When historians in future years grapple with the significance of the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in Egypt 10 days ago, coming as it did in the wake of the "Jasmine" January 14 Revolution in Tunisia, they may judge it not only as a seismic event, shattering and renewing the Arab political order, but also the key watershed moment in confronting the global al Qaeda threat.
ref. - http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/ ... tml?hpt=C1
Amidst all the concerns about civil war and power vacuums in the many countries currently facing populist overthrows of their dictatorships, there appears to be one possible piece of good news. They may do what a decade of activities of U.S. and other world powers have been unable to do: get rid of al Qaeda. Or at least neuter it.
The lengthy article by CNN/NYU terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank is worth the read.