Protesters took to the area around a key Cairo hospital today, demanding the ouster of Field Marshal (and current junta leader) Mohamed Tantawi following weekend attacks on Christian protesters which left at least 26 people dead and over 300 others wounded.
The attacks came when protesters marched on a Cairo TV station to condemn the destruction of a Luxor-area church, which the governor insisted was “illegally built.” Security forces responded to the protests by driving vehicles into the crowds, crushing large numbers of people.
Following that, the state media began broadcasting calls for “honest Egyptians” to attack any Christians in the streets, leading to mobs of junta supporters attacking them with bats, causing a riot.
The Egyptian military rulers are now holding emergency talks with the Christian leadership, aiming to stem the growing international concern about the junta’s protracted control over the nation in the wake of a pro-democracy revolution.
it seems that you are reiterating the same own opinion again ignoring what was said in the egyptian and international media about what happened. The german TV was honest and broadcast a film about how the copts attacked a military personnel and killed him by the angry mob and setting his vehicle on fire (check the internet to find it). As you seems always biased and wants to show the situation as "Junta" attack against "innocent copts" because they are your brethern oppressed christian. By the way you keep only the slogan of christiany and you use it when you need as it no longer exist neither in your hearts nor in your countries. Shame on you…………………………
Egypt needs to police its 'junta supporters'. They've got nothing in common with democracy.
Egyptian democrats , non-Coptic, haven't stopped demanding that the military 'caretakers' step down.
But aside from the Generals, there's no one who 'speaks' American. So you know who Panetta's going to work with.