"Khairat al-Shater is the group's deputy leader and a millionaire businessman who was imprisoned for 12 years during Mubarak's rule."
4/6/12, "Egypt Muslim Brotherhood U-turn sets election agenda," BBC
"As Egypt prepares for what should be its first ever free and fair presidential elections next month, a late entry to the race, the Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater, looks like he might steal the show entirely.
The millionaire businessman, and the influential Islamist movement's chief financier, was named the Brotherhood's official candidate a week ago. The group had for months promised not to put forward its own candidate."...
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Time Mag. praises this as 'democracy' (last parag):
4/1/12, "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to field presidential candidate," CNN
"The jail terms he (Shater) served under ex-Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak had been an obstacle that would have kept him off the ballot. But the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power after the 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak, pardoned him Sunday, his lawyer, Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsood, told CNN."
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(Ed. note: It sounds like ordinary, back room, third world cronyism to me.)
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4/4/12, "Why the U.S. May Be Secretly Cheering a Muslim Brotherhood Run For Egypt’s Presidency," Time, Tony Karon
"Given the competitive Islamist field and the likelihood that Shater joining the fray could rally secular and nationalist voters behind a figure like Amr Moussa, the Brotherhood’s decision has certainly made the election outcome difficult to predict. And that, of course, is a hallmark of democracy." (last parag.)
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4/3/12, "The Brotherhood's quest for the presidency," Al Jazeera
"Khairat al-Shater is the group's deputy leader and a millionaire businessman who was imprisoned for 12 years during Mubarak's rule."
Shater, via CNN
Muslim Brotherhood candidate supporters. ap
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