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2	Israel ’needs Georgia for Iran strike’: report LONDON, (IranMania) - A recent report suggests that the US and Israel had plans to use Georgia as a launchpad for aerial strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, PressTV reported.

2	MB Nominates Copts, Liberals For Lawyers’ Syndicate Election... Spokesman of Muslim Brotherhood lawyers Mohamed Tosson announced on Sunday that MB “national slate” for the Bar Association elections will include liberals, Islamists, and a Copt.

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Maat Center ended yesterday the "Voter’s Voice" Project Maat center ended yesterday the project of "Voter’s Vote" in a conference attended by Dr.Ali Al Deen Helal, the ex-minister of youth, a member of the Arabic Connection for Democracy, and informative trustee in the National Party. The conference was also attended by Yemeni delegation headed by Mr. Mohamed Alaedaroos, a member in

2	Ballad of the Old Cafés For centuries, the academic center of the world lay in the Fertile Crescent, stretching from Egypt to Iraq. Institutions like Baghdad’s Dar al-Hikma (a vast academic center that thrived from the ninth to the 13th centuries) and the Great Library of Alexandria

2	Interior Ministry Orders Detention Of Facebook Activist Afte... Interior Ministry has ordered the detention of blogger Mohamed Refaat on Sunday after a week he spent in custody in the State Security headquarters in Lazoghly square. Refaat was acquitted by the prosecution last week.

2	Gov’t Is Responsible for the Egyptian Setback at Beijing Oly... Muslim Brotherhood MP Hisham Al-Qadhi (member of Youth and Sports Committee at the PA) has held the government responsible for the Egyptian “alarming setback” at Beijing Olympics 2008. e

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The Awesome Palestinians Last night I did something I usually don’t do: I planted my eight-year old son in front of the TV and ordered: watch. It was the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games. We watched over two hours of amazing choreography, high-minded symbolism, cute children, huge screens, thousands of performers (basically men doing the heavy

2	After Gaddafi, Egypt Opposition Wants Gamal Mubarak To Follo... Egyptian opposition forces reacted differently towards Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi’s decision to renounce political work in an attempt to end rumors about his possible succession to his father Mu’ammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader.

2	Hamdi Hassan Demands The Interior Minister To Resign Dr. Hamdi Hassan (member of the parliamentary bloc of Muslim Brotherhood) demanded the Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli to resign because of the violations and transgressions by some police officers against the Egyptian citizen.

2	Israel threatens participants in anti-siege trip GAZA, (PIC)-- The Israeli embassy in Athens threatened Tuesday the group of activists participating in the anti-siege sea trip that the Israeli navy would use armed force if they approached the Gaza shores.

2	IOF extort Palestinian students to work as collaborators RAMALLAH,(PIC)-- At least seven Palestinian citizens were kidnapped at the hands of the IOF troops on Tuesday in the West Bank city of Tulkarem after they stormed the

2	MB Bloc Criticizes Gov’t Response To Parliament Building Fir... “The building that went on fire contains the most important documents of Egypt’s Parliamentary history, but efforts to save the building were not equal to the heavy security blockade over the place,” El Katatny said.

2	The Game is Over Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stepped down in the face of intense political pressure. His legacy is likely to be better than expected, argues Thomas B?rthlein. But there is still much to be achieved

2	The Rise of Nawaz Sharif in the Post-Musharraf Era The wake of Musharraf’s resignation is a litmus test for Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister overthrown by Musharraf in a 1999 coup. Will he respond to the call of his conservative voters

2	Cyber Islam and Online Fatwas Islamic associations are increasingly joining others in taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the World Wide Web. In her study "Islam goes Internet. Websites of Isla

2	Overcoming the Apartheid Muslim Filmmakers Face The "Union for Short Filmmakers of Muslim Countries" aims to focus on problems that moviemakers face and to help them gain access to international film festivals. Martin Gerner talked to Maheen Zia, founding member of the union from Pakistan

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Egypt: Censorship Now Prevents Printing Newspaper The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information - anhri.net - expressed its objection and firm condemnation toward Al Ahram Press’ rejection to print the second edition of Al-Badeel, the daily independent newspaper today, following the newspaper coverage of the fire breakout in al-Shoura Council, including some highlights of experts’ stating that the “fire occurred by an actor”.

