Coup? What coup? Egyptians see no evil
As military jets periodically screamed over Cairo, even performing a formation salute with coloured smoke trails, many Egyptians took pains to stress that the toppling of their elected president, announced by a general, was not a "coup". "A coup? No!" said Ahmed Eid, 19, a business studies student at Cairo University, as he and his friends snapped souvenir pictures of each other, draped in the national flag, on Tahrir Square. "This was our new revolution!" "Our president was very bad. The army are our brothers."
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With foreign goodwill - and aid dollars - at risk, however, it is now imperative to show Mursi was wrong when - from the Republican Guard barracks where he is detained - he branded the manoeuvre against him "a total military coup". Many outside Egypt found it hard to fault Mursi's logic.
But Egyptians have proven creative in contradicting him. Not a "coup" but a "popular impeachment" was one original expression, put forward by Amr Moussa. A foreign minister under Mubarak, he now leads of one of the liberal parties that endorsed the "roadmap" back to democracy spelled out by the armed forces chief on Wednesday when he went on television, in full uniform, to suspend the constitution.
"Some Western media insist what happened in Egypt was a coup d'etat. In fact, this was unfair," Moussa, who headed the Arab League until two years ago, told Reuters - as military helicopters clattered overhead near the Nile riverbank. "This was a popular uprising, a popular revolution," he added. "In fact it was a popular impeachment of the president."
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