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's rise is stirring concerns in some neighboring countries and in the wider international community that the fall of the minority Alawite regime in Damascus would be followed by the ascent of a Sunni Islamist government, extending into a volatile region a trend set in Egypt and Tunisia. In those countri
trays as a power-hungry Islamist tide, personified 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 b
e moderate because they bore the brunt of economic boycotts and military clashes with Israel. Exiled Hamas bosses living in the relative comfort of Damascus, however, could afford to take a tougher stance. But the "Arab Spring" has turned the equation on its head, with longtime hard-liners who had resid
onfrontation between the Islamist lawmakers and security forces. Other prominent politicians called on Egyptians to resist the military's actions. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former Brotherhood member who was a presidential candidate in the first round of voting, called the constitutional declaration a "full military
's rise is stirring concerns in some neighboring countries and in the wider international community that the fall of the minority Alawite regime in Damascus would be followed by the ascent of a Sunni Islamist government, extending into a volatile region a trend set in Egypt and Tunisia. In those countr
rays as a power-hungry Islamist tide, personified 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 b
Entities connected to both Damascus and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Tehran
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Tunisia
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Hosni Mubarak
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Marc Rich
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Fatah
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Jerusalem
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Prince Andrew
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Beirut
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Mohamed Morsi
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Sudan
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Istanbul
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Stephen Hawking
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Muslim Brotherhood
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