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Fledgling Rebellion on Facebook Is Struck Down by Force in Egypt

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun May 18, 2008 5:46 AM EDT
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At 1:49 a.m. in an Internet cafe only then quieting after Cairo's daily rumble, 27-year-old Ahmed Maher worked at a computer. He wore the same shirt he had had on for two days. The essentials of his life on the run lay splayed out next to his keyboard -- car keys, cigarettes, prepaid cellphone.

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