Egypt echoes across region: Iran, Bahrain, Yemen
Associated Press / BRIAN MURPHY
14-Feb-2011 (2 comments)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The possible heirs of Egypt's uprising took to the streets Monday in different corners of the Middle East: Iran's beleaguered opposition stormed back to central Tehran and came under a tear gas attack by police. Demonstrators faced rubber bullets and birdshot to demand more freedoms in the relative wealth of Bahrain. And protesters pressed for the ouster of the ruler in poverty-drained Yemen.

The protests — all with critical interests for Washington — offer an important lesson about how groups across Middle East are absorbing the message from Cairo and tailoring it to their own aspirations.

The heady themes of democracy, justice and empowerment remain intact as the protest wave works it way through the Arab world and beyond. What changes, however, are the objectives. The Egypt effect, it seems, is elastic.

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zuruz

WHERE DO BILLIONS OF $$$ COME FROM IN ARAB TYRANTS ACCOUNTS?

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Why doesn’t anybody talk about the fortune and wealth of these Arab dictators, kings and Sheiks? How about billions of dollars for each of their family members in most western banks. Any body thought Mubarak possessed reached 300 billions of $$$ in Western and UAE and Saudi bank accounts and unknown billions $$$ worth of gold in his position and 75% of Egyptians live under poverty with about 2 dollars a day earnings.  In tiny Persian Gulf island of Bahrain with about half million population with lots of OIL& GAS revenue what is going on why are the whole population are rising up against tyrant regime?  King of Bahrain also possesses billions of dollars in his and his family bank accounts along with billions of dollars investments worldwide, Bahraini king discriminate against Bahraini citizens, he prefers and gives citizenship to foreigners from Asian countries and foreign Sunni Arabs and hire them with high salaries to protect his crown and disregard and mistrust his own people who live below poverty! That’s why they revolt and determined to dump the idiot, cruel puppet king to dumpster of history. The puppets Sheiks who rule the UAE by iron fist invested billions of dollars in building fake islands in the Persian Gulf and destroy the ecology and environment of the Persian Gulf for his girl friend nice butt and UAE Sheiks own billions of dollars cash and investments worldwide and treat their foreign workers as slaves and rape/abuse the foreign servants and their families daily. Please learn about zillions of dollars and investments worldwide by cruel dictator king of Saudi Arabia and his 6000 a$$hole princes who are running the kingdom as private business from OIL, GAS and MECCA profits. Arabian people have been disfranchised from their entire nation’s wealth! FREEDOM IS NEAR BY TOPPLING ARAB TYRANTS AND IT IS COSTLY. 


zuruz

AMERICA ACTS DOBLE STANDARD REGARDING DEMOCRACY

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America should not protect and support the Arab dictators, kings and Sheiks around the Persian Gulf, instead she should politically, morally and financially assist the oppressed, angry Arab protesters who are ready to die for their cause to reach freedom and taste democracy in their lifetime enough is enough of slavery. America should not ever forget the 1979 Iranian popular revolution which mistakenly sided with Shah and ignored Iranian uprising, never heard their revolutionary voices and underestimated people’s power who managed to topple the powerful Shah who was the strongest partner of America in the Persian Gulf region and perhaps in the whole world. What is happening in the Arab world today is non stop movements/ revolutions. Arab populations are fed up with their permanently assigned by colonial powers cruel dictators and they determined to free themselves for ever from lifelong kings and Sheiks who never been elected by them and cared for them and always counted them as numbers not human beings. America needs these revolutionary people who sooner or later will take over their destiny to become allies and friends. So this is the right time to show them some sincerity and guide them to a civilized world.