Even if Mr Mugabe's senior security men wanted to launch a coup, it is uncertain that the rank and file would obey them.
But ambushes of convoys of security men are certainly taking place.
The protest might have petered out had not snipers in plain clothes, assumed to be security men loyal to Mr Saleh, fired into crowds in the capital on March 18th, killing some 50 people.
For two days, plain-clothes security men blockaded the golden Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the country's most sacred Buddhist shrine.
The public security men drove straight to the bandits' den with the suddenness of thunder bolt.
Most Syria watchers think the son is a lot less ruthless than the father. But he is surrounded by many of the same sort of hard security men.
Forest dwellers lament being caught between Maoist bandits, exploitative miners and thuggish security men.
Mr Museveni's security men panicked.
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