Choose Window > Advanced Tools Palette.Enter the music in the usual way (all on one staff).Mr Ali was waiting to be put to the test. “When we came here, we said goodbye to our families.”Īs night began – the time of day when politics start in Egypt – they were still there, and so were the army’s barricades. “We are here to be martyrs,” said Ali Mohammed Ali. One student said he was willing to heed that call. Brotherhood spokesmen said these people would stand in front of the tanks for him. For the pious and provincial, who have flocked to Cairo to support him, Mr Morsi is “one of them”, a village scholarship boy who by prayer and study rose to be the first ordinary, unarmed Egyptian to hold the country’s top office. But then again, the coup’s target is not some remote figure either. He had no doubt that the army would keep its promise to hold new elections, and not hang on to power for half a century as it did last time it threw out a leader. “The Muslim Brotherhood wanted to take Egypt 50 years into the past,” said Mohammed Mahmoud, a smartly-dressed accountant, on Tahrir Square.
The crowds in Cairo in favour of the army continued to vastly outnumber those who support the president. It is not a coup in the classic sense of a power-crazed general blithely ignoring the will of the people. The police have long opposed both the revolution that deposed Mr Mubarak, and the Brotherhood. Another witness, Khalid Abdulmaboud, said that some of the attackers were seized and found to have police identity cards. Then he noticed that behind the attackers were police vehicles. At first it seemed as if thugs were responsible, said Amr al-Shaer, 22, who saw first one then two men more fall dead beside him. He did not make clear whether he thought the Brotherhood were terrorists, extremists, or just ignorant, but there were still a lot of them in the streets last night.Īs a foretaste of what might be to come, at the same time Mr Morsi was speaking, a march to defend him heading for Cairo University came under fire. We swear to God that we will sacrifice our blood for Egypt and its people against all terrorists, extremists and ignorant groups.” KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images In a statement headed “The Final Hours”, he said: “The general commander of the armed forces said it was more honourable for us to die than to have the people of Egypt terrorised or threatened. He had earlier given his own response to Mr Morsi’s speech, in blunt terms. He looked hurt, and though the form of address was remarkably similar to the late night speeches that former president Hosni Mubarak similarly employed when resisting removal, he lacked Mr Mubarak’s arrogant sneer. On the one hand, there was a straightforwardness in the way he repeated over and over again his simple point that he was Egypt’s first elected leader – he used the word “legitimacy” scores of times in 45 minutes. All his virtues and vices were on display.
The way the day would turn out was set at midnight, when Mr Morsi finally addressed the nation, his first public response to the army’s threat to intervene – an ambiguous threat surely now correctly interpreted as meaning it would kick him out. I do not need to explain in detail the worldwide catastrophic ramifications of this message.” GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images “The message will resonate throughout the Muslim world loud and clear,” he said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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