2	Morsi Condemns Algeria Tragic Blasts Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood Political Department Mohamed Morsi condemnded in a statement to Ikhwanweb the suicide bombings that hit the Algerian towns Issers and Bouira on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing 54 and wounding 76 according to official figures.

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Editorial: Goodbye Musharraf, Checkmate For Others Western intelligentsia must understand our region’s need for change, and that the Pakistani experience in peaceful constitutional change is the best possible scenario of democratic transformation for our region, and the kind of change we in the Muslim Brotherhood opt for, namely, peaceful democratic change that honors the choice of the people, shuns violence, and comes through the ballot box.

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After the letter to Obama The pro-regime shadow parties which I barely can keep their names in my mind,also the pro-regime NDP lawyers raced to sue Nour as if he were a free person!! The lawsuits reached to the level of treason "Shabab Misr Party" , yeah treason !! Wow that is really big word , Nour did not sell our secret airport location to Obama in his letter folks !! Already it is first time I hear that you can sue a person for treason , is n’t this a matter of national security nature ??

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Opposition Alliances and Democratization in Egypt Many Egyptians, both within the opposition and the ruling party, believe that a swift democratic opening of the country’s political system could lead to a decisive Islamist electoral victory. However, intellectuals of various political leanings view the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Egypt’s largest organized Islamist political group, with suspicion, contending that the MB ultimately aims to replace one undemocratic political system with another.

2	Urgent Query About Egypt’s Setback At Beijing Games Muslim Brotherhood MP Azab Mustafa has submitted an urgent query to the Prime Minister Dr. Ahmad Nazif demanding clarification of the falure of Egypt’s delegation to the 2008 Beijing Olympic games and the millions of pounds wasted as a result.

2	Interior Ministry Bans MB Leader From Traveling To Algeria Egyptian security forces have barred Political Advisor to Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Prof. Abdul-Hamid Al-Ghazali from traveling to Algeria on Wednesday to attend the Eighth Summer University in Algeria.

2	Teachers lash out at assessment exam, demand more respect CAIRO: About 120 school teachers expressed their rejection of government plans to link pay increases with teachers’ performance in assessment exams at a protest Thursday.

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Harsh Words: But True 21/08/08 "ICH" - - - During a recent stay with a Palestinian family in the West Bank, I found myself in their basement, watching the news with two of my host’s sons. The week’s events had been particularly violent, with fierce clashes between the Israel defence forces (IDF) and villagers in the town of Nilin, where we were now sitting, as

2	Parliament Blaze Might Be Arson, Says Brotherhood MP Mohsin Radi (member of the MB parliamentary bloc and member of Information and Culture Committee at the PA) strenuously criticized the Interior Ministry for violating the journalists’ right to cover the Shura Council blaze events.

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Ould Mansour: Party Closure Threat Won’t Stop Our Opposition... We condemned, opposed and rejected this coup for very clear reasons: First: Due our attitude of rejecting military coups or the use of force to reach power. Second: The country has been witnessing a healthy democratic atmosphere. It has been witnessing political competition and every party was free to do whatever he wants as long as it is in line with the constitution and law.

2	PRC: The battle for the Aqsa has started GAZA, (PIC)-- The battle for the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem has begun and all Mujahideen should prepare to sacrifice all for the sake of protecting the holy site, Abu Abir, the spokesman, of the popular resistance committees said on Thursday.

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Haneyya asks Red Cross to work on lifting siege on Gaza GAZA, (PIC)-- Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, called Wednesday on the Red Cross delegation to work on lifting the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip and to intervene to facilitate the travel of patients for medical treatment outside the Strip.

2	The Cairo Inferno It was horrible how people stood on the pavement in front of the Shura Council after the fire broke out to gloat over the misfortune of the country and its ruling party.

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Remembering a Towering Personality Long before Francis Fukuyama published his famous article by the end of last century, an Arab thinker coined the term "End of History" in a different context. As it was in Arabic, it did not attract a lot of attention and the author was not much credited. That was one of the early books of Dr Abdul Wahab Al Messiri, who died in Cairo on the 3rd of July 2008, aged 70.

2	Middle East still at war: the US is losing but the winners a... In a period of rapid decline of American power around the world, the danger of choosing military force to assert US global reach becomes more, not less likely, and nowhere is that more clear than in the Middle East.

