The power of the Shamal

I was reading this one article from Kennedy School. It was telling something about shamal. And I totally did not get what shamal was all about in-relation to this article. Anybody? Please enlighten me.

In Yemen, a leadership that belatedly came to realize the threat from al Qaeda and to partner with the U.S bla bla bla... What is highly likely is the close US-Yemeni cooperation of the last two years against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) bla bla bla. Yemen was not a failed state. In the years ahead, until someone consolidates power, there is a significant chance that it could become one bla bla bla.

In Libya, for all that was undesirable about Qadhafi regime, including two decades of state sponsorship of terrorism and several attacks on Americans, in recent years the Libyan government had become a virulent enemy of al Qaeda. Qadhafi's secret police activity bla bla bla. As one knowledgeable observer told me this week, "the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is pleased this time that the Americans and Europeans are bombing Arabs should give us pause bla bla bla.

In Egypt, weeks after the departure of Mubarak, who and what will replace him remains unclear. The senior military leadership, who bla bla bla. Some observers

have suggested that what we will see in Egypt may resemble the Islamic party rule in recent years in Turkey. There, the secular nature of the Turkish government has very gradually but steadily eroded bla bla bla.

The winds are still blowing the sand about, but we are beginning to be able to make out the contours of what the dunes may look like when the shamal is over.

ps: yup too heavy.sebab tu gua takleh absorb kot hahaha

pss: 2nd thought.okay pe.at least gua try kan?

psss: wiki pon tak jalan