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Port Said deaths send businessmen, politicians and clerics scrambling

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James M. Dorsey
Feb 08, 2012
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A protester hurls a rock in post-Port Said protests (Source: Reuters)
By James M. Dorsey
The deaths of 74 militant soccer fans in a politically loaded soccer brawl in the Egyptian Suez Canal city of Port Said has political forces across the country’s political spectrum scrambling to score points and counter a tsunami of rumours as security forces appear t…

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