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...scene of the protest, human rights activist Hossam Bahgat watched as police played a brutal cat-and-mouse game with remaining demonstrators, chasing them down alleyways and cornering them against barricades. "I saw some of them being carried into police trucks while their noses and mouths were bleeding," said Bahgat, the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights. "As soon as the judges arrived to offer the reform movement the moral leadership it direly needed, the government realized how dangerous these government demonstrations could be," Bahgat said...
...since Iraqi leaders don't want peacekeepers from neighboring nations, the offer of assistance will probably be merely symbolic. Indeed, it allows the Saudis to earn credit in Washington without risking much political fallout at home. "There are so many difficulties in the proposal [for Muslim peacekeepers]," says Hossam Zaki, spokesman for the Arab League. "Under whose command will the Muslim forces be? Will they use force against insurgents? There are many questions, and all of them have unpleasant answers." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Mohammed Alkhereiji, Aryn Baker and Andrew Purvis
...Hossam Jabri, chair of the Interfaith Committee of the Islamic Society of Boston, said there are only two reasons for a Muslim to go to war—physical self-defense
...speakers in yesterday's panel discussion,which was attended by about 40 spectators, were:Hossam El Gabri of the Islamic Society of Boston;Fatima Iliasu and Abdallah bin Laden, students atthe Law School; and Suheil Laher, the Muslimchaplain...