2011 "Year of the Tyrant," 2012 ominous for Syria, Iraq
 

22-12-11 07:00 PM

LONDON (Reuters) - It all began with a slap and a slur hurled at a poor vegetable seller by a policewoman in a provincial Tunisian city. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in a protest that ignited a chain of fires across the Arab world. Twelve months after his death, he would scarcely recognize the region he knew.

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