The Arab Revolution of 2011

Islamists parade with a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest in Cairo, May 6, 2011. Al Qaeda confirmed Osama bin Laden was dead on Friday, dispelling some of the fog around the killing of the "holy warrior", and vowed to mount more attacks on the West. Reuters/Asmaa Waguih

Egyptian military police stand guard as a boy holding the national flag stands before men performing their afternoon prayers during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 6, 2011, to denounce the U.S. commando raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaida on Friday confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans' 'happiness will turn to sadness. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Veiled Egyptian women chant slogans during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 6, 2011, to denounce the U.S. commando raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaida on Friday confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans' 'happiness will turn to sadness. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A man holds a photograph of Osama bin Laden, during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 6, 2011, to denounce the U.S. commando raid that killed the al-Qaida leader. Al-Qaida on Friday confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans' 'happiness will turn to sadness. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egyptian military police stand guard outside the Nour mosque, where Islamist groups were protesting against the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden, following Friday prayer in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 6, 2011. Al-Qaida on Friday confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans' 'happiness will turn to sadness. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

An Islamist kisses a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest in Cairo May 6, 2011. Reuters/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION)

Palestinians dressed up as Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (L) and Palestinian President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas carry a coffin to mark the end of the division between the two Palestinian rival factions Hamas and Fatah during a weekly protest protest against the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah May 6, 2011. The rival Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation agreement on Wednesday in Egypt. Reuters/Darren Whiteside (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS)

Protesters wave a Syrian flag above a coffin which symbolises those who died during the uprising in Syria, at a protest in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo May 5, 2011. Reuters/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

Syrian protesters carry a coffin which symbolises those who died during the uprising in Syria, at a protest in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo May 5, 2011. The placards read, "The martyrs of Deraa" and "Syrian media is a hypocritical liar". Reuters/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

Egyptian protesters hold up signs upon the arrival of Egypt's former interior minister Habib al-Adly to a Cairo courthouse on March 5. The court has sentenced Adly to 12 years for money-laundering in the first trial of an official from the regime of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. (AFP/File/-)

A protester with writing on his shirt in arabic reading 'Execution, execution, for the killer of the youth' holds up his shoe as a gesture of contempt at a police van believed by protesters to be transporting former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, outside the court where he was sentenced in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, May 5, 2011. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's top security official, Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, was convicted Thursday of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years in prison. (AP Photo)

In this April 9, 2011 file photo, protesters chant slogans as they march following an attack by security forces in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt. Osama bin Laden and his jihadi rhetoric once resonated with millions, especially those in the Arab world who saw militant Islam as their best hope for throwing off the shackles of corrupt, oppressive governments. But 10 years after 9/11, the dominant theme in the uprisings across the Middle East is a clamor for democracy — with al-Qaida's militant ideology largely relegated to the sidelines. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

A protester holds up his palm during a protest for labour rights on Labour Day or May Day, in Cairo May 1, 2011. The palm reads, "social justice". Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Islamists protest in Cairo near the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo April 29, 2011. Islamists protesters in Egypt have accused the church of detaining two women, Camilia Shehata and Wafaa Constantine, wives of Coptic priests, who reportedly converted to Islam, local media reported. Reuters/ Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

Islamists protest in Cairo near the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo April 29, 2011. Islamists protesters in Egypt have accused the church of detaining two women, Camilia Shehata and Wafaa Constantine, wives of Coptic priests, who reportedly converted to Islam, local media reported. The banners read "I want my sister Camilia before they kill her, we demand the Muslim women who are detained in the churches be released." Reuters/ Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

Egyptian protesters hold banners that read in Arabic 'we call for the release of Muslim females who are detained in the churches before they kill them' and chant slogans calling for end the church violence on the christians who converted to Islam during a demonstration held by the Salafis in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Palestinian police block the street as protesters try and reach two Jewish settlements in the Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron

Palestinian protesters take cover after Israeli soldiers opened fire on them during a rally marking Nakba, or "catastrophe", the term used by Palestinians to describe the uprooting they suffered at the time of Israel's founding on 15 May 1948, in the southern border village of Maroun el-Rass, Lebanon

The body of a demonstrator is carried by fellow protesters in the southern Lebanese village of Marun al-Ras. Twelve people were killed and around 300 others were injured on Sunday when Israeli troops fired on thousands of people along the Syrian and Lebanese borders, as well as in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayat)

An Israeli undercover policeman holds a gun as riot policemen arrest a Palestinian protester during clashes in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya. Israeli gunfire killed 12 people and wounded hundreds on Sunday as Palestinians marched on Israel's borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza in a mass show of mourning over the creation of the Jewish state. (AFP/Ilia Yefimovich)

Israeli gunfire killed 12 people and wounded hundreds as Palestinians marched on Israel's borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza in a mass show of mourning over the creation of the Jewish state. (AFP/Graphic)

Israeli gunfire killed 10 people and wounded more than 110 others on Sunday on the border in south Lebanon during a Palestinian refugee protest to mark "Nakba Day," the Lebanese army said. Duration: 01: 09(AFPTV/VCCS)

A Palestinian demonstrator prepares to hurl stones towards Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank village of Anata on Sunday, as Palestinians marked the "Nakba" or "Catastrophe" of the 1948 creation of Israel. (AFP/Marco Longari)

In this Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second right, joined by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second left, and U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, right, during their bilateral talks at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. The question of whether mediators matter took on an acuity Monday May 16, 2011, following the resignation of U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell, a move that came exactly as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict he was asked to help resolve seems about to retake center stage. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

Israeli soldiers walk along the border fence between Israel and Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights early May 16, 2011. On Sunday, hundreds of protesters waving Palestinian flags infiltrated the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, along a front line that has been largely tranquil for decades. Israeli troops attempted to mend the breached fence, firing at what the army described as infiltrators. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed the territory in 1981, a move not recognised internationally. Reuters/Nir Elias