Posted on 07/04/2013 11:21:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The top judge at Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Adli Mansour, was sworn in Thursday as the country’s interim president, taking the helm a day after the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi from power in a rout that prompted mixed reactions from world leaders.
The head of the armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, announced Morsi’s overthrow on state television late Wednesday following the expiration of a 48-hour army ultimatum.
The sudden change of leadership brought expressions of joy and concern from different quarters, with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu calling the coup “unacceptable” while Qatar’s new emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and other Gulf States congratulated Mansour on taking office. …
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How precious!
The recent history of Algeria will be Egypt’s future.
I will bet that Erdogan is losing sleep. Especially now that there are similar rumblings in Tunisia. Ceaucesu any one?
Obama will be very disappointed.
And we have to as usual to get the facts from other countries media and not the Obama Media Group:
CANADA FREE PRESS
Obama’s propped up Muslim Brotherhood Bosom Buddy Out!
How do you spell “OORAH” in Arabic?
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By Judi McLeod Thursday, July 4, 2013
The outcome of what may have been the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in human history has shown President Barack Hussein Obama for what he really is: a Muslim Brotherhood-advocating failure.
With Obama’s $250 million March 2013 gift still in his pocket; the 12 F-16s already delivered this year, with the promise of another eight by the end of the year, and 200 (count ‘em) Abrams tanks, Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is under house arrest.
The coup d’état that saw millions cheering on the streets in what is allegedly the largest gathering of people in modern memory against a dictator, was pulled off on the eve of American Independence Day 2013—the biggest slap in the face to the imperious arrogant Obama just back on American soil after a $100-million trip to Africa.
What better proof that the high handed Obamas are not King & Queen of the World, but only legends in their own minds?
Obama’s warnings against the arrests of Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood members yesterday came off like the mewlings of a paper tiger.
As pithy Daniel Greenfield wrapped it up in his column: “One Muslim Brotherhood president has been overthrown. But the other one is still on his second term”.
Read at:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56318
...with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu calling the coup "unacceptable" while Qatar's new emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and other Gulf States congratulated Mansour on taking office.So, Qatar, which backs the Syrian uprising against the Assad dictatorship, sides with those against the Muzzie Bro-hood in Egypt, while Turkey, which *supposedly* backs that Syrian uprising, and Iran, which backs Assad, both condemn the removal of Morsi -- Iran in less strident terms. Assad gloats about it. Mouse that Roared ping.
Our CIA is too stupid to notice that Qatar may be wavering...might be less willing to go all in against Assad now that the MB has been disgraced in Egypt.
0bama got schooled. His anti-Assad stooge in Egypt just got overthrown by a bunch of peasants.
The Turkish govt. is very upset with events in Egypt because they are likely to be next.
I don’t think they’re wavering, the groups they support are just being faced down by overwhelming force in a couple of places, while running wild throughout the rest of the country. Also, Qatar can afford to keep this going for years, because the groups they support work for room and board (and ammo) and won’t be needing a pension for the most part. Assad relies on Russian and Iranian support, and that is not in infinite supply. In another couple of years, it will be they who waver.
Qatar and the Saudis back different factions in Syria, also they back some of the same but at different levels of contributions (sounds like deferred comp or united way). The same appears to be true in Egypt. The Saudis’ militia in Lebanon got its ass handed to it just a few years before the Syrian uprising began, and the internal factions in the House of Saud and among rich Saudis outside the ruling house support this that and the other thing, just as happened in Afghanistan. Also, the “Arab Spring” that ousted Mubarek caught the Saudis unaware; Qatar seems to be much better at all this.
After reaching power in Egypt, Morsi almost immediately started rapprochement with Iran, then had an unproductive meeting with the Saudis. Saudi Arabia relies on Egypt for labor needs in some of its overseas investments, and until the overthrow imported goods from Egypt. The last thing the Gulf States want is one of the big three Mideast states (the other two being Turkey and Iran) to turn hostile. Prior to the overthrow, the Egyptian military dominated industry, and it was probably a matter of time before something like this coup took place.
Thanks!!
Then you thought wrong. Qatar just evicted the MB's top sheikh: http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/latest-blow-to-brotherhood-sheikh-qaradawi-evicted-from-qatar-brotherhood-offices-closed/
Starvation is the unstated subject of this week’s military coup. For the past several months, the bottom half of Egypt’s population has had little to eat besides government-subsidized bread, and now the bread supply is threatened by a shortage of imported wheat. Despite $8 billion of aid from Qatar and smidgens from Libya, Turkey, and others, Egypt is struggling to meet a financing gap of perhaps $20 billion a year, made worse by the collapse of its major cash earner -- the tourist industry... Nearly half of Egyptians are illiterate. Seventy percent of them live on the land, yet the country imports half its food. Its only cash-earning industry, namely tourism, is in ruins... Egypt probably can be kept on life support for about $10 billion a year in foreign subsidies, especially if the military regime can restore calm and bring the tourists back (although that is a big "if" -- one of President Morsi’s last acts was to appoint as governor of Luxor province an associate of the Islamist terrorists who massacred 62 tourists in Luxor in 1997).
