Posted on 07/04/2013 5:14:34 AM PDT by bert
Chief justice Adly Mansour takes oath hours after democratically elected Mohamed Morsi overthrown by military.
Top judge Mansour has been sworn in as Egypt interim president, hours after Mohamed Morsi was overthrown in a military coup following huge protests against his one-year rule.
Adly Mansour took the oath of interim president on Thursday, as his democratically elected predecessor, Mohamed Morsi, was held in an unspecified military barracks along with senior aides.
Before the constitutional court, Mansour said: "I swear by God to uphold the Republican system and respect the constitution and law... and safeguard the people and protect the nation."
"The revolutionaries of Egypt are everywhere and we salute them all, those who prove to the world that they are strong enough, the brave youth of Egypt, who were the leaders of this revolution."
Separately, Mansour was made head of the supreme constitutional court - a position he was due to take on June 30, when protests against Morsi's one year in power began in earnest.
Morsi was overthrown by the military on Wednesday. According to a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi was being held in a military facility with top aides.
"Morsi and the entire presidential team are under house arrest in the Presidential Republican Guards Club," Gehad El-Haddad, the son of a top Morsi aide, told AFP news agency on Thursday. Haddad's father, Essam El-Haddad, widely seen as Morsi's right-hand man, was among those held, he added.
Brotherhood rounded up
Less than an hour after Mansour was sworn in, Egyptian prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the Brotherhood's top leader, Mohamed Badie, and his deputy, Khairat el-Shater, judicial and army sources told Reuters news agency.
Shater was the group's first choice candidate to run in last year's presidential election. He was disqualified from the race due to past convictions. Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood officials were also reported to have been arrested, with many senior leaders being held in the Torah prison in Cairo - the same prison holding Hosni Mubarak, who was himself deposed in the 2011 revolution.
In a televised broadcast, flanked by military leaders, religious authorities and political figures, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi effectively declared the removal of Morsi.
Sisi called for presidential and parliamentary elections, a panel to review the constitution and a national reconciliation committee that would include youth movements. He said the roadmap had been agreed by a range of political groups.
Islamist supporters of Morsi who have gathered in a Cairo suburb reacted angrily to the announcement by the army.
Some broke up paving stones, forming piles of rocks. Muslim Brotherhood security guards in hard hats and holding sticks formed a cordon around the encampment, close to a mosque. Men and women wept and chanted.
Denouncing military chief Sisi, some shouted: "Sisi is void! Islam is coming! We will not leave!"
At least 14 people were killed when opponents and supporters of Morsi clashed after the army announced his removal, officials said. Eight of those died in the northern city of Marsa Matrouh, including two members of the security fources.
Three people were killed and at least 50 wounded in Alexandria, state news agency MENA reported; a woman stabbed in the stomach, and two men killed by birdshot.
Three people were also killed and 14 wounded in the southern city of Minya, including two police, MENA said.
'Revolution re-launched'
Speaking shortly after Sisi's announcement, liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said the "2011 revolution was re-launched" and that the roadmap meets the demand of the protesters.
Egypt's leading Muslim and Christian clerics also backed the army-sponsored roadmap.
Pope Tawadros, the head of the Coptic Church, said the plan offered a political vision and would ensure security for all Egyptians, about 10 percent of whom are Christian. Egypt's second largest Islamist group, the Nour party, said in a statement that it agreed to the army roadmap in order to avoid further conflict.
Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, came under huge pressure in the run-up to Sunday's anniversary of his maiden year in office, with his opponents accusing him of failing the 2011 revolution by concentrating power in Islamist hands.
The embattled 62-year-old proposed a "consensus government" as a way out of the crisis. That was not enough for the army, and Mansour, a previously little known judge, was installed as the country's interim leader.
.......you make good points but the word “coup” connotes “military” and our West Pointers and Annapolis guys have zero experience mentally with that concept. It is kinda sorta like the Chinese Navy that everyone wrings their hands over all the time. They don’t have any experience either. You could give them 10 Nimitz Air Craft Carriers along with the air wings! What good would it do them? They could not operate them! What “War in the Pacific” have the Chinese ever been involved in, in the past 1,000 years. Our guys have that non trnsferable naval combat experience, the Chinese don’t. They can steal all the plans to all the complicated systems they want but, most of the time, they could not operate them. Similarly, our guys have no experience with “coups”. Contrarily, the Chinese have regurgitated their leaders fairly regularly over the past 1,000 years.
Egypt is officially called the Arab Republic of Egypt
My thought: Who owns the army....owns the country.
Now think about OUR Right To Bear Arms.
Good catch..
America needs a TAX REVOLT - everyone ups their deductions on their W2s so as to not PAY taxes to the gov’t - if we were to do this enmass our gov’t would go broke (which we are technically now, but they keep spending OUR TAX DOLLARS)...
Me, too. I would dearly love to go visit some of the archaeology sites and museums... but not yet. I'm a bit worried that I've heard talk of fanatics destroying some of the monuments and so forth. I adore ancient Egyptian culture; such a loss would be devastating.
Fox is becoming like the RINOs (McCain, Graham, etc). Not far left like the other networks, but hardly conservative, except for just a few folks.
Fox not showing the photos you describe. Fox won’t show a real photo of Trayvon Martin either, only the photo of when he was 12 yo. Sweet innocent kid.
I must have missed something, who is my guy?
It’s the standard FReeper answer to the question, “Will you support my guy?”
The FReepers Definition of Conservative: I’m not sure, but whatever it is, it sure as hell aint YOU!!!
You know you got a problem when Al Jazeera has better reporting on this than US media. Some of the most patriotic people that I know are Arab Christians living in the US. Why? Probably because they know exactly what it’s like living in a Muslim dictatorship, and want nothing to do with it. Congrats to the Egyptian Tea Party, hope they can keep their Republic.
Thanks for the education.
Enjoy your day.
dead Judge walking.
From the UK Guardian story:
“Mansour, who was appointed as head of the constitutional court on Sunday, said this week’s protests had “corrected the path of the glorious revolution that took place on 25 January 2011”, and that continued revolution was needed until “we stop producing tyrants.”
I think Egypt is going to be juuuust fine.
The Egyptians have done more in 4 days to combat Islamofascist terrorism than Obama has done in 4 years.
The Speaker of the House (John Boehner) is 3rd in line to the presidency - after the president and vice president. Doesn’t this give you the warm and fuzzies?/s
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