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Statement by President Barack

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:37:57 +0000

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Statement by President Barack Obama on Egypt
For Immediate Release, WhiteHouse.gov, July 03, 2013

Meanwhile over at Iran state

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:32:43 +0000

Meanwhile over at Iran state news:

JIH Cautions Egyptian People about Imperialists Plot To Create Civil War in Country

IRNA, July 4

India’s prominent Muslim body Jamaat-e-Islamic Hind (JIH) Wednesday cautioned Egyptian people about imperialists and atheist forces’s plot to create civil war-like situation in their country.

Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, has condemned and expressed concern at the violent demonstrations against the constitutional government of Egypt and democratically elected President Dr. Mohammad Morsi.
Jamaat chief has termed the protests as an unwise step against the wider interests of the Egyptian people. He has also advised the people of Egypt to extend honest support to President Morsi and his government to take the country on to the path of peace and progress.
The Jamaat President said that it is not hidden from the world that honest efforts of democratically elected governments in Muslim countries to serve their people are not suiting the global imperialist and atheist forces and so they want to achieve their unholy objectives by creating a civil war-like situation in those countries. The people in these countries need to be aware of the conspiracies and they must not allow themselves to become tools of foreign forces. [.....]

: King Abdullah

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:18:19 +0000

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King Abdullah congratulates new Egyptian leader

Arab News (Saudi Arabia), Thursday 4 July 2013

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has sent a cable of congratulation to Chancellor Adli Mansour, President of Egypt.

On Wednesday evening, Egypt’s army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ousted President Muhammed Mursi and declared the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court caretaker leader. In his message to Mansour, King Abdullah appeal to God to help him "shoulder the responsibility' given to him and to achieve the hopes of his people [.....]

confirmed by Al Jazeera on

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:07:37 +0000

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confirmed by Al Jazeera on their live blog

Besides closing down all the

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:52:35 +0000

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Besides closing down all the Islamist TV channels, looks like they are paying attention to the internet, too--lessons learned:

Defiant Statement From Morsi Removed From YouTube

Robert Mackey, Mayy El-Sheikh and Liam Stack, The Lede, 4:50 pm ET

As control of the levers of power slipped away from Egypt’s first democratically elected president, with the defense minister announcing that Mohamed Morsi had been deposed in an address on state television Wednesday, the Islamist leader attempted to assert his authority in a defiant response posted on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Shortly after it was uploaded to YouTube, a 22-minute video address from Mr. Morsi was deleted from the channel of the Egyptian Presidency. The Lede was able to save a copy of the complete address.

In the address, Mr. Morsi said, “I am the elected president of Egypt,” stressed his “legitimacy,” and called for speedy parliamentary elections.

“This revolution is being stolen from us,” he said several times.

He also warned against “going into circles of changing leadership which may change several times.”

Mr. Morsi also said that he had agreed to the initiative the military communicated to him and that he reamins ready to negotiate. “I am ready to sit down and for everybody to sit with me and to negotiate with everybody.”

He kept repeating that “there is no alternative to legitimacy” and said “the legitimacy that changes every few months is a chaos that has no law and no reference point.”

According to the photojournalist and blogger Mosa’ab Elshamy, audio of Mr. Morsi rejecting his ouster was played over loudspeakers late Wednesday to Islamist supporters of the deposed president rallying in Cairo’s Nasr City neighborhood.

If true, wow: BREAKING: Al

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:40:41 +0000

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If true, wow:

BREAKING: Al Jazeer'a Cairo offices have officially been taken over live on air by the army and its staff has been detained #Egypt
— Fatima Said (@fattysaid) July 3, 2013

Don't know anything about Fatima Said, but trust The Arabist who retweeted it.

Al Jazeera's chief political

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:04:29 +0000

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Al Jazeera's chief political analyst Marwan Bishara is commenting live on the army's statement:

This has clearly been thought out really well. It almost feels staged for international media. The picture is that the military is not acting alone but in coordination with various authorities, including religious groups, and even various generational groups. As sugar coated as this step might look, this does not change from the essence that this was not done by legal means. A president that was elected democratically, no matter what one thinks of him, has been removed by armed forces, and this is called a coup d'etat.

If the Muslim Brotherhood resorts to violence like they did in 1970s, if they are pushed out of the political arena, they will be delegitimised once again and will have to go underground, which will be a terribly instability for Egypt.

The announcement has

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:58:25 +0000

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The announcement has happened, the Constitutional Court is to be the new interim head of state.

The Guardian's live blog has a lot of interesting posts in the last few minutes:

Egyptian army suspends constitution and removes President Morsi – live

Live• President Mohamed Morsi ousted by military coup
• Army suspends constitution and promises early election
• Constitutional court to run country for interim period
• Crowds in Tahrir Square cheer army announcement
• Al-Azhar sheikh, Coptic pope, ElBaradei join statement

Also good to check are the New York Times' The Lede live blog and Al Jazeera's live blog.

The Twitter feed of Kareem

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:03:08 +0000

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The Twitter feed of Kareem Fahim of the New York Times, who is on the ground in the Nasr City area where Morsi supporters are gathered, has a fascinating bunch of photos with minute-by-minute descriptions, of the army arriving there, asserting their control, and then retreating to a position blocks away without much confrontation.

Clerics, opposition

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:00:48 +0000

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Clerics, opposition (ElBaradei) to unveil Egypt roadmap: MENA

Reuters, Jul 03 14:10 PM EDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's leading Muslim and Christian clerics and the leader of the liberal opposition alliance Mohamed ElBaradei will jointly present a roadmap for a political transition shortly, state news agency MENA said on Wednesday.

The announcement follows talks with military chiefs who gave President Mohamed Mursi an ultimatum to share power, which has now expired. The generals would be present at the announcement along with members of the Tamarud youth protest movement, MENA said.

The clerics would be the Grand Sheikh of Cairo's Al-Azhar institution, a leading authority in the Muslim world, and Pope Tawadros, the head of the Coptic Church and leader of Egypt's millions of Christians.

(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

Note for clarity: as reported earlier, Morsi lost control of the State News Agency around the time that the Army ultimatium was issued, and started communicating through his Facebook account instead.