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Military Guards Egypt Power As Islamists Claim Victory [Muslim Brotherhood Wins Presidency!]
MSNBC ^ | June 17, 2012

Posted on 06/17/2012 7:31:42 PM PDT by Steelfish

Military Guards Egypt Power As Islamists Claim Victory

As Egyptians waited for the results of the presidential election, the ruling military council issued new rules that made clear the real power remains with the army.

The Muslim Brotherhood's party on Monday declared its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, had won the country's first free presidential election, defeating Ahmed Shafik, ousted president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.

At Shafik's campaign headquarters, Ahmed Sarhan said: "I do not accept this, I will not file wrong numbers." But another campaigner said: "I don't think we will make it." One woman campaigner at Shafik's headquarters was in tears.

Hours earlier, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) issued a decree granting itself broad power over the future government, diminishing the authority of the president and seizing control of the process of writing a permanent constitution, The New York Times reported.

The move is the latest in a series of steps that the military has taken recently to hold on power they had promised to hand over to elected civilians, the Times reported.

The military council's "constitutional declaration," issued under powers it took for itself after pushing aside Mubarak to appease street protests 16 months ago, was a blow to democracy, said many who aired their grievances on social media, a favored weapon in the Arab Spring that ended Mubarak's 30-year rule.

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1 posted on 06/17/2012 7:31:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Thank you Obama. Now the entire country is enslaved.

Pray for America


2 posted on 06/17/2012 7:34:21 PM PDT by bray (Power to We the People)
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To: bray

Egypt is just following our wonderful 2008 example...


3 posted on 06/17/2012 7:41:12 PM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: Steelfish

Unless I’m mistaken there has been no official declaration of who won.


4 posted on 06/17/2012 7:44:26 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Steelfish

Let the stonings and beheadings begin. Welcome to 812 AD.


5 posted on 06/17/2012 8:01:23 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Steelfish

6 posted on 06/17/2012 8:14:42 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: bray

Don’t worry! Obammy seys the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate pal of his.


7 posted on 06/17/2012 8:25:36 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: bray

Put another win in Hillary’s column.


8 posted on 06/17/2012 8:57:55 PM PDT by pankot
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To: tumblindice

The guy with the gun? A Koranimal. To be distinguished from a human...


9 posted on 06/17/2012 9:11:46 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: beethovenfan

they might be going back to 812 AD, so where does that put any nation that murders their unborn?


10 posted on 06/17/2012 9:15:54 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Steelfish

When do they tear down the Pyramids?


11 posted on 06/17/2012 10:01:21 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: huldah1776

Good point.


12 posted on 06/17/2012 10:09:30 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Steelfish

Now!

Obama has something to celebrate! Success! “How Sweet”

“I got my north African caliphate seeded, and at America’s expense!”


13 posted on 06/17/2012 11:05:40 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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