Thread: Egypt on the Brink When Army Tanks Deployed as Military Demands Protesters Leave Now

Egypt on the Brink When Army Tanks Deployed as Military Demands Protesters Leave....NOW........

Posted by Michael CHILDS, Admin II on December 6, 2012 at 7:07pm in Patriot Action Alerts



The Blaze

CAIRO (AP) — Tanks deployed by The Egyptian army, gave both supporters and opponents of Mohammed Morsi a timeline to dispurse the area outside the presidential palace Thursday following fierce street fights and violent protests that left five people dead and more than 600 injured in the worst outbreak of violence between the two sides since the Islamist leader’s election.

he intensity of the overnight violence, with Morsi’s Islamist backers and largely secular protesters lobbing firebombs and rocks at each other, signaled a possible turning point in the 2-week-old crisis over the president’s assumption of near-absolute powers and the hurried adoption of a draft constitution.

Opposition activists defiantly called for another protest outside the palace later Thursday, raising the specter of more bloodshed as neither side showed willingness to back down.

But the army’s Republican Guard, an elite unit assigned to protect the president and his palaces, gave protesters on both sides until 3 p.m. (1300 GMT, 8 a.m. EDT) to clear the vicinity, according to an official statement. The statement also announced a ban on protests outside any of the nation’s presidential palaces.

Morsi was in the palace Thursday conducting business as usual, according to a presidential official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to address the media.

Islam on the march. How pathetic can the preachers death & torture be. In the name of god they go a-killing. I can’t put into words the disdain I feel for these monsters of the devil. They hide behind women & children while lunching attacks on other innocent’s indiscriminately like the cowards they are. They will meet their fate on the real battlefield of life when the end of times catch up to them. God will never allow this kind of evil continue.

Egypt has seen sporadic clashes throughout nearly two years of political turmoil after the ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak. But Wednesday’s street battles were the worst between Morsi’s supporters and followers and came after an implicit call by the Muslim Brotherhood for its members to go to the palace and evict anti-Morsi protesters who had camped out there.

Unlike Mubarak, Morsi was elected in June after a narrow victory in Egypt’s first free presidential elections, but many activists who supported him have jumped to the opposition after he issued decrees on Nov. 22 that put him above oversight and a draft charter was later rushed through by his Islamist allies despite a walkout by Christian and liberal factions.

Compounding Morsi’s woes, four of his advisers resigned Wednesday, joining two other members of his 17-member advisory panel who have abandoned him since the crisis began.

Six tanks and two armored vehicles belonging to the Republican Guard, an elite unit tasked with protecting the president and his palaces, were stationed Thursday morning at roads leading to the palace in the upscale Cairo district of Heliopolis. The guard’s commander, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Zaki, sought to assure Egyptians that his forces were not taking sides.
“They will not be a tool to crush protesters and no force will be used against Egyptians,” he said in comments carried by the official MENA news agency.

The situation was calm Thursday morning, with thousands of Morsi supporters camping outside the palace after driving away opposition activists who had been staging a sit-in there, prompting fierce street battles that spread to residential areas.

“I don’t want Morsi to back down,” said Khaled Omar, a Brotherhood supporter. “We are not defending him, we are defending Islam, which is what people want.”

Other Brotherhood supporters outside the palace accused opposition protesters of being Mubarak loyalists or foot soldiers in a coup attempt.
“They want to take over power in a coup. They are conspiring against Morsi and we want him to crack down on them,” said one, Ezzedin Khoudir. “There must be arrests.”

The violence began when the Brotherhood called on its members to head to the presidential palace to “defend legitimacy” and protect it against what a statement termed attempts by the opposition to impose its will by force. In response, thousands descended on the area, chasing away some 300 opposition protesters who had been staging a peaceful sit-in outside the palace’s main gate. Clashes later ensued with the two sides using rocks, sticks and firebombs.

State television quoted the Health Ministry as saying Thursday that five people were killed and 644 injured by beatings, gunshot wounds and tear gas inhalation.

These people are just upset they’re elected tyranny isn’t as “free” a tyranny as they hoped.

Don’t fool yourselves, folks. The people of Egypt don’t like the United States or Israel, and no matter who they overthrow and elect to replace, it will always been some extremist Islamic radical. Look no further than polls with Zogby (and I forget the other one) from 2011 and I think the other 2007, where high percentages saw Israel as their #1 enemy, and the U.S. second (something like 79%); high percentages that favor suicide bombings, and all kind of other radical extremists things. And the number who saw the U.S. “favorably”, was very low. Obama was right the first time when he misspoke: Egypt is no longer an ally. With numbers like that, it’s all downhill from there. It’s only a matter of time before they’re the next Iran.

You haven’t really seen Obama out in front of cameras taking credit for the “Arab Spring” lately, have you? He’s such a moron.

Morsi claimed he wouldn’t run for office… then ran. Then won. Then said he only wanted to work with the military… then fired all the General. Then said he wanted an inclusive gov’t… then alienated anybody who opposed him and declared himself a dictator. Then said that he wanted to install a constitution that would give everybody rights… then said that the only people who could interpret islamic law were the local Imams at the nearby Al-Anzhar University which caused all the Judges in the judicial system to quit.

The system Morsi is setting up in Egypt is looking exactly like what IRAN has, i.e., a Supreme Council of religious leaders who rule the entire country with the Presidency, Parliament and entire Judiciary falling under their complete control. They can unilateral declare that anybody is “un-Islamic” and order them imprisoned and executed.

Islam is all about lying to get what you want. The Egyptian people are realizing that they’ve been duped by the Muslim Brotherhood and are pretty upset about it. The Brotherhood, on the other hand, are thrilled that Egypt is moving toward an Islamic Republic.

This is just what Obama is doing in America!!!!!!

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