Egypt: On Ground Updates
- Bloodless
Military Coup in Egypt -
Egyptian Military has Officially Ousted Morsy and
Party
from Power as of 2:00pm CDT
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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* Fox News brings us the following report and
it starts of like this… Egypt's top
military commander says the army is now
in full control of the country and President Mohammed Morsi has been replaced by the chief justice of the constitutional
court as the interim head of state… He made the announcements in a
Wednesday night speech [around 2pm CDT, stateside] -- the latest twist in an
all-out power struggle inside Egypt that Morsi and his national security
adviser are describing as a military coup… Gen.
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said the country's constitution has been temporarily
suspended and Morsi has failed to meet the demands of Egypt's people…
Read the
rest of this developing story at link below…
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* The Wall Street Journal
has this take on the news this afternoon…
The Egyptian military's apparent ouster of the
Muslim Brotherhood from power after just one troubled year in office deals a
blow to the movement's push for influence in the region. It could mark the start of Islamists' decline as a political power in
the region, but could also push some Islamists to give up on democracy and turn
to violence…
Read the
full report at link below…
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President Mohamed Morsi is ousted by the
Egyptian army, who will suspend the constitution and impose an interim
government, with hundreds of thousands celebrating in Tahrir Square - latest
updates.
(Live video
– LOTS of photos and more at above link)
Above by ‘The Telegraph’
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