A leader of Egypt’s most influential secular party on Wednesday dismissed the Holocaust as a “lie,” the Diary of Anne Frank as a “fake” and the September 11th attacks as “made in the USA.” The comments by the vice chairman of the putatively liberal Wafd Party pour cold water on lingering hopes that post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt could serve as an exemplar of modern, progressive democracy in the Arab world’s most populous state… The interview was conducted on the sidelines of the “First Annual Conference on Democracy and Human Rights,” hosted in Budapest by the Tom Lantos Institute and Center for Democratic Transition.