Posted on 07/03/2013 9:53:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's military moved to tighten its control of key institutions Wednesday, putting officers in the newsroom of state TV, in preparation for an almost certain push to remove President Mohammed Morsi with the expiration of an afternoon deadline.
Just before the military's deadline expired, Morsi repeated a vow not to step down in the face of demands by millions of protesters in the streets in the biggest anti-government rallies the country has seen, surpassing even those in the uprising that ousted against his autocratic predecessor Hosni Mubarak.
For the second time in 2 1/2 years of political upheaval, the powerful army appears to be positioned to remove the country's leader. But this time, it would be ousting a democratically elected president, the first in Egypt's history - making its move potentially explosive.
The military on Monday had given Morsi an ultimatum to meet the protesters' demands within 48 hours, or it would intervene and impose a plan to suspend the constitution, dissolve parliament and replace him with a leadership council. That deadline expired Wednesday afternoon.
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Waiting, waiting, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Viva la Military
Military getting ready to take out Obama’s guy.
VJ is probably pretty pi$$3d.
Can someone explain to me how much of this is Shia vs Sunnie (spelling incorrect) as opposed to who is controlling the government.
CNN is getting on the coverage just a few minutes ago.
Foxnews is covering local US News.
LIVID is most likely the word. Her homies are getting couped....
I’m sure that it is part, but the people of Egypt don’t want a theocracy dictatorship like Iran. They are more secular than most Arab countries. They know Sharia Law and they DON’T WANT IT................
Which begs the question. What did the people of Egypt think they were going to get???
Won’t Get Fooled Again...
The Who
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that’s all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
No, no!
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Bearded savages fighting bearded savages. Wake me up when the dirty beards are off the streets and calm and civilization returns to Cairo.
< / sarc >
This one isn’t Shi’a vs. Sunni.
It’s about the fact that the MB overreached. Oddly, the military was pretty quiet until a few days ago.....I’m thinking (along with some others here) that maybe the Egyptian military got wind of an MB purge of the officer corps. A lot of those fellows are US-trained. Perhaps the MB wanted to replace them with officers more “reliable” to the MB’s cause.
If that’s the case - and we’ll ultimately find out - the MB made a foolish, and fatal, miscalculation.
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