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(CNN)  -- A suburban Philadelphia swim club has invited children from a largely minority day-care center to come back after a June reversal that fueled allegations of racism against the club, a spokeswoman said Sunday.

Some kids from the Creative Steps Day Care center say club members made racial remarks.

The development came during a hastily called Sunday afternoon meeting of the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. Club members voted overwhelmingly to try to work things out with the day-care center, which accused some swim club members of making racist comments to black and Hispanic children contracted to use the pool, said Bernice Duesler, the club director's wife.

Duesler said the club canceled its contract with the Creative Steps day-care because of safety, crowding and noise concerns, not racism.

"As long as we can work out safety issues, we'd like to have them back," she told CNN.

She said the club has been subpoenaed by the state Human Rights Commission, which has begun a fact-finding investigation, "and the legal advice was to try to get together with these camps, " Duesler added.

Alethea Wright, Creative Steps' director, said, "They should have done that before."

Wright has repeatedly lambasted the club for its tepid response to the charges and said the children in her care were "emotionally damaged" by the incident.

"These children are scarred. How can I take those children back there?" she said.

However, Wright's lawyer, Carolyn Nicholas, said the center will give the Valley Club's offer "due consideration" once it is received and looks forward to sitting down with the parties.

"The children are our primary concern," Nicholas told CNN.

Swimming privileges for about 65 children from Creative Steps were revoked after their first visit June 29. Some children said white members of the club made racist comments to the children, asking why "black children were there" and raising concerns that "they might steal from us."

Days later, the day-care center's $1,950 check was returned, Wright said.

Club director John Duesler told CNN that he had underestimated the amount of children who would participate, and the club was unable to supervise that many kids. He called his club "very diverse," and said it had offered to let day camps in the Philadelphia area use his facility after budget cuts forced some pools in the area to close.

Wright has rejected the camp's contention that the swim club's pool was overcrowded. The club had accepted a 10-to-1 ratio of children to adults and was considering adding up to three lifeguards, according to e-mails obtained by CNN.

But John Duesler said last week that the Valley Club also canceled contracts with two other day-care centers because of safety and overcrowding issues.

The Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission launched an investigation last week after allegations of racism at the Valley Club. The commission said that as part of any investigation, the two sides eventually could be asked to sit down face-to-face with its investigators.

"We always encourage opposing parties to communicate with one another if they feel they can resolve these issues amicably," Commission Chairman Stephen Glassman said.

Bernice Duesler said she wasn't yet sure how the club will "reach out" to Creative Steps and the other two camps. And Wright said she still has concerns about the issue.

"Are the members who made those comments still there?" she asked.

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(CNN) -- Yahoo! announced Monday that the search is on for the Internet giant's next CEO.

Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder, speaks at an electronics show in Las Vegas in January.

The new CEO will replace Yahoo! co-founder, Jerry Yang, who assumed the position in June 2007 and has since come under fire for failing to turn around the company.

Yang will step down when a replacement is selected.

Just two weeks ago at the Web 2.0 Summit, Yang was asked if he was the right guy to lead the battered portal.

Yang dodged the question by defending his passion for the company he co-founded 13 years ago.

"I didn't make the decision of being the CEO lightly," he said. "I wanted to make a change at Yahoo! that I believe I can make ... That's a dream that I felt I could achieve by being CEO and that's still the dream today."

Now, Yang plans to return to his former role as "Chief Yahoo" and will still have a seat on the board, Yahoo! said.

During his short tenure, Yahoo! has had two major rounds of layoffs and has seen its search market share shrink significantly while a series of reorganizations led to the departure of senior executives.

Wall Street and shareholders criticized Yang for falling short of reaching an agreement to sell the company to Microsoft.

Yang also was taken to task when Google pulled out of a controversial ad agreement earlier this month that would have boosted Yahoo's revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yahoo! said the search for a new CEO will encompass both internal and external candidates.

"Over the past year and a half, despite extraordinary challenges and distractions, Jerry Yang has led the repositioning of Yahoo! on an open platform model as well as the improved alignment of costs and revenues," said Chairman Roy Bostock.

