ving toward democracy after toppling Husni Mubarak following a 32-year reign is now being trashed by opposition leaders as mere 'cosmetic" changes. Mohammed ElBaradei, the former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency and a leader of the opposition, denounced the resulting document as being a 'dictat

gypt, for instance, a military council was stipulated to hold only the purest of motives although no proof was forthcoming. Even the denouncement by Mohammed ElBaradei [the opposition leader with arguably the most prominent international profile as former head of the UN nuclear watchdog organization] of the counci

tack as a Mubarak toady. There are a total of thirteen candidates, including four minor party aspirants. One well-known individual is not running. Mohammed ElBaradei, of longtime IAEA and Nobel Prize fame, has opted out of the process, preferring to create a new party of his own and seek the presidential post i