McAfee says he's left Belize, is still on run

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2012 file photo, John McAfee speaks at a ceremony for the official presentation of equipment at the San Pedro Police Station in Ambergris Caye, Belize. McAfee, 67, has been identified as a "person of interest" in the killing of his neighbor, 52-year-old Gregory Faull. Police are urging McAffe to come in for questioning. The anti-virus company founder said on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, he has left Belize and is still on the run, hiding from police out of fear they want to kill him. (AP Photo/Ambergris Today Online-Sofia Munoz, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2012 file photo, John McAfee speaks at a ceremony for the official presentation of equipment at the San Pedro Police Station in Ambergris Caye, Belize. McAfee, 67, has been identified as a "person of interest" in the killing of his neighbor, 52-year-old Gregory Faull. Police are urging McAffe to come in for questioning. The anti-virus company founder said on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, he has left Belize and is still on the run, hiding from police out of fear they want to kill him. (AP Photo/Ambergris Today Online-Sofia Munoz, File)

(AP) ? Software company founder John McAfee said Monday he has fled from Belize using a bizarre ruse, adding yet another chapter in what threatens to become one of the biggest media fugitive frenzies since O.J. Simpson led police on a low-speed chase in 1994.

McAfee claimed in a blog posting he had evaded authorities by staging an elaborate distraction in neighboring Mexico.

In an email to The Associated Press, McAfee confirmed a posting to his website in which he described, in what appeared to be joking tones, how he mounted the ruse.

"My 'double,' carrying on (sic) a North Korean passport under my name, was detained in Mexico for pre-planned misbehavior," McAfee wrote in the posting, "but due to indifference on the part of authorities (he) was evicted from the jail and was unable to serve his intended purpose in our exit plan."

It was a turn typical of the bizarre saga of the eccentric anti-virus company founder wanted for questioning in connection with the killing of fellow American ex-pat Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death at the Belize island where they both had homes in early November.

Since then, McAfee has refused to turn himself in for questioning saying he fears Belizean police would kill him, and has titillated the media with phone calls, emails and blog posts detailing his life on the lam. It has all resulted in a rather undignified media scrum to get interviews with McAfee, complete with taunts.

Vice magazine, two of whose journalists are reportedly traveling with McAfee, posted a story on its website entitled "We Are with John McAfee Right Now, Suckers," along with a photos showing McAfee and VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro.

Wired magazine later said on its website that location information embedded in the photo shows McAfee and the journalists were at Guatemala's Rio Dulce National Park, near the border with Belize, when the photo was taken.

A representative of the Faull family said Monday that the real issues ? the murder of an American who by all accounts was well-liked by his neighbors on Belize's Ambergris Caye ? are getting lost.

"The real issues are that a human life was violently taken, (and) authorities lack all the information ... we're beyond the danger of them being lost, it's become entertainment. This is tragic to the family," said Dan Keeney of Texas-based DPK Public Relations, who has issued statements on behalf of the Faull family.

A woman who answered the phone at an Orlando, Florida phone number listed for Vickie Faull confirmed she was a relative and said that Keeney spoke on behalf of the family, but had no further comment.

"Mr. McAfee is astute at media manipulation, and he's using those skills to great effect," said Keeney. "I would just caution the media not to let themselves be manipulated."

Keeney added in email that "we strongly urge journalists covering the McAfee story not to glorify the words and actions of this person who, by refusing to cooperate and tell police all he knows about the murder of Greg Faull, is harming the investigation of the murder."

"The family of Mr. Faull is concerned that journalists may be assisting Mr. McAfee either implicitly by helping him to create an elaborate fiction that undermines trust in authorities or explicitly in his efforts to escape."

Police in Belize have called McAfee a "person of interest" in the slaying of Faull and asked him to turn himself in for questioning. He has not been charged, however, and thus can travel at will.

