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...officials for banning most of its 2,200 observers from the polls, declaring "No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor and scrutinize the process." Even so, the official Presidential Election Commission rejected a petition from leading opposition candidate Ayman Nour, the runner-up with 7.3%, to throw out the ballot because of the alleged irregularities. After the vote U.S. President George W. Bush called President Mubarak to congratulate him, but a White House statement offered only faint praise, calling the poll "an important step toward holding fully free...
...year-old former teacher said she was certain that President Hosni Mubarak?s ruling party would rig the vote as it had done in past elections. Nonetheless, she took her 10-year-old daughter by the hand, entered the room and cast her ballot for opposition candidate Ayman Nour. ?I brought my daughter to show her the importance of participating,? Badawi said outside the school in Helwan, an industrial city on the Nile River 15 miles south of Cairo. ?And,? Badawi added, ?to show her the importance of objecting...
...girls, Marwa Helmy, 19, a Cairo University student, explained how she finally got her registration card after two hours of waiting, but that three of her friends failed to get theirs. ?It was like they didn?t want people to vote,? she told TIME after casting her ballot for Ayman Nour. Having sampled a taste of democracy, many Egyptians like Helmy are hungering for a lot more...
...boycott, on the grounds that the election is a farce designed to maintain Mubarak in office with the pretense of a democratic vote, some of Mubarak's staunchest opponents lept at the chance to push the margin of freedom as far as they could. Among them is Ayman Nour, a 41-year-old member of parliament and former journalist who is Mubarak's most outspoken critic and who promises to supervise the adoption of a new democratic Egyptian constitution and then call for new elections within two years. Security forces jailed Nour for 44 days earlier this year on what...
...AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, al-Qaeda's second in command, on a tape aired by al-Jazeera...