Will Hamza Ali al-Khateeb Be Syria’s Bouazizi?

The Washington Post on the potential of the horrible death and torture of 13 year old Hamza Ali al-Khatib to reinvigorate the Syrian revolution:

It is too early to tell whether the boy’s death will trigger the kind of critical mass that brought down the regimes in Egypt and Tunisia earlier this year and that the Syrian protests have lacked. But it would not be the first time that the suffering of an individual had motivated ordinary people who might not otherwise have taken to the streets to rise against their governments.

Of course there were similar speculations over the public death of Iranian demonstrator Neda Agha Soltan, but that didn’t go anywhere. (For now?)