26/11/2012
The best arguments for and against Egypt's presidential power grab
p/pOn Thursday, when Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi granted himself sweeping powers that put him above oversight of any kind, a move he says is necessary to push through much-needed reforms, it set off a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/egypts-political-foes-grow-more-entrenched-in-fight-over-presidents-powers/2012/11/25/3a12449c-3762-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html"national protests/a and "a crisis as dire as any since the uprising in January 2011 that ended six decades of military-backed dictatorship," a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2012/11/egypt"according to The Economist/a./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/the-best-arguments-for-and-against-egypts-presidential-power-grab/2012/11/26/0ff0bdb8-37dc-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/25f9ee6c/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151538618447/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/25f9ee6c/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151538618447/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/25f9ee6c/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151538618447/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/25f9ee6c/a2t.img" border="0"/
