Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradeiEgyptian law scholar and Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. After stepping down from his IAEA position ElBaradei attempted to horn in on the 2011 Egyptian protests which culminated in the collapse of the Mubarak regime. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee.
has accused Islamist parties which won a majority in elections last week of relying on slogans which he said would be laid bare if they gained power.
As opposed to his own slogans...
The Islamists picked up two-thirds of votes cast for parties in the election last Monday and Tuesday in a third of Egypt's districts, with a new hardline Salafi party winning almost a quarter.
"Let them govern and have their chance. People will realize that slogans are not enough," elBaradei said in an interview published on Tuesday by the independent newspaper al-Shuruq.
Then again, they won't be able to do anything about it, since it'll be a cold day in Cairo when the Islamic Brotherhood allows anything other than the sort of show-elections that made Hosni famous...
The former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Nobel laureate is close to the liberal pro-democracy movement that toppled the 30-year regime of autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
in February. He is also an outspoken critic of the military rulers who took power after the ousting of Mubarak, accusing them of mishandling the process of ushering in democracy in the Arab world's most populous nation.
"We live today in a fascist system with military tribunals and emergency law and if there is another round of the revolution it will be full of anger and violence," he warned.
"The situation is going from bad to worse after the failure of the military council in managing the transition process," said elBaradei, adding that young Egyptians were "completely despondent because nothing has changed."
By 'bad to worse' he means 'fascist to Islamicist'...
The army [has] pushed back the original timetable for handing over power to civilian leaders and had proposed a series of measures to shield itself from scrutiny from the new elected government.
"If new elections take places in one or four years, it is you, the youth, that is going to govern," elBaradei added.