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Comment: Recent unrest in Arab world is not about us
Comment: Recent unrest in Arab world is not about us
Sixty-two people, including protesters and security forces, have been killed and 2,000 more have been wounded during the past two days. A nationwide curfew has been declared, while police defeated an assault on the Interior Ministry building.
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“I herewith proclaim to those (Western leaders) who still do not want to see the realities that the political axis of the new Middle East will soon be Islamic rulership and a democracy based on religion,” senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday during public prayers in Tehran. “All these protests in Egypt, […]
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Tens of thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets in 11 of the country’s 28 provinces to advocate the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. Protesters attacked two government buildings while the government deployed the army and shut down communications in Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood is backing the protests.
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Security forces arrested 19 al Qaeda operatives from Tunisia and Libya. The men were transiting Egypt to join al Qaeda in Iraq. The interior minister denied they had any link to the New Years Day suicide attack on a Coptic church in Alexandria.
The interior minister blamed the Gaza-based, al Qaeda-linked Army of Islam for carrying out the New Years Day suicide bombing at a Coptic church in Alexandria that killed 23 people. An Army of Islam spokesman denied the charge but said “we praise those who did it.”
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