Lenny thinks Libya is the next Middle East domino to fall:
But it seems that Libya is the surer bet for an overthrow in very near future. All of the ingredients are there. The state is cracking down with extreme brutality. In Benghazi, mercenaries shipped in by Gaddafi are carrying out random killings, with dozens reportedly dead so far. The regime is intent on terrorising the population into submission and has even, predictably, shut down the internet. The electricity has been shut off in insurgent areas. Yet it says a lot that Gaddafi is so lacking in authority over his own state structure that he’s having to hire mercenaries to come in and put down the revolt.
AlJazeera reports that the security forces are cracking down and have fired on funerals of demonstrators killed earlier in Benghazi, murdering at least nineteen more people. But they also report that in turn, the protestors have managed to take over the military security headquarters in that city, finding “African mercenaries” within. If Khadaffi has had to bring in foreign mercenaries, the end might be near for him…