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Egypt refers Muslim Brotherhood leader to court, says pro-Morsi protests 'unacceptable'
Egypt’s interim government referred the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader and two other top officials to court Wednesday on charges of inciting violence, calling protests over the ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi an “unacceptable threat.” …read more
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Palestinian leader in Egypt, amid rival Hamas' tense relations with post-Morsi leadership
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has met with Egypt’s interim president in Cairo in a show of support for the government that took over after Mohammed Morsi’s ouster. …read more
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UK revokes export licenses for Egypt
The British government has revoked five licenses allowing exports to Egypt in light of recent unrest there leading to the deaths of civilians.
Business Secretary Vince Cable says the government undertook a review of export licenses for Egypt “as a result of the changing situation.”
Egypt has witnessed street clashes and protests since the ouster of Mohammed Morsi as president.
Cable said Friday that while the government has no reports of British equipment being used in Egypt’s unrest, five individual licenses were revoked, a decision made upon advice from the Foreign Office.
It was not immediately clear what the licenses were for or who they’d been issued to. But the U.K. assesses all arms export licenses to ensure there is no risk goods might be used for internal repression.
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Video: Obama’s Secret $8 Billion Bribe To The Muslim Brotherhood
By Kris Zane
According to Arabic News Channel TV14 and reported on by Egypt Daily News, Obama’s relationship with recently deposed Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi goes far deeper than mere support as a democratically elected President.
Per TV14, Obama conducted secret negotiations with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood outside of normal diplomatic channels.
According to sources cited by TV14, Obama secretly transferred eight billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood—not the Egyptian government—as payment to guarantee that a large portion of the Sinai Peninsula be turned over to the terrorist organization Hamas, an avowed enemy of both the United States and Israel.
The secret agreement was signed by deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and his second in command, Khairat el Shater.
Who on the U.S. side signed the agreement and where Barack Obama got the eight billion dollars is not clear. When Mohammed Morsi was deposed and arrested by the Egyptian military, evidence of the secret agreement was discovered and seized.
Further, per the news segment, which has been uploaded to YouTube and has since gone viral, secret negotiations between Obama and the Egyptian military—specifically Colonel Abdul al-Sisi, head of the Armed Forces—were ongoing to ensure the agreement remained hidden. Per the secret negotiations, in exchange for Obama recognizing the Egyptian military as legitimate, Colonel al-Sisi promised to keep Obama’s illegal agreement with the Muslim Brotherhood secret. However, a source within the Egyptian military leaked Obama’s nefarious activities to TV14 and the world.
If Obama’s secret agreement with the Muslim Brotherhood is proven correct, it may spell the end for the Obama administration once and for all. Obama may have illegally siphoned off funds from the US Treasury and committed treason by attempting to turn land over to Hamas, a group that is not only an enemy to the United States, but has vowed to destroy every Jew on the face of the earth. If Obama’s nefarious plan would have been realized, Hamas’ control of the Sinai Peninsula would have put Israel in an indefensible position and would have led to a second holocaust.
If proven to be true, this would go far beyond the Constitution’s requirement of High Crimes and Misdemeanors as a basis for impeachment. It would mean treason, possible life in prison, or even the death penalty for Barack Hussein Obama.
Egyptian parliamentarians demand Morsi's return
Islamist lawmakers in Egypt’s disbanded upper house of parliament are demanding the return of the country’s ousted president, and calling on other parliaments not to recognize the country’s new army-appointed leadership.
The demand was made Saturday by around 20 members of the Shura Council, which was Egypt’s sole legislative house from the court-ordered dissolution of the lower house last year until the military’s July 3 toppling of Mohammed Morsi.
The lawmakers, who were attending a mostly Islamist sit-in in the east of Cairo, accused the military of attempting to restore a “corrupt and dictatorial” regime.
Morsi was Egypt’s first elected freely elected president, succeeding longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak who himself was toppled in 2011.
The military ousted Morsi after millions of protesters took to the streets calling for his removal.
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New video shows Egyptian police allowing deadly attack on Coptic cathedral
Newly-emerged video appears to show Egyptian police standing idly by – and even helping attackers during a deadly assault earlier this month on a Coptic cathedral where Christians were mourning five men killed in an earlier clash with Muslims.
