Posted on 08/18/2013 7:09:13 PM PDT by lbryce
The Egyptian government acknowledged that its security forces had killed 36 Islamists in its custody Sunday, as the military leaders and the country’s Islamists vowed to keep up their fight over Egypt’s future.
The news of the deaths came on a day in which there appeared to be a pause in the street battles that have claimed more than 1,000 lives in recent days, most of them Islamists and their supporters gunned down by security forces. The Islamists took measures on Sunday to avoid confrontations, including canceling several protests of the military’s ouster of a democratically elected Islamist-led government.
While confirming the killings of the detainees on Sunday, the Ministry of the Interior said the deaths were the consequence of an escape attempt by Islamist prisoners. But officials of the main Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, described the deaths as “assassinations,” and claimed that the victims, which it said numbered 52, had been shot and tear-gassed through the windows of a locked prison van.
The government offered conflicting details throughout the day, once saying the detainees had suffocated to death in the van from tear gas to suppress an escape attempt, but later insisting that the Islamists died in a prison where they were taken.
In either case, the deaths were the fourth mass killing of civilians since the military took control on July 3, but the first time those killed were in government custody at the time.
The Islamists, followers of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, have vowed to continue their protests, both against the military’s ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and the violence of recent days that started with the bloody crackdown on Brotherhood sit-ins that left hundreds dead.
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But officials of the main Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, described the deaths as “assassinations,” and claimed that the victims, which it said numbered 52, had been shot and tear-gassed through the windows of a locked prison van.
Gassing people to death in a locked enclosure was said to be conspiratorial propaganda and incontrovertible hoax.
A good start.
Any word from the NY Slimes about the Coptic Christian demise?
Poor, poor journalists. Just trying to do their job--not.
only 35 you say....pity
Somebody get these assholes some beer blondes and wings already
The following article is a bit long but if you are interested in the current state of Egypt, especially for Christians, you will find this interesting and enlightening. It is written by Peter Justin, son of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby who was studying Arabic there for the past 20 months. Scroll down to the third article entitled as follows:
“The representation of Egypt in the Western media is completely wrong” http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/
Remember:
This is from the NEW YORK TIMES, fabricated from behind
the Enemy lines of al Qaeda, where reporters of the
NEW YORK TIMES huddle with the rest of the MSM.
“The government has been pursuing a relentless campaign to paint the Islamists as pursuing violence,”
LoL. Ya don’t say?
Excellent point. Your dripping sarcasm wasn’t lost on me.
IOW, the MB are finding fewer and fewer people willing to die for nothing.
Wake me when they’ve killed the last one in custody, it’ll be time to read about the next wave of arrests. Thanks lbryce.
GREAT article and some good comments at the link you provided. Thanks!
HAJJies killing HAJJies, where’s the crime?
I didn’t notice that, but darned you are right.
The escape attempt was confirmed by a different news service, so it’s all ok. It was an attack on a prisoner transfer. The government killed the attackers, and a lot of prisoners got killed, too.
Even if it wasn’t, it’s still all ok.
I was a little disappointed that the Ikwan canceled their protest today. I guess they’ve decided that bombing markets and police stations, as in Iraq, is the way to go.
I just copied your comment and the link to Peter Justin’s article on the Live Egypt thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3039526/posts?page=4382
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