MANIFESTO FOR EGYPT

摘要

The manifesto by Mohamed ElBaradei first appeared on Newsweek.com and The Daily Beast, published on the eve of the opposition leader's return to Egypt. The text was widely distributed and, on his return, ElBaradei was placed under house arrest. As NEWSWEEK went to print, he was still being detained. When egypt had par- liamentary elections only two months ago, they were completely rigged. The party of President Hosni Mubarak left the opposition with only 3 percent of the seats. Imagine that. And the American government said that it was "dismayed." Well, frankly, I was dismayed that all it could say is that it was dismayed. The word was hardly adequate to express the way the Egyptian people felt.