Posted on 03/14/2005 1:37:53 AM PST by JohnHuang2
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO -- Ayman Nour, the opposition politician released from jail during the weekend, has done the unthinkable in a country where charismatic challengers are kept from rising, mainly by powerful security officials. First, he won a seat in parliament for two terms, then developed a popular base and finally gained approval for a political party, only the third in 25 years, after three rejections and without a court order. Now he is presenting himself as an alternative to President Hosni Mubarak when the nation holds its first multiparty presidential election later this year.
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