Posted on 07/02/2013 3:18:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Egypt teetered on the brink of overthrow late Tuesday after a defiant Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi rejected an ultimatum issued by the military and seven people were reported killed in clashes between his supporters and opponents.
Defense officials have pledged to intervene if the government does not address public demands and end the political turmoil engulfing Cairo.
The clashes came just one day before the deadline set by the military for Morsi and his opponents to work out their differences.
Security and hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the seven were killed in three separate incidents but gave no further details.
Morsi said Tuesday he would pursue his own plans for reconciliation between his government and opposition leaders, according to Reuters.
The Egyptian leader has repeatedly vowed not to quit, saying that street action must not be allowed to remove an elected president. At the same time, Morsi has offered no concessions, although his opponents appear in no mood to accept anything short of his removal.
His Islamist supporters, some hardliners who belong to formerly armed militant groups, have vowed to defend him.
Reuters reported that a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said "everyone" rejected the military declaration.
"Solutions will be in the framework of the constitution," Yasser Hamza, a member of the FJP's legal committee, told Al Jazeera. "The age of military coups is over."
The comments came as a foreign ministry official said two spokesmen for Morsi -- Omar Amer and Ihab Fahmy -- have stepped down after nearly five months representing him. On Monday, six of his cabinet members quit.
Canada has closed its embassy in Cairo, citing security concerns.
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THIS WILL WORK IN AMERICA TOO!
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
Watch and learn Patawan.
I’M READY!!!
More blood on Obama’s hands.
This is going to be a real jackpot.
Buy popcorn futures.
Watching Foxnews Special Report, Discussion coming up by the panel.
The Egyptians are showing us how to do it. If we could amass a crowd of say 2 million plus in DC for a couple of days, things could change. Its all about numbers.
A young Egyptian woman was just complaining that there “is no room for women in Morsi’s government.” Take that MB!
Of course not. Her place is in the home where her husband can beat her if she doesn't please him.
I doubt there will be a coup. The generals are fat and happy, thanks to decades at the trough. The smart ones have sent their families abroad on extended vacations, funded by fat Swiss (or whatever their preferred haven) bank accounts. The ranks of the younger officers are probably thoroughly infiltrated by Islamists. Egypt’s problem is the suffocating socialism promoted by Nasser as the wave of the future in the 1950’s and the Islamism (whose current incarnation also favors socialism, mainly as a populist tool) that permeates the world views of just about the entire population. What general would want to take on this tar baby as Egypt’s latest pharaoh?
The Egyptian leader has repeatedly vowed not to quit, saying that street action must not be allowed to remove an elected president.
Wait! Tell me again how Mubarak left office?
In situations like this it's the Colonels you have to keep an eye on.
The Will of Allah™
“Political power grows from the barrel of a gun.” - Mao
Read this article substituting ‘obama’ for Morsi and Lafayette Park/ Penn’a Ave for Tahrir Square.
The Arab Spring that Obama, the media and Rino’s supported
is not looking like a good idea now.
We’re the generals fat and happy under Mubarak? Yep.
Have the generals been fat and happy under the Morsi? Yep.
The generals are going to be fat and happy regardless.
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