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** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi laugh during a photo opportunity at their meeting at the pesidential palace in Cairo on Saturday, July 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Egyptian protesters chant slogans at rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Egyptians flocked to Cairo's central Tahrir square on Tuesday for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

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Protesters hurl stones during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi in Alexandria, Egypt, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Opponents and supporters of Mr. Morsi clashed across Egypt on Friday, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. Thousands from the two camps threw stones and chunks of marble at one another outside a mosque in the Mediterranean city after Friday's Muslim prayers. (AP Photo/Tarek Fawzy)

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Protesters storm an office of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party and set fires in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. State TV says Morsi opponents also set fire to his party's offices in the Suez Canal cities of Suez, Port Said and Ismailia. Opponents and supporters of Mr. Morsi clashed across Egypt on Friday, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. (AP Photo/Amira Mortada, El Shorouk newspaper)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to supporters outside the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. MENA, Egypt's official news agency, says the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings." In a statement carried by MENA on Saturday, the Supreme Judicial Council said it regrets the declarations Mr. Morsi issued Thursday. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

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Sen. John McCain walks through Tahrir Square in Cairo after meeting with the U.S. ambassador to Egypt on Sunday, April 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Ford)

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Protesters gather outside Egypt's high court in Cairo on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, as the nation's highest body of judges slammed a recent decision by the president to grant himself near-absolute power, calling the move an “unprecedented assault” on the judiciary. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)

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In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, center right, waves to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's official news agency says that the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings." In a statement carried on MEAN Saturday, the Supreme Judicial Council says they regret the declarations President Mohammed Morsi issued Thursday.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo on Nov. 23, 2012. Opponents and supporters of Mohammed Morsi clashed across Egypt, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. (Associated Press)

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Protesters rush a wounded comrade to a field hospital in Tahrir Square, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi staged rival rallies Friday after he assumed sweeping new powers, a clear show of the deepening polarization plaguing the country. In a Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012 decree Morsi put himself above the judiciary and also exempted the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly writing Egypt's new constitution from judicial review. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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In this Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012 photo, a protester holds up a poster with the faces of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and current President, Mohmmed Morsi as public anger mounts that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood are seizing too much power, in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authorities for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had emerged as a key opponent by declaring that the courts are barred from challenging his decisions. Arabic on the poster reads, "Mohammed Morsi Mubarak." (AP Photo/Mostafa El Shemy)

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Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans and wave his campaign posters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president staged rival rallies Friday after he assumed sweeping new powers, a clear show of the deepening polarization plaguing the country.(AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)