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To: lormand

It looks like a military coup in progress. The islamists won’t be happy. So what is the kenyan in the WH going to do now? Another round of fundraisers and golf?


8 posted on 06/14/2012 8:27:40 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90
I'm sure some folks already know this, but it was news to me -- Egypt has had four presidents since the 1952 revolution. In backwards order, they are: Mubarak, Sadat, Nasser, and Naguib.

I had never heard of Naguib, so I looked him up on Wikipedia:

In late 1954, however, Nasser accused Naguib of supporting the recently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and of harbouring dictatorial ambitions. A brief power struggle broke out between Naguib and Nasser for control of the military and of Egypt. Nasser ultimately won the struggle and managed to force Naguib to resign from the presidency of Egypt in November 1954.

Egypt has been struggling to keep the Muslim Brotherhood out of power since 1954. With the Arab Spring, they seemed to have lost that struggle. But perhaps the courts are making a last ditch effort to put the military back in charge.

11 posted on 06/14/2012 8:31:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Obama needs more time. After all -- Rome wasn't burned in a day.)
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