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Where would Obama make his long-promised speech to the Muslim world? After ditching one capital or another as too whatever ("Tehran? Too soon for that."), Helene Cooper of the Times called it back on December 4 (Looking for the Ideal Spot to Make a Speech):

See? It's got to be Cairo. Egypt is perfect. It's certainly Muslim enough, populous enough and relevant enough. It's an American ally, but there are enough tensions in the relationship that the choice will feel bold. The country has plenty of democracy problems, so Mr. Obama can speak directly to the need for a better democratic model there. It has got the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization that has been embraced by a wide spectrum of the Islamic world, including the disenfranchised and the disaffected.

The Secret Service won't like it one bit, but Cairo is no Islamabad....

And now she even gets to say, "I told you so": Obama to Speak From Egypt in Address to Muslim World

In making such a high-profile address to the Muslim world from Egypt, Mr. Obama is wading straight into the center of the storm of the United States' turbulent relations with the Muslim world.

Egypt, under President Hosni Mubarak, has a fractured democratic process; opponents of Mr. Mubarak have been imprisoned, and some democracy advocates have been harassed. But the country is also the traditional intellectual center of the Arab world, as well as an important barometer of Arab street sentiment. Because of the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned but tolerated social and political movement that has been embraced by much of the Islamic world, Egypt is also a place where Mr. Obama can try to woo disenfranchised and disaffected young Arabs...

Administration officials said Secret Service agents were already on the ground in Egypt, preparing for the trip. The country has been the scene of several terrorist attacks in recent years.

Exactly where has not been announced. The Pyramids?

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