Faull was shot to death in his home, a couple of houses down from the compound where McAfee kept several noisy dogs, armed guards and entertained a steady stream of young women brought in from the mainland. McAfee acknowledges that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them, but denied killing Faull. Several of the dogs were poisoned shortly before Faull's killing.

For two weeks, McAfee refused to turn himself in and claimed to be hiding in plain sight, wearing disguises and watching as police raided his house. It was unclear, however, how much of what McAfee ? a confessed practical joker ? said and wrote was true.

McAfee did not describe the entire plan, nor did he say where exactly he was now. He noted only that "we are not in Belize, but not quite out of the woods yet."

In a previous interview with the AP, McAfee had said he had no plans to leave Belize.

"I'm not going to leave this country," he had told the AP. "I love this country, this is my home. I intend to fight the injustice that's here from here, I can't do much from outside, can I?"

In Monday's post, McAfee said he left Belize because he thought "Sam," the young Belizean woman who has accompanied him since he went on the lam, was in danger.

"I left Belize because of a series of events which led both Sam and I to believe that she was in danger of capture. She has been my go-between and my eyes and ears in the outside world. I decided to make the move. I will be returning to Belize after I have place (sic) Sam in a safe position. My fight is in Belize, and I can do little in exile."

Police sources in Belize said early Monday they believed he was still in the country. The sparsely populated border between the two countries is unguarded and unmarked in many places.

Rumors arose over the weekend that McAfee had been caught, but Belizean police quickly denied that.

Belize's prime minister, Dean Barrow, has expressed doubts about McAfee's mental state: "I don't want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers."

McAfee, who is extremely polite and coherent in telephone conversations, brushes off such accusations, telling the AP "if people want to call that paranoia, they can do so if you wish, that will not concern me."

McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus program, has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the anti-virus software company that is named after him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes.

He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis. However, a story on the Gizmodo website quoted him as calling that claim "not very accurate at all." He has dabbled in yoga, ultra-light aircraft and producing herbal medications.

McAfee has never said where he's hiding. But in his blog, he has claimed to have disguised himself as a grungy street peddler and a foul-mouthed German tourist.

Associated Press

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HBT: Red Sox sign Napoli for 3 years, $39 million

UPDATE: Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com says it?s a three-year, $39 million deal.

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Rob Bradford of WEEI reports that the Red Sox are close to a three-year deal with Mike Napoli. No figures have been reported yet, but Bradford says Napoli will be the Sox? primary first base option.

Napoli, 31, batted .227/.343/.469 with 24 home runs and 56 RBI in 417 plate appearances this past season for the Rangers. He had a career-best .320/.414/.631 batting line, 30 home runs and 75 RBI in 432 plate appearances the season before.

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Become Content By Following These Self Improvement Guidelines ...

Focusing on improving yourself is a smart way to start getting your life back on track. This can help you think on where to start in making great changes when it comes to your life. Here?s a list of great tips to get your creative juices flowing and set you happily on the road to positive personal development.

Place your personal central principles into practice. Each individual has beliefs that he or she follows all the time. Having a good foundation based on your core principles will benefit your sense of self esteem. This will also help you develop consistency.

Organize your life. The process of cleaning up and organizing provides a massive boost to your self-esteem. Furthermore, you will feel accomplished after you finish this undertaking. In addition, you won?t stress out anymore from the messes. Having everything put away and neatly organized can give you a sense of peace.

Increasing the complex carbs in your diet can help manage depression. Complex carbohydrates are essential to producing serotonin, which helps to lift your mood. Complex carbs that you can easily eat to raise these levels include whole grains, nuts, raw vegetables and more.

Write yourself a pep talk. List all your great attributes on an index card. You can take this with you wherever you go, and review it when you want motivation. Even better, you should videotape yourself, reading the list into the camera and watch this video frequently. Sounds intriguing, right?

Other than the Ivy League, most employers don?t really care where you graduated from, so long as you got the degree and have the necessary skills. The exceptions to this include high-finance type jobs, in which graduation from an Ivy League school adds cachet to your credentials. It is really more important to simply have a quality degree that will open up opportunities for you.

