Egypt Nobel laureate ElBaradei under house arrest

[Turborama]

Source: AP

By SARAH EL DEEB and MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press – 10 mins ago

CAIRO – Egyptian security officials say police have put Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei under house arrest. Police stationed outside his suburban Cairo home told him he cannot leave the house after he joined tens of thousands of protesters in the capital Friday.

ElBaradei returned to the country Thursday night from a month abroad and declared he was ready to lead the protesters to a regime change.

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[xchrom]

1. while i don't think elbaradei is the heir or should be the logical heir

to mubarak -- all this will do is make him even more of a charismatic figure.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Turborama.

[No Elephants]

3. Fuel. Fire.

[Raschel]

4. I am still in awe of the internet.

[Demeter]

5. kick it up for the sheer stupidity

[Turborama]

6. Stupidity?

[Demeter]

7. Trying to stop a raging tsunami

with a "house arrest"

[Turborama]

10. Ahh Gotcha and totally agree! n/t

[harun]

8. If Mubarak doesn't get toppled now there will be much worse unrest

when he tries to appoint his son as the new leader. Which he eventually will try to do.

[ck4829]

9. The right wing and the MIC over here would be very happy if something 'accidentally' happened to him

Remember when the Bush Admin was caught wiretapping everything he owned in a failed attempt to dig up incriminating info on him or their several attempts to oust him from the IAEA?

[struggle4progress]

11. US says confinement of ElBaradei has to change

4:04 p.m. Friday, January 28, 2011
US says confinement of ElBaradei has to change
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The White House is praising Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei (ehl-BEHR'-uh-day) and saying the government's policy of keeping him under house arrest has to change ...

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-says-confinement-of-819329.html

[struggle4progress]

12. Austria demands ElBaradei's release

Jan 28, 2011, 19:03 GMT

... Security forces prevented the prominent opposition figure from leaving a mosque in Giza and then placed him under house arrest, one day after he arrived from Vienna.

'Should the reports be true, this house arrest would have to be ended immediately,' Chancellor Werner Faymann said in a statement ...

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1615438.php/Austria-demands-ElBaradei-s-release