One truth I have learned along the way is "Don't expect white doves to fly out when a manhole cover is lifted. More likely there will sewer rats boiling out. " And so it goes with the so-called "Arab Spring".
As a former mid-east and North African oil patch hand, I can say that it is a really bad idea to go stir-sticking around. Sure as gravity, really bad stuff comes boiling out of the environment and totally expect the unexpected.
Oba Ma knows this or should. He was raised in Jakarta and I can't think of a more unstable city. Ay yi, yi, 7/24/365, super mega sized Dodge City and a shoot out a minute, around the clock, and usually the "cowboys" with the best shoot em' up hardware are Saudi financed. The real bad ones these days are called the Abu Sayeff and they are joined at the hip with Al Qaeda and it is always high noon with those mongrels.
Scamp
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