Leaders are humble, though powerful and strict too. You must be resolute but compassionate if you want to lead. Also, recall what it is like to serve someone. A good leader is virtuous and full of integrity, something you need in order to be successful.

Set reasonable, achievable goals for yourself. If you find your weaknesses and work on them, you can also become a better person.

When you feel anger start to boil over, stop before you react and count to ten. Another technique is to breathe deeply and imagine a peaceful place. Stay grounded and only say something you can live with tomorrow.

Therapy might be the solution for people who have serious issues. While self-help books help to a certain degree, seeing a therapist has more personalized substance to it. Sometimes, talk therapy can help you discover a breakthrough. The therapeutic discussion that you can have with a psychiatrist, is beyond the abilities of even the most comprehensive and detailed self-help book.

Sexual capitol is a trait that is attracting a lot of attention to researchers that study personal development. This has nothing to do with using sex appeal to get the things you covet. It has more to do with charm. Not everyone has good social skills, but these can help you go farther in all aspects of your life.

This article should have shown you that helping yourself involves a lot of hard work to start making viable changes in your life. One thing to keep in mind is that if you want to see noticeable results, you have to stick to it. An occasional reflection on the previously mentioned tips can help to improve your life.

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Forced to Choose: Exploring Other Options - NYTimes.com

I wrote last week about the poor choices facing patients, most very old and within six months of death, who need nursing home care after a hospitalization.

Medicare will pay for hospice, the acknowledged gold standard for those at the end of life and their families, and it will also pay for skilled nursing (known in this universe as the ?sniff? benefit, for Skilled Nursing Facility or S.N.F.). But only rarely will it cover both at the same time, which creates a financial bind.

Rather than pay hundreds of dollars a day out of pocket for room and board in a nursing home, most families opt for S.N.F. coverage. But they pay a price in other ways: they lose the visits by nurses and aides and social workers, the comfort care, the pain relief and the spiritual support that can make hospice such a godsend, whether patients are at home or in nursing homes.

The study I wrote about, by a team mostly based at the University of California, San Francisco, found ongoing repercussions from this forced decision. People were much more likely to die in hospitals or nursing homes when they used the S.N.F. benefit. Though studies repeatedly find that most people would prefer to die at home, only 11 percent did. But those who did not use S.N.F. were far more likely to be enrolled in hospice ? and 40 percent of them died at home.

On the other coast, meanwhile, researchers in Providence, R.I., and Boston exploring some of the same issues have documented still other problems when people nearing death use nursing homes.

This study, published recently by The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, looked specifically at more than 4,300 patients with advanced dementia who died in nursing homes in 2006 and used the S.N.F. benefit within 90 days of their deaths. About a quarter also had hospice care, either at the same time (permitted only when someone has both a terminal condition and another diagnosis, as when a dementia patient also breaks a hip) or before or after they used S.N.F.

Why look at patients with severe dementia? ?I tried to focus on the most vulnerable part of the nursing home population,? said the study?s lead author, Susan C. Miller, a health services researcher at Brown University. ?They?re almost totally dependent.?

The whole purpose of Medicare?s paying for skilled nursing, recall, is to help patients get stronger and return home, or at least to improve their health. But physical therapy, for instance, may serve little purpose for those who are bed-bound, who are totally incontinent, who can?t feed themselves. ?These are people who are on a decline,? Dr. Miller said. ?They?re not going to get better.?

Yet they received a lot of medical interventions compared to those in hospice care. Those using S.N.F. were significantly more likely to receive feeding tubes, intravenous fluids, injections and medications ? none of which can stop or slow dementia, of course, or are likely to increase quality of life.

?I consider these treatments very aggressive for this group of patients,? Dr. Miller said. Hospice care, on the other hand, lowered the odds of dying in a hospital.

