Egypt's Morsi declared 30 day state of emergency in areas of unrest

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Port Said, Suez and Somailia have seen major demonstrations recently.

So, Morsi has declared a 30-day state of emergency in those areas.

"I have said I am against any emergency measures but I have said that if I must stop bloodshed and protect the people then I will act," Morsi said.

He also called for dialogue with top politicians starting on Monday to resolve the situation.

Deadly clashes across the country between protesters and police have killed at least 48 people since Friday, when Egyptians commemorated the two-year anniversary of the revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.

Seven people were shot dead and hundreds were injured in Port Said on Sunday during the funerals of at least 30 people killed during clashes in the city on the previous day.

"Down, down Morsi, down down the regime that killed and tortured us!" people in Port Said chanted as the coffins of those killed on Saturday were carried through the streets.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/01/2013127195926600436.html

I had such high hopes for Morsi in the beginning, when he declared a free press and freed a journalist who had been imprisoned for criticizing Morsi.

Looks as though Egyptians are saying, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

Maybe the military is still running the country, as it did when Muburak was "president?" If so, that would explain why things seem similar.

Or, maybe it is just a case of power corrupts.


The currency is in steep decline, too. And I imagine tourism has been at perhaps an all time low. Even in the best of times, Egypt is a very poor country.

So sad for the Egyptians.

[Enthusiast]

1. The United States cannot allow

a democracy in Egypt. Muslims might vote in a clerical government that could engage in jihad against the West, or, God Forbid, Israel.

[No Elephants]

2. I have heard winger criticize Obama for abandoning a "good friend of thirty years."

Which begs the question how anyoe who supposedly is a believer in American democracy can call someone who rules a country for 30 years by military might either "good" or a "friend."

[Enthusiast]

3. The U.S. intelligence community has

some VERY strange ideas about what constitutes a friend or enemy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZRRRU2VRI&feature=player_embedded