" A group of activists have hung up posters around Egypt's capital supporting the country's intelligence chief as a possible candidate in next year's presidential elections.
Launched Thursday, the campaign for Omar Suleiman is the latest stab against a possible father-son succession in which President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's leader of nearly 30 years, passes power to his son, banker-turned-politician Gamal.
Mubarak, 82, and his son deny such a plan exists, but Gamal Mubarak's political influence has been growing since 2000.
Opposition has been vocal against such a succession, floating names of alternative candidates like Suleiman and former U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei.
The posters call Suleiman a "real alternative."
"'America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction.They won’t get in our way'" Benjamin Netanyahu
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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