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To: Brumar89 who wrote (723821)7/1/2013 6:12:47 PM
From: joseffy  Read Replies (2) of 1575984
 
Egypt’s military gives Morsi’s gov. 48 hours to ‘meet the demands of the people’
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| July 1, 2013 | By Abigail Hauslohner and Sharaf al-Hourani


CAIRO — Egypt’s powerful military issued an ultimatum to the government of President Mohamed Morsi on Monday: resolve the crisis that has pitted hundreds of thousands of Morsi’s opponents against his supporters and brought this country to a political standstill — or the military will devise its own compromise.

“The armed forces reiterates its call to meet the demands of the people, and it gives everyone 48 hours as a last chance to carry the burden of the ongoing historic circumstances that the country is going through,” military commander Abdel Fatah al-Sissi said on national television a day after huge masses of Egyptians took to the streets calling for the president’s ouster.

“If the demands of the people are not met within the given period of time, [the military] will be compelled by its national and historic responsibilities, and in respect for the demands of Egypt’s great people, to announce a roadmap for the future, and procedures that it will supervise involving the participation of all the factions and groups,” Sissie said.

Anti-government activists have called repeatedly on the military in recent days to back them in their struggle against Morsi and his supporters in the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Many interpreted Sissi’s remarks on Monday as a victory for their cause. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com .
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