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{Update1} LIVE! Blog Egypt – MORSI IS OUT!
US defense secretary Chuck Hagel has spoken with General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi twice in the past week.
General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is speaking on state TV
CAIRO, Egypt (The Guardian) – General el-Sisi is addressing the nation from behind a podium. Sitting behind him are leaders reportedly including Coptic Pope Tawadros, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Mohamed El-Baradei, Tamarad or “rebel” movement leaders and Hizb el-Nour leaders.
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Sisi has finished speaking. Tahrir erupts in fireworks, cheers. Morsi is out.Egypt’s Real-time News (French)
BREAKING NEWS: Security Forces place travel ban on Egypt’s Morsi, top Brotherhoof officials
(RT.com) – A military coup is underway in Egypt, according to President Mohamed Morsi’s national security adviser. Security forces have placed a travel ban on President Morsi and a number of top Muslim Brotherhood officials.
The adviser stated that he expects army and police violence to remove pro-Mursi demonstrators from the streets of Cairo. A Morsi presidential aide stated that “no military coup can succeed against popular resistance without considerable bloodshed.”
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has offered a consensus government as a way out of the country’s crisis, but offered no new compromises. The leader has refused to step down, and instructed the military not to “take sides.”
egyptian security officials: a travel ban on President Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide, and his deputy Khairat el-Shater
See my previous diary – Egypt Army Gives Mursi 48 hrs to Compromise.
My comment in today’s fp story by BooMan – Western Powers to be Ousted from ME .