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Who moves into the presidential palace when (date unknown) Hosni Mubarak leaves? Washington's preferred candidate is not Omar Suleiman. DEBKA-Net-Weekly, in its coming issue Friday, surveys the field, none of which offers guarantees against violent upsets down the road. Is there a deal between the regime and the army? Maybe the incumbents are settling in to stay, sparing a few crumbs to keep the opposition quiescent. Are there any other options?
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A fresh surge of popular anti-Mubarak protest ripping across Egypt Tuesday, Feb. 8 – from the Western Desert to North Sinai - has brought the country closer to a military coup to stem the anarchy than ever before. Vice President Suleiman conveyed this warning to a group of Egyptian news editors as the disorders began their third week by spreading to places of work. In Cairo, rebellious staff sacked state-appointed managements and set up "revolutionary committees" to run them.
Read more- Where is Egypt going after the new tempest?
- Hamas tightens grip on N. Sinai, transfers al Qaeda cells
- UN Hariri tribunal indictments soon
- Egyptian army opposes Mubarak's ouster
- Obama's Egyptian policy criticized in US
- Cairo diverts gas sold to Israel, Jordan stopped for domestic use
- Obama tells Egyptian army to remove Mubarak now
- Stuxnet again delays Bush
DEBKAfile Special Expose
Hamas while preparing follow-up attacks on the Sinai gas pipeline after Saturday's explosion has opened the Egyptian-Israeli border region to Al Qaeda jihadists, international smugglers and criminal gangs - all heading for the Israel border. Egypt lacks the manpower for securing the entire Sinai Peninsula. Its troops are concentrating on securing Sharm el Sheikh and the eastern bank of the Suez Canal. Hamas is left to prey on North Sinai and make it a launching pad for terror attacks on Israel.
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The UN Special Lebanon Tribunal was asked to define crimes of terrorism, conspiracy and premeditated murder at its first hearing in the Netherlands Monday, Feb. 7. Its responses will for the first time define terror as an international crime.DEBKAfile's report that within days, pretrial Judge Daniel Fransen is to publish indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minster Rafiq Hariri. The judges have therefore jumped the gun on Hizballah. A showdown looms large in Lebanon too.
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