"May your day be full of jasmine." "My lady, how I want to climb this wall of silence." "I LLLLLove you." No, this isn't the tortured verse of botanically inclined lovesick teens. It's the coded poetry of revolution. As uprisings spread across northern Africa this month, protesters lit up social networking sites with updates—even Egypt's attempt to shut off the Internet couldn't stop them completely. But in Libya, where the fight is getting hotter and hotter, few people use sites like Facebook or Twitter, and many would be afraid to write there openly. So protest leader Omar Shibliy Mahmoudi found a place where they could speak in code: dating sites.
Mahmoudi - leader of the Ekhtalef, or "Difference," movement - acted as if he was looking for a wife under the profile name "Where is Miriam?" and sent coded love letters to spur people to revolution. Since men cannot talk ...
