy."
• BBC News - Syria's slide towards civil war
  BBC's Paul Wood on evidence of sectarian killing + prisoner executions in #Syria struggle between govt + opposition
• Renowned Egyptian journalist Galal Amer dies - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
  Journalist Galal Amer dies: reportedly in pain at state of #Egypt
• [toread] Prosecution of U.S. pro-democracy activists in Egypt: The SCAF's game plan | The Middle East Channel
  The SCAF's NGO Gamble: Yezid Sayigh
• Telecommunication Revolution « 3arabawy
• SCAF hails Egyptians for choosing work over strike calls - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
• Arab League backs Syria opposition, calls for peacekeepers | Reuters
• Un jeune arrêté pour « atteinte aux sacralités » | Le Soir-echos
• In Egypt, NGO crackdown and draft law have chilling effect - The Washington Post
• Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments - Brookings Institution
• How does the People's Assembly work? Your questions answered | Egypt Independent
• Libyan who occupied 50 hotel suites demands £1m compensation over MI6 torture claims | Mail Online
  Belhaj and entourage used indoor pool at Radisson Blu according to Daily Mail, except Radisson has no indoor pool
• Eyeing the Arab spring: Gloom and bloom | The Economist
  The view from Herzliya.
• Egypt’s turmoil: It goes on and on | The Economist
• Fouad Ajami: The Man Of The Sword: Two Poems By Nizar Qabbani | The New Republic
  Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
• BACKGROUNDER: THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST NGOS IN EGYPT
  Handy report from POMED.
• Freedom & Justice Party FJP
  Al-Shater: Coalition Gov't Urgently Needed, FJP Ready to Form One: Al-Shater, Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Deputy Cha...
• Maroc : l'ancien directeur général de l'ONDA Abdelhanine Benallou mis sous écrou
  #Maroc: Benallou, grand commis de l'Etat, en prison. Croisade anti-corruption des islamistes du PJD?