ElBaradei fan art

Looking through the Facebook group and various websites, I noticed that there is quite a collection of ElBaradei groupie art out there. Here's a gallery.

In the meantime, here are the first signs of harassment and beatings of ElBaradei supporters:

Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud ordered the launch of an investigation into an incident of torture that allegedly took place at State Security headquarters in Fayoum where a physiotherapist says he was beaten, tortured and stripped of his clothes after helping to organize activities in support of ElBaradei running for the presidency.

Update: ElBaradei condemned the treatment of his supporter.

Comments

[palestinian]

I honestly cannot comprehend this fascination with El-Baradei. The man does not exactly have a neutral or clean record as far as his relationship with the US goes. Also, his attention, or lack thereof, towards the Israeli nuclear program is almost scandalous.

Does his closeness to the Bush/NeoCon regime mean that more of the same is coming unto Egypt?

Are the people cheering him simply because they are tired of the current dictatorship?

[Issandr El Amrani]

How is he close to the neocons when he consistently warned about being rash on Iran? And on the question of Israel, that is simply not in the IAEA's purview, since Israel is not a signatory to the NPT.

ElBaradei may not be the best thing for Egypt, but while one can criticize him for the IAEA's reports on Iraq (even though they never justified the invasion), his record is not as bad as you make it sound.

[marwa]

In so far as political development is concerned (which has been nonexistent for the past 28 years) I believe at this stage, any change is good. Now, in a hypothetical situation where political choices are made by the people, if you get a chance to choose between ElBaradei and Gamal Mobarak (given that you know there is no one else who has enough immunity to stand against the regime) who would you choose? and yes, we are a desperate nation. I say ElBaradei all the way if it means we get to end this military regime.