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  • 147 Brotherhood activists detained

    04/02/2008 3:17:11 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 121+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/2/08 | Salah Nasrawi - ap
    CAIRO, Egypt - The Egyptian state prosecutor on Wednesday ordered 147 detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood to be investigated on rioting accusations, a judicial official said, in the latest crackdown on the country's largest opposition group. The detainees, who have not been formally charged, are also accused of holding unauthorized demonstrations after a flurry of protests in northern cities, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members demonstrated across the Nile Delta on Tuesday, accusing the government of preventing them from participating in...
  • The Gaza Breakout (What if Gaza were to conquer Egypt?)

    01/29/2008 10:53:56 AM PST · by mojito · 12 replies · 136+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/29/2008 | Bret Stephens
    What if Gaza were to conquer Egypt? The possibility is not as remote as it may seem just by glancing at the map. Egypt has more than 50 times the population of its former colony and 2,800 times the landmass. But Gaza is sovereign Hamas territory, Hamas is the Palestinian branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and Egypt -- not Israel -- is the country that has most to fear from a statelet that is at once the toehold, sanctuary and springboard of an Islamist revolution. No wonder liberal Egyptians are reacting with near-hysterical alarm to last Wednesday's demolition of the...