"Jerry and the Board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level."

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court's only black justice was the target of a racially motivated threat by an Ohio man who has been indicted in Cleveland, Justice Department officials announced Wednesday.

Racially motivated threats were made against Justice Clarence Thomas, according to a federal indictment.

An eight-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury charges David Tuason of Pepper Pike, Ohio, with making multiple threats against Justice Clarence Thomas and with threatening to blow up the Supreme Court building.

Tuason had made the threats in e-mails and mailed letters to the Supreme Court, as well as to Thomas personally, according to a source close to the case.

Tuason "engaged in an elaborate scheme of sending racially motivated threatening communications ... intended to threaten and intimidate with bodily injury African-American males known to affiliate with white females," said U.S. Attorney Frank Filiuzzi Wednesday in Cleveland.

"The indictment alleges that an associate justice of the Supreme Court, athletes, and entertainers received threatening communications," Filiuzzi said.

Thomas's wife is white.

"The indictment also alleges that at times, children of mixed racial parents were also targeted," the prosecutor said.

The indictment says that "Tuason, at times, threatened to blow up the facility or building in which the targeted victim was located."

If Tuason is found guilty, he faces up to 10 years in prison for the count targeting Thomas and five years imprisonment for each of the other counts. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Bill Mears contributed to this report.

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answer: Racially motivated

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Court proceedings in the trial against Tariq Aziz, one of the best-known faces of Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq, and several co-defendants have ended after being in session only briefly Tuesday.

The trial of Tariq Aziz, pictured here in a Baghdad courtroom in July 2004, has begun.

The trial, which is to resume May 20, was delayed because one of the defendants, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as "Chemical Ali," was not present because he was ill.

Iraqi procedural codes require that all defendants be in court for the first session. Chief Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman read a U.S. medical report signed by three doctors that said al-Majeed is in critical condition after suffering a heart attack two weeks ago.

He has been released from the hospital but still requires daily treatment and doctor visits. The report said that traveling to court from his detention facility could worsen his health. He cannot walk up stairs or sit in court for long hours, it said.

He will need three weeks to recover and may need some sort of surgery, the report said. It added he is diabetic and suffers from "acute heart failure."

Treatment includes clearing of the arteries followed by either open heart surgery or stents in the arteries, but neither option is available at this time, the report said.

Ali Hasan al-Majeed, who was a top Baathist official during the Saddam Hussein era, is awaiting execution after being convicted of genocide in connection with the killing of Kurds during the Anfal campaign in the late 1980s.

Aziz, al-Majeed and six others are now facing trial for having a role in the execution of 42 Iraqi merchants in 1992. A former deputy prime minister, Aziz was the first to be called into court, followed by six other defendants.

Aziz appeared frail, walked slowly with a cane, and was coughing and blowing his nose.

He was sitting in the seat Saddam Hussein used during his appearances in court and was represented by a private attorney.

The court was sorting out which defendants did not have attorneys present.

This is the fourth major trial of former Hussein regime officials since his government was overthrown. The most prominent was the 2006 trial that led to the execution of Hussein and three lieutenants for a crackdown in the Shiite town of Dujail in which more than 140 men allegedly plotting Hussein's assassination were executed.

Aziz's lead attorney, Badie Aref -- who was an attorney for Hussein in that trial -- is charged with contempt of court in Iraq and has been in Jordan since a warrant for his arrest was issued last year. He said he would return to Baghdad for this trial only if he were assured he would not be arrested.

Meanwhile, amid a swirling, blanketing sandstorm, fierce fighting in Baghdad Tuesday saw U.S. troops kill 32 "enemy forces" in a gunbattle, according to the U.S. military. Iraqi authorities reported 16 people were killed in a residential area in the same clash.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry said the fighting was in the predominantly Shiite Sadr City neighborhood in eastern Baghdad.

Five suspected insurgents dressed in Iraqi army uniforms attacked the home of a human rights worker in Diyala on Tuesday, killing the resident of the home and an Iraqi soldier who lived in the neighborhood, according to the U.S. military.

