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will divide the vote, denying anyone a decisive win. Then a non-Islamist, perhaps Amr Moussa, Mubarak's foreign minister and a former head of the Arab League, could win the second round. That would be a far better outcome for the military-intelligence complex than a Brotherhood president, particularly no
y elections, it declined to field a candidate for president and prohibited its members from running. When senior party official Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh disobeyed and entered the contest last summer, he was summarily expelled. Not until March 31 did the Brotherhood, frustrated by the SCAF's politica
el Lahib, during a pit stop by the Amr Moussa campaign in a Nile Delta hamlet called Mit Fares. "Egypt needs a man like him," he said of the former Arab League secretary-general. EFTA00630288 Hundreds of men thronged the candidate, shouting, "Purify the country!" and "We want to kiss you!" In his tailore
ersonified by the other two front-runners: the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and the ex-Muslim Brother Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. It is Aboul Fotouh who most worries Moussa's strategists: he is giving the former minister a run for first place, marketing himself as potential bridge candidate, a "
e Amr Moussa campaign in a Nile Delta hamlet called Mit Fares. "Egypt needs EFTA_R1_00296206 EFTA01882542 a man like him," he said of the former Arab League secretary- general. Hundreds of men thronged the candidate, shouting, "Purify the country!" and "We want to kiss you!" In his tailored suit, and c
nish his Islamist credentials while reassuring his left flank that he opposes such literal interpretations as severing the hands of thieves. Aboul Fotouh's stump speech played to his Islamist base rather than to his revolutionary and secular sympathizers. A Muslim Brotherhood member in the audience n
Entities connected to both Arab League and Fotouh

Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Tehran
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Amr Moussa
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Damascus
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Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Tunisia
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Jerusalem
LOCATION
Fatah
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the Persian Gulf
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Marc Rich
PERSON
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
Mohamed Morsi
PERSON
Sudan
LOCATION
Muslim Brotherhood
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