The video shot April 7 and first obtained by MidEast Christian News, shows a men shooting guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones and possibly Molotov cocktails as mourners carry caskets out of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia District of Cairo as uniformed police watch, unmoving. At one point, a police officer appears to help a gunman take aim at a courtyard full of mourners who had spilled out of the church. The attack left two Copts dead and another 84 people injured, including 11 police officers.
When it was over, the only arrests made were of four Copts. Christians, who were already outraged over a three-day attack that began April 4 attack in Khosous which saw the four men killed and homes, a nursery and a church burned, said the events show how elusive justice is for Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the nation’s population.
“Two Copts were killed during the attack on the Cathedral; four more died in Khosous, yet not one of their attackers has been arrested,” said Andrew Johnston, advocacy director for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. “These arrests come at a time when the Coptic community in Egypt is still coming to terms with an unprecedented attack on the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the violence in Khosous. Such discrepancies in the discharge of justice contribute to impunity, and can only foster more sectarianism.”
Tensions between Egypt‘s Christians and the majority Sunni Muslims have grown dramatically since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 and replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood-led government of Mohammed Morsi.
“There is a general feeling among citizens about the absence of law and the prestige of the state,” said a report released Wednesday by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights. “Such a feeling could push the citizens to the violence and sectarianism without fearing from any deterrence, ” reads a passage from the report.
“The recent incident proved the shrinking of the role of the state to control the actions of the individuals especially those people who think that they talk on the behalf of God,” the report continued. “There is a need for implementing the law strictly to treat such incidents.”
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Protesters call for purging Egypt's judiciary
Thousands of supporters of Egypt’s Islamist president have taken to the streets of Cairo, calling on him to “cleanse the judiciary.”
Mohammed Morsi and the judiciary have had tense relations since he came to power in June last year. Judges accused him of trampling on their authority, while Morsi supporters charge that the judiciary is controlled by supporters of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, criticized the judiciary for several recent acquittals of former regime officials, as well as an order to release Mubarak, who is facing a retrial for his role in killing protesters. Mubarak remains in detention on other charges.
Hamdeen Sabahi, an opposition leader, called the Friday protests a prelude to “a new massacre” in the judiciary, violating its independence.
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Egypt's Morsi withdraws complaints against media
An Egyptian official says the president has ordered withdrawal of complaints against journalists for allegedly reporting rumors.
Presidential spokesman Ehab Fahmy said Mohammed Morsi ordered cancellation of the complaints filed by the president’s legal office after reviewing the cases “out of respect for freedom of expression and freedom of the press.”
When reached for further comment, the presidency did not release details about how many complaints had been filed since Morsi’s election in June.
The decision does not affect charges filed by Islamist lawyers against journalists and media personalities for allegedly insulting Morsi and Islam.
Popular TV satirist Bassem Youssef is among many who still face investigations for expressing their political or religious opinions.
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Egypt's president in Sudan, hopes for better ties
Egypt‘s president is visiting Sudan, his first trip to his country’s southern neighbor since he took office nine months ago.
Mohammed Morsi‘s two-day visit is the longest by an Egyptian president to Sudan in decades. It underlines Egypt‘s renewed interest in boosting cooperation after what was seen as neglect and deteriorating relations under ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.
Mubarak accused Sudan of harboring suspects in the 1995 assassination attempt against him in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
Morsi was greeted Thursday by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a fellow Islamist.
A large business delegation traveled with Morsi, a sign his government is interested in increased economic cooperation with Sudan. The two countries share a long border, and the Nile River runs through both.
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Over 50 Iranian tourists visit southern Egypt
More than 50 Iranian tourists visited sites in southern Egypt on Sunday amid tight security as part of a bilateral tourism promotion deal that has generated some controversy.
The tourists, who according to a security official arrived on some of the first commercial flights between the two countries in three decades, will be restricted in their movement following objections from some ultraconservative Sunni Muslims to receiving visitors from Shiite Iran. Members of the Salafi movement in Egypt consider Shiites heretics, and fear Iran is trying to spread its faith in the Sunni world.
After visiting the city of Aswan Sunday, the group is expected to travel to the ancient city of Luxor in a boat down the Nile on Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media.