Two Iraqi civilians also were injured in the small-arms attack. "Attacking civilians in their homes is both criminal and barbaric," said Major Peggy Kageleiry, spokeswoman for the military's Multi-National Division - North.

Insurgents have been attempting to exploit the harsh conditions, which have curtailed flights coming into Baghdad International Airport. Sandstorms make it easier for militants to screen their activities and harder for U.S. air power to be deployed effectively.

A U.S. military spokesman said fighting began around 9:30 a.m. when militants fired at a U.S. patrol and wounded an American soldier.

When the soldier was being evacuated, a U.S. vehicle was struck by two roadside bombs and peppered with small-arms fire and rocket propelled grenades. That left two more soldiers injured.

Three more soldiers were wounded in the fighting.

Soldiers used a "combination of weapon systems available, including a guided multiple launch rocket (GMLR) system" to fight the insurgents and killed at least 28 militants in a four-hour long battle, the military said.

Lt. Col. Steven Stover, spokesman for Multi-National Division-Baghdad, said three GMLRs were launched, at 11:23 a.m., 1:03 p.m. and 1:37 p.m.

Officials with Iraq's Interior and Health Ministry told CNN 16 people were killed and 45 people were wounded when U.S. rockets hit at least three houses in a residential area in Sadr City around 1:15 p.m.

Two children and a woman were among the dead and four children and five women were among the wounded, they said.

Asked if he was aware of reports of civilian casualties from the strikes, Stover said, "If there were civilian casualties, I sincerely regret them.

"The rockets struck militants firing from buildings, alleyways and rooftops. It was these militants who initiated the engagement by attacking U.S. soldiers. Our soldiers have a right to defend ourselves."

Two U.S. soldiers were killed Tuesday in separate incidents in northwest Baghdad, the military said. The first soldier died from wounds suffered from insurgent small-arms fire at about 8:50 p.m. local time in northwest Baghdad, according to a U.S. military public affairs office.

The second soldier died at about 10:15 p.m. when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by an improvised explosive device. The names of both soldiers were being withheld until their families could be notified. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh, Christine Theodorou, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Ingrid Formanek contributed to this report.

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question: Who appeared in court over executions?

answer: Aziz, al-Majeed and six others

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question: Who appears in court?

answer: Tariq Aziz,

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question: He and five others were charged with what?

answer: having a role in the execution of 42 Iraqi merchants in 1992.

text: having a role in the execution of 42 Iraqi merchants in 1992.

question: Who are they charged with executing?

answer: 42 Iraqi merchants

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question: Who is Tariq Aziz?

answer: of Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq,

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question: What is Tariq Aziz charged with?

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(CNN) -- A Pennsylvania woman told police she was attacked at an ATM in Pittsburgh by a robber who became angry when he saw a John McCain bumper sticker on her car, a spokeswoman for the Pittsburgh Police Department said Thursday.

Police cannot confirm whether a man attacked this woman because she had a McCain sticker on her car.

Public Information Officer Diane Richard said police cannot substantiate her story, however, and the investigation is ongoing.

Richard said the 20-year-old told investigators a man approached her Wednesday night at an ATM in the city's East End, put a blade to her neck and demanded money.

She said she gave him $60 and stepped away from him, Richard said.

But the woman said the man "became very angry"  when he noticed her car had a bumper sticker supporting the GOP presidential nominee, according to Richard. The woman said he punched her in the back of the head, knocked her to the ground and "continued to punch and kick her while threatening her," the spokeswoman said.

Before he left, the woman said, he carved the letter "B" into her face with a knife, according to Richard. There was no indication what the "B" indicated.

The alleged assailant fled on foot, Richard said.

"We, the police, cannot substantiate this yet," she said. "This is what she told police."

The woman, who is not from Pittsburgh, refused medical attention, Richard said, although she told the investigating officer she would see a doctor Thursday. There was no update on her condition, she said.

Richard said the woman described her alleged attacker as a dark-skinned African-American, 6 feet 4 inches tall with a medium build and short dark hair, wearing dark clothing and shiny shoes.

McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker told CNN that McCain and running mate Sarah Palin "spoke to the victim and her family after learning about the incident earlier this afternoon."

Hazelbaker said the campaign would not offer more detail out of respect for the woman's privacy.

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama responded to the report with a statement saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly apprehended and brought to justice."

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On CNN's "State of the Union," host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country. This week, King traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, to look at recovery from Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward compared to the rest of the city.

The Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic was clinic director Patricia Berryhill's home before Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Patricia Berryhill sits behind a desk in what not too long ago was her living room, cheerfully greeting those who walk in and reaching for the phone as it rings yet again.

"Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic, Patricia Berryhill, may I help you?"

Sometimes the questions are routine -- this time more anxious.

"As for the HIV testing, if you come in on Tuesdays from 11 to 1, there is no charge," Berryhill tells the caller. "As for the Herpes virus, you are going to have to see a physician and make an appointment for that."

The patient files in the cabinets behind her now number more than 1,300, and 95 percent of those who walk through the door have no health insurance. The clinic asks for a $25 "co-payment" but no one is turned away if they cannot afford it.

A half dozen patients are waiting as executive director Alice Craft-Kerney takes a visitor on a tour. In the reception area, there are health awareness brochures, hurricane preparedness brochures, and a bookshelf about half-filled with children's books. Craft-Kerney tries every day to give some away.  Watch John King preview this Sunday's show Â»

"Because we have such a low literacy rate here in Louisiana," she says. "So they come by, browse, and take whatever books they want free of charge."

The staff is cheery; the clinic neat and clean. A sign in the window making clear there are no narcotic drugs inside is a sign of the clinic's rough surroundings. And within a few steps of the door is a reminder that 43 months after Katrina changed everything, the Lower Ninth Ward is still a mess.

During a helicopter pass over the neighborhood, we saw concrete slabs and weedy spaces where houses once stood. Yes, there is a fair amount of new home construction, and renovations under way at some homes gutted by Katrina.

But while the debris is mostly gone, much of the neighborhood remains an abandoned wasteland.

Overall, Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella says, the population of New Orleans stands at about 330,000 -- roughly 75 percent of its pre-Katrina level. Before the storm, it was about 70 percent African-American; now it's about 60 percent.

And it is a more affluent city. Campanella says median household income is up to $40,000 from $27,000 before Katrina, "and it is not because the city is doing better economically."

Significantly, Campanella says the "curves" suggesting major changes during the post-Katrina period are "flattening."

"My sense is the post-Katrina city we all wondered about 3Â½ years ago what would it look like -- that we are there now," Campanella said in an interview on the Tulane campus. "The patterns are stabilizing and we are in a 'new normal' period."

A new normal in which the Lower Ninth Ward trails significantly behind.

Only about 19 percent of its pre-Katrina population has returned; roughly 3,600 people live there today, compared to some 19,000 when Katrina hit.

There are new twists on the resentments and suspicions that dominated community discussions in the horrible days just after Katrina and Rita. In the place of resident complaints that their neighborhood was slow to get help in the hours and days after the storm are accusations their rebuilding hopes are being deliberately ignored or set on the back burner.

Craft-Kerney says a commitment to add a second school in the Lower Ninth, or enticements to bring in a supermarket or a major pharmacy, would help bring more people back, or attract new residents.

"Much of it has been the lack of political will on the part of our government entities," she said.

City officials say there are myriad reasons the rebuilding is slow. One part of this divisive debate is the threshold question of whether it makes sense at all to have people living so close to where the levee breach was most destructive.

But Craft-Kerney and many other community activists see this debate in black and white, or rich and poor.

"As my teacher used to say, 'Them that got, gets,' " she said.

The Bush administration's response to Katrina was one of the turning points in American public opinion toward that administration. But Craft-Kerney says the clinic would not be in operation had it not been for the help of Mike Leavitt, the Bush secretary of health and human services.

It sits in what was Berryhill's home. After Katrina, she decided to move elsewhere in the city, but agreed to donate her former home as a clinic. It was gutted, rebuilt, and Berryhill now serves as its clinical director.

