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Egyptian security forces shoot dead dozens of pro-Mursi supporters
Reuters via Yahoo! News ^ | July 27, 2013 8:18 EDT | Tom Perry and Noah Browning

Posted on 07/27/2013 5:54:01 AM PDT by Pan_Yan

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces shot dead dozens of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, witnesses said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to wipe out "violence and terrorism".

Men in helmets and black police fatigues fired on crowds gathered before dawn on the fringes of a round-the-clock sit-in near a mosque in northeast Cairo, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood said.

"They are not shooting to wound, they are shooting to kill," said Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad. "The bullet wounds are in the head and chest."

A Muslim Brotherhood website said 120 people had been killed and some 4,500 injured. A Reuters reporter counted 36 bodies at one morgue, while health officials said there were a further 21 corspes in two nearby hospitals.

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; morsi; muslimbrotherhood; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; unitedkingdom
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To: Pan_Yan

Suspect that Morsi died resisting the coup (not been heard or seen since July 3). The military is fearful of the the eventual Islamic backlash and has decided to go on a strong pre-emptive offensive. Very bad times ahead for Egypt. The US should not become entangled in the affairs of this foreign country. Its really up to the Egyptians themselves to work out a consensus. Won’t come any time soon and before long hordes of hungry, impoverished but still fervent refugees will be arriving in the lands formerly known as Christendom.


21 posted on 07/27/2013 6:24:51 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Standing Wolf

A rabid Islamist that would murder a Christian, kill an American/British/German Tourist, one that would kill its own women for not wearing proper garb, or one that would imprison his detractors is not better than an Islamist who would not do those things. The MB are murdering 4th century thugs who should be exterminated.


22 posted on 07/27/2013 6:26:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Pan_Yan

War on obama and his allies is always good.


23 posted on 07/27/2013 6:26:47 AM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: Pan_Yan

Sounds like a start. There are pics of MB shooting at police so no doubt that’s what’s happening here.


24 posted on 07/27/2013 6:29:30 AM PDT by struggle
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To: Zhang Fei

This is Egypt for the last 90 years. The MB has always been violent and causing problems. The gov did this same thing in 50s, 60s, and 70s. Nothing has changed.


25 posted on 07/27/2013 6:31:49 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: bert

> Similarly, in America, business is not cooperating with the marxixts in power. They are surviving, but not actively growing till the black plague is subdued and gone.

The current regime is not very business friendly at all. I cant tell how many people that I know that held their jobs for years were laid off or let go and businesses everywhere are suffering. If you want to bring about the destruction of an entire nation consult with Obammie, Master Destroyer and Thief


26 posted on 07/27/2013 6:36:15 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: I want the USA back

> And why is our government sending our money to violent uncivilized brutes?

What common denominators do you see with the money we end overseas? Access to oil, check, islamic, check, terrorists present, check....


27 posted on 07/27/2013 6:39:37 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Zhang Fei

That has been the normal state of the Islamic world for over a thousand years. It took European colonialism combined with the Ottomans to tone it down slightly.


28 posted on 07/27/2013 6:39:54 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: jsanders2001

> And why is our government sending our money to violent uncivilized brutes?

What common denominators do you see with the money we send overseas? Access to oil, check, Islamic, check, terrorists present, check....


29 posted on 07/27/2013 6:41:12 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: maggief; caww; kristinn; thouworm

FYI


30 posted on 07/27/2013 6:42:08 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"The White House will not make a determination on whether Egypt's tumultuous change of government constitutes a coup or if federal law requiring cessation of U.S. aid in the aftermath of a coup applies."

Just another example of the Obama admin's attitude of "Laws? ...we don't need no stinkin' laws."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3047685/posts

31 posted on 07/27/2013 6:42:09 AM PDT by moovova (Sell everything, folks. Be poised to run.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
It is still difficult for me to differentiate the good guys from the bad guys in this conflict.

That's actually easy, Repeal the 17th: they all hate America, Israel, and western civilization.

32 posted on 07/27/2013 6:42:17 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Standing Wolf

There are Jews who hate Israel, America and Western Civilization...

Judah Maccabees (the Hammer) slaughtered the pagan Greek occupiers and the complicit conspiring Jews right along with them.


33 posted on 07/27/2013 6:45:39 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Are we still writing big checks to the Egyptian government ?

Yes.

Obama refuses to obey the law requiring a stop to US assistance in the event the military is involved in an overthrow of the government.

See this:

Obama Won't Call Egypt a 'Coup' Any Time Soon

34 posted on 07/27/2013 6:47:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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To: Azeem
This is Egypt for the last 90 years. The MB has always been violent and causing problems. The gov did this same thing in 50s, 60s, and 70s. Nothing has changed.

MB whacked Sadat and mounted multiple attempts on Mubarak's life, with the connivance of MB infiltrators and sympathizers in the military. If I were Sisi, I'd watch my back.

35 posted on 07/27/2013 6:47:40 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Pan_Yan
the majority are Islamists

It does not have to be a majority. How much poison needs to be in a gallon of water before you consider the water to be poisonous?

That's why it is so difficult to eliminate muslim violence. It does not take a lot of them to be evil before you have to think that muslim religion is poisonous.

36 posted on 07/27/2013 6:55:11 AM PDT by Bernard (The Road To Hell is not paved with good results.)
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To: Pan_Yan
Egyptian security forces shoot dead dozens of pro-Mursi supporters

This is a tragic waste of human resource.

When alkida supporters riot in the streets, the best thing to use is aircraft with incendiary cluster bombs.

37 posted on 07/27/2013 6:56:21 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (HEY RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: Pan_Yan
I'm betting on the Egyptian Army...

They would probably be easier to deal with than the Muslim Brotherhood - they don't have suicide death wishes and understand that their strength is localized - if we ever get a worthy Commander-in-Chief in the WH, many of our enemies might take a different tack.

38 posted on 07/27/2013 6:58:25 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Flintlock

“The bad guys are still shooting the bad guys.”

I’m not sure that’s the case. The people have risen up, demanding an end to the Muslim Brotherhood-led government, and are calling for a more secular government. The military is following the wishes of the people opposed to Islamic terrorists.

See this — http://cynthiafarahat.com/ — and this — https://www.facebook.com/CFarahat — for inside information from a conservative (in the good sense) Egyptian woman.


39 posted on 07/27/2013 7:02:22 AM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: I want the USA back
Anybody still think that democracy can come to these hell hole countries?

Only if they are "ethnically cleansed"...of moslems.

They need strong, repressive dictators in power...

That's what we had before morons like Jimmy Carter and the Kenyan came along, and took them out.

...to keep them from killing each other and everybody else.

You make it sound like a bad thing. We just need to secretly blow up one side or the other occasionally...whomever is winning.

And why is our government sending our money to violent uncivilized brutes?

So they can manage to keep killing each other, like Iran and Irak, back in the Reagan days.

40 posted on 07/27/2013 7:06:38 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (HEY RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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