From JPost, Ayman Nour appeals his prison sentence: 'The trial of Ayman Nour, who came in a distant second to President Hosni Mubarak in September elections - the first in which the longtime Egyptian leader faced challengers - badly strained US-Egyptian relations. Nour's lawyers told The Associated Press they filed their appeal Saturday on grounds that the court did not provide due process and that the trial was political not judicial. Nour, 41, was convicted Dec. 24 of forging signatures on petitions to register his party before the elections. He said he was brought to trial not because he broke any laws but to eliminate him from politics.' ...
In Israel, "Terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip fired a rocket into Israel late Sunday night, Zaka reported" - the rocket landed near Ashkelon but no casualties resulted ... to understand why those rockets from Gaza make Israelis nervous, read this JPost article linked at Israpundit on preventing disaster: "The Jerusalem Post quoted senior security and government officials who warned that this country must gird itself for “a large-scale disaster,” should the Kassam rockets fired from the northern Gaza Strip hit one of the super-sensitive targets in Ashkelon’s industrial zone. These include the Rutenberg Power Station - which supplies electricity to nearly half of Israel (as well as to Gaza) - huge depots of fuel and potentially deadly chemicals, the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline, a desalination plant and many more. Ashkelon is not only a large and very soft civilian target; it is of vital strategic importance. In this setting, even unsophisticated weaponry can cause environmental and economic catastrophes, to say nothing of the taking of innumerable lives." ...
Freedom for Egyptians covers Condi's upcoming meetings with Egyptian politicians and dissidents - FFE quotes Rice on the importance of democratic reforms, and adds: "I hope she won't miss meeting opposition leader Ayman Nour and the Egyptian Judges."... more here ...
Buy Danish. But don't buy Lurpak. Big Pharaoh isn't going to be happy ...
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