Protesters return to Egypt streets: Down, down with Morsi!

Middle East Online ^ | April 7, 2013 | Samer al-Atrush

[SunkenCiv]

Protesters battled police in several Egyptian cities on Saturday, with at least eight people reported injured, after rallies to mark the anniversary of a key opposition movement turned violent.

In central Cairo, police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters outside the Superior Court, which also houses the offices of the public prosecutor who had opened investigations against several dissidents.

Protesters were chanting "The people want to topple the regime. Down, down with Morsi!”

"We are Muslims but we want a civilian state," said a protester on the Cairo march.

Live television showed footage of protesters chanting, throwing stones at police in armoured vehicles, amid burning tyres on a main road near the court. The police fired heavy volleys of tear gas.

At least eight people were wounded in the clashes in Cairo and in the southern province of Fayoum, the official MENA news agency reported.

Police also fired tear gas at protesters in the coastal city of Alexandria and in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla, where demonstrators attacked a police station with petrol bombs, MENA reported.

Opponents and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood attacked each other with stones and fireworks in Alexandria, MENA said.

The rallies were organised to mark the fifth anniversary of the April 6 protest movement, which took off after a deadly police crackdown on a labour strike in Mahalla on April 6, 2008.

The Mahalla clashes marked an escalation in the burgeoning protest movement against long-time strongman Hosni Mubarak, eventually overthrown in an early 2011 popular uprising.

Hailed as heroes in the aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow, the youth-led group, which splintered into two factions, clashed with the military that ruled Egypt between Mubarak's ouster and President Mohamed Morsi's election in June.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

But Obama wants a Caliphate. And he’s the preezy.

[vette6387]

“Aw, nuts. Is this going to show up as “further proof of global warming?””

Actually that would probably be the “least objectionable outcome.”

[vette6387]

“...Brotherhood is most aligned with Iran, something the Gulf states will not and can not permit to go on.”

So do you expect that the Gulf States will/would take independent action against the BH? Because it looks as though they are on a roll throughout the region.