FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 file photo, Egyptians carry five coffins of policemen killed after masked gunmen opened fire at a police checkpoint in el-Wassta district in the province of Beni Suef, south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian authorities on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, accused the ousted president’s Muslim Brotherhood of forming a “military wing” to stage attacks on security forces in the southern province, as months-long street rallies by the group’s supporters wane but low-level violence steadily rises. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad, File)
Egyptian Muslims pray a Nov. 9, 2012, rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Thousands of ultraconservative Muslims rallied in the Egyptian capital, demanding the country's new constitution be based on the rulings of Islamic law, or Shariah. The poster on the the motor scooter reads in Arabic, "Islamic law is the first source of the constitution." (Associated Press)
Egyptian army soldiers patrol through anti- government protesters in downtown Cairo Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Egyptian students wearing the face-covering veil known as the niqab walk with another wearing a khemar-style hijab last week in Cairo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
President Obama touring the Great Pyramids of Giza after his speech in Cairo to the Muslim world on June 4, 2009. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
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