The Shoe thingy!
Posted on 06/28/2013 3:58:06 PM PDT by kristinn
Egyptian security and medical officials say an American has been killed in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's embattled President Mohammed Morsi.
Alexandria security chief Gen. Amin Ezz Eddin told Al-Jazeera TV that an American was killed Friday in Sidi Gabr Square while photographing the battles between opposition youth and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails.
A medical official told The Associated Press the American was wounded by gunshots and died at the hospital.
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Six Egyptians have been killed in days of clashes ahead of nationwide protests Sunday demanding Morsi's removal.
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The State Department said Friday that Americans should defer nonessential travel to Egypt, citing the uncertain security situation. It also said it would allow nonessential staff and the families of personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to leave Egypt until conditions improve.
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I know...that’s why I’m doing this here...such as it is....Mesta...I started posting here what? three days or four ago....astounded the news wasn’t saying a word...
Let me tell you ...with the internet the media STILL won’t keep up with events because they have so many venures and people to get “permission “ from and then debate who’s going to tell it and how..and the spin....that there news is by then OLD news.
Expect forced closure of all Islamist TV channels....or and vice-versa.
The Shoe thingy!
That was pretty intense! I can’t imagine living amidst all that.How much worse will it be should Morsi not go peacefully,if that’s even possible.
Al Arabiya
(Time in GMT)
July 3, 2013
8:41am Egypt’s hardline al-Gamaa al-Islamiya calls on Mursi to hold early presidential elections-spokesman tells Reuters
7:55am Egyptian Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian: freedom more valuable than life
• 6:53 am Al-Ahram: new constitution to be drafted in interim period to set out path to presidential and parliamentary elections
• 6:39 am AL-Ahram: Egypt army road map sets out 9 to 12 month transitional period
• 6:37 am Al-Ahram says road map includes neutral transitional government to be headed by a military leader
• 6:35 am Al-Ahram: Egypt army road map would set up a three-member presidential council chaired by head of supreme constitutional court
• 6:30 am Al-Ahram: Egypt’s state-run Al Ahram newspaper says it is expected Mursi will either resign or be sacked by armed forces road map on Wednesday
1:30 am Death toll in Cairo University clash rises to 16
1:10am Egypt’s high command says the army is ready to die to defend Egypt’s people against terrorists and fools
12.23 am Organizers of the protest movement Tamarod called on Mursi’s military guard to arrest him
03-07-2013,09:17
Heads up! Heads Up!
Media Black out on this...if true..need to confirm
Israel Army Invades...
Gaza Strip - Several armored Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Tuesday morning [July 2 2013] an area east of Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources have reported that four armored bulldozers, and a number of vehicles, stationed at the Kissufim, across the border near Al-Qarara town, advanced dozens of meters into Palestinian farmlands.
Dozens of farmers had to leave their lands as the army advanced into them; no clashes or injuries have been reported.
Israeli soldiers repeatedly conduct limited invasions into border areas in the coastal region, frequently open fire at the residents, uproot and bulldoze farmlands.
The Israeli Navy also repeatedly attacks and kidnaps Palestinian fishermen in Palestinian territorial water. The Israeli attacks led to dozens of casualties.
http://www.qassam.ps/news-7193-Israeli_Army_Invade_Khan_Younis.htm
Go to #1063 fast..Isreal Army on the move in Gaza
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Morsi-army-ready-for-showdown-in-final-hours-318525
Al-Ahram reports military will form three-member presidential council to run the country; Morsi defies army, US pressure to bow to protests as clock ticks on army ultimatum for his resignation.
CAIRO - Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said it expected President Mohamed Morsi would either step down or be removed from office on Wednesday when a deadline set by the army for resolving the country’s political crisis expires.
Egypt’s flagship state daily said an army road map for the future would set up a three-member presidential council to be chaired by the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court.
Opposition: Morsi’s speech equivalent to ‘civil war call’; 16 dead in Cairo U. clashes”Al-Ahram learnt that with the end of the 48-hour period set by the armed forces ... it is expected in the hours that follow it, one of two things: either Morsi announces his resignation himself, or the declaration of his removal through the road map for the future set out by the armed forces,” it said.
Al-Ahram said the road map would set up a neutral transitional government to be headed by a military leader. The transitional period would last nine to 12 months in which a new constitution would be drafted to set out a path to presidential elections.
Egypt’s army commander and Morsi, who represents the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, each pledged his life to defy the other as the hour approached on Wednesday that will trigger a military takeover that was prompted by mass demonstrations.
The military chiefs issued a call to battle in a statement headlined “The Final Hours”. They said they were willing to shed blood against “terrorists and fools” after Morsi refused to give up his elected office. Morsi said, “The price ... is my life.”
As a mass of revelers on Cairo’s Tahrir Square feted the army for saving the revolutionary democracy won there two years ago, supporters of the president’s Muslim Brotherhood denounced a “military coup”. Some clashed with security forces at Cairo University, where 16 people died and about 200 were wounded.
Protests in Egypt 1 OF 7
Slideshow Anti-Morsi protesters in Cairo
Military sources told Reuters the army had drafted a plan to sideline Morsi and suspend the constitution after a 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) deadline passes. Coordinated with political leaders, an interim council would rule pending new elections. The sources would not say what was planned for an uncooperative president.
