Keyword: mubarak
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-Excerpt- The Middle East News Agency quoted a court official on Wednesday as saying Mubarak will be tried on charges of corruption and intentionally killing protesters during the 18-day uprising that ousted him on Feb. 11.
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Wednesday May 25, 2001 a group of Egyptians, led by founding member Emad Abdel Sattar proclaimed the establishment  of "a contemporary frame of reference" Nazi Party. Sattar reportedly stated that the party, whose founding deputy is a former military official, would bring together prominent figures from Egyptian society, and vest all powers in a "carefully selected" president. The Egyptian Leftist publication Al-Masry Al-Youm, at its English website, further contends the Nazi party operated clandestinely during the Mubarak regime which had prevented party leaders from carrying out their activities in the open. Two Facebook pages which appeared recently under the...
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In no more than three days time, ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will face charges of inciting the deaths of protesters during the revolution that saw his fall from power, Israel Radio reported Monday, citing Egyptian legal sources. According to the report, Mubarak will also face charges of taking other measures against protesters, including cutting communications, satellites and the internet in Egypt during the revolution against him. [...] Last week, Egypt's ruling military council dismissed speculation it would pardon former Mubarak, who is under investigation for graft and abuse of power, and said it does not interfere in judicial affairs.
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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Suzanne Mubarak, wife of toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, suffered a heart attack Friday after being questioned in a corruption investigation, the manager of the Sharm el-Sheikh Hospital said. The manager, Mohamed Fatah Allah, said she had been taken to the intensive care unit. The incident came shortly after Suzanne Mubarak was ordered detained for 15 days in a corruption case, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported. Assem al-Gohary, the assistant justice minister for the Illicit Gains Authority, ordered her detained for "obtaining illegal wealth using her husband's position and political authority." A team of...
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Egyptian Justice Minister Mohammed el-Guindi on Saturday said that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will face the death penalty if convicted of ordering the shooting of demonstrators, the Associated Press reported. Guindi told Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, "Certainly, if convicted for the crime of killing protesters, it could result in the death sentence," according to the report. Additionally, he said that Mubarak had made corruption the chief "discourse" of his government. Mubarak, his wife and two sons are all facing corruption charges. Vital to a conviction for opening fire on protesters, Guindi said, was whether former Egyptian interior minister Habib el-Adly...
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Egypt has released 950 jailed members of the militant Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya. Some of them have been in prison since the assassination of President Anwar Sadat 25 years ago. The group's lawyer says about 950 members of Gamaa Islamiya have been released over the last 10 days. The largest group, several hundred, were freed Tuesday, in honor of a Muslim holiday marking the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. Those released include several senior figures, some of whom have been imprisoned for more than 20 years. Gamaa Islamiya was once Egypt's largest militant Islamist group, responsible for a string of...
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Egypt's fact-finding committee's report held Mubarak ultimately responsible for killing the protestors during Jan. 25 uprising to force the former regime to step down, local news website Al Shorouk reported on Tuesday. Fact-finding committee, formed in Ahmed Shafiq's cabinet and included panel of judges, submitted its final report to the ministry of justice, saying 846 civilians were killed and more than 6,400 people were injuries during the 18 days massive nation-wide demonstrations. Omar Marawan, the committee's secretary general, said at a press conference after the release of the report that 26 policemen were killed, 149 prisoners died and 263 were...
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The Obama administration is scrambling to repair dam aged relations with Ameri ca's most prominent Arab ally -- and it's hard to blame the Saudis for being furious. Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to beg for an audience in the Saudi king's palace. (Gates was making the rounds in the region -- but the Saudis at first declined to see him.) Then National Security Adviser Tom Donilon showed up again on Wednesday for a hastily arranged meet. According to The Washington Post, he hand-delivered a secret letter from President Obama to King Abdullah. And yesterday the White House...
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NBC’s Brokaw: Saudis ‘So Unhappy' With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia Seeking Enhanced Ties Wednesday, April 06, 2011 By Susan Jones (CNSNews.com) – Reporting from Baghdad, Iraq yesterday, NBC’s Tom Brokaw said the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt” that it has sent senior officials to the Peoples' Republic of China and Russia to seek expanded business opportunities with those countries. After remarking on the difficulty of establishing democracy in the Middle East, Brokaw said that Defense Secretary Robert Gates “will face some tough...
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The military junta ruling Egypt has announced that parliamentary elections will be held in September. Rather than spending the next five months complaining, those who aren’t supporting the Muslim Brotherhood better get started actually working and organizing. I’ll analyze this a lot more in the coming months but briefly the blocs are as follows: Islamists: The Muslim Brotherhood says it is aiming at getting 30 percent of the seats. I think they’ll succeed. A smaller, moderate Islamist party — whose members split from the Brotherhood because they say it is too extremist — would be lucky to get any seats....
