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Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 07:48 PM Jul 2013

At Least 17 Dead As Morsi Supporters Protest: NBC News..

Source: NBC News

By Ghazi Balkiz, Ayman Mohyeldin and Charlene Gubash, NBC News

CAIRO – Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi clashed with rival protesters on Friday on a central Cairo bridge near Tahrir Square, continuing a bloody day of protests that left more than a dozen people dead amid uncertainty about the country’s political future.

A total of 17 people were reported dead in clashes across the country, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. Hundreds more were injured.

Thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators marched on the October 6 Bridge over the Nile after a speech from Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie in which he demanded Morsi’s reinstatement.

After his arrest was ordered earlier this week, Badie appeared on stage at an Islamist rally in Cairo on Friday, saying that the group would not concede on Morsi’s reinstatement, “otherwise it is our lives,” Reuters reported.

this link is from Huff Post/AP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/05/egypt-clashes_n_3551752.html

Other link. below:.NBC News..

Read more: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/05/19298014-morsi-supporters-clash-with-civilians-military-in-deadly-day-of-protests?lite



I don't know, maybe the start of civil war. .I don't know.


New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
At Least 30 People Dead in Increasingly Divided Nation

By BEN HUBBARD, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and RICK GLADSTONE 6:58 PM ET

Islamist supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, demanded his reinstatement in large protests and engaged in sometimes deadly clashes with security forces and anti-Morsi demonstrators.

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At Least 17 Dead As Morsi Supporters Protest: NBC News.. (Original Post) Stuart G Jul 2013 OP
Syria part 2. nt geek tragedy Jul 2013 #1
Yes indeed mazzarro Jul 2013 #2
Personally I don't think so, way too different of a situation. Kurska Jul 2013 #3
More likely Iraq part 2. Bosonic Jul 2013 #4

mazzarro

(3,450 posts)
2. Yes indeed
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 05:17 AM
Jul 2013

My fear is that Egypt will slide into a civil war eventually if the intolerance of divergent religions and politics of the citizenry continues.

Kurska

(5,739 posts)
3. Personally I don't think so, way too different of a situation.
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 05:34 AM
Jul 2013

In Syria a tiny minority of Alawites have managed to hold off the rebellion of the majority sunni's because of a massive advantage in military equipment. If there was a civil war in Egypt it wouldn't even be close to fair, because the opposition can pull roughly equivalent numbers as the Islamists and they would have equipment vastly superior to the stuff the Syrian army has.

I think any type of Islamist uprising would end very poorly in Egypt.

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