Egypt official warns Brotherhood again.

[another_liberal]

Source: Al Jazeera.

Egypt's interior minister has pledged to deal decisively with any attempts to destabilise the country, a thinly veiled warning to supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi occupying two squares in Cairo in a month-long stand-off with the security forces. Sunday's warning came as authorities said that the death toll in weekend clashes between Morsi's backers and security forces near one of the sit-ins had reached 72, in the deadliest single outbreak of violence since the July 3 military coup.

"I assure the people of Egypt that the police are determined to maintain security and safety to their nation and are capable of doing so," Mohamed Ibrahim told a graduation ceremony at the national police academy. "We will very decisively deal with any attempt to undermine stability," said Ibrahim, who is in charge of the police. In an apparent show of support for the police, a smiling military chief, Abdel Fatah el Sisi, turned up at a graduation ceremony on Sunday broadcast live on state television, receiving a standing ovation from the recruits. Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim hailed him as "Egypt's devoted son".

Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel Hamid, reporting from Cairo, said his comments come off the back of events over the past week, beginning with the "popular mandate" given to the army to "fight terrorism". "By association, the police also got the same mandate. We've already seen them co-operating on the ground, and we've already heard they will be co-operating together in the coming days."

However, in one of the first signs of doubt from within the interim cabinet installed after the military takeover, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Ziad Bahaa El-Din said the government must not copy the "oppressive and exclusionary policies" of its foes. "Our position must remain fixed on the need to provide legal guarantees not only for the members of the Brotherhood, but for every Egyptian citizen. Excessive force is not permitted," El-Din wrote on Facebook. And in another sign of unease, the Tamarud youth protest movement, which mobilised millions of people against Morsi and has fully backed the army, expressed alarm at an announcement that the interior minister was reviving the feared secret political police shut down after Mubarak was toppled.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/201372812425783294.html

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"We will very decisively deal with any attempt to undermine stability."

After all, there are few things more "stable" than a crowded graveyard full of murdered protesters.

[Igel]

1. "Secret political police"? Oh.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578633970697403586.html

Egypt's interim civilian government took a step closer to reviving the police state of the country's hated former regime on Sunday, a day after police gunned down at least 74 supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

President Adly Mansour gave Prime Minister Hazem Beblawy the authority to allow soldiers to arrest civilians, reviving sections of an emergency law whose severity helped spark a revolution against former President Hosni Mubarak more than two years ago.

The move comes a day after Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim told reporters he planned to revive the "Directorate for Combatting Extremism and Religious Politics"—a unit within Egypt's secret police that was responsible for decades of oppression against people the government deemed terrorists.

Awww ... Ain't that special? The democratic opposition in charge is going to revive a decent chunk of the police state that they so furiously opposed.

When it was Mubarak's it was truly horrible. But if it's theirs ... Eh, it's not so bad.

[another_liberal]

3. It is surely time to stop giving these butchers a billion and a half a year.

We American taxpayers bought every bullet that the Egyptian military and police used to wound and kill demonstrators. Those were people demonstrating for the restoration of democracy! That is certainly not how we should be using our wealth and power.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. "Stop protesting the theft of your government or we'll kill you again."

[another_liberal]

4. Go home peacefully . . .

Go home peacefully now, so we can hunt you down one by one and deal with you behind closed doors, where no cameras or witnesses will be present.

[cqo_000]

5. ElBaradei condemns ‘excessive use of force’ in Egypt

AFP, Cairo

Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei on Saturday strongly condemned the “excessive use of force” in Egypt after deadly clashes between supporters of ousted President Mohammad Mursi and security forces.

“I strongly condemn the excessive use of force and the deaths, and I am working hard and in every direction to end the confrontation in a peaceful way, God protect Egypt and have mercy on the victims,” he said on his Twitter account.

Dozens of Mursi’s supporters were shot dead early Saturday in the deadliest incident in a month as violence erupted after huge rallies for and against the Islamist president who was ousted in a military-led coup on July 3.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/07/27/ElBaradei-condemns-excessive-use-of-force-in-Egypt.html

[another_liberal]

10. ElBaradei has no power.

He and other "moderates" are already being sidelined. The generals are firmly in charge of Egypt now, and only a true revolution will shake their hold this time.

[David__77]

6. The MB is an ultra-right organization.

I have not one bit of sympathy for them. They are the very definition of a terror organization. Sisi's action in calling for people to demonstrate for security and against terrorism was a positive one. Hopefully he learns from Nasser's example. MB will never be an honest partner in any country's politics.

[another_liberal]

9. They are human beings as well.

What are you suggesting, that Fascists and murderers are good for Egypt? Maybe that's what you want to see happen to people who demonstrate for their rights in this country?

Some people . . .!

[quadrature]

7. the 'hood needs its own 'hood

some groups of people are not compatible.

the hood needs its own country.
Egypt has lots of empty space.

[dipsydoodle]

8. Military to be given the power to simply arrest civilians.

CAIRO — Egypt’s interim government said Sunday that it may give the military the right to arrest civilians, in what officials said could be a prelude to a major crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi and on militants who have attacked security forces.

In a decree that was published in the government’s official gazette Sunday, interim President Adly Mansour gave the prime minister, Hazem el-Belbawi, the authority to allow civilian arrests by the military.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/07/28/egypt-may-give-military-power-arrest-civilians/Tom1tnSpRFLzEscDO4JNqK/story.html

So much for coup deniers.