Egyptian army tells Morsi to resign.

[CosmicCowboy]

breaking news

[Chomag]

lol @ US expecting Egypt to honor it's elections. IT's ok though, we are all friends right? Obama Told me so.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Gave him 48 hours to resign or they will out him.

[CosmicCowboy]

Wow...CNN says 33 million protesting today.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Wow...CNN says 33 million protesting today.

If they are accurate that is nuts. Egypt's population is 82.5m. That is 40% of the country's population.

[angrydude]

Lol. I'm glad the world loves us so much now that Obama is president.

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[symple19]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/07/after-the-shooting-in-cairo.html

(Concerning the battle outside the Republican Guard barracks in Cairo)


Fifty-one dead at dawn (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/world/middleeast/egypt.html?hp). A doctor who said he preferred not to give his name lives in an apartment building that overlooks the Republican Guard barracks in Cairo. He told me he woke for the dawn prayer before 4 A.M. Shortly afterward, he heard gunfire and went onto his neighbor’s balcony for a better view.
“I saw that the Army retreated about ten metres and began to fire tear-gas cannisters, about ten or fifteen of them,” he said. “I couldn’t see if the other side [the protesters] was shooting, but I heard people through megaphones encouraging jihad. Then I saw four to six motorcycles coming from the direction of the Rabaa intersection to the Republican Guard barracks. Some people were still praying, some were not, because the dawn prayer had finished by then. The men on the motorcycles were all masked, and it was hard to see them through the dark and the tear-gas smoke, but they seemed to be shooting, they were coming from behind the protesters, so they were shooting toward the protesters and the Army. Then the Army started firing. And the protestors were firing. I saw firing from both sides.” As for details, though—what they were firing, whether it was one or two protesters or something more organized—he said that it was dark and that he couldn’t exactly tell.


I'm conflicted by this situation. While I didn't like the MB/Morsi government, I'm not real sure this coup (or whatever people want to call it) was a good move in the long-run.

Just going to further alienate the islamists and put a major blemish on the idea of democracy in the region.

As for the above article, it seems the Army is telling the truth.

Not that they're saints, by any means (warning, the below is graphic)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fee89eEvLE

[pgardn]

This has become very bad.

The military is trying to get rid of a very large section of a group that actually tried to help the poor when Mubarak was in control. The Brotherhood was not apt to share power, but you can't just throw them all out. When Mohammed ElBaradei is put in temporary control, he should ask for immediate meetings with the Brotherhood's political leaders, or resign and declare Egypt ungovernable by the people. The military needs to be convinced to lay off the folks that are demonstrating peacefully. Obama needs to make this clear to the world.