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Political Earthquake in Egypt: Military Takeover Imminent

Egypt army statement in full Following demonstrations larger than those at the peak of the 2011 revolution against Hosni Mubarak, estimated by the Interior Ministry…

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Morsi’s coup in Egypt: Obama’s silence, America’s shame

See David Ignatius, “Our man in Cairo,” Washington Post, December 7, 2012 (5:01 p.m.) Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have executed a coup d’etat…

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Is Obama losing Egypt?

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, a cunning tactician in an unflenching quest to establish a Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist dictatorship in Egypt, must have grasped the…

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Political Earthquake in Egypt: Military Takeover Imminent

Morsi’s coup in Egypt: Obama’s silence, America’s shame

Is Obama losing Egypt?