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| Egypt Detains Top Opposition Activist over 'Inciting Protest' |
| 2013-05-11 |
[An Nahar] Egypt's security forces on Friday tossed in the clinkYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! the founder of one of the key youth movements behind the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime upon his arrival at Cairo Airport from Vienna, a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse. Ahmed Maher of the April 6 movement was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! at the airport "based on the orders of the general security department at the interior ministry," the official said. His passport was confiscated and he was transferred to the prosecution for questioning, the official MENA news agency said. According to an interior ministry official quoted by MENA, Maher is accused of incitement to protest outside the house of Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim. Mohammed Adel, front man for the April 6 movement, told Agence La Belle France Presse that Maher contacted him when he was first detained "but we have not been able to reach him since." Hailed as heroes in the aftermath of the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , the youth-led group has since splintered into two factions. April 6 had supported President Mohamed Morsi during the June presidential elections, but since then it has become increasingly vocal in its opposition to the Islamist leader who they accuse of pursuing Mubarak's practices and betraying the revolution that brought him to power. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I dunno Bill. They seem to be functioning well enough to cause trouble everywhere. Depends on what you definition of success is. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-05-11 12:31 |
| #3 Looks like lights are going out all over Egypt as the kids and dreamers that got rid of Mubarak are waking up to the realization that life under Sharia as the MB wants to interpret it is going to be very harsh. So much for elections. Every time you let the Moslem clerics and fanatics get involved, democracy goes out the window. It is time they learn the interpretations of the Quran need to be updated. You cannot function in the 21st century with a 7th century mindset. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-05-11 11:52 |
| #2 Actually what Mohammed faced was tribal anarchism. Kinda hard to take over the known world with that. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-11 11:33 |
| #1 Moslems are not very good at "democracy". Mohammed had a problem with it too. It just never seems to catch on with Moslems. They prefer stinky old boots and everybody all in a line with their butts in the air. |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-05-11 06:43 |