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was tall and handsome, well-spoken in French and English, and ran the General Intelligence Service from a gleaming modern office set in a park in Cairo. U.S., Israeli and European officials intelligence officials saw him as one of the bright lights of the new government. This praise may have made m

policies of Morsi's government and its seemingly mutual self-protection pact with the Egyptian generals who still hold considerable power through the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF. Morsi and the military appear to have concluded that the fired intelligence chief, Gen. Murad Muwafi, was a convenient scapegoat after t

ust in the law, he said, as though he still hoped better from the regional uprising that began with peaceful displays of national unity in Tunis and Cairo. Across the region, Colonel Qaddafi's bloody end has brought home the growing awareness of the challenges that lie ahead: the balancing of vengeanc

e the costs," said Ms. Anderson of the American University in Cairo. "Everyone will have to decide how much of those costs they can bear, including the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces." Still, the military appeared to be engaged in a gradual negotiation toward "a more civilian kind of government," she said, adding, "Nobody ever g

swer. Out. EFTA_R1_02047569 EFTA02695892 12 Article 3. The Atlantic The Inevitable Rise of Egypt's Islamists Thanassis Cambanis 8 Decmber -- Cairo -- Egypt's liberals have been apoplectic over the early results from the recent elections here. Everybody expected the Islamists to do well and for

Egypt." It's too early in the game to predict the alliances and policy agendas that will flow from the high-performing Islamist parties. Moreover, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces still holds all the cards. It alone appoints the government. The next parliament's job will be to help draft the next constitution, nothing more. A

xperience, more educated and prosperous and linked to Europe than the norm. As the rebellion made its way eastward, it skipped Libya and arrived in Cairo, "the mother of the world." There, it found a stage worthy of its ambitions. Often written off as the quintessential land of political EFTA_R1_002

the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak, there's no agreement — on how to celebrate or even whether rejoicing is in order. The current military rulers — the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF — want to hold parades and aerial jet exhibitions to exult in the revolution, of which their main part was to ease Mubarak out of power.

s a defense fellow at The Washington Institute. Article 2. Newsweek The Plagues of Egypt Sarah A. Topol July 16, 2012 -- The streets of downtown Cairo are sweltering as usual this summer afternoon, but Tamer Hassan resists the urge to turn on the taxi's air conditioning. Instead, the 39-year-old

with holdovers from the Mubarak regime, effectively dissolved the country's first freely elected EFTA_R1_02209742 EFTA02723614 Parliament. Then the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) amended its own previously issued Constitutional Declaration, giving veto power to the military in the drafting of a new constitution exemp