The Guardian:
Clashes erupted on Friday night between supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in central Cairo and other cities across Egypt , as fears of an expected backlash against his removal materialised. At least 17 people died.
Fighting broke out shortly after the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader, Mohammed Badie – reported to have been arrested on Thursday – appeared unexpectedly at a rally in east Cairo on Friday evening to tell his followers to remain on the streets until Morsi’s return. The ousted president had once been a senior member of the Islamist party.
In Cairo, a crowd of close to 5,000 Morsi supporters crossed the Nile over the 6 October Bridge, near the hub of opposition dissent, Tahrir Square. Turning left towards Maspero, the state television centre, they were approached by anti-Morsi demonstrators and fighting broke out in the streets.
Similar scenes were also reported in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria, and there were reports of skirmishes in Luxor in the south of the country. The Sinai peninsula was placed on a state of emergency after an attack by gunmen on a local airport. There were also clashes reported in Damanhour, in Egypt’s north-east, and Beni Suef, in the south, as Islamists protested across the country at Morsi’s removal – in what the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups had billed as a “day of rejection”.
Amid chaotic scenes near Tahrir, neither the army nor police intervened for two hours in what was the area’s first glimpse of factional fighting since Morsi was forced from office on Wednesday. Live ammunition was heard as the two sides pelted each other with fireworks and stones. Molotovs were thrown and a car was burned out in clashes that ended only once the army sent several armoured vehicles to calm the situation at about 10pm.
Tensions were already high after security forces guarding Morsi shot and killed at least three of his supporters protesting outside the Republican Guards building in Cairo in which he was being held – and injured 15 more.
The shootings came as a Brotherhood official claimed that every single member of the organisation’s leadership group had been arrested or was wanted by police, after new warrants were issued on Friday. A senior Brotherhood official claimed they were now being accused not just of insulting the judiciary, but of inciting murder.
All of a sudden the media is becoming exposed to the blatant lying of an extremist faction of Islam and reporting it instead of pretending it’s PR is reality!
Now do the same when Hezb’allah, Hamas, Fatah and the taliban pull the same garbage.
Still, it is good to see the Guardian, at least, not falling for the MB lies hook, line and sinker.
the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ARE NOW EXPOSING TO THE WORLD
THEIR RADICAL AGENDA,
THEY CANNOT BE INCLUDED IN THE NEW COMMING GOVERNMENT,
@ilovebeeswarzone: However, Obama is calling for an “inclusive” political process in Egypt with a role for the Muslim Brotherhood!!!
He must REALLY like the MB!
It should be none of his business.
Obama’s Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, called on Egyptian leaders to pursue “a transparent political process that is inclusive of all parties and groups,” including “avoiding any arbitrary arrests of Mursi and his supporters.”
“inclusive of all parties???” WHY??? The MB wasn’t.
Nan G
yes after the many death now of citizens because of their fighting the people
who where not accepting their radical leadership way,
they should be arrested for having beat the young students on their face and forehead
they had line them up all together that was before this. on aprevious event.
bye
@Nan G
He must REALLY like the MB!
Walid Shoebat (an Ex MB member) has an expose from data mining Arabic media on Obama’s extended family’s ties to Wahhabists.
The ‘expose’ link leads to an Al-Jeezera Arabia interview with Obama’s cousin. Go a link down to explore the family’s interesting ties. Obama’s step-mom and the cousin I believe from the interview both took the hajj and the Saudi’s gave them royalty treatment. A little teaser:
Another piece to the puzzle of who is Barack Hussein Obama II.
MOSSOMO
IT’S NOT SURPRISING AT ALL , IF WE FOLLOW HIS ACTIONS CAREFULLY,
YES I believe that, that’s where the bowing come from,
OBAMA push the extreme radical MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WITH MORSI HIS FRIEND TO POWER,
IS IN IT TELLING OF HIS AGENDA?
THEY WANT TO CONQUER THE WORLD AND INSTALLED THEIR AGENDA, OF SUPRESION OF RIGHTS,
AND HE GAVE A LOT OF THE PEOPLE’S MONEY TO HAVE IT DONE,
IS THERE MORE TO ADD TO THE PEOPLE TO JUDGE?
and the difference from oppressed COUNTRY who take it as long as it’s too late because it’s called DEMOCRACY, IS WITH EGYPT THE MILITARY ARE ON THE PEOPLE’S SIDE,
THEY CAN JUDGE AND REMOVE THE DANGEROUS OPPRESSOR AND THEY DID,
WHO’S OTHER COUNTRY CAN SAY THE MILITARY WILL PROTECT THEM?
NAME IT, THE PENTAGON IS VERY COMFORTABLE WHERE THEY ARE, LISTENING TO THE UN,
THEY DON’T SEEM TO CARE WHAT HAPPEN HERE, THERE IS NO PROOF OF IT YET,
IF THEY WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEIR ALLEGEANCE TO AMERICA INSTEAD OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THEY WOULD MOVE TO INFLUENCE AND CORRECT ABUSES FROM LAWS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT AND HATE AND REJECT BY THE PEOPLE,
AND THEY WOULD DECREE THEIR INTENT TO PROTECT THE CIVILIANS AND HEAR THEIR CLAIMS OF OVER REACH NEW LAWS WHICH ARE UN AMERICAN.