Citizens International

July 2013

Egyptian Brotherhood hints at election boycott at İstanbul rally

As a swelling crowd numbering near 10,000 chanted “every place is Egypt, every place is resistance,” a member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood took to the sun-scorched stage, roaring assurances that “the brotherhood of Turks and Egyptians will endure despite the efforts of foreign powers.” At a Sunday rally held in İstanbul’s massive Kazlıçeşme square, Senior

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Egypt After the Coup… Is Obama Backing El Baradei?

by Franklin Lamb Beirut — According to well-connected Washington sources, including a Congressional staffer whose job description includes following political events in Egypt, once it became evident that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi might well be ousted by Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), it did not take Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei, the Sharia legal

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The U.S. was deeply involved in the final hours leading to Morsi’s ouster: Report

U.S. national security advisor Susan E. Rice had told deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s team that the president would leave office an hour before his ouster by the military, a report says. An Arab foreign minister had called Morsi as an emissary of the United States to give him one final chance to make changes

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Morsi detained in military facility, Muslim Brotherhood member says

Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi has been detained in a military facility along with a number of top aides, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood says. “Morsi and the entire presidential team are under house arrest in the Presidential Republican Guards Club,” Gehad El-Haddad, the son of a top Morsi aide, told AFP on

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