Earlier this year the Egyptian people rose at last to claim their freedoms. After thirty years of rigged elections, rampant corruption, arbitrary arrests and more recently, food riots and labour unrest hundreds of thousands of protestors flocked daily to Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand of their government only one thing, that President Mubarak should "Go". At a sermon on the so-called "Day of Departure", the imam enjoined the crowd and the world's gathering press that this was...