?There needs to be some kind of combined benefit, hospice or palliative care while people are receiving skilled nursing,? Dr. Miller concluded. Otherwise, ?there are incentives to give them care they really shouldn?t be receiving.?

People in palliative care and hospice have complained about this restriction for years, and they may want to keep complaining. The Affordable Care Act calls for a demonstration project of ?concurrent care,? a three-year experiment allowing up to 15 hospice programs around the country to enroll patients who can also continue to receive all the other services that Medicare covers, including skilled nursing.

Afterwards, an independent evaluation is supposed to determine whether people who are old and ill and close to death can benefit from having hospice and other services together and whether that may even save Medicare dollars.

But the statute doesn?t set a target date, so who knows when or whether this experiment will happen? Too bad, because a lot of patients and families would like to know the answer.

Paula Span is the author of ?When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions.?

Source: http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/forced-to-choose-exploring-other-options/

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Young down by boardwalk for benefit show

NEW YORK (AP) ? Neil Young says he couldn't see performing in the area devastated by Superstorm Sandy without doing something to help people who were affected by it.

Young and his longtime backing band, Crazy Horse, will be in Atlantic City for a benefit concert Thursday. He said he hopes to raise several hundred thousand dollars for the American Red Cross' storm relief effort with the show at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

Young is on tour in the area, playing Monday in Brooklyn and Tuesday in Bridgeport, Conn.

He said in an interview Sunday that fans in the area had been supporting him for 40 years and he wanted to do what he could to help.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/young-down-boardwalk-benefit-show-180242416.html

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Inhabitat's Week in Green: vertical farm, solar energy funnel and a brainwave monitor

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

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This week Inhabitat reported live from the Los Angeles Auto Show as we brought you the hottest new green cars -- beginning with the 2013 Fiat 500e electric vehicle. We're also eagerly awaiting the unveiling of BMW's new i3 Coupe concept. In other green transportation news, JR Tokai unveiled Japan's new lightning-fast 310 MPH MagLev train, while Amtrak announced that trains traveling between Chicago and St. Louis were cleared to accelerate to 110 MPH on a short stretch of track. It's no MagLev, but we'll take it! Designer Jeffrey Eyster also unveiled the MRV-1, a recreational vehicle that doubles as a sustainable nature retreat.

Continue reading Inhabitat's Week in Green: vertical farm, solar energy funnel and a brainwave monitor

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Securing Devices For Mobile Computing - Clayton Harrington42's blog

Generation today hardly rely on MCD or mobile computing devices. They use this in schools, workplace and almost everywhere. Most of these common devices are laptop computers or even notebook, smart phones with processing and storage features, personal digital assistant or we better known as PDA?s, iPods, and even a USB memory stick. We would always enjoy the luxury and advantage of using these gadgets but for some reason, bad guys exists who wants to stole our data?s, and even personal info?s. With this, there are ways and precautions on how to secure our mobile computing devices.

These security tips will protect our mobile computing devices against fraud and any other fraudulent activities. In every computers or laptops, make it sure that you keep the patches updated at all times. In this way, we can avoid to be compromised by any attackers, or any form of computer viruses or malwares. There are programs that you can use to have this updated automatically, or if you are not comfortable with the automatic update, you can have it set to alarm your system if update is available. A lot of vendors provide a program for notification whenever there is a malware attack or if your system needs to be updated. And always use a secure password to protect your system from any unauthorized use or access.

Those of you not familiar with the latest on Mobile Computing now have at least a basic understanding. But there?s more to come.

This is just to make sure that nobody can access your system unless they have your password. However, this is not a guarantee that you can never be hacked if your system is password protected. There are a lot of trained hackers that can do the trick but if your system is protected, it would give them some time to do their thing until your system detects that there are incoming threats on your system. In some computers, it may have a fingerprint reader to protect your system to be accessed by anyone else except your own fingerprints. There are also locking device that is available for portable computers at low prices.

