They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Police restrict voting in Egypt runoff

aljazeera.net: Egyptian police have restricted voting in areas contested by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and detained more than 600 Islamists.

On Saturday, thousands of riot police were deployed in constituencies where the Brotherhood had candidates, in many cases sealing off polling stations or limiting the number of people who could go in, witnesses said.

A leading judge said some judges had left in protest against the police action and taken the ballot boxes with them.

"Security forces besieged some of the polling stations, blocking some voters from entering and allowing others in," said judge Ahmed Mekki, who is in charge of an informal election monitoring effort by the judiciary. Read more

"Throughout the Middle East the fear of free choices can no longer justify the denial of liberty,"
Condoleezza Rice 20 June, 2005