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Egyptian 'Battle of the Camels' officials acquitted

An Egyptian court acquits 24 ex-officials, including top Mubarak-era figures, of sending men on camels and horses to attack Cairo protesters in 2011.

Ten Camels reward for Obama 'absurd' say's US Envoy ;0)

A top US envoy dismisses as "absurd" a reward of 10 camels for information about President Barack Obama's hideout by Somalia's al-Shabab militants

Two shot dead in Egypt violence

Two people are shot dead and more than 400 injured in protests across Egypt sparked by the deaths of 74 people after a football match.

Two shot dead in Egypt violence 

(bbc)

Soosan Khanoom

There is a big difference between a criminal act by two Dodgers' fans beating a Giants fan in the parking lot and, the full scale riot and attacking the opposing fans and players in Port Saeid.

p.s. Philadelphia has the least friendly fans for a city that calls itself, "The City of Brotherly Love!"

Enjoy the winter weather there!

Faramarz

Perhaps you are right .... but it is not cultural as well ... 

Go to a Dodger game wearing the wrong color and see what happens.

lol 

الاهلی ۰ - الوحشی ۷۳

It seems like this one was not political, but rather cultural.

i guess Philadelphia Eagles

Riots in Egypt lead to sackings

Riots in Egypt lead to sackings (bbc)

Football and security officials in Egypt are sacked as marchers take to the streets in protest at Wednesday's riots in Port Said in which 74 died.

Jon Leyne BBC News, Cairo :

Even as the violence was continuing at the Port Said football ground, Egyptians began suspecting, wondering if darker forces were at play.

The Muslim Brotherhood, now the largest party in parliament, accused remnants of the Mubarak regime of provoking the riot in an attempt to reduce the country to chaos.

Egyptian football fans can be notoriously violent. But what immediately aroused suspicions is the fact that the al-Ahly supporters, known as Ultras, have become a political force as well. They have been at the forefront of many of the big confrontations with security forces in the last year.

What really happened at the Port Said stadium may never fully be known. It's just as likely to have been a case of incompetence, from a police force which has been seriously under strength since they were chased off the streets in the revolution a year ago.

The immediate danger for the Egyptian authorities is of new violence, as angry football supporters take to the streets once again. But this has also provoked a new political crisis, undermining trust in the ruling military council, at a time when Egypt is moving towards presidential elections and the handover to civilian rule.

Like Ahmadinejad,

Mubarak should have mindlessly spouted slogans in order to become the darling of IR terrorists and their peons. He should have asked the "Zionist Entity" to return to her pre-'67 borders to be loved by the terrorists in Tehran. Oops, a typo! I should've written, pre-'47! After all, we do want Israel off the map of the world, don't we!

Comrad Jaan He sure Didn't ... You should know who to blame ;0)

His Formative Soviet Training ... 

When Hosni Mubarak undertook further training in the Soviet Union 

From February 1959 to June 1961, Mubarak undertook further training in the Soviet Union, attending a Soviet pilot training school in Moscow and another at Kant Air Base, near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan (then a Soviet republic), an airfield that is today home to the Russian 5th Air Army's 999th Air Base. 

Aryan envy

Hosnie never said "Rest in peace, pharaoh, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake", but he's acting as though he did.

It doesn't happen every day that descendants of Cyrus the great wish they had this Arab for a king three decades ago.

Let's see what happens next, but I had to hit where it hurts "now".

Thank you.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.