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... Muslim Brotherhood and how well you think they have or have not performed in the parliament. It's a vote on whether you think that Egypt has gone -- undergone too much change and has become too unstable or, in fact, hasn't done enough change and needs to do more ...
With this week's presidential election representing the end of the transition from a military to civilian government, many Egyptians will be watching not only the results but for a clean process as well. Egyptians are voting in the first round of elections on Wednesday and Thursday for a number ...
Egyptians chose among old regime, Islamist and secular candidates in their first presidential election Wednesday and Thursday since President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign came to an end.
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 ...
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