Somewhat belatedly, this is the link to the Midweek Edition of my Biweekly News Bulletin, which I posted Wednesday night.

While not bearing directly on democracy movements, I did come across an amazing article in an Arab newspaper which I have translated in full. The basic store is this: Two Saudi brothers hear about the “jihad” in Iraq and decide they want to go there to fight Americans in Falluja. So they go to Syria, which runs the pipeline for people who want to do this, and they quickly get into Iraq and meeting with a terrorist leader. But when they say they want to go to Falluja and fight, the leader says no, we aren’t doing that, what we have now are these cars for suicide missions. So imagine the shock of these two Saudis who realize that they aren’t going to fight any Americans, they are just going to blow themselves up to kill Iraqis! In fact, they turned around and went back to Saudi Arabia. To read the whole story, see An Amazingly Revealing Story of Terrorist Recruitment.