For your computer programs, make it sure that you have installed a personal firewall. It is strongly recommended that you use a personal firewall, this would make attackers job hard and time consuming. There are some systems where the firewall is automatically installed, or in some system, you just need to access and have it configured on the system?s preference menu. Network attack is very common nowadays since they always wanted to access somebody?s data or stole a file. You can avoid this attack if your personal firewall is installed, running, and configured appropriately.

When it comes to connection, wired or wireless, it is strongly recommended that the settings for security are set to a maximum level. You can have it access on your networks menu. Though wireless technology have been able to its maximum security, it is still best to be sensitive and not to easily accept any incoming wireless signals not unless a back up of a more secured encryption is being used. Encryption is the only to have your mobile computing devices secured.

You can?t predict when knowing something extra about Mobile Computing will come in handy. If you learned anything new about Mobile Computing in this article, you should file the article where you can find it again.

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WHO: 2 more cases of new virus in Jordan

LONDON (AP) ? International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East.

The virus has so far sickened nine people and killed five of them. The new disease is a coronavirus related to SARS, which killed some 800 people in a global epidemic in 2003, and belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.

The two cases date back to April and are part of a cluster of a dozen people, mostly health workers, who fell sick in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Zarqa, Jordan. Officials are investigating whether the 10 other people who grew sick in Zarqa also were infected and how the virus might have spread.

"It's too early to say whether human-to-human transmission occurred or not, but we certainly can't rule it out," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.

One of the Jordanian cases was a 40-year-old female. All of the other patients to date have been men. The new virus has so far been identified in patients from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Scientists haven't found any links between the sporadic cases of the coronavirus so far, first detected in September. "We don't know how the virus gets around and there are more questions than answers right now," Hartl said.

Several of the patients sickened by the new coronavirus have had rapid kidney failure and others have suffered severe pneumonia and respiratory illnesses. The virus is most closely related to a bat virus and scientists are also considering whether bats or animals like camels or goats are a possible source of infection.

Scientists are also considering whether fruit contaminated by animal droppings may have spread the virus.

Still, not all of the cases had contact with animals and WHO said it was possible the virus was spread between humans in the Jordan hospital and in a cluster of cases in Saudi Arabia, where four members of the same family fell ill and two died.

WHO says the virus is probably more widespread than just the Middle East and recommended that countries test any people with unexplained pneumonia.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2-more-cases-virus-jordan-175506843.html

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UK gas trading probe could trigger new rules - EnergyUK's Knight

LONDON (Reuters) - A probe into possible price manipulation in Britain's gas market, Europe's largest, could result in tighter regulation of energy trading, Angela Knight, chief executive of the EnergyUK lobby group, said on Friday.

"We need to see whether there is any more that needs to be done so there's the proper regulation in place to secure confidence in the market," said Knight, who moved to EnergyUK in September after heading the British Bankers' Association (BBA).

Britain's financial and energy regulators announced this month that they were reviewing information received by a whistleblower claiming that traders had manipulated prices in Britain's gas market.

Knight said some of the price manipulation issues alleged in the case would be addressed by new EU rules being rolled out to prevent market abuse in electricity and gas markets, also known as REMIT.

Yet she said the case was also somewhat unusual as the whistleblower had refused the customary identity protection and opted to speak about the allegations in public.

He also approached the financial regulator rather than energy watchdog Ofgem.

"I think that has therefore made it quite difficult for our authorities (...) The fairness about the British system is you aren't found guilty until the work has been done to determine whether you are guilty," Knight said.

Ofgem has often been accused of lacking prosecution powers compared with other regulators, but Knight said the energy watchdog had been keeping a close eye on unusual trading.

ENERGY LIKE BANKING

Knight, who spent five years at the helm of the bankers association, likened the energy market to the banking sector in that both sectors are going through major change.

Britain's banking sector is facing growing scrutiny on the back of the financial crisis and the energy market is set to be overhauled to encourage more low-carbon power generation.

