Revolutions: no leader can be

Maybe you have not noticed, but in recent months have shown us the news almost daily images of demonstrations, riots and popular uprisings in the Mediterranean, never introduce a leader of the revolt. The only leader who was mentioned was to be killed: Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Bashar al-Asad, and so on.

We have seen pictures of the state television (few) images filmed by independent reporters (a little 'more), images taken directly from some protesters with an amateur camera phone or even with (many). We have seen a veritable revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now in Syria. Yet no commentator has bothered to tell who is who, in those countries, was put in charge of the opposition to the regime, who has driven or simply inspired men and women take to the streets to ask, rather: pretending , freedom and democracy.

A world without head

It was the Libyan affair dismayed to engage the attention of the world was crazy and cruel violence of a head of state unprincipled and unscrupulous become a bloodthirsty serial killer in these last days of permanence and strength, a kind of Hitler even more mad that they say as we write, is planning to bomb the sources of its oil in order to create a huge death for all those who supported him and those who fought to the end.

E 'born small for Facebook

Maybe in a few years the small "Facebook Ibrahim" call to account to the parents of this choice. Or maybe in a few years, it will be normal even in Italy to call their sons WWW, YouTube, or Google. The fact is that in Egypt, Facebook was born Feb. 18, a girl who bears the same name in gratitude to his parents for the role that the social network has played in the February 11 uprising culminated with the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak .

Egypt, Prime Minister: "Mubarak would resign"

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could leave the presidency. " E 'as the Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq announced, quoted by the satellite TV' al-Arabiya '. "The situation - he said - could be resolved soon." While the broadcaster al-Jazeera speaks of a leak to the press that Saddam would leave the country for an unspecified location.

The Secretary General of the National Democratic Party, Hossam Badrawi, had previously announced that "the answer to the demands of the people" will come by tomorrow. To confirm the hypothesis of a step back is also Mubarak Al Hurra, the Arabic-language American television that the power would be to take a military committee.