Pro-junta newspaper El-Watan is reporting that Egypt’s military has uncovered a plot to assassinate coup leader Gen. Abdelfattah El-Sisi, with the attack said to be planned in the Sinai Peninsula by an Islamist faction.
According to the report, the attackers included members of Hamas, and has a stockpile of smuggled Libyan weapons, and intended to assassinate Sisi and other junta leaders on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, later this week.
The other targets were said to be Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, behind the recent massacres of anti-coup protesters, and Mohamed ElBaradei, the pro-Western former IAEA head who has come out in favor of the junta and was given the position of Vice President in charge of international diplomacy.
The Egyptian military began a massive crackdown in Sinai the same day as the coup which ousted the elected Morsi government, and has accused Hamas of plotting to support President Morsi.
Morsi and most other top officials have been imprisoned by the military since the coup, and reportedly US officials have visited with some of his top jailed aides trying to convince them to accept military rule. The US has openly endorsed the coup, though owing to US law banning support for coups they have avoided using that word, rather insisting that the military takeover amounts to “democracy.”
I am sick and tired of Anti-War that is creating their own reality, I am American/Egyptian and I am telling you this is not a coup, enough already of following blind ideology against the will of the people. You want it a coup so you can discredit the US government, and I am telling you the Egyptian people do not want to be another Iran. The Muslim brotherhood won elections by fraud, deceit, and mixing religion and politics. Is that what you really want Egypt to be? A new hotbed for extremist jihadis? Another Iran or Pakistan? Bah!
I am very disappointed in AntiWar.com, I have been a regular visitor of your site since 2,000 and I am truly lost for words on how you have been handling the recent events….
That is what you wer egetting with the Muslim brotherhood…
It's not complicated: A coup is a coup, even if it has popular support.
The Egyptian military overthrew the Egyptian government.
That is a coup. Period. You don't have to like it. Words mean things whether you like it or not.
You're right. A coup is not a coup, and mowing down unarmed civilians is not murder – it's just business as usual.
"The Muslim brotherhood won elections by fraud, deceit, and mixing religion and politics. Is that what you really want Egypt to be?"
Huh? The fact is that the Brotherhood won the election fairly.
Now, of course, I'd rather the vast majority of Egyptians were liberal, secular humanists like myself. But they aren't, that's the way it is, and no amount of rationalizing is going to make it different.
I see a coup and I see that the CIA/ Al Qaeda are enjoying their weapons from Benghazi…..I also see what I had predicted would happen….that soon crimes would be committed in order to have an excuse to murder the protesters. I also see Egypt's attempt to democracy was rushed with too many expectations in one year's time. It took America 7 years to complete our Constitution and Bill of Rights and 225 years to destroy most of it.. Democracy takes constant vigilance to respect the rights of every individual in your country. Due process and informed voters are important parts of maintaining all individual's rights. You can't just consent to murder off a large part of fellow countrymen and call yourselves a democracy.
1) military takeover pretty much does amount to democracy in the US. ("The US has openly endorsed the coup, though owing to US law banning support for coups they have avoided using that word, rather insisting that the military takeover amounts to “democracy.”")
2) This makes the kill score for the coup so far approximately:
Military coup: 250+ civilians killed
Opposition: 2 military coup leaders rumored to have been targeted
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My fellow Americans, you cannot judge what is going on on the ground in Egypt using the background and culture/society of the USA.
But let me ask you this, imagine that the US people were fed up with the way things are in the USA and took to the streets, in millions all over the country asking for the resignation of the duopoly Dem/Repub government, House and President and all… chanting enough of wars, enough of idiocy and wasting resources, enough of sending troops and money overseas, enough NSA, Patrio act, persecuting whistle-blowers, etc. etc. … time to bring back the Constitutional Republic as it was meant to be .. your AntiWar dream come true…
And for some bizarre reason the US army sided with the people .. and decided that enough is enough … so they disbanded the government and handed over power to other civilans whom the people approve .. Ron Paul became interim head of government, other decent folks took offices etc. What will YOU do? What will you call it? What will you tell Russia when Putin puts pressure on the US Army to release the crooks who were once in charge? Think about it..
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