There is also the possibility of political unrest spreading into other Middle East countries.

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Do you see this as a crisis that is teetering on something potentially much broader spreading across the Middle East?

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So expect unrest and revolution to keep spreading throughout the Middle East, and expect risk premiums to keep goosing the price of oil and gas.

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But it is spreading rapidly among the middle classes and the elites.

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In an interview with Michigan newspaper reporters Monday, he said he is saddened by the mounting death toll in Iraq -- but he insisted that Americans' long-term security depends on spreading democratic reform in the Middle East.

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Brutally repressed in Egypt, its members scattered throughout the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s, spreading their influence.

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