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CAIRO (Reuters) - The diplomatic sources said that U.S. President Barack Obama will make an address to the Muslim world, from the University of Cairo, which dates back to hundred years, but they are not among the 500 selected in the examination of the University to be the best in the world.

A source said that Obama will deliver a speech at the Great Hall of the conference on the campus.

The aim of the speech Obama delivered on the fourth of June to repair U.S. relations with the Muslim world after it was damaged in the era of former President George Bush, who ordered the invasion of Afghanistan after the attacks on the cities of New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.

Bush also ordered the invasion of Iraq justified the invasion of Baghdad, that the secret stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be untrue.

The reports of al-Azhar mosque was nominated for his speech but it seems that the U.S. administration wanted to avoid giving the speech a religious nature.

Nominated reports Indonesia - where Obama spent the years of his childhood with his mother, who married a Muslim Indonesia after her divorce from Hussein Obama's Muslim Kenyan father, Barak - to deliver a speech, but the White House settled on Egypt the most populous Arab country which maintains diplomatic relations with Israel and with the relations between Washington Despite the close alliance of tension in relations during the reign of Bush, which lasted eight years.

And improved relations under Obama and the administration of President Hosni Mubarak will pay a visit to Washington is the first in five years before the advent of Obama to Egypt.

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Subject experts are demanding the U.S. president and his entourage inspected «swine flu»

Made the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Egypt many of the questions on the extent of the seriousness of the visit and caused to enter the swine flu virus in Egypt, as the United States in the list of countries that have taken place by the cases and deaths from the virus.

While experts called for the need to subject the U.S. president and his entourage, and an estimated 1000 people, of the medical examinations before entering Egypt, considering the Bills are not subject to the medical is a crime against the Egyptian people, the possibility of transmission of the way,

Have learned «Egyptian today» from private sources, that all the important figures and ministers of foreign visitors to the VIP rooms or distinctive Cairo International Airport, are subject to quarantine, noting that it is applied to all actions of health from countries hit by the swine flu cases , of the 33 countries.

The source said that a quarantine doctors, the access to VIP Lounge, to obtain a health card for the guests, pointing out that no objection will be an important person, the length of the last period.

On Obama's visit to Cairo, and the group of private insurance, the source said: «Obama and the accompanying delegation will be subject to the procedures established by the Presidency of the Republic, while the group insurance, if it is coming through the ports or airports, regular procedures will be applied to the usual quarantine».

For his part, Dr. Hadi Mesbah, a professor of epidemiology and Almikropouljy, it is scientifically must be subject to U.S. President and the entourage of the medical examination, in order to avoid the virus to enter Egypt.

The lamp: «it was supposed to be this action with the Israeli Prime Minister and his entourage, during his recent visit to Egypt, but this did not happen».

Hadi pointed out that this act is merely a precautionary measure, because the disease may be in the incubation period, a period which does not show the symptoms of the disease, such as high temperature, which may cause the virus to enter Egypt.

And Dr. Ahmed Abdul Wahab, Professor of environmental pollution, the need for members of the U.S. delegation, under medical observation for the duration of their presence in Cairo, in anticipation of the emergence of symptoms on any of them.

The Major General Adel Suleiman, executive director of the International Center for Strategic Studies and in the future, the U.S. delegation to undergo a medical, is not an insult, pointing out that Obama has been uncovered and the medical examination during his recent visit to Mexico

Man who spent 22 years on death row is cleared

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former death row inmate in Tennessee has been cleared of murder, three years after the Supreme Court raised repeated questions about his conviction.


After 22 years on death row, Paul House was released on bail and has now been cleared of murder charges.

1 of 2 State prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to drop all charges against Paul House, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in 1986. Special Judge Jon Blackwood accepted the request.

House had been scheduled to be executed next month for the 1985 murder of Carolyn Muncey. He had been on death row for 22 years but was released on bail last year. He has multiple sclerosis and must use a wheelchair.

The high court ruled in June 2006 that House was entitled to a new hearing.

"Although the issue is closed, we conclude that this is the rare case where -- had the jury heard all the conflicting testimony -- it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror viewing the record as a whole would lack reasonable doubt," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the 5-3 majority.
Forensic evidence found Muncey's blood on House's jeans, but questions were later raised whether the samples were contaminated en route to an FBI lab for analysis.

Subsequent state-of-the art DNA testing conducted after the conviction showed that semen on the victim belonged to her husband, not House. Blood under her fingernails and cigarette butts discovered near the wooded crime scene also did not match the accused.

But prosecutors maintain that other evidence points to his guilt. Muncey's family has also continued to believe that House was involved in the crime.

In 2005, House told CNN he did not rape or kill Muncey, and he wondered why he was still on death row.

"I guess that's the million-dollar question," he said.

While maintaining his innocence, he said that lying to police about his whereabouts that night was a big mistake.

Kennedy, in his 2006 high court ruling, offered an extensive summary of the facts of the investigation, especially the DNA evidence, which he said might point to "a different suspect." Kennedy said jurors might conclude that Muncey's blood found on House's pants may have inadvertently spilled there during the autopsy or through mishandling by police at the crime scene.


District Attorney Paul Phillips wrote in his petition this week that he still believes House could have been convicted again in a new trial, "but the new evidence (including the forensic examinations) raises a reasonable doubt that he acted alone and the possibility that others were involved in the crime."

But Phillips noted the "substantial sentence" House has served as another reason for the charges being dropped now

Ahly increase lead in Egypt despite surprise draw

Ahly increase lead in Egypt despite surprise draw

By AFP
First Published: February 1, 2009
CAIRO: African champions Al-Ahly stretched their lead in the Egyptian Premiership to three points Saturday despite being held 2-2 by relegation-threatened Al-Gaish.

The Cairo ‘Red Devils,’ winners of the African Champions League a record sixth time last November, finished the first half of the season three points ahead of Petrojet.

Ahly won their previous four league matches as they played catch-up after a number of fixtures were postponed due to Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup commitments.

Mohamed Barakat gave Ahly an early lead, but goals from Ghanaian Ernest Arko and Togolese Mikael Dogbe edged police club Gaish ahead before Angolan Flavio Amado rescued the defending champions with a 58th-minute equalizer. –AFP