06/07/2013
Three reasons Mohamed ElBaradei is an odd choice to be Egypt's new prime minister
p/pMohamed ElBaradei, the 71-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, former head of the United Nations' nuclear agency and Egyptian opposition figure has just added a new line to his resume: He's been a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/morsi-backers-clash-with-opponents-security-forces-as-egypt-violence-escalates/2013/07/06/e773378c-e62a-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html"appointed the interim prime minister of Egypt/a. ElBaradei is in some ways a good choice: He's well-known, internationally respected, old enough that he's perhaps more likely to cede power willingly, and seen as too much of a statesman to indulge in the self-serving power grabs that have marked the tenures of past Egyptian leaders. And ElBaradei is likely to do well with international institutions such as the IMF, which now-deposed president Mohamed Morsi had rebuffed./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/three-reasons-mohamed-elbaradei-is-an-odd-choice-to-be-egypts-new-prime-minister/2013/07/06/e8430d48-e677-11e2-97c2-eee7eab7397e_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/2e4d282c/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthree-reasons-mohamed-elbaradei-is-an-odd-choice-to-be-egypts-new-prime-minister%2F2013%2F07%2F06%2Fe8430d48-e677-11e2-97c2-eee7eab7397e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Three+reasons+Mohamed+ElBaradei+is+an+odd+choice+to+be+Egypt%27s+new+prime+minister" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthree-reasons-mohamed-elbaradei-is-an-odd-choice-to-be-egypts-new-prime-minister%2F2013%2F07%2F06%2Fe8430d48-e677-11e2-97c2-eee7eab7397e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Three+reasons+Mohamed+ElBaradei+is+an+odd+choice+to+be+Egypt%27s+new+prime+minister" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthree-reasons-mohamed-elbaradei-is-an-odd-choice-to-be-egypts-new-prime-minister%2F2013%2F07%2F06%2Fe8430d48-e677-11e2-97c2-eee7eab7397e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Three+reasons+Mohamed+ElBaradei+is+an+odd+choice+to+be+Egypt%27s+new+prime+minister" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthree-reasons-mohamed-elbaradei-is-an-odd-choice-to-be-egypts-new-prime-minister%2F2013%2F07%2F06%2Fe8430d48-e677-11e2-97c2-eee7eab7397e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Three+reasons+Mohamed+ElBaradei+is+an+odd+choice+to+be+Egypt%27s+new+prime+minister" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fthree-reasons-mohamed-elbaradei-is-an-odd-choice-to-be-egypts-new-prime-minister%2F2013%2F07%2F06%2Fe8430d48-e677-11e2-97c2-eee7eab7397e_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Three+reasons+Mohamed+ElBaradei+is+an+odd+choice+to+be+Egypt%27s+new+prime+minister" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668232440/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e4d282c/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668232440/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e4d282c/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165668232440/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e4d282c/a2t.img" border="0"/
