Zakaria: Middle East revolutions prove al Qaeda, bin Laden irrelevant
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Benjamin Barber: “I felt with Saif, that he had somehow made a choice in that internal struggle he had, he made a choice, I am the son. Clan blood is powerful in the Middle East and in North Africa. And he made the choice, if my father is under attack, if my brothers are going to die, I will stay and die with them.”
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Benjamin Barber: “…we’re overlooking the presence of a possible civil war, that we’re overlooking the possibility that tribal rivalries will come out if and when Gadhafi is gone and you’ll find different tribal chiefs asserting themselves. My fear is that we have not yet established the foundations for democracy.”
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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on how the revolutions in the Middle East prove the irrelevance of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
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