Egyptian Unrest AGAIN Situtation Developing

[qrprat77]

Reports on twitter of barricades, gunfire, bonfires, Pro and Anti-Morsi factions. Anti-Morsi factions include "Moderate" muslim groups and Christians (who have SUFFERED TREMENDOUSLY under Morsi). Pro-Morsi groups include the Muslim Brotherhood. after Morsi gave Speech (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...f30_story.html) SHTF and fighting is widespread. this is not good, I would almost wager arms meant for Syria mysteriously appear in the hands of Morsi supporters before this shooting match is over...

[Grand58742]

Trying to figure out when that part of the world DOESN'T have unrest...

[protus]

Trying to figure out when that part of the world DOESN'T have unrest...

Canada,,,,,,
:p

[Grand58742]

Well, it happened.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/03/egypt-teeters-on-brink-overthrow-as-army-deadline-is-set-to-expire/

Wondering how this one will turn out.

[qrprat77]

Time will tell, my bet is on more dicatorship powers, or Egypt will settle off into a slow rolling civil war. We might want to sit down and take some tactical notes.

[Grand58742]

Canada,,,,,,
:p

Only when a US Hockey team wins the Stanley Cup or insults Molsen beer.

[thedreamers]

who has all that money we have been sending???? and what about all the new toys our great leader just had to give them. its not going to end pretty.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Canada,,,,,,
:p

Kanada sheeples bleating

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/alberta/RCMP+seized+High+River+firearms+from+homes+control/8588851/story.html

[rockriver]

the following egypt info is from an egyptian. the first p. is from my associate. it was relayed to me wed... i didn't have comp. access until today.
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A close friend and classmate (from Egypt) just sent out the following update regarding recent events. I appreciated the succinctness and perspective from an Egyptian on the ground, and thought I'd share, after scrubbing his identity. Thank you so much, and please be safe, anonymous friend!

“I know you might be all wondering, what the __ is going on in Egypt, here's a 5 min primer for cocktail parties:

As of now (2 hours ago) the army just came out, in cooperation with a couple of political and moderate religious figures (Muslim and Christians) with the following decisions:

1- Remove the president and make the head of the constitutional court the acting president till they have a new presidential election.

2- Form a government that is assumed to be in agreement of opposition.

3- Stop working with the current constitution (contested) and form a committee to revise the constitution and draft a new one.

The question is: why did this happen with an elected president that has only been in power less than 1 year?

The answer (in very simplified terms, with no order of timing or importance):
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1- The president demonstrated on multiple occasions the inability to manage complex country challenges, either by action or even by analysis of the problem, from day to day problems (like having gas in gas stations) to strategic issues.

2- Poor selection of officials and advisors, like selecting someone with an extremist jihadist party to be the mayor of Luxor, the premier touristic city in Egypt which was even subject to terrorist attacks by the same jihadist terrorist group.

3- Rushing a constitution that did not include the opposition and failed to even include basic expectations of the people after the 25th of January events (although the opposition were not very responsible in that disagreement)

4- Creating a major international scandal in their handling of our disagreement of the Ethiopia Dam (and some other scandals too).

5- Implicitly supporting extremist views by showing up with extremist figures in formal events, thus allowing them to kill 4 Shiaa's living in Egypt, and not having a firm action afterwards, which really pissed people off.

So in a nutshell, the Egyptian people were thinking, we know that this guy is not politically savvy, can't attract good advisors, unable to bring unity, can't get a competent government, and he doesn't even realize that he is bad, so why the __ do we have to deal with it for the next 3 years. Yet everyone realizes that it is a very dangerous precedent!

Also Morsi, who won with a slight majority (~51%), mainly won because the opposition backed him in the run-off, instead a former prime minister who worked with Mubarak, so he was already on thin ice that he fractured.

And why now?

A couple of days ago, in the anniversary of the presidential elections, the people came out to demonstrate their frustration of him in the largest protests in history of Egypt. He neglected them, the army gave him an ultimatum to try to respond to the people's needs within 48 hours (suggesting an early election or a vote of confidence), but he came out saying that he will protect his position with his blood, mainly invoking his supporters to take violent action. The army then waited for the end of his ultimatum and then came out with the above decisions.

I hope that was useful.

Ps: this is a very emotional time, so apologies for any linguistic mistakes in the above text.