Here's another interesting angle. Some may find it far-fetched, but it's actually a good theory:

There was an article in the Sunday newspaper on the bin Laden assassination. The author has written quite a few interesting books on the Middle East politics and the importance of oil for all the different stakeholders. According to him, the sudden political unrest in the Middle Eastern countries which started a few months ago was the doing of the US and was done to ensure the rulers of these countries were busy saving their own seats of power, while the US planned the Laden assassination. As a result after Laden was assassinated, it's only Pakistan which's been protesting a little. There are no anti-US statements from other known anti-US countries like Syria or Libya.

While only Obama and probably God know if this theory is true, it does appear strange that all of a sudden so many countries have been seized by political unrest. The timing doesn't entirely appear to be a co-incidence. And if this theory were true, then hats off to Obama and others who thought of this. It was a brilliant strategy.

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