ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Newsmax
31January2011 2:35pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Revolts in Egypt and Tunisia have struck a blow against al Qaeda's 
call to violence as a means of overthrowing autocratic governments, showing "people power" to be a more effective weapon.
The adaptable militant group, with strong roots in Egypt, will work hard to exploit any sense of disappointment if the eventual outcome of the uprising there does not deliver better lives for the Arab world's most populous country, analysts say.
But for now the group has no easy answer to the evidence presented by the world's television screens -- that ordinary men and women are doing more to weaken the 30-year-old rule of President Hosni Mubarak than years of attacks by armed groups. (read full report)
