Rick Moran
American Thinker
8/12/2012
Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi has engineered another dangerous confrontation with the military council that holds most of the power in the country.
On Sunday, he fired the nation’s two top generals, including Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi who heads up the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) — the organization that has run Egypt since the fall of Mubarak…
…Also, Reuters reports, “President Mohamed Mursi also canceled a constitutional declaration aiming to limit presidential powers which the ruling army council issued in June as the election that brought Mursi to power drew to a close.” That declaration seized legislative power and rewrote the constitution regarding presidential prerogatives to place almost all power in the hands of SCAF.
Now Morsi wants to overturn that decree and fire the two men most responsible for implementing it. It’s hard to tell exactly why Morsi has chosen today to initiate this confrontation. But it is unlikely that Tantawi will resign or that the decree will be ditched.
If Morsi is taking these steps to show how much control the military still has over the government, even though they claim to have handed power back to civilians, he chose the perfect targets. But it’s a gamble, considering that the military still has the guns and might take actions that would bring down Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Tensions just shot up several notches in Cairo.
The complete article is at the American Thinker.
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Oh, by the way, the Muslim Brotherhood just completed its takeover of Egypt
Update 2: Egypt is now an Islamist State
…So Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt Mohamed Morsy just sacked the leaders of the military junta General Hussein Tantawi and the Egyptian Army’s’ Chief of Staff General Sami Enan.
Morsy has also cancelled the constitutional protections that the Egyptian military has enjoyed and overturned their edicts circumscribing his control over foreign and military policy.
That is, as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has declared, today Morsy completed the Egyptian revolution. Egypt is now an Islamic state. Its leaders drink from the same well as al Qaida, Hamas and all the rest. Egypt, with its US armed military has reemerged after 30 years as the greatest military threat that Israel has ever faced…
H/T American Power