"There are some evident parallels in that these are large important industries for the UK economy," said Knight, whose role it was to defend the banking sector at a time when it was widely blamed for causing global financial meltdown.

In her new role Knight said it was part of her job to restore reputation of energy companies which are often criticised for pocketing hefty profits for electricity and gas supply.

"A lot of the good can be completely sidelined by a small amount of the bad and I think that's a shame," Knight said, adding that EnergyUK was considering launching a public campaign to raise the profile of energy companies.

"If we're going to have that honest discussion with our customers, it has to be the industry, regulators, policymakers and the media, too, to find a way to explain which doesn't end up in finger pointing."

(Editing by Jason Neely)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-gas-trading-probe-could-trigger-rules-energyuks-164102362.html

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ANALYSIS: Egyptians warn Morsi is no friend of US

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An Egyptian man delivers a speech as protesters gather in Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square on Friday to protest against a decree by President Mohammed Morsi granting himself broad powers that shield his decisions from judicial review.

By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent

News Analysis

TAHRIR SQUARE, CAIRO -- This was the place where the revolution began: the roundish square where Egyptians celebrated Mubarak's fall.

This is where they are shouting on bullhorns again, outraged because they say the Muslim Brotherhood has stolen the revolution and is railroading though a constitution that could lock in Muslim Brotherhood rule for 50 years, bringing more Islamic law. They cry -- not against Islam -- but that an extremist interpretation is being forced down their throats by a president who critics say is acting every part the tyrant. ?

This is also a warning, they claim, of what may happen across the Middle East. The era of the Muslim?Brotherhood appears to have arrived. President Obama has hailed the Brotherhood's President Mohammed Morsi as a pragmatist who helped end the Gaza crisis. Egyptians here think the Brotherhood has conned Washington, just like it conned them.

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"President?Obama is supporting a terrorist," a man told me amid chants of "Leave! Leave!" in Tahrir Square and "Down, down with the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader." Before, it was "Down, down with Mubarak."


Morsi's decree divides Egypt
Egypt was torn in half just over a week ago when Morsi made himself more powerful than Mubarak ever was, and the kings before him. Morsi declared himself above judicial oversight, his decisions final and unassailable. He made himself, according to critics, a new pharaoh on the Nile. Imagine if, after five months in office, an American president announced that he could pass any law he pleased regardless of Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court. Imagine if he said his decisions were final and inspired by God.

After issuing a decree making himself more powerful than the courts, Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has sparked a wave of anger ? some of which is directed toward the United States. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

Morsi last night apologized for the power grab and said he didn't want the extra authorities, but that they were necessary for the good of the people and to safeguard the revolution. Dictators always say stuff like that. Burn down the village to save it.

At first Egyptians were shocked that Morsi would make such an obvious and, according to Egyptian judges, blatantly illegal move. It's clear now, as some analysts have long feared, that the brotherhood is making sure it doesn't lose power again by taking control of Egypt's constitution. The Brotherhood wants to write the rules of the game. Now they've done that too.

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Protected by the president's new-found supreme and unquestionable powers, Morsi ordered his Islamist allies to finish writing the constitution and get it on his desk by the end of this week. They did it, even though many independent legal experts, Christians and opposition politicians boycotted the drafting process. The Brotherhood called the new constitution "a jewel." Many Egyptians say it leaves too much room for the implementation of Shariah law. ?

The constitution also empowers the people and government with a duty to uphold moral values, a vague clause that could pave the way for vigilante morality police. The constitution barely mentions protecting women's rights. According to women who were originally involved in the drafting process, and who subsequently left because they felt they were being ignored, clauses specifically demanding that women be protected from violence and sex trafficking were dropped because Islamists feared it would conflict with their desire to allow child brides.

