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With the support of the USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait......Egypt must weather the storm, using the best technocrats the country has to offer.
More water canons, tear gas, riot gear, armored cars, helicopters, electronic jamming equipment, cutting of mobile services........must be used with soft power to ensure that the very sad loss of 1000 good Egyptians dead does not increase to 100,000 as it has under al-Qaeda Libya, and al-Qaeda in Syria.
Religious based Islamist governments cannot be good for ANY country in the 57 Muslim majority countries......just look at Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Taliban Afghanistan, Mullah Iran, al-Qaeda Libya, al-Qaeda Tunisia and Turkey.
USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait...must commit $50 billion to Egypt in a grand marshal plan for the biggest Arab power.....which must not fall to al-Qaeda.
Food and grain stocks with only one months stocks left, must be refurnished by Egypt's allies just mentioned and from the EU food mountains to the level of a years surplus.
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Egypt Junta Defends Massacre as Toll Rises
by Jason Ditz at antiwar.comFresh off of yesterday’s massacre of at least 638 people and the wounding of over 4,000 others, according to what is likely a low-ball official toll, Egypt’s military junta is loudly defending its crackdown, with Ambassador Ashraf Elkholy insisting that the public protests were “unaccepted in any community” and that any other government would’ve done the same.
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Junta
officials continue to refer to the civilian protesters as “terrorists”
while growing anger at home and abroad seems to be totally lost on them.
Officials even bragged about authorizing troops
to use “live ammunition” against protesters starting today, even though
an overwhelming number of yesterday’s dead were shot by the same sort
of ammunition..
The true death toll remains entirely speculative, with the Health Ministry’s figures of 638 dead and 4,000 wounded excluding hundreds of slain civilians being held in makeshift morgues around the massacre sites, and the wounded toll no doubt counting only those who managed to get to official hospitals, while large numbers of casualties continues to flock to mosques where doctors had set up unofficial emergency clinics to treat them.
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Though the coup initially enjoyed support from a broad coalition of mostly unelectable “liberal” politicians a large number of them appear to be scrambling to distance themselves now that it’s come to this, with Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei the highest profile resignation but a lot of other politicians also fearing that their nominal political bases will be further eroded by being linked to wholesale slaughter on the streets of Cairo.