On Saturday, a private Air Memphis flight carried eight Iranians, including two diplomats, to Tehran on the re-opened route from Egypt. The ministry of civil aviation said in a statement Sunday that the routes will operate in southern cities and Red Sea resorts, not Cairo.
Following the June election of Egypt‘s Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, Egypt and Iran agreed to promote tourism between the two countries, in a sign of warming relations. Diplomatic relations were frozen after Egypt signed its 1979 peace treaty with Israel and Iran underwent its Islamic Revolution.
Egypt‘s Foreign and Civil Aviation Ministries have set regulations restricting the number and movement of Iranian tourists in Egypt, keeping Iranian tourists from visiting the capital Cairo — mainly because several shrines of revered Shiite figures are located there.
Iranian tourists would only be allowed to visit certain sites, such as the ancient cities of Luxor and Red Sea resort areas like Sharm el-Sheikh.
Egypt, Iran resume direct flights after decades
Officials say a commercial airliner has left Egypt for Iran in the first direct passenger flight between the two countries in more than three decades.
Cairo-Tehran relations have witnessed a thaw since the June election of Egypt‘s Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi. Diplomatic relations were frozen after Egypt signed its 1979 peace treaty with Israel and Iran underwent its Islamic Revolution.
Cairo airport officials say a private Air Memphis flight departed Saturday for Tehran carrying eight Iranians, including two diplomats. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to reporters.
Egypt‘s tourism minister visited Tehran last month to sign an agreement promoting tourism between the countries. Egypt‘s Foreign and Civil Aviation Ministries, however, set regulations restricting the number and movement of Iranian tourists in Egypt.
Egypt's Morsi warns against foreign meddling
Egypt‘s Islamist president has warned he will deal “firmly” and “decisively” with any foreign attempt to meddle in the affairs of his country, mired in turmoil for most of the two years since Hosni Mubarak‘s ouster.
Mohammed Morsi says Egypt does not interfere in other countries’ domestic affairs and expects to be treated similarly.
He told an Arab league summit Tuesday in Qatar that “We don’t accept anyone sticking his finger inside Egypt.” But he didn’t elaborate.
Egypt is embroiled in a tug of war pitting Morsi and his Islamist allies against a mostly secular and liberal opposition. The crippling political impasse is compounded by economic woes and tenuous security.
Egypt: Activists to be questioned over violence
Egyptian prosecutors have summoned several politicians and activists for questioning over allegations they incited violence against members of the president’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Monday’s summons came one day after the Islamist president sternly warned his opponents, saying he may be close to taking unspecified measures to “protect this nation.”
Angry, shouting and pounding the table at times, Mohammed Morsi vowed to bring to account politicians found to have incited the violence on Friday, when Brotherhood members clashed with protesters outside the group’s Cairo headquarters.
Nearly 200 people were injured in the clashes, the worst violence between the Brotherhood and its opponents in more than three months.
Those summoned include a former presidential candidate, a former lawmaker and several iconic figures from the pro-democracy movement behind the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt's president says may move to protect nation
Egypt‘s president warns he may be about to take measures he did not specify to “protect this nation.”
Mohammed Morsi‘s warning came in a series of tweets posted on Sunday, two days after violent clashes between supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood and opposition protesters in Cairo. At least 200 people have been injured, some seriously, outside the Cairo headquarters of the Brotherhood, Egypt‘s most dominant political group.
An Islamist elected in June, Morsi also warned that “appropriate measures” would be taken against politicians found to be behind Friday’s violence, regardless of their seniority. Anyone found to be using the media to “incite violence” will also be held accountable, he added.
Friday’s clashes followed an assault a week earlier by Brotherhood supporters on protesters painting hostile graffiti outside the group’s headquarters.
Egypt's president praises police despite criticism
Egypt‘s president has commended the country’s police force in the face of public criticism over its violent response to demonstrations.
Mohammed Morsi told riot police their courage and sacrifice are needed. He warned them against breaking ranks.
Part of the force is on strike to protest what some officers see as an attempt by Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood to control them. The Brotherhood denies that.
Speaking at a riot police camp on Friday, Morsi told members of the black-clad force to be aware of Egypt‘s enemies abroad who want to see the country divided.