It survives mostly because of a Bush administration grant that runs through 2010. Whether the clinic gets additional federal funding will be one of the tests of the area's priority for the federal government.

Craft-Kerney will soon face the new administration. While she speaks highly of President Obama, she says she worries New Orleans and the Lower Ninth will be forgotten in the long list of major challenges facing his administration.

"I don't know exactly what his game plan is," Craft-Kerney told us during the clinic interview. "But I do believe in my heart that he is going to eventually do some things to help New Orleans. I don't expect it overnight -- but he did say he would make good on President Bush's promise to make New Orleans whole again."

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London (CNN) -- Violence has returned to the streets of Cairo -- this time in fresh confrontations between army forces and pro-Coptic Christian protesters.

Accounts of the casualties vary but an Egyptian health ministry spokesman told CNN that 25 people had been killed and more than 272 injured during the weekend protests that were sparked by the burning of a Coptic Christian church in southern Egypt.

There has been long-standing tension between Egypt's Coptic Christians and Muslims but CNN's Ben Wedeman in Cairo says that since this year's revolution that removed the former President Hosni Mubarak there have been more of these clashes.

In the aftermath of the latest violence, Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has vowed to ban all discrimination based on religion, language, gender or ethnicity.

But why has the violence erupted after a revolution which promises to deliver fresh democratic elections, who are the Coptic Christians and what will the new measures achieve? CNN examines the background.

After a revolution that brought change, do people have renewed confidence in being able to protest? Are they seeing an opportunity to make their voices heard ahead of elections?

Ben Wedeman reports that at least among activists, there is a growing concern that any form of political activity, particularly demonstrations, that target the regime will be met by the kind of force used Sunday evening

One Coptic man told our correspondent that the military is more than happy to allow "millions of Muslim fundamentalists to occupy Tahrir Square every Friday, and cooperate with them in doing so, but when it comes to people who criticize -- Copts, Muslims, secular people -- the military, they use their guns."

He says it's also important to keep in mind that one thing that occupies the minds of many Egyptians is that since the revolution the economy has gone from bad to worse. Tourists are scarce, foreign investment is drying up. One Egyptian told him: "If people don't get back to work within the next five months, there could be famine and chaos."

Why did the military react with such a heavy hand, given its experiences in the revolution?

Wedeman says it is a good question to which no one really has an answer, but offers this analysis:

During the revolution the army stood on the sidelines, and were cheered by the masses

The military, however, adds Wedeman, is not an organization which by its nature is well adapted to dealing with civil disturbances, and that has been clear for some time. They often stand by when the situation goes out of control -- something they did during the revolution when regime thugs tried to attack the protesters in Tahrir Square.

There are concerns among some that with the spread of Islamic fundamentalism within Egyptian society as a whole that religious hardliners have gained a foothold in the officer corps, and that is reflected in the way they dealt with the Coptic protesters.

One sometimes hears Muslims describe Christians as "kufar" -- infidel -- even though the traditional interpretation of Islam was that Christians and Jews are not "kufar" but rather "Ahl al-Kitab" -- the people of the book -- meaning that they are followers of books holy in the Abrahamic tradition.

Who are the Coptic Christians?

The Coptic Christians make up somewhere between 8 and 11 % of the 80 million Egyptians, most of whom are Sunni Muslims. They are not ethnically distinct. They base their theology on the teachings of the Apostle Mark, who introduced Christianity to Egypt, according to St. Takla Church in Alexandria, the capital of Coptic Christianity. Copts split from other Christians in the 5th century over the definition of the divinity of Jesus Christ.

The Copts have been a target of violence in the past but there have been dozens of casualties this year. The New Year's Day bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria left 23 people dead, and during sectarian clashes in Cairo on May 7 at least 12 people were killed. The most recent protests follow the September 30 burning of the Mar Girgis church in Edfu, a city in Aswan governorate in southern Egypt.

Sectarian violence in Egypt is nothing new. Maha Azzam, Associate Fellow of the Middle East and North African Program at the Chatham House think tank in London, says the sources of tension have focused on religious conversions, attacks on places of worship and Coptic resentment that they are not being given licenses to build new churches

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent bipartisan federal agency, earlier this year added Egypt to a list of countries named as the worst violators of religious freedom.

