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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (55819)	9/14/2012 2:00:56 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Good work, Obama.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (55819)	9/14/2012 2:04:17 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

A weird similarity exists between the crazed Middle East demonstrators, many of them evidently high on Tramadol, and our own mainstream media. Both are operating under an only slightly buried sense of shame. Beneath the Middle Easterners’ rage is an obvious humiliation over the backwardness of their culture. Beneath the behavior of our media is a fear of humiliation at the polls — that their blind devotion to Barack Obama was a mistake.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (55819)	9/14/2012 3:03:41 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (55819)	9/14/2012 7:15:56 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

How disgusting, terrifying and vile.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (55819)	10/14/2012 11:42:35 PM
From: greatplains_guy	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Prosecutor's Victory Shows Judiciary's Power in Egypt October 14, 2012, 7:01 p.m. ET. By MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—Egypt's embattled public prosecutor will stay in his position after a two-day standoff that has solidified the judiciary's position as a muscular check to the Muslim Brotherhood's expanding political power. President Mohammed Morsi's office said on Saturday that it had reversed its Thursday decision to reassign Abdel Meguid Mahmoud as ambassador to the Holy See after several anti-Islamist judges rushed to Mr. Mahmoud's defense. The presidency blamed confusion over Mr. Mahmoud's apparent dismissal—and Mr. Morsi's legal right to dismiss him—on a "misunderstanding." between the two men. The Brotherhood also rejected accusations Sunday that it had ordered thugs to attack liberal activists during protests against Mr. Morsi's rule in downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday. More than 100 people were injured in fighting that erupted after Brotherhood activists attacked a sound stage that had been used by speakers critical of the group. The Brotherhood said its members had been peaceful and blamed security officials loyal to the former regime for sparking the violence. Mr. Mahmoud's victory amounts to a blow to Mr. Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood he once helped lead. The weekend row hardens Egypt's judiciary as a bulwark between the powerful Islamist group and near total political power. The judges "are the only counterweight. Morsi is the parliament and the president," said Amr Shalakany, a law professor at the American University in Cairo. Since protesters felled former President Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood has swept away nearly every obstacle to its authority. It captured a dominant plurality in parliamentary elections early this year, backed Mr. Morsi's winning bid for the presidency and then ousted the military leadership that had clung to political power. Only Egypt's judiciary has persisted as an impediment to the Brotherhood's rise. At times, the conflict between the judges and the Brotherhood has looked like a grudge match that mirrors Egypt's wider ideological divisions, pitting a new order of Islamist politicians against secular-minded judges appointed by the ousted regime. Both sides have cast aside political niceties, lashing out at each other with unusually harsh public criticism. Judges ruled to dismiss the Brotherhood-dominated parliament in May and then quashed Mr. Morsi's attempt to reinstate the legislature, which remains dissolved. After months of silence, Egypt's judges could frustrate the Brotherhood's ambitions again this week. A court will rule on Monday whether to uphold the Supreme Court's decision to dissolve the Islamist-majority parliament. On Tuesday, another court will rule whether to dissolve the Brotherhood-dominated constituent assembly that is now writing Egypt's new constitution. The current row began when Mr. Morsi's office said Thursday that Mr. Mahmoud had been reassigned because of the shoddy prosecution of ex-regime officials acquitted for their alleged roles in a bloody crackdown on protesters during last year's revolution. Shortly afterward, Mr. Mahmoud's office released a defiant statement announcing that the president's move was illegal and that the prosecutor would remain in his post. Several prominent anti-Brotherhood justices rushed to defend Mr. Mahmoud, who was appointed by Mr. Mubarak and widely despised both by Islamists and secular-leaning revolutionaries for what they say were his politically motivated cases Ahmed Al Zind, a trenchant critic of the Brothers and the head of the Judge's Club, a judges' advocacy and social group, said on Thursday that Mr. Morsi's decision was part of a "plan to destabilize Egypt" and bring it "back to the Middle Ages." A lawyer for the Brotherhood said Sunday that Mr. Morsi's office had not violated the law, insisting that Mr. Mahmoud had agreed to his reassignment before taking it back hours later. Mr. Mahmoud said Sunday he never agreed to leave his position, reported the state news agency. "The fact that the prosecutor changed his mind is what caused this confusion," said Abdel Moneim Aboul Maksoud. Mr. Maksoud is himself a casualty in the Brotherhood-judiciary duel: he faces defamation charges for insulting the judiciary after he publicly criticized the courts' decision to dissolve parliament last spring. But analysts cautioned against viewing the judiciary's opposition as a principled stand against creeping Islamist domination. Like many Egyptian public institutions, the judiciary is corrupt and permeated by outside influence, said Karim Medhat Ennarah who studies Egypt's security services for the Cairo-based advocacy group the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. The judges' past decisions reflect outside influence by political elites inimical to Mr. Morsi's new guard, Mr. Ennarah said. "Things that can be sometimes portrayed as resistance to the Brotherhood are often just resistance to reform," he said. Write to Matt Bradley at matt.bradley@dowjones.com online.wsj.com