Eerie street scenes in #Mohandiseen. Barbwire and APCs sealing off boulevards for whatever may come #friday #egypt
— Ned Parker (@nedparkerlat) August 23, 2013
Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque in Mohandiseen, a planned pro-Morsi/anti-coup protest site, is effectively surrounded by military.
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) August 23, 2013
Security also surrounded Mostafa Mahmoud on Jan 25 after protest organizers purposefully misled them into thinking it was rally point.
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) August 23, 2013
Among many Egyptians, a dramatic shift in favor of the military http://t.co/CodzVQBKfr #Egypt
— Vali Nasr (@vali_nasr) August 23, 2013
A broad swath of Egyptians has supported the July 3 ouster of Morsi and the military crackdown on his allied Muslim Brotherhood movement, which sparked clashes that have killed about 1,000 civilians in 10 days. Much of the public staunchly defends the military’s actions, including a brutal dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins and the sweeping arrests of Brotherhood leaders, including four more Thursday. Cairo was bracing for even more violence, with the Anti-Coup Alliance calling for a “Friday of Martyrs” protest.
The dramatic shift in public opinion was underscored Thursday when former president Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled Egypt for three decades with the backing of the military, was freed from prison with little public protest. He was flown by helicopter to a military hospital in Cairo a day after a court ordered his release.
Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Morsi hold scattered rallies in Cairo: http://t.co/d1TcIbTljF -SS
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 23, 2013
RT @Nervana_1: Huh...Chaos in a Saudi mosque after the imam prays for God to unseat El Sissi. https://t.co/DQCe5Al7Dy #Egypt"
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) August 23, 2013
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