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| Egypt authorizes further use of live ammunition | ||
| 2013-08-16 | ||
| CAIRO -- Egypt’s military-backed government authorized the security forces to fire live ammunition against opponents Thursday, underlining its determination to crush with force any lingering challenge posed by supporters of the country’s ousted elected president in the wake of a bloody crackdown on their camps. A day after Egyptian soldiers and police killed hundreds of people when they stormed two camps set up by the Muslim Brotherhood to call for the reinstatement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, a separate government statement pledged the use of “all power” to confront the organization, setting the stage for further bloodshed in the days ahead. Egypt was under a curfew and a state of emergency, one day after police smashed two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps. Earlier Thursday, Morsi supporters set fire to two local government buildings in Giza, a city across the Nile River from Cairo that is home to the Pyramids, the Associated Press reported. With supporters of Morsi and of the military urging their followers to take to the streets again Friday, there seemed little prospect of an imminent end to the crisis that has engulfed Egypt since June 30, when millions of people took to the streets to demand the overthrow of their first
The U.N. Security Council said it planned to hold a meeting on Thursday evening to address the crisis in Egypt. The closed-door meeting was convened at the request of Australia, Britain and France, and the United NationsÂ’ deputy secretary general was expected to brief representatives. The Muslim Brotherhood, which backs Morsi, issued its call for further demonstrations in defiance of a state of emergency declared by the interim government, which took power after a July 3 coup. By nightfall, the interim government had declared a month-long state of emergency, and Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and vice president, had tendered his resignation in protest over the bloody crackdown.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Wife accidentally went across the beeb and stopped for their tear jerker for team MB. She said the reporter was lucky they didn't kill him, no I said he is doing their advertising...notice that entire segment said absolutely nothing about why it happened or anything about the wounded or dead police. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-08-16 13:49 |
| #5 At least Mr. Mubarak is safe in his cell... I wonder if they miss him. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-08-16 12:47 |
| #4 At least Mr. Mubarak is safe in his cell... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-08-16 11:38 |
| #3 Deeply pissed off that the media and the 0 back this evil terrorist organization. I spit in your general direction. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-08-16 10:42 |
| #2 To summarize: "Morsi won!!!". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-08-16 02:44 |
| #1 Reuters: Despite carnage, Muslim Brothers win little sympathy in Cairo Normally crammed with cars and people, the chaotic streets of Cairo were strangely quiet on Thursday, with many shops still shuttered the day after security forces crushed supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. While distraught relatives waited to claim the hundreds of dead, there was little sympathy on show for the Brotherhood among Egyptians who said the Islamists had pushed too far. The government has imposed a night-time curfew for at least a month and many people had clearly decided to stay home. Some of those who did venture out, pinned the blame on the Brothers. "We didn't want this to happen, but at the end of the day they pushed us to do it," said Mahmoud Albaz, 33, an actor and real estate agent who lives near the Brotherhood protest camp at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, now blackened by fire and soot. "More than 70 percent of Egyptians are against the Brotherhood," he said. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-08-16 00:10 |