It is almost a year ago that the Time magazine published an article " Will ElBaradei Run for President of Egypt?" .. an a year after .. there he comes to "lead the revolution" ! in the streets (and minimise the support to the Muslim brotherwood") .

[ ..Egyptian activists, most of them young, were out in force in the midday sun on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 with their flags and posters raised high, their chants rippling across the pavement at the arrival terminal of Cairo International Airport. They had come out in a startling show of support for a candidate who has yet to declare his candidacy for the presidency of Egypt...
By Abigail Hauslohner / Cairo Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 ]
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First we have to consider that Mubarak card has been "burned" ... Also noteworthy is that his partner Mahmoud Abbas is now looking for a hole to hide after the revelations of Al Jazeera. The kingdom of Jordan is not doing any better and the "pro-Western" regime in Yemen is already facing protests. King Abdullah in S. Arabia has been exposed irreparably in the eyes of the Arabs when it was discovered that he begged the U.S. to attack Iran,... and all started as if by magic, soon after the revelations of Wikileaks. Coincidence? I think not.
It is a surprise the ease with which Obama governance emptied Mubarak, that faithful dog of the American policy in the M East. The same almost happened to Abbas. Phenomena to be explained. A logical explanation is that the Obama administration, seeing the corruption levels and inability of these M. East puppets and fearing that the radical Islam will find fertile ground, is trying to develop a controlled as possible, process to fuel popular resentment and send these dictators on permanent holidays hoping for a more efficient replacement .. On the other hand rips this ridiculous puppet theater that had been set up by Israel and the Bush administration in the past, those ridiculous dolls that were moving whenever and in whatever way Israel moved the strings. By doing this limits the possibility of autonomous mobility of Israel, so it should now listen more carefully to Washington. In particular, there was the fear of "unauthorized" raid against Iran or Lebanon which now seems that the U.S. does not want. So..there he comes ... ElBaradei at the Cairo Airport ready to lead the "revolution" and put a legacy for the presidency
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also .. "the Palestine Papers" here >>  http://www.ajtransparency.com/en/search_english