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What happened yeasterday in Egypt, was inpredicatble. Especially it happened by a respectable man "Noman Gomma".
The wafed situation is accuse the government it intend to late in support police to stop fight, and the governement did so to make people forget about the issue of Govern inherit...
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CAIRO (AFP) - The former leader of Egypt's opposition Wafd party and 14 of his supporters have been jailed after launching an armed attack to reclaim control of the party headquarters that left 23 people wounded, a security official said.
"The office of the attorney general decided to detain Noman Gomaa, deputy Ahmed Nasser, his son Ashraf and 12 other individuals for a period of four days," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Their detention is renewable for 15 days, after which the suspects will face trial, the official added Sunday.
On Saturday, Gomaa and a group of around 50 of his supporters, some of them armed, stormed the central Cairo headquarters of the Wafd party, a liberal movement which traditionally represented the country's aristocracy.
The current leader of the party, Mahmud Abaza, and loyalist Wafd supporters retook control of the building after a 10-hour standoff which left 23 of them wounded and during which witnesses said Gomaa himself fired shots.
Police did not intervene in the clashes until the last moment, when an armoured van spirited away the former Wafd leader after security forces in riot gear secured a passage through the angry crowd.
The 15 Egyptians stand accused of "incitement to murder, arson, damage to property, carrying firearms illegally and incitement to public disorder," the security official said.
Gomaa, a 70-year-old lawyer, mounted a disastrous challenge to Hosni Mubarak in the September 2005 presidential election, where he failed to muster three percent of the national vote.
He was subsequently dismissed by the Wafd leadership and replaced by Abaza.
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