Her father Muhammad Ahmed, from Bangladesh, worked legally in the UK from July 2008 to August 2009, but stayed illegally after his work permit expired.

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And bitterly polarised but more-or-less free presidential polls did produce, via a first round in May and this month's run-off, a generally accepted winner by a slim margin, the Brotherhood's candidate, Muhammad Morsi, though his rival, General Ahmed Shafiq, a Mubarak-era prime minister, still challenges this.

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Even as their favorite "moderates" - who at various times have included Arafat, Abbas, security chief Muhammad Dahlan, convicted mass murderer Marwan Barghouti, former PA prime minister Ahmed Qurei and current Fatah Prime Minister Salam Fayad - have all been implicated in terror attacks and funding, both Israel and the US have remained unstinting in their view.

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