Hundreds Dead in Egypt Crackdown

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WSJ:

Security Forces' Efforts to Clear Cairo Sit-Ins Sparks Violence; At Least 278 People Killed Across Egypt

MARIA ABI-HABIB, LEILA ELMERGAWI

8/14/13

 

CAIROEgypt's efforts to end Muslim Brotherhood protests turned deadly Wednesday morning, with more than 278 people killed across the country in violence set off when police, later backed by Egyptian soldiers, moved in against two antigovernment sit-ins in Cairo.

 

The move to clear supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi, which had been anticipated since his ouster by the military on July 3, set off violent upheaval across Cairo. Protesters tried to storm police stations across Egypt's capital, while entire neighborhoods succumbed to fighting between neighbors on opposite sides of the political divide, an early taste of the bloodshed that has been feared for weeks by many Egyptians. Several observers worried that the violence has spiraled out of control and taken on sectarian shadings.

 

Egypt's interim president declared a monthlong national state of emergency to start Wednesday afternoon.

 

Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and secular leader in the interim government, resigned to protest the violent crackdown. Mr. ElBaradei had butted heads with the powerful chief of Egypt's military, Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, over the standoff with Mr. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood supporters, said officials familiar with the matter.

 

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Egypt declares month-long state of emergency

14 August 2013

 

Al Arabiya

 

Egypts interim President Adly Mansour declared a month-long state of emergency as the country fell into nationwide bloody violence.

 

A presidency statement said the emergency state would begin at 4 p.m. and ordered the armed forces to help the Interior Ministry enforce security.

 

The exceptional measures came as the security and order of the nation face danger due to deliberate sabotage, and attacks on public and private buildings and the loss of life by extremist groups, the presidency said as quoted by Reuters.

 

Interim president Mansour has tasked the armed forces, in cooperation with the police, to take all necessary measures to maintain security and order and to protect public and private property and the lives of citizens.

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EU condemns Egypt violence, urges end to state of emergency

EU's Catherine Ashton urges Egyptian cabinet to end state of emergency as soon as possible

 

Kerry: Egypt violence 'deplorable,' Egyptians must 'step back'

Amid a chorus of international condemnation, US top diplomat deplores police crackdown on pro-Morsi protest camps

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[url=http://realclearworld.smartgalleries.net/gallery/Bloodshed_and_Unrest_in_Egypt[Real Clear World: Photos

 

A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October bridge by protesters close to the largest sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Egyptian police in riot gear swept in with armored vehicles and bulldozers Wednesday to clear the sit-in camps set up by supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president in Cairo, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out

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Transcript: Hugh Hewitt The New York Times’ John Burns

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

 

Transcript: Hugh Hewitt John Bolton

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

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Death Toll in Egypt Raids Climbs to 525

DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ALAN COWELL

August 15, 2013

 

CAIRO — The death toll from Egypt’s bloody crackdown on supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, soared beyond 500 across the land on Thursday with over 3,700 people injured, the Health Ministry said, in a further sign of the extent and the ferocity of Wednesday’s scorched-earth assault by security forces to raze two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo.

 

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Clashes and gunfire broke out even in well-heeled precincts of the capital far from the protest camps, leaving anxious residents huddled in their homes and the streets all but emptied of life. Angry Islamists attacked at least a dozen police stations around the country, according to the state news media, killing more than 40 police officers.

 

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The violence was almost universally criticized by Western governments. A spokesman for President Obama said the United States was continuing to review the $1.5 billion in aid it gives Egypt annually, most of which goes to the military. The spokesman, Josh Earnest, said the violence “runs directly counter to pledges from the interim government to pursue reconciliation” with the Islamists.

 

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Coptic Churches Burnt in Egypt

Amira Al Hussaini

14 August 2013

 

Coptic churches and businesses were attacked across Egypt today [August 14] by what was described as Muslim Brotherhood members and their supporters. The sectarian attacks followed the violent evacuation of Pro-Morsi sit-ins in the capital Cairo, in which many Egyptians were killed and injured.

 

On social media, many suggested that the Muslim Brotherhood has been fanning the flames of sectarianism, pitting Muslim against Christian, resulting in today's unprecedented wide-scale attacks.

 

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Researcher in the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Ishak Ibrahim tweets [ar]:

 

ishak ibrahim

 

#حرق #الكنائس حصيلة الاعتداءات ف9 محافظات: حرق 20 كنيسة ودير واحد و2مبنى خدمات و3 مدارس و3 جمعيات دينية وملجأ أطفال وتكسير ونهب7 كنائس. 10

1:09 PM - 14 Aug 2013

The toll for today's attacks in nine governorates is as follows: 20 churches, one monastery, two service buildings, three schools, three religious societies and one orphanage were burnt and seven churches were attacked and looted

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Fouad MD shares a photograph of a church in Sohag which was burnt today:

Fouad, MD

 

A photo of the beautiful historic church burned in #Sohag #Egypt today by pro-Morsy supporters pic.twitter.com/HVdRPGhRb3

9:34 AM - 14 Aug 2013

 

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[SrWoodchuck]

@Valin!

