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[quote=AJE]At least four tanks deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace in a street where supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi had been clashing into the early hours of the morning, witnesses said.
Three armoured troop carriers were also in the street outside the palace. The violence that had stretched from Wednesday afternoon into the early hours of Thursday had abated and the streets were calm.
The soldiers' badges identified them as members of the Republican Guard, whose duties include guarding the presidency.
Traffic was moving through streets strewn with rocks thrown during the violence. Hundreds of Mursi supporters were still in the area, many wrapped in blankets and some reading the Koran.
[B]Angry mobs battled[/B]
An early Thursday report by state television quoted the Health Ministry as saying five people were killed and 446 people were injured as angry mobs battled each other with firebombs, rocks and sticks outside the presidential complex long into the night.
The fighting erupted late Wednesday afternoon when thousands of Morsi's supporters descended on an area near the presidential palace where some 300 of his opponents were staging a sit-in.
Members of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood chased the protesters away from their base outside the palace's main gate and tore down their tents.
After a brief lull, hundreds of Morsi opponents arrived and began throwing firebombs at the president's backers, who responded with rocks.
The deployment of hundreds of riot police did not stop the fighting. The police later fired tear gas to disperse Morsi's opponents.
By dawn, the violence had calmed. But both sides appeared to be digging in for a long struggle, with the opposition vowing more protests later Thursday and rejecting any dialogue unless the charter is rescinded.
Morsi, for his part, seemed to be pressing relentlessly forward with plans for a December 15 constitutional referendum to pass the new charter.
The large scale and intensity of the fighting marked a milestone in Egypt's rapidly entrenched schism, pitting the Brotherhood and ultra-conservative Islamists in one camp, against liberals, leftists and Christians in the other.
The violence spread to other parts of the country on Wednesday. Anti-Morsi protesters stormed and set ablaze the Brotherhood offices in Suez and Ismailia, east of Cairo, and there were clashes in the industrial city of Mahallah and the province of Menoufiyah in the Nile Delta north of the capital.
There were rival demonstrations outside the Brotherhood's headquarters in the Cairo suburb of Moqatam and in Alexandria, security officials said senior Brotherhood official Sobhi Saleh was hospitalised after being severely beaten
by Morsi opponents.
Saleh, a former lawmaker, played a key role in drafting the disputed constitution. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Compounding Morsi's woes, four of his advisers resigned Wednesday, joining two other members of his 17-member advisory panel who have abandoned him since the crisis began.
The opposition is demanding that Morsi rescind the decrees giving him nearly unrestricted powers and shelve the controversial draft constitution, which the president's Islamist allies rushed through last week in a marathon, all-night session shown live on state TV.
Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition reform advocate, said late Wednesday that Morsi's rule was "no different" than Mubarak's.
"In fact, it is perhaps even worse," the Nobel Peace Prize laureate told a news conference after he accused the president's supporters of a "vicious and deliberate" attack on peaceful demonstrators outside the palace.
"Cancel the constitutional declarations, postpone the referendum, stop the bloodshed, and enter a direct dialogue with the national forces," he wrote on his Twitter account, addressing Morsi.[/quote]
I like how he can't see he has fucked up grandé.
Shit just got real.
AGAIN.
Didn't Egypt have a revolution 2 years ago?
Here we go again..
Ahhhh the Middle East/Northern Africa..
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;38723429]...2 years already?[/QUOTE]
Time flies.
[QUOTE=Van-man;38723400]I like how he can't see he has fucked up grandé.[/QUOTE]
Power does that to people, it's very saddening to see revolutions to have such results.
Get your shit together Egypt.
It's understandable. Morsi pretty much went Presidential Dictatorship in a matter of months.
[QUOTE=VOSK;38724821]It's understandable. Morsi pretty much went Presidential Dictatorship in a matter of months.[/QUOTE]
Didn't he do it to pass the laws necessary to become more democratic because the supreme court still liked the old dictator and wouldn't budge?
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;38724911]Didn't he do it to pass the laws necessary to become more democratic because the supreme court still liked the old dictator and wouldn't budge?[/QUOTE]
That's why Morsi said he was doing it, Yes.
But tbh, it's pretty easy to see it bs.
Revolution round 2.
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;38723412]Didn't Egypt have a revolution 2 years ago?[/QUOTE]
As a Tunisian,I can confirm that it'll be maybe 2 or 3 more revolutions(as in in the countries we just had revolutions in) before the Maghreb in general can get its shit together :v:
[editline]6th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=laserguided;38725153]Revolution round 2.[/QUOTE]
By the time it's all done there will be atleast one country on Revolution round 3
Look at the French revolution, it didn't stop in 1989, it started and lasted until Napoleon came over in 1800 or something.
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38726136]Look at the French revolution, it didn't stop in [B]1989[/B], it started and lasted until Napoleon came over in 1800 or something.[/QUOTE]
You mean 1789 right? I don't recall a 200+ year old revolution taking place in France :v:
You know I wanted to believe this guy would be cool, since he didn't discriminate against gender or religion when appointing people in his government, but you gotta ask yourself which direction this guy's going when even Egypt's highest judges are decrying his declaration.
get angry
have revolution
instill someone in power just as bad as person you ousted
repeat
history of the middle east for $2000 alex
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