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keptics to believe in his campaign promises that things will get better. And that won't be easy. When Morsi faced off against former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq in last month's presidential runoff contest, half the country's voters didn't participate, and those who bothered to show up divided nearly down th
e. That left Morsi (who hadn't even been his own party's first choice for the presidency) the winner by the barest of majorities over his opponent, Shafiq, who was widely viewed as the military's favored candidate and a relic of Hosni Mubarak's ousted dictatorship. The worst of it is this: no matter
l elections took place against this backdrop. The result of the first round confirmed this dichotomy, with Egyptians left to choose between General Ahmed Shafiq, a long-time protégé of Hosni Mubarak, and Mohamed Morsi, a protégé of the Brotherhood's strongman Khayrat Elshater. If anything, this "choice" is
researcher with Human Rights Watch, said Sunday night. "It was a soft coup to start with, but now it's pretty blatant." Trading fraud allegations Shafiq's campaign issued a statement Sunday accusing the Brotherhood of "systemic" fraud, including ballot stuffing, voter bribing, voter intimidation and
eptics to believe in his campaign promises that things will get better. And that won't be easy. When Morsi faced off against former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq in last month's presidential runoff contest, half the country's voters didn't participate, and those who bothered to show up divided nearly down th
. That left Morsi (who hadn't even been his own party's first choice for the presidency) the winner by the barest of majorities over his opponent, Shafiq, who was widely viewed as the military's favored candidate and a relic of Hosni Mubarak's ousted dictatorship. The worst of it is this: no matter
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Hosni Mubarak
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Bashar al-Assad
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Mohamed Morsi
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Bill Clinton
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Cairo
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Hillary Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Mitt Romney
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Fatah
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United States
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West Bank
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Damascus
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Tunisia
LOCATIONthe Gaza Strip
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Muslim Brotherhood
ORGANIZATIONthe Suez Canal
LOCATIONSinai
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Bill Burns
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