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Harley Young

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  • Apocalypse Cairo
  • The generals who deposed the Muslim Brotherhood are keener on power than they let on. Will Egypt return to military rule?
  • ONCE reluctant to appear in the media, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's top general (pictured), is now very much seeking the limelight, perhaps because he would like to run for president. A recent video of him addressing army officers appeared to be shot for public consumption and duly went viral. His spokesman has said that although the general was not yet standing for office there was nothing to prevent him from so doing if he retired from the army.
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  • Egypt's press has started comparing Mr Sisi to Gamal Abdul Nasser, the hero-general who eventually became president after deposing the country's last monarch in 1952.
  • Egypt's press has started comparing Mr Sisi to Gamal Abdul Nasser, the hero-general who eventually became president after deposing the country's last monarch in 1952
  • Protesters who helped the army to
  • end the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood last month have plastered the streets with posters of the army chief.
  • "It is very clear he is entertaining the idea of the presidency," says
  • Many see him as a font of the dignity and security which they feel Egypt has lacked since Nasser's time.
  • "It is very clear he is entertaining the idea of the presidency," says Robert Springborg, an expert in the Egyptian armed forces at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
  • In his politics, the general appears to mix nationalism and Islam.
  • He frequently inserts Koranic verses into conversation and is a more pious man than his predecessor, Hussein Tantawi, who was army chief from 1991 to 2012.
  • During part of this time Mr Sisi was a military attache in Saudi Arabia.
  • He also studied at the US Army War College in Pennsylvania for a year.
  • Sherifa Zuhur, who taught him, says that one of his daughters wore the niqab, the full face veil, and another wore the hijab, covering her hair, but not her face.
  • Mr Sisi's image is tainted by the uproar he caused in 2012 when he was the military spy chief and publicly defended members of the army who had subjected female protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to virginity
  • tests "to protect the girls from rape as well as to protect the soldiers and officers from rape accusations".
kenzie flowers

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  • Lee, a retired nursing assistant, said she wants to continue serving on the council and stay involved in the community like she has for more than 30 years.
  • The public feels like they are shut out,
  • Ken Rollins, an emergency medical technician who served two tours in Vietnam during his seven years in the military, is running for the Position 2 seat against fellow newcomer Lonnie Willey.
Briley Ahrens

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  • The Taliban failed to capture any ground from Afghan security forces fighting for the first time without foreign firepower this fighting season, U.S. officials say, but the insurgents killed scores of soldiers, police and civilians in their campaign to weaken the government.
  • American and NATO officials say the fledgling army and police aren’t ready to wage a sustained war against a determined insurgency.
  • Coming just 13 months before most foreign forces are to withdraw, the mixed results reported by U.S. military officials underline the unresolved question of whether some of those forces should stay.
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  • he assessment adds urgency to the need for the U.S. and Afghanistan to sign a much-delayed security agreement that will allow a residual foreign force to stay on after the Dec. 31, 2014, withdrawal deadline.
  • NATO allies would provide about 5,000 troops, but only if an American presence remains. Billions of dollars in funds for Afghan forces and development also would be jeopardized if no deal is reached.
  • The 350,000-strong Afghan National Security Forces, made up mostly of the army and police
Devon Phipps

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  • What we're told by U.S. military officials is a National Guardsman got into a fight with two other National Guardsmen,
  • shot one in the leg, one in the foot
  • wo wounded people now being treated, said not to be life-threatening
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  • injuries, and the shooter is in custody
  • And a couple of school shootings, school incidents this week, the first earlier on.
  • rom this 12-year-old boy, 12, who survived Monday's shooting at that middle school in Sparks, Nevada.
  • Police say one of his classmates, also 12, shot and killed a teacher before turning the gun on himself with a handgun he took from his parents.
  • STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's very heartbreaking to hear, and it's also just so sad to hear that Mason, the boy that you're about to hear from, really did think that the shooter was one of his friends. He said that they were friendly, that they had a class together as well. Same thing with the other boy that was shot.
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