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IOF troops storm Jerusalemite home, kidnap youth and steal g... OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Joint forces of the Israeli army, police and special units blasted their way into the home of a Palestinian Jerusalemite on Thursday in Enata village east of occupied Jerusalem, took away his son and stole his wife’s golden ornaments.

2	Pervez Musharraf leaves a fractured Pakistan When Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999, he was besieged by American demands that his military stop supporting the Taliban in Kabul and help them apprehend Osama bin Laden.

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Brotherhood MP: Interior Ministry Misleads the Public He added that the interior tries to pretty up the careless and poor performance of the government and to expressly end all means media might utilize against the regime. He indicated that the government should be held responsible for the death of more than 1300 Egyptians in the ferry disaster as well as for the blaze that tore through the historical building of the Egyptian Parliament. He said such incidents mirror the poor and dismaying performance of the government.

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Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood, Long Path that Needs Review We hope that the movement’s scholars and intellectuals in the West reconsider the content of the central idea- of reviving life in light of Islam and that Islam rules as it was -which emerged when the group was first founded. This is because every one knows that targets of the Islamic mission in the West doesn’t include that Islam rules in it or that life is maintained in the light of Islam. Because these societies have never been ruled by Islam and majorities are none Muslims, and Mus

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Radi Criticizes Releasing Israeli Tourists Who Assaulted Egy... Mohsin Radi (member of the MB parliamentary bloc and member of the Information and Tourism Committee) strenuously criticized releasing six Israeli tourists by Tur Sinai Prosecution after they assaulted Egyptian workers in a Sharm El Sheikh hotel on Friday.

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150 Clergy Appeal to Obama: Don’t Lose Your Ethical Vision, ... In an open-letter to Senator Obama, over 150 American clergy appealed to the Democratic candidate for President to retain the ethical and spiritual vision that won him the nomination in the first place. Rejecting the “inside-the-Beltway” wisdom that a Democrat must “move to the center to win the election,” the clergy disputed the very notion that this is an accurate understanding of American politics.

2	Gaza Boats: The SS Free Gaza & SS Liberty are on their Way t... Forty-six international human rights workers are now sailing to Gaza through international waters with one overriding goal: to break the Israeli siege that Israel has imposed on the civilian population of Gaza . Any action designed to

2	MB Leader Visits Algeria, Condemns Terror Attacks In his visit to the Algerian capital upon an invitation from the Society For Peace movement “Hems,” Al Husseini denounced the terrorist attacks that hit two Algerian cities last week.

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Democratic Convention To Highlight Diverse Community Of Fait... First-Ever Faith Caucus Meetings to be Held at Democratic Convention Invocators and Benedictors to Include Pastor Joel Hunter, Rabbi David Saperstein, Sister Catherine Pinkerton, Reverend Cynthia Hale, Archbishop Demetrios, Cameron Strang

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Egypt parliament fire fuels scorn of government Firefighters appeared ineffectual Tuesday as they battled the blaze raging through the top floors of the 19th-century palace that houses the Shoura Council. Dozens of fire trucks rushed to the scene, but at least in the early hours, only a few sprayed water on it. Firefighters mainly stayed outside, while the flames spread and ravaged

2	We Salute You As I write these words, two boats with some 46 peace activists from many nationalities onboard are sailing from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip in a symbolic effort to break Israel’s cruel blockade of the coastal Palestinian territory.

2	Akef Praises European Activists For Breaking Gaza Siege Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohamed Mahdy Akef expressed his solidarity with the anti-siege European activists whose vessels anchored at the Gaza port on Saturday despite difficulties and Israeli threats.

