2011 "Year of the Tyrant," 2012 ominous for Syria, Iraq

2011/12/22 16:38:42 @Reuters: World News

LONDON (Reuters) - It all began with a slap and a slur hurled at a poor vegetable seller by a policewoman in a provincial Tunisian city. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in a protest that ignited a chain of fires across the Arab world. Twelve months after his death, he would scarcely recognize the region he knew.
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