Egypt‘s riot police have been engaged in violent confrontations with protesters. A government report obtained this week by The Associated Press concludes that police were behind nearly all the killings of protesters during the country’s 2011 uprising.
Egypt considers ban on sale of duty-free alcohol
Egypt‘s Civil Aviation Ministry is considering a ban on the sale of alcohol in airport duty-free stores after it received complaints that it goes against the country’s Islamic principles, ministry officials and a senior lawmaker said Tuesday.
Duty Free officials said the ministry has been reviewing the policy for about four months after citizens and ministry officials complained.
Liberal and secular opponents of Egypt‘s Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, fear he and his supporters are seeking to slowly enshrine a more conservative system in Egypt based on Islamic law. There are also concerns that steps such as banning alcohol would drive away tourists, a critical source of income for Egypt‘s faltering economy.
Morsi’s Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has emerged as the most powerful political force in Egypt since the uprising two years ago that ousted the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Civil Aviation Minister Wael el-Maadawi, a former general who is not affiliated with an Islamist party, raised the idea of the ban in a meeting Monday with members of the interim parliament’s transportation committee, said committee head Mohammed Sadeq.
Sadeq, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood political party, told The Associated Press he does not have an opinion on the matter at this time because the committee he heads is currently grappling with “much bigger issues.”
“We are foremost talking about the country’s economy. So even if this issue requires its proper place at the discussion table, now is not the time since there are bigger priorities at hand,” he said in telephone interview.
He said the minister was discussing with lawmakers on parliament’s transportation committee safety measures and how to ensure that alcohol bottles sold in airports are not used as firebombs.
Egypt has been embroiled in wave after wave of unrest in the two years since the uprising, with protests and clashes over a range of social ills from the deteriorating economy to poor security and Morsi’s leadership.
El-Maadawi told the lawmakers there have been calls to ban the sale of alcohol in duty-free stores, though he did not say who the calls came from. He said they were looking into the complaints, but did not talk about any review or study of the policy, Sadeq said.
Egypt's Morsi uses TV interview to burnish image
During a more than 2-hour television interview, Egypt‘s Islamist president sought to depict himself as a man of the people, his voice rising and tears welling in his eyes as he spoke of the country’s poor and portrayed the masses protesting against his rule as “thugs” and “outlaws.”
The long interview, aired after midnight in the early hours Monday, appeared to be a push by Mohammed Morsi to burnish his image amid widespread unrest ahead of parliamentary elections that begin in April.
But it illustrated the dynamic that has characterized Egypt‘s politics throughout political turmoil that has shaken the country for months. The Morsi administration, backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, has pushed ahead offering no concessions to the opposition but has also presented little by way of a program to resolve the country’s mounting troubles. A disorganized opposition has been unable to find a foothold to pressure the president or provide an alternative, while street protests grow angrier.
Critics on Monday denounced Morsi’s comments as mere bluster and, worse, as reminiscent of the rhetoric of his autocratic predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. Morsi’s depiction of the protesters as criminals will likely only deepen the hostility in the already dangerously polarized nation.
“I am no longer optimistic about this presidency and I fear the days ahead because the anger is rising,” prominent activist and rights lawyer Gamal Eid said of the interview. “We now have a presidency that does not listen, an opposition that is in tatters and, more importantly, a bloc of angry youth who are out of control.”
Egypt has been mired in unrest for months, with protests over a wide range of issues, from demanding justice for slain protesters to anger over price hikes and fuel shortages.
Amid the instability, Egypt‘s economy has been in an unchecked decline. Economic reforms that Morsi is quietly, gradually taking — including reducing subsidies on fuel and other items — are likely to only stoke further protests.
In his interview, Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt‘s first freely elected president, gave no outlines for his economic plans or for bringing security amid increasing lawlessness. Instead, he sought to come across as a firm pair of hands, an uncompromising patriot and a compassionate leader in touch with his people.
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Voting in Egypt since the 2011 uprising
A list of when Egyptians have gone to the polls to vote since the 2011 uprising that ousted former autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak.
— March 19, 2011: Egyptians cast their first free vote on constitutional amendments sponsored by the ruling military, which set a timeline for the country’s transition to democracy. The military and Muslim Brotherhood rallied for a “yes” vote that passed easily against the largely secular and liberal opposition’s “no” vote that would have paved the way for the constitution to be written sooner.
