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January 23, 2014

Egyptian prisoners gassed to death in an increasingly grisly war

These days, as the sun rises over Egypt it brings with it death, violence and arrests. On Sunday it brought with it an episode worse than your darkest nightmares....

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January 23, 2014

Pharaoh Al-Sisi - the Emperor with no clothes

News that Egyptian courts have ordered the release of former president Hosni Mubarak demonstrated that the regime has removed its final fig leaf, the emperor revealed with no clothes....

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January 23, 2014

Political stupidity prevails

The coup leaders lost their minds and their insight the day they conspired against legitimacy, captured the elected president, Mohammed Morsi, and carried out a bloody military coup on...

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January 23, 2014

Western public oppose military intervention in Syria

Last Wednesday opposition activists in Syria reported over 1,000 dead after a gruesome attack in which rockets with chemical weapons were launched into the Ghouta area of Damascus. Doctors...

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January 23, 2014

Russia protestations unlikely to impact on plans for Syria

According to this morning’s newspapers, the US and UK are finalising plans for a military strike on Syria. The attack is a response to the alleged use of chemical...

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January 23, 2014

War clouds loom large over Syria

With the west serious about an attack on Syria on the grounds that the regime used chemical weapons last week, the ongoing crisis has taken a dangerous turn. Although...

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January 23, 2014

The Arabs and the war on Syria

Instead of rushing to judgement, the Arab League states meeting in Cairo this week should have waited for the report of the UN weapons inspectors before handing the reins...

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January 23, 2014

Head of Egyptian Commerce joins Egypt's 'terror campaign'

A leader of Egypt’s National Chamber of Commerce has joined the political and military attacks against the Muslim Brotherhood by labelling it a terrorist organisation. Ahmed El-Wakil, President of...

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January 23, 2014

Gaza's enemies come out of the woodwork

Suddenly, blood no longer holds any weight between brothers and no one affiliates with the common thread of Arabism. Talk of an Arab army’s aggression towards Gaza is normalised...

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January 23, 2014

Interim Prime Minister El-Beblawi glories in army brutality

A noted news correspondent for ABC in America, Martha Raddatz, could not hide her distaste and surprise as she told viewers of the recent comments made by Hazem El-Beblawi,...

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