When you're an Egyptian, you know your uprising has actually been a military coup when the authorities release Hosni Mubarak.
It was unclear how Egyptians — particularly those who have welcomed the
military action against Mr. Morsi — would respond to the release of a
despised autocrat whose downfall united Mr. Mubarak’s secular and
Islamist foes. News of the legal maneuvers came at a time of sustained
bloodletting.
Just in the past 24 hours, the Egyptian government has acknowledged that
its security forces had killed 36 Islamists in its custody, while
suspected militants were reported on Monday to have killed at least 24
police officers and wounded 3 others in an attack on their minibuses in
the restive northern Sinai region.
Mr. Mubarak, 85, faces an array of legal challenges including
allegations of corruption and a retrial on charges of complicity in the
murder of protesters whose revolt forced his ouster in February, 2011.
3 comments:
So . . . the military are trying to get the Islamic Brotherhood and the secularists to make common cause against them? Because I can't think of any move more likely to prompt that.
I don't know. Bizarre, isn't it?
not really bizarre, Mubarak has a lot of friends, and any protest can be cracked down on and rebranded as maintaining order in the face of islamic extremists
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