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Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned on Thursday and a former transport minister was picked to appoint a new government after pro-democracy activists demanded a purge of Hosni Mubarak's old guard from the cabinet. Military rulers said they had accepted the resignation of Shafiq and appointed Essam Sharaf in this place.
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Libya retains the focus of the moment, for the media need a headline, but the background story is so much larger. The entire region is on fire, or very close to ignition, from Morocco to Pakistan, and we need to start thinking on this larger scale. It does not follow, from the fact everyone is hooting, that Moammar Gadhafi will fall. He might, tomorrow, for all I know, or all anyone knows who is not clairvoyant. But as I recall, Saddam Hussein did not fall after the Gulf War of 1991. And the comparison is instructive. [....] Saddam's consistent policy...
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/begin my excerpts Kim Jong-il Orders Dozens of Tanks to be Deployed around his Residence at Yongsung, Pyongyang Sources in Pyongyang reported on Feb. 28, "When the Egyptian protests were at their peak in early February, Kim Jong-il deployed tens of tanks around his residence at Yongsung, Pyongyang." They believe that he made such decision when it was apparent that Egyptian President Mubarak, whom he had close relationship with, was being forced to step down, and it made him extremely wary. The sourced added, "Starting at the second half of 2009, when the succession process is in (full) progress, he...
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Egypt imposed a travel ban Monday on former president Hosni Mubarak and his family while complaints about their wealth are being investigated. The public prosecutor issued an order freezing the money and assets of Mubarak and his family, following claims that they had acquired wealth through illegal means, a spokesman for the prosecutor said. A Cairo criminal court is set to look into the case on March 5, the state news agency MENA said. The travel ban follows the prosecutor’s February 21 decision to ask foreign governments to freeze the overseas assets of Mubarak, who handed power to the army...
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Events in Egypt with Mubarak resigning and thousands of jubilant Egyptians in the streets have brought joy and hopefulness to people in Egypt and around the world. We hear the siren words of freedom, liberty and justice from the Egyptians in the streets, while the media portray these events as joyous blessings and the end of a tyranny. Perhaps. We seem to be, again, without any history context. With more of this important context, the need for caution would be obvious. For these words of freedom, liberty, justice (a supremely vague term) have all been heard before, and they did...
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~ EXCERPT ~ Thousands in the streets protesting. Chanting workers, young and old, taking over a government building and grinding activity to a halt. Lawmakers fleeing. An executive standing firm in face of the revolt. **snip** President Obama weighed in on the issue on Wednesday, calling Walker's legislation "an assault on unions." **snip** "The President was quicker and more forceful of his denouncement of Gov. Scott Walker than he was of denouncing Hosni Mubarak," (ABC News Correspondent Jon) Karl said. "Madison, Wisconsin – the state of Wisconsin -- this is arguably ground zero for the 2012 presidential campaign. Look, this...
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Egyptian authorities arrested on Thursday former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly and two other ex-ministers who are under investigation for corruption, security officials said. Authorities also arrested steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz, once a prominent member of the ouster leader Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party. El-Adly, whose job gave him control over the 500,000-strong security forces, has been widely blamed for the deadly brutality used by riot police against demonstrators in massive protests that began Jan. 25 and forced Mubarak to step down Feb. 11. El-Adly served in his former post for 12 years. News of el-Adly's arrest followed the detention...
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Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak refused to respond to telephone calls from US President Barack Obama because he still felt offended by Obama's statement in which he called on Mubarak "to step down immediately," London-based Arabic language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Thursday. Mubarak, still living in "presidential style" in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to the report, refused an invitation from Saudi King Abdullah to come to the kingdom, telling him he preferred to die on Egyptian soil. The report said that it was not clear if Mubarak had been in contact with Egypt's new military rulers through his former deputy...
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WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday. Mr. Obama’s order, known as a Presidential Study Directive, identified likely flashpoints, most notably Egypt, and solicited proposals for how the administration could push for political change in countries with autocratic rulers who are also valuable allies of the United States, these officials said.
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Egypt's ousted president has given up and wants to die in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he has been living since a popular uprising ended his rule, a Saudi official said on Wednesday. Hosni Mubarak, 82, has suffered from health problems in recent years and travelled to Germany for gall bladder surgery in March last year. Reports of a further decline have increased since he stepped down on Friday after three decades in power. An official in Saudi Arabia said the kingdom had offered to host Mubarak but he was determined to see out his days in...
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