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	     Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa el Dabi was head of Military Intelligence before replacing Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e as head of foreign intel after the 1995 assassination attempt  in Addis  on Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak (AC Vol 40 No 13  The National Islamic Front on parade and Blog 10th January 2012  Sudan's man on a mission in Syria)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The majority in Parliament will be made up of a coalition of loyalist parties buttressed by independents  a similar configuration to parliaments under ex-President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Readers will recall that Nafi'e was ‘sidelined'  at Cairo's request  after the 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Mohamed Nasreddin Allam  ex-President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation in 2009-11  told AC that when he was Minister  Mubarak's opinion was that he ‘rejected the whole dam scheme' (AC Vol 51 No 17  The battle of the Nile)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The government of ex-President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak conceived the scheme and ex-President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood team developed it further...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Since Mohamed Hosni Mubarak was forced out of the presidency in early 2011  real gross domestic product has grown at an annual average of just 1...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     It strongly rejects General Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi's military regime  the remnants of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak's regime and the Muslim Brotherhood...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     It is also probable that the El Gamaa el Islamiya  a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot that fought an armed campaign against President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak's regime in the 1980s-90s  will reactivate its armed units (AC Vol 51 No 1  Generational change)...
	 
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	    ) to brand their campaign  is the allegation that they were manipulated by the intelligence services  big business and relics of the Mohamed Hosni Mubarak regime to help restore a quasi-dictatorship fostering neo-liberal economic policies for the benefit of a corrupt elite...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     While some in the opposition were nostalgic for the regime of ex-President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak  more have always abhorred the Brotherhood's approach to Islam and to the Islamisation of politics  which they see as regressive  absolutist and exclusionary...