Whoa! Somebody in Egypt is cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood:
@RichardEngel:
Airport sources say 48 member of muslim brotherhood banned from travel. Private jets banned from takeoff. #egypt
Morsi better step down!
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Best leave them to it. Given that Morsi was democratically elected at worst it will be 50/50. They'll all calm down when their main source of income, tourism, dwindles down to nil.
Its not as if the Muslim Bro have appeared out of the blue - they were in the previous government but were only allowed to stand as independents.
Some protesters interviewed live on Sunday sure didn't want US interference either.
Clip on subject in Washington Post here :
Protesters hold posters against U.S. Ambassor to Egypt Anne Patterson, left, with a message that translates to “crone go home.” (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)
Egyptians demonstrating Sunday against President Mohamed Morsi’s first year in office waved signs singling out U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson, telling her to “get out” and accusing her of clandestinely aiding Morsi’s Islamist government. One common sign, which also appeared as a massive banner hung in downtown Cairo, carried a distorted picture of her face and the word “Hayzaboon,” an insult that means “ugly old woman” or “crone.”
How did it come to be that, two-and-a-half years after Egyptian protesters rallied against President Hosni Mubarak, whom President Obama eventually said should leave office, did that protest movement come to see the United States as such a villain that the U.S. ambassador is called out by name? Why is the same administration that helped push out Mubarak now the bad guy?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/01/egypts-protesters-find-a-new-villain-the-u-s-ambassador/
