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Posted on 07/05/2013 2:20:03 PM PDT by kristinn
USA Today reports from Cairo at least 10 killed, hundreds wounded in Egypt today on the Muslim Brotherhood's (Ikwhan) "Day of Rejection" of the Egyptian military's removal of President Morsi from office this week after a popular uprising.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department admitted Secretary of State John Kerry was indeed on his yacht in Nantucket on Wednesday as the revolution in Egypt succeeded:
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(Live Thread) Egypt: American Killed During Violent Clashes (Egypt about to blow up)
Live Thread: Egypt Revolution 2.0
“Egypt is trying desperately to free itself as did the Green Revolution in Iran when the US turned their back.
We can’t afford to let that happen in Egypt. I don’t think Israel and Russia will allow it, but it won’t be easy.”
Just heard the following on Live feed:
“The Egyptian people replaced two presidents in 2 1/2 years. They broke the FEAR BARRIER and they’ll never be deceived again, period.”
Let’s hope so. I believe Egyptians with their long history of being ruled by Pharaohs and subsequent rulers or foreign occupation, who were absolute rulers and who were even worshipped or treated as gods, completely broke the cycle of thousands of years of oppression bordering on slavery in minuscule time in their history. (almost seconds, if you think of calculating the historical percentage!)
That’s nothing less than miraculous!
The world cannot afford to let that happen...but it remains to be seen how this will play out...often very different then most might imagine...Egypt is a KEY player...and they want their power back on the world stage.
A San Fernando Valley high school has been vandalized with hate messages, including threats to President Barack Obama, authorities announced Monday. The graffiti was discovered around 7 a.m. when staff at Leichman High School Special Education Center, located at 19034 Gault St. in Reseda, returned to campus. The damage included pictures of bombs, anti-LAPD rhetoric, swastikas and a “KILL OBAMA?” statement scrawled across the side of a main building...cbs los- angeles
July 9,2013
From Syria photo-poster
His tweet.... Gehad El-Haddad @gelhaddad .....7 Jul 29013
"Myself, my wife, my 3 brothers, my sister, my mother r all here @ #Rabaa sitin & my father is detained w/ #Morsi. We will not b terrorised"
Need someone to confirm this?
Egypt Names New Prime Minister...”Hazem Beblawi”, a leading liberal economist, was named Egypt’s interim prime minister on Tuesday, ending days of speculation.
Ahram Online, Tuesday 9 Jul 2013
Adly Mansour has assigned prominent liberal economist Hazem El-Beblawi to top the administration that will be in charge of Egypt’s upcoming transitional period.
El-Beblawi, a former finance minister, was not the first choice of the parties involved in the political process sponsored by the Egyptian Armed Forces following the ouster last week of former president Mohamed Morsi.
Most of the parties involved in the talks had preferred Mohamed ElBaradei for the premiership, who would have been appointed PM last Saturday were it not for the objections of the Salafist Nour Party.
Elbaradei had been backed by the anti-Morsi Rebel campaign and other “revolutionary” youth groups and parties.
Ziad Bahaa El-Din, liberal lawyer and co-founder of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, was also floated for the position, but the ultra-conservative Nour Party also rejected his candidacy.
Soon afterward, economist Samir Radwan, a former finance minister, was announced as a potential prime minister.
It was El-Beblawi, however, who was soon after formally declared premier.
The appointment came soon after interim president Mansour issued a new constitutional declaration granting him legislative authority.
The constitutional declaration lays out the political roadmap that both Mansour and El-Beblawi will be expected to follow in the upcoming period.
El-Beblawi, also a co-founder of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, served as undersecretary-general at the UN between 1995 and 2000. He was minister of finance in Essam Sharaf’s cabinet from July to October 2011 during Egypt’s post-revolution army-administered transitional phase.
He resigned in October 2011 to object to clashes in Cairo’s Maspero district between military police and Coptic protesters in which 28 of the latter were killed.
MB Protestors carrying mock coffins trying to get to Cairo university sit in, riot police lines opposite
Hazem Beblawi..Newly appointed Interim Pres. Egypt in charge of Egypt's transitional period...July 9,2013
Got it..thanks..he’s up on the thread now.
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