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Relations between Egypt's military rulers and the United States threatened to hit a new low after Egyptian security forces launched unprecedented armed raids on a series of high profile human rights and pro-democracy organisations.

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Egyptian authorities stormed the offices of three U.S. democracy-building organizations and at least three other nonprofit groups Thursday in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the United States.

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On Dec. 17, 2010, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi stood outside the governor's office in rural Sidi Bouzi, Tunisia, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire.

Les Campbell, senior associate and regional director for Middle East and North Africa programs at the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C., compared the Arab Spring to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Voting in region two of Egypt’s People’s Assembly elections showed continued enthusiasm on the part of Egyptians to exercise their right to select the candidates and parties of their choice in the country’s first open parliamentary elections, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) said in a statement released here today.