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HARI SREENIVASAN: Tensions are rising in the presidential race in Egypt after former spy chief Omar Suleiman entered the contest over the weekend. He said today he will not try to reinvent the Mubarak regime. But he's expected to gain support from the ruling generals. And the Muslim Brotherhood ...
... interesting. The Brotherhood's official reason for this is that Egypt right now is undergoing a tremendous crisis, and the government that is currently running Egypt, which was appointed by the military junta, is unable to meet Egypt's challenges. And so the Brotherhood are saying, in order for them ...
... We're just trying to help support the democratic process. RAY SUAREZ: But had the government, changing as it is in these troubled times in Egypt, signaled to you that they wanted you to back off or not do certain things while you were in Egypt? SAM LAHOOD: Well, in ...
... in the square where Egyptian forces, the military or the police try to suppress angry dissidents, they say that this violence is not caused by Egyptians opposing the regime. They say it's caused by foreign hands trying to infiltrate these protest movements and turning them against the Egyptian regime ...
... RAY: And again it is on the streets that the battle for this country's future is being fought out. HARI SREENIVASAN: In another development, Egyptian police said bedouin gunmen released two American women and their Egyptian tour guide. They had been kidnapped hours earlier in the Sinai Peninsula. Malaria ...
... this nation is dealing with this event, that's a dramatically different affair and will be every time there's violence in the streets of Egypt, because it's always going to be connected with the animosity that's displayed by the Egyptian public toward the security forces. RAY SUAREZ ...
... this morning, the wreckage left by a riot, the seats still smeared with blood. The town's governor's been suspended and the board governing Egyptian soccer has been sacked.The usually camera-shy Field Marshal Tantawi, who governs Egypt, turned out to greet a clearly bewildered Cairo side. He ...
... that many of the economic grievances that animated the revolution remain in place, and some are even getting worse. But then, on the positive side, Egypt just elected a parliament for the first time in Egypt's modern history actually seems to represent the will of the Egyptian people. And ...
As Egyptians amassed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of their regime-changing revolution, many are still divided on where they see the country going, said GlobalPost correspondent Erin Cunningham.
Egyptian security forces last week raided the offices of human rights organizations, including several backed by the U.S. government, further straining relations between the countries. Jeffrey Brown discusses ongoing upheaval in Egypt with Georgetown University's Samer Shehata and The Council on Foreign Relations' Steven Cook.
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