 

Liked the response yesterday from Lt.Col. Ralph Peters on FNC, here: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2606823405001/how-should-wh-respond-to-violence-raging-in-egypt/

 

 

"What's going on in Egypt isn't about us....it's about the people of Egypt......"

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@Valin!

 

Liked the response yesterday from Lt.Col. Ralph Peters on FNC, here: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2606823405001/how-should-wh-respond-to-violence-raging-in-egypt/

 

 

"What's going on in Egypt isn't about us....it's about the people of Egypt......"

Bad Link. Do you have another?

 

Been following this, and it appears the consensus opinion in the MSM is the Egyptian Army did a bad terrible things. Personally...I'm not so sure of that. In fact I suspect the leadership of the MB wanted something like this to happen.

[clearvision]

Over 500 deaths. Spinning out of control fast.

[Valin]

Over 500 deaths. Spinning out of control fast.

At what point in the last year(?) was the situation actually In Control?

3 quick points (more to follow I'm sure.

1. It's a revolutions, and they are always messy

2. 1. was way overdue. Thank you Hosni Mubarak

3. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

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@Valin!

 

Liked the response yesterday from Lt.Col. Ralph Peters on FNC, here: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2606823405001/how-should-wh-respond-to-violence-raging-in-egypt/

 

 

"What's going on in Egypt isn't about us....it's about the people of Egypt......"

Bad Link. Do you have another?

 

Been following this, and it appears the consensus opinion in the MSM is the Egyptian Army did a bad terrible things. Personally...I'm not so sure of that. In fact I suspect the leadership of the MB wanted something like this to happen.

 

 

@Valin!

 

Just poked link & it works....you have to let it set up for a few seconds. LtCol Peters gives a masterful response.....puts it in perfect context.

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@Valin!

 

Liked the response yesterday from Lt.Col. Ralph Peters on FNC, here: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2606823405001/how-should-wh-respond-to-violence-raging-in-egypt/

 

 

"What's going on in Egypt isn't about us....it's about the people of Egypt......"

Bad Link. Do you have another?

 

Been following this, and it appears the consensus opinion in the MSM is the Egyptian Army did a bad terrible things. Personally...I'm not so sure of that. In fact I suspect the leadership of the MB wanted something like this to happen.

 

@Valin!

 

Just poked link & it works....you have to let it set up for a few seconds. LtCol Peters gives a masterful response.....puts it in perfect context.

 

Now it's working.

I suspect A Plot!

[Valin]

@SrWoodchuck

 

Well Put!!!

[Valin]

Why Does the Muslim Brotherhood Attack Churches?

Jonathan S. Tobin

8/14/13

 

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Why is the Brotherhood attacking churches as part of its argument with the military government?

 

The first reason is because the Christian minority, unlike the military, is vulnerable. Throughout the long year when Egypt suffered under Morsis Islamist rule, Christians and their churches were increasingly subject to attacks as the Muslim movement sought to make the position of the religious minority untenable. As the Brotherhood seeks to demonstrate that it is still a viable force in the countrys streets even after its Cairo strongholds are uprooted, expect more attacks on Christians to remind Egyptians that the Islamists are still a force to be reckoned with.

 

Second, the attacks on churches are not just a regrettable sideshow in what may be soon seen as a civil war as the Islamists seek to regain power after losing in the wake of the massive street protests that encouraged the army to launch the coup that ended Morsis rule. Rather, such attacks are an inextricable part of their worldview as they seek to transform Egypt in their own Islamist image. In the Muslim Brotherhoods Egypt, there is no room for Christians or even secular Muslims. That is why so many in Egypt applauded the coup as perhaps the last chance to save the country from permanent Islamist rule.

 

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[Pepper]

Let's see

Economy imploding

Cairo burning

Iraq bombings

Afghanistan casualties

 

but Fox breaking now, Hannah Anderson may or may not speak.

 

and Obama playing spades while SEALS risk their lives.

 

Guess it all fits

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Egypt: resentment towards Brotherhood fuels crackdown support

State media portrays Islamist movement as 'terrorists' fomenting sectarian divisions with support of western-led conspiracy

Ian Black and Patrick Kingsley in Cairo

Friday 16 August 2013

 

The killing of more than 600 people in Egypt this week has prompted international condemnation and alarm, but the military-backed government in Cairo appears to be enjoying widespread domestic support for its bloody crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.

 

Government statements and popular prejudice against the Brotherhood are fuelling a defiant nationalist narrative that translates into the backing of millions for General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who deposed President Mohamed Morsi.

 

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"They deserved it. They wanted to destroy the country, so that's why the military had to step in," Salah Amin, a 17-year-old student from Sharqiya, said on Friday as fresh violence erupted in Cairo. "I'm with the army and the police against the Muslim Brotherhood, who want to ruin Egypt and run it the way they want."

 

On Wednesday residents of the Rabaa al-Adawiya area in eastern Cairo were seen cheering as the security forces moved in to break up the six-week sit-in there and at Nahda square across the capital, using live fire to devastating effect.(Snip)

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King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz issues remarks on Egypt crisis

Friday, 16 Aug, 2013

 

Jeddah, Saudi Press Agency—In a televised speech on Friday, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, gave a statement on recent events in Egypt.