ANALYSIS: Crisis tests Egyptians' constitution

The constitution has long been the Muslim Brotherhood's lodestar and, in the past, they have been willing the kill for it. In 1954, not long after a group of 'free officers' carried out a coup against the British-backed monarchy, a Brotherhood assassin tried to kill President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser, a leading free officer, favored a mostly secular, pro-military constitution. The Brotherhood, an Islamist group that supports the return of Arab and Islamic unity and the revival of ancient Muslim glory and Shariah laws, couldn't accept the new rules.

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18 days of popular protest culminated in the downfall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011.

The Brotherhood's assassination attempt failed. The gunman's eight bullets, fired while Nasser was giving a speech in Alexandria, all missed. The Brotherhood was banned. The group went underground, at times tolerated but more often repressed by Nasser's successors: presidents Mubarak and Anwar el-Sadat. When the revolts started against Mubarak, the Brotherhood saw that fate had given them another chance.

Muslim Brotherhood's calculated rise to power
Looking back now, it all seems so obvious, yet many Egyptians refused to see it coming. In fact, many of the secular revolutionaries backed the Brotherhood, arguing they were better allies than the hated military. The Brotherhood played its cards well.

The Brotherhood was late to join the anti-Mubarak revolts in 2011. When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing. The Brotherhood either didn't appreciate its significance, or wanted to wait to see who was winning.

I remember watching the Brothers march into the square. They arrived in a large group of perhaps five hundred. Nearly all were men. Many had beards. Most were dressed in poorly cut dark suits. They occupied a corner of Tahrir near a Kentucky Fried Chicken. They came with microphones and wood to build a platform. The other protesters in the square seemed happy to have the support of the new arrivals.

Egypt's Morsi, top judges compromise to defuse soaring tensions over decree

The protests continued to grow. Labor unions went on strike. The military enacted a coup against Mubarak. President Obama withdrew his support for Washington's long-time Arab friend. And Mubarak the president was no more.

The Brotherhood first said it wouldn't seek the new presidency at all. It promised to exist solely as an influential member of civil society. Back then, many Egyptians feared the Brotherhood. It was a semi-secret group. It had a small office in a Cairo apartment building with a sign on the door the size of an index card. Mubarak-era officials had often described the Brotherhood as a group of terrorists. One security official I know called the Brotherhood the most dangerous group in the world. But in the heady 1960s-like days after Mubarak's resignation, the Brotherhood's bad reputation only seemed to give the group more credibility. They'd been oppressed by the man. It was a new day. Everyone, it appeared, deserved a new beginning.

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square Friday to denounce Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi and the draft constitution his Islamic allies approved earlier in the day.

The Brotherhood went to work. It organized its considerable finances. It built a big new headquarters with far bigger signs on the doors. It sent its representatives around the world, especially to Washington, on a charm offensive. We've been oppressed, they claimed. We were slandered by a tyrant. We're not what you've heard. We can unite the Sunni world against Iran. We can help bring Israeli-Palestinian peace. There were many promises of a great future.

Even then, the Brotherhood's focus on the constitution was clear. The Brotherhood insisted the constitution be drafted only after a new president was elected. The military was overseeing a transition back then. The Brotherhood argued that the military couldn't be trusted to oversee the creation of such an important document. Many Egyptians agreed -- a decision some sorely regret today.

NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin discusses the current unrest in Egypt

Morsi won the election by a narrow margin and then five months into his term, made himself a dictator and ordered his Islamist friends to quickly finish the constitution. Morsi has said he'll drop his extraordinary powers as soon as the constitution is approved in a referendum in December. Islamists are convinced they'll be able to use their grassroots network of activists to win the referendum like they won the elections. Western diplomats tend to agree.

Yet the United States has remained mostly silent on all this, urging both sides to stay calm and work it out. Washington's policy seems to be that what's going on is simply democracy in progress as Egyptians learn to use their new rights.

But in Tahrir Square people seem convinced the Brotherhood isn't testing its fledgling wings. They say Morsi knows exactly what he's doing, Washington be warned.?

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