5,000 at Rites for Rebel
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CAIRO — About 5,000 mourners took part in a funeral procession Friday for Omar Telmessani, 82, leader of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, who died Thursday of natural causes. Hundreds of armed riot police guarded the mile-long route in central Cairo but no disorder was reported.
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