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The State Security Arrest a Blogger under the State of Emerg... The state security apparatus had raided Mohamed Refaat’s home early in the morning on 21st of July 2008 in his absence, and seized his PC, and many of his books, and when Mohamed Refaat approached the officer “ Hisham Tawfik” in the morning in the state security offices, he shocked by the fabricated charges of “inciting to strike on the occasion of 23rd July”, he was then referred to the state security prosecution office in the case no. 1143 for the year 2008. The state security had de

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A Post-Pharaonic Egypt? The next leadership succession in Egypt will differ fundamentally from the previous two (from Gamal Abdel Nasser to Anwar Sadat in the early autumn of 1970, and from Sadat to Mubarak in October 1981) because there is still no clearly designated heir. Unlike his predecessors, Mubarak has refused to appoint a vice president due to concerns about loyalty. He has also assiduously eliminated senior officials who had independent political bases or were becoming popular with the public, notab

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Security Forces Arrest Four In Upper Egypt Security forces arrested four citizens from the Upper Egypt city of Aswan on Friday after storming their houses and seizing all their private papers and some of their belongings. They were probably arrested because of their involvement in the latest local elections, their

2	Zogby Then and Now The resignation two weeks ago of Mazen Asbahi, Sen. Barack Obama’s Muslim outreach coordinator, sparked outrage among several self-appointed leaders of the "organized" Muslim and Arab community. Ahmed Rehab, mouthpiece for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), claimed

2	Intimidation Will Not Stop Our Mission This morning I am sorry to find myself back on dry land in Cyprus, separated from my fellow sailors who are now completing the final leg of their trip to Gaza. They are carrying humanitarian and medical aid to a people now suffering both an

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The Fire Is under Control! Fire was devouring the historical building of Egypt’s Shura Council when a parliamentary official appeared on television, behind the lights and in front of the cameras, standing between the firemen, to announce that "the fire is under control." The building continued to burn for hours after this, until the fire spread to its three floors, leaving the building without floors, rooms or halls.

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Open letter to President Obama Dear Mr President, I am aware that the presidential campaign is not over and that surprises are to be expected, but I have no doubt that, all things being equal, you will be the future president of the United States of America. My reasons for saying so are many, and I do not need to go into them in detail here, as I did just that in an article entitled, "What if?" which ran in this same space right after Hillary Clinton bowed out of the race. Suffice it to say that I believe that th

2	An Interview With Muslim Brotherhood’s #2, Mohammed Habib His rise to the position of deputy supreme leader became possible when his predecessor in the job was sentenced to five years in prison by an Egyptian military tribunal for financing a banned organization — alongside 25 other members of the

2	The Blogging Revolution lands The young online tribe is more interested in discussing sex, drugs and rock’n’roll than political revolution, writes Antony Loewenstein Early last month, some Iranian members of parliament voted to debate a draft bill

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American Jews and the Palestinians 24/08/08 "Counterpunch" -- - For many years, now decades, I have been silent as a Jew about Israel’s relationship to, and treatment of, the Palestinian people and my place as an American Jew in that equation. Recently, I looked back at the Jews who I have known personally, as friends and acquaintances, and examined how their views about Palestinians and Israel have affected me and deepened my silence.

2	Abdel Sattar El Meligi Is Not A Muslim Brotherhood Leader, S... Muslim Brotherhood Secretary General Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat denied that Dr. Sayed Abdel Sattar El Meligi is a leader or spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood.

2	Morsi Slams Inaccurate Media Reports About the Muslim Brothe... Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood political department Dr. Mohamed Morsi strenuously criticized media outlets that repeatedly link the Muslim Brotherhood with the US-based Holy Land Foundation without any tangible evidence or clue.

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Pakistan’s Islamic Group: Coalition Must Change Musharraf’s ... Abdul-Ghaffar Aziz (Advisor to the Chairman of Pakistan’s Islamic Group) has warned in statements to Ikhwanweb the governing coalition against repeating the same policies of Musharraf, saying it will face the same end if it does not change course.

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An Interview with Cindy Sheehan In July of 2007, I decided to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco’s 8th District if she did not reverse her treasonous position of the Constitutional remedy of impeachment being "off the table." As I didn’t belong to any political party at that point, I weighed my options and decided to re-register as "Decline to State." Although I resonate with many parts of third party platforms, I thought to retain my independent integrity I would make my bid unaffiliated with an

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When Hamas and Jordan Talk The Jordanians threw Hamas out of the country a few years ago soon after King Abdullah II assumed office, and ever since then two major trends have defined their ties. The first is that Jordan has seen Hamas (and Hezbollah) as significant strategic threats because of their close ties with Iran. At one point a few years ago I heard from senior officials in Amman that they feared Hamas and Hezbollah would fire rockets and attack Jordanian targets in retaliation for any possible Israeli a