Fear and confusion as Egypt slides into chaos

An ‘invisible’ police force and doubts about the military rulers’ plans has led to fears of violent elections next week, writes Mike Giglio

ONE evening last week, Azza Soliman and her husband, Mazen Mostafa, sat beside the croquet pitch at the Heliopolis Club, which was founded by the British in 1910.

Soliman once ran a small liberal political party, and Mostafa is a well-to-do businessman. As they listened to the hard taps of croquet mallets, the couple made a surprising admission: They were thinking of buying a gun.