 

“We watched with deep sorrow what happened in our second homeland, the brotherly Arab Republic of Egypt. The incidents only please the enemies of Egypt’s stability and security and its people, but at the same time pain all those who love Egypt and care for its stability and unity which are, today, targets for all evil wishers. This attempt to unsettle Egypt’s unity and stability—carried out by the ignorant, the inadvertent, or the mindful of the enemies’ design—will, God willing, be fruitless.”

 

The King called on “the people of Egypt and the Arab and Muslim nations, the honorable Ulema, intellectuals, writers, and all sensible people to stand united with one heart in facing attempts to destabilize a country which historically has always been at the forefront of Arab and Muslim nations. Honorable people should not maintain silence on and be heedless of what is going on.”

 

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[SrWoodchuck]

Big Egypt Media: Brotherhood Snipers Killing their Own http://shoebat.com/2013/08/14/big-egypt-media-brotherhood-snipers-killing-their-own/

 

By Shoebat Foundation on August 14, 2013 in Blog, General

 

Egypt’s security forces pledged to crack down on pro-Muslim Brotherhood / Mohammed Mursi demonstrators who were holding sit-ins. When news that dozens of demonstrators had been killed, western media sources operated from a premise that these demonstrators had to have been killed by security forces.

 

However, major Egyptian media sources are reporting that these pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators are actually being killed by Muslim Brotherhood members. If these reports are correct, Egypt may be home to Pallywood on steroids. Is it possible that Muslim Brotherhood loyalists are killing their own in order to implicate the interim government?

 

Reports of the Brotherhood killing its own over the last several weeks is not new but may be coming to a crescendo with the number of deaths in Egypt today.

 

Read on.

 

Ahram reported that helicopters belonging to security forces buzzed the rooftops of residential towers in anticipation of Muslim Brotherhood snipers.

 

Elfagr reported that Egyptian security forces were working to clear at least seven Muslim Brotherhood snipers from the area around Rabia Al-Adawiya mosque.

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Big Egypt Media: Brotherhood Snipers Killing their Own http://shoebat.com/2013/08/14/big-egypt-media-brotherhood-snipers-killing-their-own/

There are those who have said the MB wanted and worked for the confrontation with the Army.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Big Egypt Media: Brotherhood Snipers Killing their Own http://shoebat.com/2013/08/14/big-egypt-media-brotherhood-snipers-killing-their-own/

There are those who have said the MB wanted and worked for the confrontation with the Army.

 

 

@Valin! It sure allowed them to destroy Coptic churches.

 

I noticed that a spokesman for the Army has issued a statement that those churches will be rebuilt & that the Army Engineers have been ordered to prepare plans for same. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/16/egyptian-military-chief-vows-to-rebuild-coptic-churches/

 

Also this, from WeaselZippers:

 

Report: Muslim Brotherhood Waving Al Qaeda Black Jihadist Flags Distributing Weapons In Ramsis Square, Cairo http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/16/report-muslim-brotherhood-waving-al-qaeda-black-jihadist-flags-distributing-weapons-in-ramsis-square-cairo/

 

[Valin]

 

 

Big Egypt Media: Brotherhood Snipers Killing their Own http://shoebat.com/2013/08/14/big-egypt-media-brotherhood-snipers-killing-their-own/

There are those who have said the MB wanted and worked for the confrontation with the Army.

 

@Valin! It sure allowed them to destroy Coptic churches.

 

Yup. It's what they do. And it is also why they will lose. The only question is how long it will take and what the butchers bill will be.

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'Working Group on Egypt' Statement

 

 

Despite the mistakes committed by former president Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood over the past year in Egypt, and despite the incitement and violence demonstrated by some Brotherhood supporters yesterday, the killing of hundreds of protesters carried out by the Egyptian military government was unnecessary, unjustified, and in contravention of international human rights standards. These events demand a shift in U.S. policy that is urgent and long overdue. We agree with President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the Bright Star joint military exercise, with his condemnation of violence against civilians, with his emphasis on the need for the Egyptian government to respect the human rights of all its citizens, and with his call for positive steps towards reconciliation.

 

However, the president's failure to suspend aid to the Egyptian military is a strategic error that undercuts those objectives and weakens U.S. credibility, after repeated calls by the U.S. administration for Egyptian authorities to avoid bloodshed have been disregarded. Whatever President Obama may say about U.S. support for democratic values in Egypt, continued U.S. aid sends a signal to the Egyptian military—and to the world—that the United States condones the Egyptian leadership’s actions. The continuation of aid removes a source of meaningful international pressure that could help to forestall future atrocities and prevent further steps toward consolidation of an undemocratic system in Egypt.

 

We therefore call on the Obama administration to take further steps, including an immediate suspension of military aid to Egypt. If the President fails once again to do so, we call on Congress to suspend military assistance to Egypt until such time as:

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I am very very disappointed in

Robert Kagan

Reuel Gerecht

Elliott Abrams

 

They should know better. Peaceful protesters.....Riiiight! They should know better.