
' target=), but shit's going off in Cairo. A lot of people there are registering their discontent at decades of state repression and corruption by staging running battles with police in the streets. There are reports coming through of government aircraft taking off without warning from Cairo airport, which probably means that North Africa's revolution is as real and as reckless as the hype has suggested. After Tunisia's Ben Ali was deposed on January 15th, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is on the brink of being the second African despot leader booted off his throne into the sea in as many weeks. If I were Colonel Gaddafi, I'd be in a plane bound for Brazil with my head buried in the vast bosom of my Ukrainian nurse by now.
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