FT.com / Global insight - Future in Arab region up for grabs: "After the US-backed jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the last decade of the cold war, thousands of Arab volunteers, recruited under indulgent western eyes, returned home fired with belief that if they could triumph against a superpower they could surely puncture the inflated autocrats dictating life in their own countries. It turned out these zealots could not.
Their insurgencies in Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt all failed. Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad, the group that assassinated Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak’s predecessor, went off to join Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda."
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