Protests in Egypt

[Trapper John]

Looks like things are heating up again with protests against the Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/wo...w-nytimes&_r=0

Also saw where Israel is taking this seriously and ordering its citizens out of Sinai. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/news...e.php?id=10313

[Trapper John]

Possibly a coup de tat underway in Egypt.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...f30_story.html

10:1 BHO offers Morsi asylum?

[MR2]

Originally Posted by Trapper John

10:1 BHO offers Morsi asylum?

More likely the new Border Tsar or Ambassador to Israel.

[T-Rock]

Looks like things are heating up again with protests against the Muslim Brotherhood

Have the Egyptians captured Ayman al-Zawahiri?

Only time will tell....

Edited to add...

Nope…..Scratch that thought…..

It appears it may have been Moahmmed Al-Zawahri…. http://cynthiafarahat.com/

[Trapper John]

Gawly SGT Carter! Surprise, surprise, surprise!

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl...enda-for-egypt

Although he has vowed to lead Egypt through a democratic transition, there are plenty of indications that he is less than enthusiastic about democracy and that he intends to hold on to political power himself. But that’s not to say that he envisions a return to the secular authoritarianism of Egypt’s recent past. Given the details of Sisi’s biography and the content of his only published work, a thesis he wrote in 2006 while studying at the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania, it seems possible that he might have something altogether different in mind: a hybrid regime that would combine Islamism with militarism. To judge from the ideas about governance that he put forward in his thesis, Sisi might see himself less as a custodian of Egypt’s democratic future than as an Egyptian version of Muhammed Zia ul-Haq, the Pakistani general who seized power in 1977 and set about to “Islamicize” state and society in Pakistan.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Trapper John

Gawly SGT Carter! Surprise, surprise, surprise.........

"..........If Sisi continues to seek legitimacy for military rule by associating it with Islamism, it could prove to be a disaster for Egypt. At the very least, it would set back the democratic cause immeasurably. It would also reinforce the military’s octopus-like hold on the economy, which is already one of the major obstacles to the country's economic development. And it would also pose new dilemmas for the military itself: somehow it would need to reconcile serving the strategic objectives of Islam and those of its American patrons. It’s not clear whether that circle could be squared. And the experiment would likely come at the expense of the Egyptian people..........."

We'll see.