— Nov. 28, 2011: Voting begins in Egypt‘s first parliamentary elections since Mubarak’s ouster. It concludes in January with nearly half the seats won by the previously banned Muslim Brotherhood and a surprising win of a quarter of seats to the ultraconservative Salafi party.
— Jan. 29, 2012: Multi-stage voting begins for Egypt‘s upper house of parliament, known as the Shura Council. A largely advisory body, the elections see a low voter turnout. Voting ends in late February with the Brotherhood winning nearly 60 percent of elected seats.
— April 20, 2012: The presidential campaign officially begins.
— May 23-24, 2012: A first round of nationwide voting on about a dozen candidates determines that the Muslim Brotherhood‘s candidate Mohammed Morsi and former Air Force general Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under Mubarak, will face each other in a runoff.
— June 14, 2012: The Supreme Constitutional Court rules to dissolve the lower house of parliament on grounds that a third of the chamber’s members were elected illegally. The military swiftly closes down parliament. The upper chamber, which was also elected under the law the constitutional court ruled as illegal, is not dissolved, but is separately under review.
— June 16-17, 2012: Egyptians vote in the runoff between Morsi and Shafiq. The military generals issue a “constitutional declaration” giving them sweeping authority to maintain their grip on power and limit the powers of the president.
— June 24, 2012: Election officials declare Morsi the winner of Egypt‘s first free election, with 51.7 percent of the vote.
— Aug. 12, 2012: Morsi cancels the generals’ declaration that gave them lawmaking powers in the absence of parliament. He retires the head of the military council and the army’s chief of …read more
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Video: Obama Admin Orchestrated The Arab Spring
By Kris Zane
By most accounts, the Arab Spring went horribly wrong. The democratic elections that swept away dictators—for the most part friendly to the United States—have produced Islamic totalitarian governments.
Mohammed Morsi, president of Egypt, is probably the example par excellence. He quickly nullified the constitution, neutered the judiciary, shut down any media that was critical of his government—branded as critical of Allah—and set up a macabre torture chamber.
Barack Obama, who championed this Arab Spring and even helped the Arab Spring along by arming and supporting the Libyan “rebels” (who were for the most part linked to Al Qaeda), apparently didn’t see this coming.
But Barack Obama is only human. He didn’t envision, like many others, that the people throughout the Middle East and North Africa would elect totalitarian Islamists that would become the Unites States’ enemy, right?
Although it is odd that Obama has embraced Mohammed Morsi with open arms. Mohammed Morsi is part of an organization—the Muslim Brotherhood—that has vowed to destroy the United States. In the words of one of their key documents:
The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…
Mohammed Morsi has called for the invasion of Jerusalem and annihilation of the Jewish people and for a worldwide caliphate that places every country—including the United States—under the thumb of a Muslim caliph.
And it is odd that Obama is sending F-16s to Egypt headed by a man who has vowed to destroy the United States and Israel.
Barack Obama couldn’t have planned to install Islamists throughout the Middle East and North Africa, could he?
That is something that can’t be imagined. A sitting U.S. president who is working with the enemy?
No.
Yet that is exactly what happened.
According to Tony Cartalucci, who was the first to report in his Land Destroyer Report on the database hacking scandal of defense contractor giant Britam, linking Barack Obama to a proposed false flag chemical weapons attack in Syria, the Obama administration was indeed behind the Arab Spring. The so-called “spontaneous grassroots movement” was nothing but a sham. Cartalucci describes in his recently published book War on Syria, Gateway to World War III:
…Local dissidents…received training, funding and material assistance from foreign powers through organizations funded largely by the US State Department…One of the organizations involved in recruiting, training, and supporting youth activists ahead of the “Arab Spring”…was Movements.org, or Alliance of Youth Movements, [who] would later be described admitting to US funding and involvement in the “Arab Spring” uprisings.
Now it all makes sense. The Obama Administration’s hundreds of meetings with Muslim Brotherhood front groups CAIR and ISNA. Obama calling for long-time ally Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to step down. The illegal war in Libya. Arming of the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egypt with tanks and F-16s. And now backing the Syrian “rebels” (Muslim-Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda …read more
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