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January 26, 2011

What WikiLeaks Has Done for Arab World

Tom Malinowski, Foreign Policy

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In one fell swoop, the candor of the cables released by WikiLeaks did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage U.S. diplomacy.

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TAGGED: Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, WikiLeaks

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