30 March 2003

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God Bless our Troops.
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Brits (with Arabic names) are on trial in Egypt for trying to restart a party which was outlawed after it tried to overthrow the Egyptian government in 1974 (some countries will outlaw things for the most trivial reasons).

The reason this caught my eye is that they have experts testifying as to whether certain books found in possession of the men are banned. I always liked Egypt and this statement from one of the experts is encouraging: "Another part of the report says that there is no legal power to restrict any books." Egypt, with all its flaws, is the most civilized of the Arab nations and I hold some hope for it becoming even better.

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