The Coptic church

Egypt's Coptic Christians and the crisis

Why have we seen an upsurge in sectarian violence this year?

The reasons are not clear but Azzam points to two possibilities

1) Attempts by those opposed to democratic changes put in place by the revolution earlier this year to stir up trouble.

2) Efforts by extreme Islamist groups to resist attempts by the Copts to establish more churches in the new democratic era.

However, CNN's Ben Wedeman reports that the Muslim community has sent condolences to the Copts in response to the weekend deaths - and there are similar sentiments being expressed on Twitter with many calling for greater religious tolerance.

So what are the concerns now?

Copts are increasingly worried about their future in Egypt. Wedeman says many are worried that the de-facto rulers of Egypt, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), have concluded an under-the-table alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood and the hard-line conservative Salafi movement as a means to cement their hold on power. "And this perceived alliance shuts out not just Christians, but also secular activists, liberals and others who are worried about the excessive power of those who use religion as a cover for their political ambitions," he said.

Will the new measures to ban intolerance make a difference?

Again, our correspondent says there is a lot of skepticism about the willingness of the military or the government to make good on these promises. He said similar promises were made in May when there was an outbreak of sectarian violence in Cairo that left more than 10 people dead.

The government formed a National Justice Committee, composed of Muslim, Coptic representatives and military and government officials. Several members of the National Justice Committee have resigned or suspended their membership in protest after Sunday's violence and the army's actions.

Wedeman says there have been growing calls from prominent politicians for the resignation of the prime minister who is seen as weak and ineffectual at addressing sectarian issues.

What does this mean for the Egyptian government?

Azzam says the weekend violence presents a serious challenge for Egypt in this transitional period. But she says the reaction of the armed forces and overwhelming use of force reflects a military that is unable to deal with dissent. "Questions have to be asked about who gave the orders and the clumsy way they dealt with protesters," she said.

Both Azzam and Wedeman say the government reaction looked similar to that of the old regime, while the military response has also attracted criticism from Muslims.

In May this year, Michael Wahid Hanna, a fellow and program officer at The Century Foundation, wrote on the CNN website that much should be expected of Egypt's newly-empowered Muslim Brotherhood.

"Repressed and officially banned under Mubarak, the Brotherhood is now the most coherent opposition force in the country and is calling for the emphasis of Islam in Egypt's politics," he said.

So will the process of change be affected?

Moves towards a democratically-elected Egyptian government have been difficult. The U.S. has been trying to encourage the government to lift the state of emergency, and a coalition of 60 political groups previously threatened to boycott parliamentary elections set to start in November unless their demands were met.

An agreement reached Saturday included a promise to consider abolishing military tribunals and plans to draft a document to guide the creation of a new constitution. But some activists said the agreement fails to meet all the demands of the popular uprising.

"There are very serious challenges - both sectarian and economic - but I think we are heading for greater democratization," said Azzam. "It's very hard to reverse that. I think it's going to be very hard to delay elections."

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text: regime

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text: September

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text: Mar

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text: Sectarian

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text: Fellow

text: of

text: the

text: Middle

text: East

text: and

text: North

text: African

text: Program

text: at

text: the

text: Chatham

text: House

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text: tank

text: in

text: London

text: says

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text: sources

text: of

text: tension

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text: conversions

text: attacks

text: on

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text: of

text: worship

text: and

text: Coptic

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text: that

text: they

text: are

text: not

text: being

text: given

text: licenses

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text: build

text: new

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text: U.S.

