Asia Times journalist Pepe Escobar discusses the next wave of Muslim protests sure to follow a French cartoon’s depiction of the Prophet Muhammad nude; the inter-Islam proxy war for regional dominance, fought by pro-Muslim Brotherhood Qatar and Wahhabi/Salafist Saudi Arabia; the likely culprits of the deadly US embassy attack in Libya; how a Syrian peace deal brokered without US/Western mediation would be a game-changer in regional politics; the fate of Afghanistan after NATO withdrawal; how a US deal with Iran would remake the Middle East; and the whereabouts of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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