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Ultras play into the hands of the military by default or by design

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James M. Dorsey
Feb 02, 2012
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By James M. Dorsey

Efforts by the Egyptian military and security forces to exploit Wednesday’s soccer violence in Port Said in which 74 people were killed in the worst violence in the country’s football history threaten to back fire with mounting indications that authorities should have been aware of plans to disrupt the match between the city’s Al Masri…

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