These guys, my most reliable source of neighbourhood gossip, have been and will be keeping an eye on things. It's in their best interest for them to do so. There's every sane reason for them to do so, and so would you, if you were on the other side of the border when the Egyptian Military started flexing its muscles. Also keeping an eye on the border with Syria, which though infinitely more consumed by violence, Assad seems to be sitting more firmly than Mubarak or his successor Morsi. This is no laughing matter.
Apparently, the ultimatum to Morsi has been extended to three o'clock this afternoon after which anything can happen? Anything? Even the Rafah Crossing could be re-opened? The weapons smugglers' tunnels too?
At the moment a presidential life extension seems out of the question, non-negotiable, if the Military is not to lose its credibility. However it may be tempered with some quality of mercy. Indeed. the quality of mercy is not strained…
It's a little tragic the way the Arab Spring in Egypt has within the changing four seasons' turned into an inferno, on the raging streets of Cairo – neither winter (too hot a winter of the people's discontent) nor autumn (there's really no such thing in that climate zone) if anything it's going to be more of a long hot summer in store and more likely more of a constitutional battle between the democratically elected Morsi and the gun-toting military, in the circumstances the real power - ultimately the real power behind the bebble's raging machine.
Well, does Morsi deserve this? If you ask me, from the time he was shooting his lip like this Morsi in 2010: No to Negotiations with "the Descendants of Apes I thought that he ought not to be talking like that about people that the Almighty Himself created. Can't say that I was wishing him well with that kind of talk, but I wasn't wishing him this kind of hell either:
Will not resign: "I continue to shoulder the responsibility" Meanwhile, at least four dead in clashes in Cairo.
"Incredible people on the streets"
DN's Mattias Carlsson on location in Cairo. masses have taken over parts of the city entirely.
"I would like to be there." Nancy Barakat from Cairo following events in new hometown of Stockholm.
Egyptian Foreign Minister resigns. Turbulent in Mursis government.
Foreign Office advises against travel to Sinai. Swedes in other parts of Egypt are advised to be cautious.
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