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Who Burned Ayman Nour?
Commentary Magazine ^ | May 27th, 2009 | Eric Trager

Posted on 05/27/2009 7:12:16 AM PDT by Jbny

On Friday night, prominent Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour was attacked in Giza, sustaining first-degree burns to his face and losing 20% of his hair after a young assailant sprayed him with flames from a pesticide aerosol. Naturally, the immediate suspect is the Egyptian government, which has persecuted Nour and his Ghad party relentlessly since Nour finished a distant second to President Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 elections. However, many analysts have been reluctant to accuse the regime of ordering the attack for three key reasons:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; aymannour; egypt; mubarak

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