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Bahraini MP: Arab Turmoil U.S. Greater/Broader/New Mideast Plot
Russian Information Agency Novosti
February 24, 2011

Bahrain lawmaker accuses U.S. of being behind Arab revolutions

-"These riots and revolutions we are observing today in Arab countries are the
implementation of the global U.S. project entitled 'New Middle East.' This
program started with Iraq [2003], followed by Lebanon [2005]."

Manama: The popular unrest in Arab countries that led to the fall of regimes in
Tunisia and Egypt is part of a U.S.-designed strategic project dubbed "New
Middle East," a Bahraini deputy said Thursday.

The term "New Middle East" was introduced in 2006 by then U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice. Analysts say the project defines Washington's policy on
a vast territory including the Arab countries and Central Asian states.

"These riots and revolutions we are observing today in Arab countries are the
implementation of the global U.S. project entitled 'New Middle East.' This
program started with Iraq, followed by Lebanon," Bahraini deputy and journalist
Samira Rajab told RIA Novosti.

"A new stage of its implementation that will take at least a decade started from
2011," she said, adding that the U.S. strategy in the region is aimed at
weakening the ruling regimes and introducing opposition groups into their
governments.

A wave of unrest, which has already toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and
Egypt, is sweeping through the Muslim world, stoking mass popular uprisings in
Libya, Bahrain and Yemen.

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Russia's Putin Warns West Against Whipping Up Mideast "Democracy"
February 24, 2011

Putin warns against whipping up democratic processes

-Asked by European media whether he felt any concern about events in the Middle
East and their possible "echo" in the North Caucasus, Putin replied in the
affirmative, but added that the impact of those shocks would be felt not only in
the North Caucasus, but in all countries, including those in Europe.

BRUSSELS: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned Moscow's partners in
the West against attempts at whipping up democratic processes in other countries
in connection with the ongoing events in North Africa. He was speaking at a
joint news conference with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso,
devoted to the results of the full-scale meeting of the Russian government and
the EU Commission.

Asked by European media whether he felt any concern about events in the Middle
East and their possible "echo" in the North Caucasus, Putin replied in the
affirmative, but added that the impact of those shocks would be felt not only in
the North Caucasus, but in all countries, including those in Europe.

"We are concerned, firstly, about the number of casualties in the events in
North Africa. We are concerned about that despite the soothing claims a rise to
power or growth in the influence of radical groups in northern Africa are
unlikely."

"And if that really happens, it cannot but affect other parts of the world,
including, of course, the North Caucasus," he said.

"As you may know,??continued Putin, ? Today we express concern about what is
happening in Libya. Please, to take note of the fact that the North African cell
of al-Qaeda, too, is concerned about what is happening in Libya. Is that just a
coincidence???

Having made this historical allusion, Putin recalled that the former leader of
the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, before his return to Tehran and the
overthrow of the Shah's regime had lived in Paris, and the Western policy of
"inoculation of democracy??in the Palestinian territories caused bloody
conflicts and brought to power Hamas, very unpleasant for many in the West.

"The people are to be allowed to decide their own fate and their own future,?? he said. ? We must give them an opportunity to build their own destiny in a
natural way without any interference from outside."

"Society must move toward democratic institutions, toward self-regulation,
towards its own system, with reliance on the internal processes of development,"
underlined the prime minister.
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