Two days after setting an ultimatum, the Egyptian military has followed through on threats to seize power, ousting President Mohammed Morsi and placing him and his entire cabinet under arrest. Top figures in the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) were also arrested.
The move followed three days of growing protests against Morsi by an array of opposition factions, which led the military to warn Morsi that he would either have tob placate them or face military action.
The military has nominally installed Judge Adly Mansour as interim president, but with the military also announcing the constitution null and void, Gen. Abdelfatah el-Sisi appears to hold all of the power in the nation.
Morsi’s location is a matter of some speculation, as while he was initially held with the rest of the cabinet and some of his aides, but has since been taken to an “undisclosed location,” with some speculating he may be being held in the Defense Ministry.
The moves against Morsi and his political supporters appear to be the focus, but crackdowns are being reported elsewhere as well, with the military seizing al-Jazeera’s local studios and arresting all employees within, and all television stations perceived as “Islamist” being forced off the air.
The military has promised an orderly transition back to civilian rule, saying a committee will be formed to pen yet another new constitution, and elections will follow. Since the FJP has won every election since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, it remains to be seen how the military will redesign the process to prevent another civilian government they don’t like and will eventually depose.
Good for the Egyptian people.., I wish I could say the same thing for the Turkish people, the Saudis, the Qatari and all other tyrants regimes. Few years back Erdogan arrested few turkish generals and others assuring that such a day as today would not happen if his regimes went to far. As morsi, he didn't have the time to do the same and to become what a real dictator is. Hopefully the new and free and not controlled election will bring about a functioning democracy by the people and for the people of Egypt.
Oh no–it's a 'coup', don't you know?
I guess this military coup has been planned before USA started its Arab Spring theater piece in the media and on the ground.
But all NATO countries did help providing this "Arab spring". Even Germany by using e.g. the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (conservative foundation) catched career-hungry western-oriented youngsters for journalist seminars and provided them with the financial means to publish a – I guess – rebellion newspaper.
Why I do guess this?
See at 2:07 min in this original video http://www.kas.de/wf/de/21.50/ on their website, where the lecturer of another German policy foundation wrote ARABREBELLION onto the whiteboard. Egypt in total charged 17 NOGs for such illegal actions and money transfers.
In their 7 foreign bureaus alone this German foundation offered such seminars to win new Arab western-oriented journalist, which also learned how to work together with young German journalist students for the future western-controlled media of Arab states – see photo at http://www.kas.de/rpg/de/publications/29314/
Finally the aim is ruling the whole countries around the mediterrian sea … with their best ruling mean: capitalist "democracy". Based on what they call "free press" i.e. press of NATO countries ( free to be bought by anybody with some billions) in order to control information, public opinion and election outcomes. The same way they perfectly rule their own home countries with a nice well sounding ideology of de-mock-rat y.
It is made really nice and convincing! See for your self: http://abudhabi2011.journalisten-akademie.com/das…
The young journalists, both Arab and western will love their job and not know what they are actually doing. Conflicts with the bosses or owners will not arise often, and if it does in key situatíons, the high salary will demonstrate the deep fall when their job is in danger.
Jason, that's what I like about your posts. They are insightful and not anti Islamist. Islam is more than a religion, it's a way of life that's why Sunni Islamists like the Brotherhood do not believe in a theocracy or rule of the clerics. The proof of that is the MB and Hamas, for example. They are doctors, teachers, engineers, etc. The point is that they have chosen to come to power peacefully and by popular will. And its a shame that others try to vilify them.
It's not just a question of a civilian government "they don't like" as a government that was both rapidly falling into old autocratic ways of thinking bolstered by religious intolerance. And also completely incompetent when it was not pushing a religious agenda. I salute the demonstrators and hope that the military will adhere to its promise to hold new elections promptly. This time perhaps the forces opposed to political Islam will be better organized and will win the day.
Egyptian President Morsi is the legitimate leader of his country. If the people don't like his rule then they vote him out of office.
This is called the "Rule of Law" as our President Obama has proclaimed. If our leader allows the Egyptian military to remove a duly elected president then he has "spit" in the face of his Muslim brothers brothers
Your headline is wrong. It's not a coup d'etat – it's democracy in action! I know, because the establishment media told me so, and they are *never* wrong!
Most of that sounds like Western propaganda. Coup?
Even Zionist agents like Obama aren't calling it that. Why are you, Mr.Ditz?
As far as I understand it, a coup is the ousting of a democratically elected leader before his term is up. Morsi was democratically elected, and was deposed before his term was up. So this a coup. What may be debated is whether the coup was justified. But attempting to call what happened in Egypt anything less than a coup is disingenuous.
Maybe you should look a little deeper into what Mr.Morsi is; who his allies are in Washington, Britain and Tel Aviv…before you stretch what's happening on the streets of Cairo into a 'coup'…
When a country's military deposes its existing government, that's a coup. Just because you think it's a "good" coup rather than a "bad" coup, that doesn't mean it's not a coup.
It's soft, brown, and stinks, but it ain't sh*t, trust me on this one!