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Cairo Anti-war Conference

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “anti-war and anti- neo-liberalism conference held in egypt”. Today it says “anti-war and anti- neo-liberalism conference held regularly since 2002 in cairo”.
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Though the Egyptian government was formally against the Iraq war (See Governments' pre-war positions on invasion of Iraq ), relations between it and the conference are strained by the fact that Mubarak's regime receives funding from the U.S.A and that the regime fears popular movements which may grow to challenge its dictatorship.1 The Cairo Conference set up the International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq which helped to coordinate the world wide demonstrations on 15 February .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “anti-war and anti- neo-liberalism conference held in egypt”. Today it says “anti-war and anti- neo-liberalism conference held regularly since 2002 in cairo”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

anti-war and anti- neo-liberalism conference held in egypt

Now

anti-war and anti- neo-liberalism conference held regularly since 2002 in cairo

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