text: Commission

text: on

text: International

text: Religious

text: Freedom

text: an

text: independent

text: bipartisan

text: federal

text: agency

text: earlier

text: this

text: year

text: added

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text: a

text: list

text: of

text: countries

text: named

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text: the

text: worst

text: violators

text: of

text: religious

text: freedom

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text: Coptic

text: church

text: Egypt

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text: Coptic

text: Christians

text: and

text: the

text: crisis

text: Why

text: have

text: we

text: seen

text: an

text: upsurge

text: in

text: sectarian

text: violence

text: this

text: year

text: The

text: reasons

text: are

text: not

text: clear

text: but

text: Azzam

text: points

text: to

text: two

text: possibilities

text: Attempts

text: by

text: those

text: opposed

text: to

text: democratic

text: changes

text: put

text: in

text: place

text: by

text: the

text: revolution

text: earlier

text: this

text: year

text: to

text: stir

text: up

text: trouble

text: Efforts

text: by

text: extreme

text: Islamist

text: groups

text: to

text: resist

text: attempts

text: by

text: the

text: Copts

text: to

text: establish

text: more

text: churches

text: in

text: the

text: new

text: democratic

text: era

text: However

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ben

text: Wedeman

text: reports

text: that

text: the

text: Muslim

text: community

text: has

text: sent

text: condolences

text: to

text: the

text: Copts

text: in

text: response

text: to

text: the

text: weekend

text: deaths

text: and

text: there

text: are

text: similar

text: sentiments

text: being

text: expressed

text: on

text: Twitter

text: with

text: many

text: calling

text: for

text: greater

text: religious

text: tolerance

text: So

text: what

text: are

text: the

text: concerns

text: now

text: Copts

text: are

text: increasingly

text: worried

text: about

text: their

text: future

text: in

text: Egypt

text: Wedeman

text: says

text: many

text: are

text: worried

text: that

text: the

text: de

text: facto

text: rulers

text: of

text: Egypt

text: the

text: Supreme

text: Council

text: of

text: the

text: Armed

text: Forces

text: SCAF

text: have

text: concluded

text: an

text: under

text: the

text: table

text: alliance

text: with

text: the

text: Muslim

text: Brotherhood

text: and

text: the

text: hard

text: line

text: conservative

text: Salafi

text: movement

text: as

text: a

text: means

text: to

text: cement

text: their

text: hold

text: on

text: power

text: And

text: this

text: perceived

text: alliance

text: shuts

text: out

text: not

text: just

text: Christians

text: but

text: also

text: secular

text: activists

text: liberals

text: and

text: others

text: who

text: are

text: worried

text: about

text: the

text: excessive

text: power

text: of

text: those

text: who

text: use

text: religion

text: as

text: a

text: cover

text: for

text: their

text: political

text: ambitions

text: he

text: said

text: Will

text: the

text: new

text: measures

text: to

text: ban

text: intolerance

text: make

text: a

text: difference

text: Again

text: our

text: correspondent

text: says

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: skepticism

text: about

text: the

text: willingness

text: of

text: the

text: military

text: or

text: the

text: government

text: to

text: make

text: good

text: on

text: these

text: promises

text: He

text: said

text: similar

text: promises

text: were

text: made

text: in

text: May

text: when

text: there

text: was

text: an

text: outbreak

text: of

text: sectarian

text: violence

text: in

text: Cairo

text: that

text: left

text: more

text: than

text: people

text: dead

text: The

text: government

text: formed

text: a

text: National

text: Justice

text: Committee

text: composed

text: of

text: Muslim

text: Coptic

text: representatives

text: and

text: military

text: and

text: government

text: officials

text: Several

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: National

text: Justice

text: Committee

text: have

text: resigned

text: or

text: suspended

text: their

text: membership

text: in

text: protest

text: after

text: Sunday

text: 's

text: violence

text: and

text: the

text: army

text: 's

text: actions

text: Wedeman

text: says

text: there

text: have

text: been

text: growing

text: calls

text: from

text: prominent

text: politicians

text: for

text: the

text: resignation

text: of

text: the

text: prime

text: minister

text: who

text: is

text: seen

text: as

text: weak

text: and

text: ineffectual

text: at

text: addressing

text: sectarian

text: issues

text: What

text: does

text: this

text: mean

text: for

text: the

text: Egyptian

text: government

text: Azzam

text: says

text: the

text: weekend

text: violence

text: presents

text: a

text: serious

text: challenge

