1,000 Protesters Oppose Mubarak in Cairo

[Rose Siding]

CAIRO, Egypt -- About 1,000 people gathered downtown Sunday, many with their mouths covered by yellow stickers reading "Enough," to protest the possibility that President Hosni Mubarak might run for a fifth term or that his son, Gamal, might succeed him.

Later Sunday, hundreds of security forces surrounded the offices of Kamal Khalil, a veteran activist who spoke out against the Mubaraks at the protest. The police stayed four hours but did not make any arrests.

Hosni Mubarak, 76, has been president since 1981, when he replaced the assassinated Anwar Sadat. His current six-year term ends in October, and he has not said whether he will run again.

Some participants said the largely silent action -- held in front of Egypt's Supreme Judiciary Court -- was the first purely anti-Mubarak protest since he came to power.

"Enough. No more extensions. No heredity. No succession," read one of the banners held by the protesters, who were cordoned off and outnumbered by riot police and senior police officials.
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The protest drew Islamists, nationalists, leftists and liberals. The Egyptian Movement for Change, a group of political parties and intellectuals, organized the protest to demand a constitutional change allowing more than one presidential candidate.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. Mubarak is a tyrant anyway!

We like him because he speaks English and wears Western clothing. The real Mubarak runs a dictatorship in which torture is state policy, the press is tightly controlled, and opposition is ruthlessly repressed.