The Egyptian army ultimatum to Islamist President Mohammed Morsy was
not a bluff. The army has taken over the Egyptian television building.
Egypt’s leading democracy advocate, Mohamed
ElBaradei, and top Muslim and Coptic Christian clerics met Wednesday
with the army chief to discuss a political road map for Egypt only hours
before a military ultimatum to the Islamist president was set to
expire.
The meeting signaled the military was
taking concrete moves toward implementing its plan to replace President
Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected leader who came to office a
year ago.
...
ElBaradei is the leader of the main opposition
grouping, the National Salvation Front. He was accompanied in the
meeting with army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi by Sheik Ahmed
el-Tayeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar mosque, and Pope Tawadros II, patriarch
of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority.
Under a plan leaked to state media, the
military would install a new interim leadership, the Islamist-backed
constitution would be suspended and the Islamist-dominated parliament
dissolved.
The military has said it would implement its
plan once its two-day ultimatum to Morsi expires, between 4 p.m. and 5
p.m. Egypt time (5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Israel time).
In one of the first signs that the army was
beginning to implement its ultimatum, forces had taken over the state
television studios in Cairo, al-Arabiya reported early afternoon
Wednesday.
Hmmm. Sounds better already.
Except didn't "Mohamad ElBaredai", the "leading democracy advocate" run interference for Iran for years so that they'll be able to nuke Israel? I'm unclear that there is a "better" among the current crop. Civilization involves leaving the neighbors alone. I don't think these Egyptians are there yet.
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