Things are suspicious. Muhammad Al-Baradi`i should be rejected categorically out of hand. He is being promoted and is officially anointed. I noticed that in his interview with Robert Fisk in the Independent and in an interview with Anderson Cooper (I received a written report on it), he is reassuring Israel and saying that peace is better between democracies. Also, i noticed that the name of an Egyptian-American Zionist, Michael Munir, is being thrown about as a possible candidate for a "Wise men committee" to advise Egypt during transition. I met the guy once at a dinner in Washington, DC and gave him a piece of Angry Arab wrath--or a sample of it.