Egypt army topples president, announces transition

[Valin]

ElBaradei to be Named Egypt's Prime Minister

Leader of Group that Sought Morsi's Ouster Is Selected by Interim President

TAMER EL-GHOBASHY,and CHARLES LEVINSON

7/6/13

 

Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of a leading group that opposed Egypt's ousted president, has been chosen to become the nation's prime minister by its interim president, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.

 

According to Khaled Dawoud, a spokesman for the National Salvation Front, which Mr. ElBaradei leads, interim President Adly Mansour will swear in Mr. ElBaradei on Saturday evening, the AP reported.

 

Earlier, Mr. Mansour met with representatives of political parties, the military and the judiciary at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Saturday to begin planning how to implement the military's transition plan, which calls for an interim government to rule Egypt while an appointed committee drafts a new constitution and new elections are held.

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Egypt Says No Premier Picked as Salafis Reject ElBaradei

Abdel Latif Wahba & Alaa Shahine

Jul 6, 2013

 

Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradeis announcement yesterday that he accepted an offer to become Egypts interim prime minister raised objections from an Islamist party and a caution from a presidential aide that nobody yet has been given the job.

 

Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei has accepted the offer by Interim President Adly Mansour to form the Cabinet, a posting on ElBaradeis Facebook page said. The two men met at the presidential palace yesterday.

 

That prompted the Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist group that backed the ouster of President Mohamed Mursi on July 3, to threaten withdrawal of its support for the military-backed plan. The divisions underscore the political polarization that has plagued Egypt from Mursis election a year ago until his removal from office this month.

 

Talks continued over the prime ministers post, Ahmed El-Meslemani, an aide to Mansour, said, according to the state-run Middle East News Agency.

 

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Egypt: Militants Bomb Gas Pipeline in Sinai

7/6/13

 

Egyptian security officials said Sunday that suspected Islamic militants have bombed a natural gas pipeline to Jordan south of the city of el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula.

 

The attacks early Sunday on two points on the pipeline started fires that were soon put out, but the flow of gas was disrupted, said the officials.

 

It was the first attack on Egypt's natural gas pipelines in Sinai in over a year.

 

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[Valin]

Egyptian presidency says Muslim Brotherhood can contest elections

7 July 2013

 

Following the ouster of Egypt’s president Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood movement can take part in new elections, a spokesman from the interim presidency said on Saturday.

The group, which Mursi hails from, has been protesting nationwide since the removal of the president on Wednesday and has vowed further protests.

 

Seen as an effort to calm tensions and diffuse protests which have turned deadly in recent days, the presidency spokesman said the nation was “extending a hand” to the Brotherhood.

 

“We extend our hand to everyone, everyone is a part of this nation,” the spokesman told reporters, according to Reuters. “The Muslim Brotherhood has plenty of opportunities to run for all elections including the coming presidential elections or the ones to follow.”

 

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Egypt's Interim Gov't Holds Crisis Talks;
Interim Prime Minister Named

BBC/FOX News

 

Egypt's new president moved to assert his authority Saturday by naming a chief rival of ousted leader Mohammed Morsi as interim prime minister and holding crisis talks with security officials on efforts to reclaim control of the streets, Fox News confirms.

The steps by Adly Mansour are likely to deepen the defiance by Islamist opponents who have turned parts of Cairo into vigilante-guarded strongholds and have issued blood oaths to battle until Morsi is restored.

After a night of clashes that claimed at least 36 lives and injured more than 200, both sides appeared to be preparing for the possibility of more violence as Egypt's political unraveling increasingly left little room for middle ground or dialogue. Only a fraction of Cairo's normally heavy traffic was on the streets amid worries that violence could flare up again.

