Posted on 07/01/2013 5:28:33 AM PDT by RummyChick
Anti-government protesters set the national headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood ablaze after throwing petrol bombs and exchanging gunfire with guards.
Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said he was in contact by telephone with staff at the compound on a rocky plateau overlooking Cairo, who told him its fortified perimeter had not been penetrated. A Reuters journalist saw flames licking out of upper-storey windows.
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It is sad that Americans won’t expend this energy.
Note that Obama assisted in the overthrow of the secular leader Mubarek.
Obama assisted in the installation of a Muslim Brotherhood government.
Now the Egyptian people are clarly expressing disatisfication with that Muslim Brotherhood government.
Question: Will Obama send riot control resources to prop up the MB?
I’m ready,have been to the last two with the entire family
Good thing they have gun control in egypt
How do we know who these people are or what they want?
We need Tea Party rallies like this.
Many sources have reported the US has sent 400 riot-control troops to help prop up Morsi.
That’s in addition to US troops that have long been in the Egyptian Sinai.
No, this is not what it’s about.
Enlighten us, please, with references if you have them.
That's my fear. He sent a group of US military there last week just for that purpose.
Well, if you read their signs and interviews with them, not to mention their parties or religious affiliations, I think it’s pretty clear that they’re opposed to the MB (which is fighting back hard, btw, in areas outside of Cairo and will probably become more aggressive today).
Its like a replay of round one. Somebody said the word “freedom” and the lemmings stampede for the cliff.
‘Unspeakably horrifying’: BBC, tweeters report numerous sexual assaults in Cairo’s Tahrir Square
MSNBC - “Tens of foaming-at-the-mouth malcontents funded by the Tea Party object to the benevolent leadership of the muslim brotherhood.”
Morsi is about to teach Hosni Mubarak how oppression and mass slaughter is done.
Egyptians being Egyptians
It looks like Obama might have to call in an air strike.
Reminds me of the french revolution. Kinda.
I wonder how many of Obama's people were inside?
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