Egypt 2007-2016 (merged thread)

[slapout9]

Video discussion on the second phase oh the Arab Spring



http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/

[slapout9]

Interview of Author Eric Stakelback Author of The Brotherhood a book about the Muslim Brotherhood and how dangerous they are and their links all the way back to NAZI Germany!


http://www.booktv.org/Watch/14856/Th...eat+Enemy.aspx

[davidbfpo]

A powerful Reuters special report, their title is 'The real force behind Egypt's 'revolution of the state':http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...99908D20131010

It starts with (minus one passage):

Little attention was paid when a group of Muslim Brotherhood leaders broke free from their cells in a prison in the far off Wadi el-Natroun desert. But the incident, which triggered a series of prison breaks by members of the Islamist group around the country, caused panic among police officers fast losing their grip on Egypt.

In all, 200 policemen and security officers were killed that day, Jan 28, called the Friday of Rage by anti-Mubarak demonstrators. Some had their throats slit. One of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders to escape was Mohamed Mursi, who would become president the following year.

As Egypt appeared to move towards the removal of President Mursi's MB government, much was made of the potential for interaction with the Egyptian military by the US military - was there a relationship with the "batons".

[davidbfpo]

Dr Omar Ashour, Exeter University, always gives a valuable insight into his home country and this time seeks to answer:

what explains the decision to stage a coup and the repressive follow-up? Political science can offer a few explanations.

Just in case you forgot or preferred to not know:

in the post-coup environment, the levels of repression and bloodshed are unprecedented in its modern history.

The number of victims killed by security forces in less than 7 hours on August 14 in Raba al-Adawiyya and al-Nahda Squares exceeds the number of victims of Muammar al-Qaddafi's two-day massacre in Abu Selim Prison in June 1996 (1269 victims), and Napoleon's massacre in the process of storming al-Azhar Mosque in 1799 (around 600 deaths). The Abu Zaabal massacre [Ar] in which 38 anti-coup political prisoners were killed inside a prison transport van, exceeded the number of victims of a 1957 massacre committed by Nasser's security forces in Tora prison.

Link:http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...113526674.html

As others have asked - will Egypt follow the Algerian way?

[carl]

The New York Times reported this morning that the Egyptian gov has started to sieze money, assets and land from people it perceives as Brotherhood supporters. This is in my view a very smart small war move, take their money. No matter how stout their hearts are, they cannot fight effectively without money.

That leads me to conclude that the Egyptian army may know what it's about when it comes to small war fighting. Then it occurred to me that the Algerian army and gov won a very hard small war back in the 90s. So I got a question for all but especially JCustis, how effective have Arab armies been at fighting small wars and suppresing insurgencies over the years? Do we study their efforts?

[Dayuhan]

the Egyptian gov has started to sieze money, assets and land from people it perceives as Brotherhood supporters.

Would there be any sort of due process involved in that?

Sounds like an excellent way to get your hands on some money, assets, or land, or to get a bit of revenge on someone you don't like. Call him a Brotherhood supporter and take all his stuff. How effective that proves to be as a COIN technique remains to be seen.

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to Londonistani via Twitter to this review of why:

The revolutionaries lost this opportunity, and lost it because they failed to recognize the limits of their power.

Link:http://arabist.net/blog/2014/1/26/f6...rrm#commenting