Security forces stepped up their presence near the largest concentration of Morsi supporters on the streets: A sit-in outside a mosque in Cairo's eastern Nasr City district, a traditionally Muslim Brotherhood stronghold. http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/9852

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Cracks Emerge as Egyptians Seek Premier

 

By BEN HUBBARD

 

Published: July 6, 2013

 

CAIRO — Egypt’s new leaders struggled to put together a new government on Saturday, with disagreements over who should be the interim prime minister spilling out into public view and showcasing the divisions among those who had endorsed the overthrow of the country’s first democratically elected president.

 

State news media initially reported that Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Prize-winning diplomat and a vocal critic of Egypt’s last three leaders, had been chosen as prime minister, a move that would have given the generals who ousted President Mohamed Morsi a head of government likely to appeal to the country’s liberals and to the West.

 

But within hours, the fissures that had vexed Mr. Morsi’s rule re-emerged to undo the reported decision. The ultraconservative party Al Nour, the one Islamic faction that had backed the military takeover, said it would refuse to work with Mr. ElBaradei because

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/world/middleeast/egypt.html?hp&_r=0

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Why Morsi fell

 

Posted by David Gerstman Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 1:00pm

 

A terrible candidate who won due to the organization of the Muslim Brotherhood but never attained the political support necessary to govern.

 

The Misadventures of Morsi

 

Commenting on Reuel Marc Gerecht’s thesis that having Islamists take power was probably a necessary step for political liberalization in the Arab world, Ross Douthat writes:

 

As I said two years ago, I have serious doubts about whether Gerecht’s thesis — which sees Islamist rule in Middle Eastern countries as a necessary-if-fraught step on the way to any kind of liberal democracy in the region — can serve as a guide for responsible U.S. policymaking. But it has always offered the most plausible script for how the Islamic world might eventually escape from its current cycle of repression feeding extremism feeding repression and so on.

 

The question is whether this week’s events in Egypt are following the Gerecht script or not. Is the failure of the Morsi government an example of how “time moves quickly now,” with the Egyptian public swiftly seeing Islamist rule for what it is and rejecting it decisively, opening the door for more liberal alternatives? Or is this a case where the process Gerecht hopes for hasn’t even had time to get off the ground, and the military’s intervention will just return us to the same old cycle of secular dictatorships pre-empting democracy in order to keep the lid on fundamentalists, whose popular appeal endures and eventually prompts another upheaval down the road? The Morsi government was in power long enough to produce a mass protest movement against the Muslim Brotherhood, but was it in power long enough to actually discredit the Brotherhood (at least in its current form)

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/why-morsi-fell/

[Valin]

http://youtu.be/BYY4W5A9-FY

5 people who really don't know a damn thing about about Egyptian politics.
Is it asking too much to bring some people on who actually know what they are talking about?

[Valin]

@Draggingtree

 

 

Simple question time. Who has spent his life studying the middle east and is actually informed on the social/political/religious intricacies of that part of the world? Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ross Douthat, or Jeffrey Goldberg? With all respect to the other two, that is the one who's opinion should carry more weight.

[Valin]

http://youtu.be/BYY4W5A9-FY

5 people who really don't know a damn thing about about Egyptian politics.

Is it asking too much to bring some people on who actually know what they are talking about?

Actually Meet the Press is better. Not perfect by any means, but better than Fox.

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Is Obama Going to Prison? Son of Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Leader Claims They Hold Enough Evidence to Put Him There

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Dean Garrison

Does the son of jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat Al-Shater have evidence that could put Barack Obama in prison? One must only look at the reaction of the Obama Administration during this transition to suspect that this could be true. No longer is the situation in Egypt about the will of the people. It more so seems about rescuing the Muslim Brotherhood at any cost.

Fresh off the visit of McCain and Graham, WND’s Jerome Corsi broke a huge story on Tuesday evening:

The son of a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt is claiming his father has evidence that will land President Obama in prison.

The claim came as the Obama administration, with the assistance of Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and the open involvement of the No. 2 man at the U.S. State Department, made a concerted effort to see Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt released. http://dcclothesline.com/2013/08/14/son-of-jailed-muslim-brotherhood-leader-claims-that-he-has-evidence-to-put-obama-in-prison/#more-15832