Hammadi

The military statement said Hammadi, also known as Hammadi Awdah Abd Farhan and Abd-al-Salam Ahmad Abdallah al-Janabi, led a group of fighters against U.S. forces in the second battle of Fallujah in the fall of 2004.

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"Over here, the most dominant factor in the elections is the family and tribal factors rather than political ideologies and the relations between individuals," said Hazem Hammadi, a NDP member who has represented Sohag in Parliament since 2000 and is again a candidate.

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Mr. Hammadi denied having used torture, despite that a 2006 report from the Cairo-based Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Violence Victims cited witness testimony to corroborate such reports.

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Mr. Hammadi was seated in the dusty elegance of his campaign headquarters below a large black-and-white picture of his great-grandfather shaking hands with King Farouq, the British-backed monarch whom the Egyptian military ousted in a 1952 coup.

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Mr. Mohammed's friend, Yusuf Ali, described Mr. Hammadi as "a criminal" who earned a reputation for extracting confessions via torture while he was an officer in the state security services in the 1990s.

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Islamist politicians and the newly minted liberal candidates don't know the first thing about satisfying the competing clan interests that define Sohag's local politics, Mr. Hammadi said.

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Few could point to one thing Mr. Hammadi has done to benefit Sohag and fewer still had reported ever having met him.

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Many voters in the neighborhood said that rather than calming angry clans, Mr. Hammadi incited them, playing their passions off each other to consolidate his control.

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Mr. Hammadi's relatives, who are helping his campaign, said the Hammadi clan alone claims up to 5,000 members.

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"But a lot of people are better at those situations" than Mr. Hammadi, he said.

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