Egypt threatens to use live rounds in protest crackdown

Editor’s Note: In the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’ it’s clear that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak had fallen out of favour with the west and was removed from power, only to be replaced by another US and British-backed military dictator regime. Now Egypt’s military rulers are threatening to “gun down their own citizens”- the very same criminal charge that publicly sentenced Libya’s Gaddafi and led to a UN resolution, followed by a NATO-backed coup in that country. Will the UN seek a resolution against Egypt now, and will NATO enforce a No-Fly zone? Western moralists and State Department officials will continue to struggle in consistently applying their new ad-lib formula for humanitarian intervention.

Jack Shenker
Guardian
September 11, 2011

Egyptian authorities have detained a further 92 people and vowed to use live ammunition to protect key buildings from demonstrators, following the storming of the Israeli embassy last week, which left three protesters dead and provoked the worst crisis in Israel-Egypt relations for a generation.

“We won’t allow anyone to attack the interior ministry or any police station,” the interior minister, Mansour al-Essawy, told state TV. “According to the law, we will resist … If there is a danger to a building or those present inside the building, we will confront with bullets.”

The latest crackdown brings the total number of arrests from Friday’s protests to 130, and comes as Turkey’s prime minister prepares to fly into the Egyptian capital on Monday night, to begin a four-day tour of north Africa.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is embroiled in his own diplomatic row with Israel over the killing of pro-Palestinian Turkish activists by Israeli soldiers on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara aid flotilla ship last year, will address the Arab League on Tuesday. He is expected to outline Turkey’s new “regional foreign policy vision”, promoting closer ties with revolutionary Arab countries and sidelining their one-time ally Israel.

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2 Responses to “Egypt threatens to use live rounds in protest crackdown”

  1. May the Jewish Zionist controllers and their EVIL counterparts……………
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    …..the white trash Christian Zionists here in America that infiltrated politics…along with their millions of stupid overweight dunkin donut American sheeple followers.. ROT IN FUCKING HELL!

  2. Meet the new boss…same as the old boss.

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