PostPartisan - Why Abbas and Abdullah are scrambling

PostPartisan - Why Abbas and Abdullah are scrambling: "Even as Hosni Mubarak continued to resist the hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators gathering in the center of Cairo Tuesday, two of his Arab counterparts -- Jordan's King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas -- were scrambling to react. Abdullah dismissed his government and ordered a newly-appointed prime minister to undertake political reforms; Abbas's Palestinian Authority suddenly announced that long-postponed local elections would be held 'as soon as possible.'"