text: for

text: Egypt

text: in

text: this

text: transitional

text: period

text: But

text: she

text: says

text: the

text: reaction

text: of

text: the

text: armed

text: forces

text: and

text: overwhelming

text: use

text: of

text: force

text: reflects

text: a

text: military

text: that

text: is

text: unable

text: to

text: deal

text: with

text: dissent

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text: to

text: be

text: asked

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text: who

text: gave

text: the

text: orders

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text: the

text: clumsy

text: way

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text: dealt

text: with

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text: said

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text: Azzam

text: and

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text: say

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text: government

text: reaction

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text: to

text: that

text: of

text: the

text: old

text: regime

text: while

text: the

text: military

text: response

text: has

text: also

text: attracted

text: criticism

text: from

text: Muslims

text: In

text: May

text: this

text: year

text: Michael

text: Wahid

text: Hanna

text: a

text: fellow

text: and

text: program

text: officer

text: at

text: The

text: Century

text: Foundation

text: wrote

text: on

text: the

text: CNN

text: website

text: that

text: much

text: should

text: be

text: expected

text: of

text: Egypt

text: 's

text: newly

text: empowered

text: Muslim

text: Brotherhood

text: Repressed

text: and

text: officially

text: banned

text: under

text: Mubarak

text: the

text: Brotherhood

text: is

text: now

text: the

text: most

text: coherent

text: opposition

text: force

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: and

text: is

text: calling

text: for

text: the

text: emphasis

text: of

text: Islam

text: in

text: Egypt

text: 's

text: politics

text: he

text: said

text: So

text: will

text: the

text: process

text: of

text: change

text: be

text: affected

text: Moves

text: towards

text: a

text: democratically

text: elected

text: Egyptian

text: government

text: have

text: been

text: difficult

text: The

text: U.S.

text: has

text: been

text: trying

text: to

text: encourage

text: the

text: government

text: to

text: lift

text: the

text: state

text: of

text: emergency

text: and

text: a

text: coalition

text: of

text: political

text: groups

text: previously

text: threatened

text: to

text: boycott

text: parliamentary

text: elections

text: set

text: to

text: start

text: in

text: November

text: unless

text: their

text: demands

text: were

text: met

text: An

text: agreement

text: reached

text: Saturday

text: included

text: a

text: promise

text: to

text: consider

text: abolishing

text: military

text: tribunals

text: and

text: plans

text: to

text: draft

text: a

text: document

text: to

text: guide

text: the

text: creation

text: of

text: a

text: new

text: constitution

text: But

text: some

text: activists

text: said

text: the

text: agreement

text: fails

text: to

text: meet

text: all

text: the

text: demands

text: of

text: the

text: popular

text: uprising

text: There

text: are

text: very

text: serious

text: challenges

text: both

text: sectarian

text: and

text: economic

text: but

text: I

text: think

text: we

text: are

text: heading

text: for

text: greater

text: democratization

text: said

text: Azzam

text: It

text: 's

text: very

text: hard

text: to

text: reverse

text: that

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: very

text: hard

text: to

text: delay

text: elections

question: who are fighting?

answer: army forces and pro-Coptic Christian protesters.

text: army forces and pro-Coptic Christian protesters.

question: What does Maha Azzam say?

answer: the sources of tension have focused on religious conversions, attacks on places of worship and Coptic resentment that they are not being given licenses to build new churches

text: the sources of tension have focused on religious conversions, attacks on places of worship and Coptic resentment that they are not being given licenses to build new churches

question: What did Wedeman say?

answer: since this year's revolution that removed the former President Hosni Mubarak there have been more of these clashes.

text: since this year's revolution that removed the former President Hosni Mubarak there have been more of these clashes.

question: how many coptic christians are there?

answer: somewhere between 8 and 11 % of the 80 million Egyptians,

text: somewhere between 8 and 11 % of the 80 million Egyptians,

question: where is the violence?

answer: streets of Cairo

text: streets of Cairo

question: What percentage of the population is Coptic Christian?

answer: 8 and 11 %

text: 8 and 11 %

question: How many percent do Christians make up?

answer: somewhere between 8 and 11 %

text: somewhere between 8 and 11 %