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11.32 Surreal moment as a lawyer calls out that Mubarak died in 2004, and that this court appearance is a conspiracy on the part of America and Israel. He is calling for a DNA test to prove that it's the real Mubarak and not a lookalike.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8678565/Hosni-Mubarak-trial-as-it-happened.html

Meanwhile the Arab Spring in Egypt doesn't seem to make much progress. And in Syria protesters are massacred by the hundreds. Just pretty much an average day in the ME.

The recent article in the Wall Street Journal of regular citizens joining the army to attack liberal activists in Tahrir square and the massive - 400,000 strong - demonstration by Islamists last Friday in the same square calling for the implementation of an Islamic state must also have made for some surreal moments.

-- Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:46 am --

Video of the crazy guy speaking to a crowd of Egyptians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXgnQ-x0 ... r_embedded

Wow