"They're the government's way of controlling Upper Egypt - the powerful families, " Moataz told me.
Monday's incident occurred as the army train was heading from Upper Egypt into Cairo.
They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt.
Mr Hussein said that despite being far from Cairo, most people in Upper Egypt followed the events in the capital.
Last month, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated a new visitor's centre at the temple of Abu Simbel, in Upper Egypt, as the south of the country is known.
One came from the would-be National Unity and Social Justice Party, which has spent seven years awaiting approval for a platform aimed at strengthening relations between Muslims and Christians in strife-torn Upper Egypt.
About 5, 200 years ago, the first pharaoh managed to unify Upper and Lower Egypt into a single state with Memphis as its capital.
Egypt's upper house of parliament is receiving 90 new members Sunday morning, according to state-run Nile TV.
But Essam Erian, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and leader of the majority party in Egypt's upper house of Parliament, criticized the proposed boycott.
But if Egypt's upper house succeeds in pushing through judicial reforms favored by Islamists coupled with Mr. Morsi's plans to shake-up his cabinet, it could pave the way for a more pliant political system for the president.
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In a speech to the upper house of parliament, Mr Morsi said that after two years of turmoil, it was time for Egypt to turn to "production, work, seriousness".
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