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Only the crazy emir of Qatar, the patron of al-Jazeera television and an assortment of Islamist ideologues, had backed the Brotherhood -- and his son replaced him last week. The Saudi monarchy hates the Brotherhood the way Captain Hook hated the crocodile: it is the only political force capable of overthrowing the monarchy and replacing it... Former President Morsi seized power from the military in August 2012, the day that the visiting emir of Qatar appeared in Cairo with a $2 billion pledge to the regime. At the time I warned (in a note for the Gatestone Institute) that "Qatar’s check to the Muslim Brotherhood makes Egyptian stability less likely." I argued at the time:Qatar’s $2 billion is a drop in the bucket; it just replaces the reserves that Egypt lost last month. So is a $3.5 billion IMF loan, under discussion for a year. The Obama administration has been telling people quietly that the Saudis will step in to bail out Egypt, but the Qatari intervention makes this less likely. The eccentric and labile Emir is the Muslim Brotherhood’s biggest supporter; its spiritual leader, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (who supports suicide bombings against Israel) lived in exile during the Mubarak regime. Qatar funds al-Jazeera television, the modern face of Islamism. The Saudis hate and fear the Brotherhood, which wants to overthrow the Saudi Monarchy and replace it with a modern Islamist totalitarian political party. Qatar has only about $30 billion in reserves and can’t sustain Egypt for long.The notion that this band of Jew-hating jihadi thugs might become the vehicle for a transition to a functioning Muslim democracy was perhaps the stupidest notion to circulate in Washington in living memory.
Qatar is something of a wild card: it is ruled by an Emir without even the checks and balances that arise from having a large family behind a monarchy, as in Saudi Arabia. The whimsical Emir just bought the Italian firm of Valentino as a gift for his fashion-conscious second wife -- not a dress, but the entire company. His support evidently emboldened the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to take on the military in the aftermath of the Sinai crisis. But that makes stability in Egypt less rather than more likely, because it gives the Saudis, the only funder capable of bailing out Egypt, reason to stand aside.
Qatar has spent nearly a third of its foreign exchange reserves in a Quixotic effort to project power in Egypt, which might explain why the old emir abdicated in favor of his son. With the Muslim Brotherhood out of the way in Egypt, the Saudis have uncontested influence with the military. Presumably the military will suppress the Brotherhood unless it chooses to dissolve spontaneously. No one should mourn the Brotherhood, a totalitarian organization with a Nazi past and an extreme anti-Semitic ideology.
The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, for long one of the most authoritative voices in Sunni Islam -- and certainly a "radical," who, among other things, insists Muslims must always "obey the prophet, even if he tells you to kill" -- has just had his Qatari citizenship revoked and told to leave Qatar by its emir, Tamim bin Hamd bin al-Khalifa, in light of events in Egypt, specifically the overthrow of the Brotherhood and Morsi. Qaradawi has lived in Qatar for years, as he was exiled from Egypt under Mubarak for inciting terrorism. The emir has also ordered the closure of all Muslim Brotherhood offices in Qatar, adding "We are all Muslims [here], but we are not Muslim Brothers [i.e., of the Brotherhood]." Here, then, is yet another blow to the Muslim Brotherhood.
An Al Jazeera staffer told Reuters that at least five of his colleagues at the Mubasher Misr channel were arrested at the studio. The station was prevented from broadcasting from a pro-Mursi rally, and its crew there also was detained, Karim El-Assiuti said.
The Egyptian arm of the Qatari-owned media company began broadcasting after the 2011 uprising that topped President Hosni Mubarak and has been accused by critics of being sympathetic to Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood. The incident is a back-handed acknowledgement the Al Jazeera has been in the tank for the Muslim Brotherhood and is seen by the new military regime as a propaganda arm for the group.
You still aren’t getting it.
I said Qatar was wavering; you denied it. Now Qatar just closed the Muslim Brotherhood’s offices in Qatar...clearly wavering from Qatar’s commitment to the MB!
Now you think that the fight remains against Assad in Syria, even though Hamas is the biggest threat to Assad and Hamas just lost its Egyptian, Muslim Brotherhood, and Qatari support.
I can only lead a horse to water...
Since by “getting it” you mean agree with you without question, no, I’m not “getting it”.
Watch Homs fall to Assad. Homs is the stronghold of Hamas in Syria.
Are you paying attention?!
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