September 11, 2001 was almost ten years ago.
The Middle-East since then:
Yasser Arafat died, exact cause unknown, in 2004.
Saddam Hussein was executed in 2006.
Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.
In 2009, Teheran, Iran saw political riots. 2010 saw major and minor protests in a dozen middle-eastern and north African countries spilling over into 2011, which has also seen an ouster in Egypt, a revolution in Tunisia, civil war in Libya, and an uprising in Syria.
What does this promise for the next decade?
hopely no iran-styled theocracy will seize power anywhere in the region