Last week, activists began campaigning for Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s intelligence chief, to be the next president. The elections are set for 2011, and posters have been plastered on Cairo’s streets depicting Suleiman as a suave leader in a business suit and dark sunglasses. A slogan touts him as the “real alternative as president of the republic”—a slap at President Hosni Mubarak. Suleiman, 74, has been Egypt’s intelligence chief for two decades, and is known as one of the president’s most trusted aides.
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