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Disqualifications throw Egypt election into turmoil: The Christian Science Monitor

By Tom Perry and Dina Zayed, Reuters posted April 15, 2012 at 9:48 am EDT Cairo The race for the Egyptian presidency took a dramatic turn on Saturday when the authorities disqualified front-runners, including Hosni Mubarak’s spy chief, a Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and a Salafi preacher whose lawyer