The Old Order Stifles the Birth of a New Egypt (Published 2011)

With the fall of Hosni Mubarak, center, a military council led by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, left, has run Egypt.Credit...Aladin Abdel Naby/Reuters CAIRO — If the demonstrations that culminated in February were an uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, the revolt today is against his legacy. “This is the real revolution,” said Mohammed Aitman, helping at a first-aid clinic in a turb

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Analysts say the group is haunted by the experience of elections in Algeria in 1991, when the military stepped in to forestall an almost certain Islamist victory. That led to a civil war that roiled Algeria for nearly a decade, killing as many as 200,000 people.