Egyptian security forces shoot dead dozens of pro-Mursi supporters

Reuters via Yahoo! News ^ | July 27, 2013 8:18 EDT | Tom Perry and Noah Browning

[Pan_Yan]

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces shot dead dozens of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, witnesses said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to wipe out "violence and terrorism".

Men in helmets and black police fatigues fired on crowds gathered before dawn on the fringes of a round-the-clock sit-in near a mosque in northeast Cairo, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood said.

"They are not shooting to wound, they are shooting to kill," said Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad. "The bullet wounds are in the head and chest."

A Muslim Brotherhood website said 120 people had been killed and some 4,500 injured. A Reuters reporter counted 36 bodies at one morgue, while health officials said there were a further 21 corspes in two nearby hospitals.

[Pan_Yan]

Remember, Egypt elected the Muslim Brotherhood. My theory is the military, which runs the economy, cut off food and fuel while Morsi was in office. It seems to have suddenly returned after he was deposed. That still leaves the problem that the majority are Islamists.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Are we still writing big checks to the Egyptian government ?

[Standing Wolf]

My theory is the military, which runs the economy, cut off food and fuel while Morsi was in office. It seems to have suddenly returned after he was deposed. That still leaves the problem that the majority are Islamists.

Your theory sounds plausible, Pan_Yan. I have to wonder which is more dangerous to the civilized world: Islamists or hungry Islamists.

[Pan_Yan]

Are we still writing big checks to the Egyptian government ?

No. We cut off funding when they threw out the terrorist backing Muslim Brotherhood. However several of the oil rich Arab countries have written 10 figure checks to the Egyptian military since then.

[Diogenesis]

al Reuters (like the eager American MSM dhimmis)
takes the side of the MB, and the fake #s of the MB.

Not even the appearance of random journalism.

[bert]

There is another very powerful but never mentioned group. They are the money, the force of business and commerce.

The military is thier friend and perhaps tool. there is a symbiotic relation that alloes the country to function.

Similarly, in America, business is not cooperating with the marxixts in power. They are surviving, but not actively growing till the black plague is subdued and gone.

[bert]

Compared to others, out checks are small.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Must be that frugal Obammy in the WH.

[ken5050]

Plurality, not a majority, are Islamists..

[Pan_Yan]

Similarly, in America, business is not cooperating with the marxixts in power.

Obama's campaign was financed by big businesses and they have poured billions into Washington to buy influence since. Now that may be part of their survival strategy but the blatant buying of legislation and executive favor has never been worse.

[Pan_Yan]

Plurality, not a majority, are Islamists..

You may be right but an accurate political poll in Egypt is about as likely as honest Democrat in Congress.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. A wise thing to do since they understand their days in charge are over if the Islamists gain power.

I got a real education in Islam one afternoon when I was sitting in the business class lounge at Bahrain airport waiting for a connecting flight back home.

One of the perks of business travel for big companies was the right to use such lounges which offered such perks as complimentary snacks and cold drinks. Most of us were reasonable-- a bag or two of snacks, a can of juice, maybe a bottle of beer. But a group of Saudis who came in downed Heineken after Heineken, worse than I'd seen at any frathouse drinking party. When the Heineken was gone, they worked down to the next best label. They were worse than the Indians I'd seen on the rez guzzling someone's cologne.

And I had thought alcohol was strictly verboten by Islam. I guess such prohibition only applies when you are in the home country.

[fso301]

Egyptian security forces shot dead dozens of supporters

That's the best thing to do with them.

[Zhang Fei]

This is gonna be unpleasant. This is like Algeria all over again. I’d expect a bloody counter-insurgency lasting decades, with body counts in the hundreds of thousands.

[jonascord]

Coming soon to a city near you. That’s here in the Good Ole’ US of A, thanks to our race baiting prez.

[Flintlock]

The bad guys are still shooting the bad guys.

And gue$$ who’$ paying the bill$??

[Repeal The 17th]

It is still difficult for me to differentiate the good guys from the bad guys in this conflict.

[expat1000]

There is another very powerful but never mentioned group. They are the money, the force of business and commerce.

The military is thier friend and perhaps tool. there is a symbiotic relation that alloes the country to function.

That's fairly typical in 3rd world countries. I don't know about Eygpt, but often the nominal top brass are not military people at all, but members of the rich and powerful. Often there is an outlandish number of Generals and Admirals. The two groups definitely need each other - one cannot function without some kind of support from the other.

[mongo141]

“Are we still writing big checks to the Egyptian government ?”

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Probably, The government is constantly “flogging a dead horse” with the tax payers money.

[I want the USA back]

Anybody still think that democracy can come to these hell hole countries?

They need strong, repressive dictators in power to keep them from killing each other and everybody else.

And why is our government sending our money to violent uncivilized brutes?