Video and Images of Anti-Morsi Protests
@ The Lede, June 30
includes more than one "biggest I've ever seen"\

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The Guardian's Live Blog:

Opposition nominates ElBaradei to negotiate with government
Daily News Egypt  /  July 2, 2013

The National Salvation Front and the June 30 Front nominated ElBaradei to represent the opposition in talks with government “to find a solution for this crisis”.

See El Baradei's prescient essay published June 24 for Foreign Policy magazine: You Can't Eat Sharia.

Egypt army leaks planned 'roadmap' to end protests
BBC News, 2 July, 2013

The Egyptian military has leaked details of its draft "roadmap" for the country's future, which includes new presidential elections.

According to details given to the BBC, the plan would see the suspension of the new constitution and the dissolution of parliament [....]

Celebrating a Disaster in Egypt
Posted By Mohamed El Dahshan, ForeignPolicy.com, July 1, 2013

Mohamed El Dahshan is the Egypt blogger for Transitions.

You’d think we'd won the World Cup: cars honking, loud celebratory music, people carrying flags. There are also flags hanging from the military helicopters flying at low altitude above Egypt's main cities.

The joke's on us, though. This isn't a cup, it's a coup. A military coup against a failed president, but a coup nonetheless. This is no time for celebration.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces -- the SCAF, remember them? -- has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to “everyone” to “bear the burden of these historic circumstances." If "the demands of the people aren’t met," the army will announce a “roadmap” for Egypt's further political development. The implementation of this roadmap will, of course, be overseen by the army itself.

Just read that one more time and let it sink in.

By omitting any reference to Morsy in the communiqué (the president is merely another part of that nameless “everyone," one of multiple parties to the conflict rather than the government of the country), [.....]

Egypt's Army Says Morsi Role at Syria Rally Seen as Turning Point
Reuters, July 2, 2013

CAIRO, EGYPT — Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached a tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said.

At the June 15 rally, Sunni Muslim clerics used the word “infidels” to denounce both the Shi'ites fighting to protect Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the non-Islamists that oppose Morsi at home.

Morsi himself called for foreign intervention in Syria against Assad, leading to a veiled rebuke from the army, which issued an apparently bland but sharp-edged statement the next day stressing that its only role was guarding Egypt's borders.

“The armed forces were very alarmed by the Syrian conference at a time the state was going through a major political crisis,” said one officer, whose comments reflected remarks made privately by other army staff. He was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to talk to the media. [....]

For the army, the Syria rally had crossed “a national security red line” by encouraging Egyptians to fight abroad, risking creating a new generation of jihadists, said Yasser El-Shimy, analyst with the International Crisis Group.

At the heart of the military's concern is the history of militant Islam in Egypt, homeland of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The military source condemned recent remarks made by “retired terrorists” allied to Morsi, who has deepened his ties with the once-armed group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya.

Speaking privately, officers in the secular-leaning military have said Egyptians did not want a religious state. Though the Brotherhood never said it wanted to set up a theocracy, such concerns reflect the army's long-standing suspicion toward a movement banned by army rulers in 1954.

In public, Morsi and the army have kept up appearances [....]

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)

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.

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.