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Africa North
ElBaradei named interim PM
2013-07-06
They're doomed...
CAIRO -- Pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named interim prime minister, an opposition spokesman said on Saturday evening.

Khaled Dawoud of the National Salvation Front, the main opposition grouping, told The Associated Press that interim President Adly Mansour will swear in ElBaradei on Saturday evening.

ElBaradei has led the opposition to autocrat Hosni Mubarak, toppled by a popular uprising in 2011, and later to the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, forced out by the military earlier this week in a move that has led to a new round of chaos in Egypt.

ElBaradei is a Nobel peace Laureate and a former director of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Where he was terrible and allowed Iran to pursue the bomb without fear of consequences. Almost as if it were all planned...
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Mr. Magoo couldn't find his ass with both hands and a map as "AE watchdog".

A valid point, but I think we should give him some credit for finding Egypt. (although it is likely he had help)
Posted by: SteveS   2013-07-06 22:10  

#6  the Al-Nour Islamist group threatened to walk out if ElBaradei was named PM.

Perhaps they object to his history as an Iranian tool, Charles. The Sunni radicals in Egypt have been getting upset about the Shiite Persian bogeyman.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-07-06 21:29  

#5  Nope, he's not the Interim according to newer reports. the Al-Nour Islamist group threatened to walk out if ElBaradei was named PM. It's on hold looks like. Wonder why they objected? Bargaining for more power, or genuinely upset for some asinine reason?
Posted by: Charles   2013-07-06 21:21  

#4  those damn polaroids they have of him and a young boy

The 'Goat Gallery' photos they have probably aren't as incriminating.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2013-07-06 18:22  

#3  Mr. Magoo couldn't find his ass with both hands and a map as "AE watchdog". Bet Iran calls him immediately with well wishes and reminders of those damn polaroids they have of him and a young boy
Posted by: Frank G   2013-07-06 17:34  

#2  LOL, well put AP.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-07-06 15:38  

#1  He is a human limpet charge.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-07-06 14:47  

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