Morsi Out- Army in Control

MORSI OUT – ARMY TAKES CONTROL OF EGYPT JULY 4, 2013 A political flux in Egypt continuing appears to end after a televised call on Wednesday, Egypt’s Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced a roadmap to settle the unrest in the country. The move comes after the military-set deadline for Morsi to talk to anti-government groups expired. The Defense Minister criticized Morsi for failing to meet the people’s demands Announcing the suspension of the Constitution, he promised to quickly hold a presidential election.Egypt’s state media reported that the chief justice of the constitutional court Adly Mansour will be sworn in as provisional president on Thursday.


Al Jazeera’s Egyptian broadcast team were detained and prevented from broadcasting images of a pro-Morsi rally near Cairo University. Shadi Hamid, an Egypt analyst with the Brookings Institution, said that staff of Brotherhood-associated Misr 25 were arrested as well. Al Jazeera’s Egyptian broadcast team were detained and prevented from broadcasting images of a pro-Morsi rally near Cairo University. Shadi Hamid, an Egypt analyst with the Brookings Institution, said that staff of Brotherhood-associated Misr 25 were arrested as well. Egyptian troops, were deployed to key sites and intersections throughout Egypt, including Suez and the highway to Alexandria. Hundreds of soldiers took part in a military parade near the presidential palace, according to media reports.

MENA, Egypt’s state news agency, reported police were continuing their efforts to arrest “a number of members of the Muslim Brotherhood who are accused of inciting violence and disturbing general security and peace.” US President Barack Obama, careful in words, called on security forces to “avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsi and his supporter At Tahrir Square Cairo gathered thousands of people chanted and danced world watch the first civilian elected President Morsi ousted, constitution suspended, army in control. President Mohamed Morsi has been stripped of his power by the Egyptian army and the constitution has been suspended, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said in a statement. Egypt’s chief justice of the constitutional court will become the interim president.

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi ousted in a military coup Wednesday, with security forces forbidding him from leaving the country, arresting a number of top Muslim Brotherhood officials, and raiding media outlets in the midst of broadcasts. Saad El-Katani, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Foreign Justice Party (FJP), and Rashad al-Bayoumi, one of the FJP’s deputy leaders, were both detained, security forces told media. Arrest warrants were also issued for 300 members of the Brotherhood and security forces were preparing to disperse pro-Morsi demonstrations throughout the country.
A Muslim brotherhood spokesman said Morsi and Essam El-Haddad, a presidential aide, were being held at a residence used by the country’s presidential guards.

Adly Mansour is replacing Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi. He will be sworn in as interim president on Thursday. Sixty seven year old is appointed by the military, which outlined a plan to settle the country’s political turmoil. Mansour studied in France after graduating from Cairo University. He later served as a judge on a court near the Egyptian capital Cairo. Mansour then went on to become the deputy chief justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court in 1992.

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