Facing the expiry of a 48-hour ultimatum set by the head of the armed forces that he should agree to a power-sharing deal with his rivals, Morsi broadcast a defiant, if somewhat rambling, address to the nation to defend his “legitimacy” - a word he used repeatedly in the course of 45 minutes.
Liberal opposition leaders, who have vowed not to negotiate with Morsi since the ultimatum was issued, immediately denounced his refusal to go as a declaration of “civil war”. The youth movement that organized the mass protests urged the Republican Guard to arrest Morsi immediately and present him for trial.
Three hours after his midnight television appearance, the military high command responded with a post on its Facebook page. The post said they, too, were willing to lay down their lives to defend their position - one which they described as defending the Egyptian people from “terrorists, radicals and fools”.
A military source said the message came from General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the armed forces commander appointed by Morsi last year, who issued the ultimatum to politicians on Monday.
It was posted on the official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF. It entered history books as Egypt’s ruling institution after the army pushed aside Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising of early 2011.
“It is an honor for us to die rather than that anyone should terrorize or threaten the Egyptian people,” it said. “We swear to God, we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool.
“Long live Egypt and its people.”
It was unclear who fired at whom or who started the violence at Cairo University. Muslim Brotherhood supporters angrily held up rifle and shotgun cartridges after scenes of mayhem, shrouded in teargas. State television quoted a health ministry official as saying 16 people died and about 200 were hurt.
That made it by some way the bloodiest incident in several weeks of street fighting. Eight people were killed the previous day during a siege of the Brotherhood’s national headquarters and the movement has said it is under attack from hired “thugs” left over from the days of Mubarak’s secret police.
MORSI DEFIANT
“The price of preserving legitimacy is my life,” Morsi said in an impassioned, repetitive address to the camera. “Legitimacy is the only guarantee to preserve the country.”
In a warning aimed as much at his own militant supporters as at the army, he said: “We do not declare jihad (holy war) against each other. We only wage jihad on our enemies.”
Urging Egyptians not to heed the siren calls of what he called remnants of the former authoritarian government, the “deep state” and the corrupt, he said: “Don’t be fooled. Don’t fall into the trap. Don’t let them steal your revolution.”
Condemning a coup against their first freely elected leader, tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets, clashing with opponents in several towns.
But they were dwarfed by anti-government protesters who turned out in the hundreds of thousands across the nation.
Military sources told Reuters that, assuming the politicians fail to end a year of deadlock before the deadline, the generals have their own draft program ready - although it could be fine-tuned in consultation with willing political parties.
Under the road map, the military would install an interim council, composed mainly of civilians from different political groups and experienced technocrats, to run the country until an amended constitution was drafted within months.
That would be followed by a new presidential election, but parliamentary polls would be delayed until strict conditions for selecting candidates were in force, the sources said.
They would not say how the military intended to deal with Morsi if he refused to go quietly. Some of his Islamist supporters have vowed to defend what they see as the legitimate, democratic order, even if it means dying as martyrs. Some have a history of armed struggle against the state.
Israeli Bulldozers Enter Gaza Border Area
As part of the Israel-Egyptian Peace Treaty, Egyptian military must COORDINATE any move in the Sinai with Israel. It looks as if they have done just that.
The Post’s View
Obama needs to support democracy, oppose a coup in Egypt
By Editorial Board
Thanks for getting on that Mesta....I just can’t do more tonight (morning) It’s now 5:30 Am and i have to get some sleep...
Hoopefully others will keep things updated til i return...it’s going to be a Big day in Egypt today...plus I need to learn more what Israel is doing....
Night...(Morning) lol
Cairo from space during demonstration Cairo Egypt from Space...during night demonstrations.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/75564.aspx
Morsi role at Syria rally seen as tipping point for Egypt army
Morsi himself called for foreign intervention in Syria against Assad, leading to a veiled rebuke from the army, which issued a bland but sharp-edged statement the next day stressing that its only role was guarding Egypt’s borders
Reuters , Wednesday 3 Jul 2013
Morsi’s cut diplomatic relations with Syria WITHOUT CONSULTING ANYONE!
A sore point that he will also pay for dearly. His tribe in Syria, supported by 0b0z0, WILL LOSE BIG TIME!
In the clashes of yesterday in Cairo University, (video in #1036 supplied upthread by caww, thank you,) a police major was shot dead by the MB. I hear a 50 cal. firing. It must be security forces. No wonder the arrests of Ikhwan leaders were conducted (see #1046 by caww and #1047 by MestaMachine, thank you both)
Just connecting some great FReepers’ dots.
Morsi is apparently holed up with the Republican Guards to pit army against army! The rebels are surrounding the place and demanding that the Republican Guards arrest Morsi to save Egyptian blood.
The Republican Guards are well armed units with tanks and heavy weapons but they’re NOT equivalent to Saddam’s armored divisions in the first Gulf War.
I don’t believe that Morsi’s will put a fight against the regular army and Egyptian AF.
The Egyptian TV headquarters is under the control of the army and Republican Guards, sources said July 3, Al Arabiya reported.
Ping
The Egyptian TV headquarters is under the control of the army and Republican Guards, sources said July 3, Al Arabiya reported.
Opposition Live Feed, pictures good, hard to understand unless you speak Egyptian. They even run Ad’s for Snickers LOL.
http://newsblogged.com/live-streaming-video-protests-cairo-egypt-tahrir-square
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