>>>>>>>>Interview on al jazeera now:
>>>>>>>>http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Update: It may be repeated later, but for now that interview is over and regular coverage on al jazeera tv is on now (although it is mostly all about Eqypt and other countries experiencing protests)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Interesting - just got this on you link :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, Al Jazeera is no longer available via the broadband services Jalipo and VDC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>That is interesting since I could watch live Al Jazeera just fine....(just tested it again and I can watch it )
>>>>>
>>>>>Must have just been temporary - mine's back now.
>>>>
>>>>Part of their comments are here:
>>>>http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110129/D9L25G0G1.html
>>>>
>>>>Snippet:
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>>>>The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States.
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>>>BBCs reporter on the spot described the Mulsim brotherhood as a relatively moderate organization.
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>>"relatively" compared to ...?
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>>This would be on a scale where moderates stone infidels with big rocks as an act of mercy, while the more hard-liners use smaller stones to drag it out? This is going to be the revenge of Qutb - 45 years in the making.
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>>The thing that makes me sad seeing the hopeful faces of some of the demonstrators ( like those in the streets of Tehran in 1979 ) is thinking how many of them will be looking through the bars of Islamist prisons which will have remarkable resemblance to Mubharak prisons when the shouting stops.
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>>Say hello to the new boss - same as the old boss.
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>Off hand I can't think of any revolutions where the initial revolters have ended up in charge and behaving decently.
>For the average man in the street revolutionary change usually means a whole lot of misery.

Exactly. Revolutions have a way of being co-opted by the most ruthless. I've mentioned before that in the turmoil of the late 60s it was very obvious that many of the "revolutionaries" didn't object so much to concentration camps, they just had a different take on who should be on which side of the wire.