as they privatised key sectors of industry and opened their markets to foreign plunder the region will forever remain the jewel of the north and the west as long as its location allows both powers the will to continue with their global domination who would have known that what was initially a random killing of a young educated vendor khaled said by hired thugs on the payroll of egyptian police mid last year would have triggered public protests and ultimately the overthrow of long serving dictators in egypt and tunisia and sustained mass pressure