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Egypt's military saves Mubarak and itself

Everything that has happened over the last ten days in Egypt is proof that the military continues to hold real power in Egypt and has no intention of relinquishing it.

By Anshel Pfeffer | 22:13 02.06.12 |

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Two months ago as we were passing through the western outskirts of Cairo, my driver jokingly asked "do you want to visit Hosni?" I had heard that Egypt's deposed leader was barricaded in a military hospital but the sheer opulence of the marble and glass building by the Ismailia Highway took me by surprise. But then the Egyptian International Medical Center is a military hospital only in the...

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