Egyptians demonstrated against US Support to Muslim Brothers
CAIRO,(ST)_ Tens of thousands Egyptians from various Egyptian governorates flocked into the streets to support the decisions taken by the army and toppled Mohamed Morsi and Brotherhood from power in response to the demands of millions in public squares across Egypt since June 3th , and to express anger over the U.S. President Barack Obama support to the Muslim Brotherhood and the popular will in Egypt.
In Cairo, Tahrir Square and areas surrounding al-Itihadeyia Palace was crowded yesterday with hundreds of thousands of supporters of the army decisions to isolate Mursi and his group from power after one year of fascist rule.
Protesters in Tahrir Square raised a large doll for President Obama in which they wrote “Bye Bye Obama” while demonstrators in Shubra many pictures Obama on which they wrote ” stop supporting terrorism,” while others were raising the picture of Anne Patterson, the U.S. ambassador in Egypt, written in English “Go back home.”
Other protesters also raised pictures of the American CNN TV saying: “Shame on you” and pictures of cartoons for Obama, a bearded man in a reference to U.S. support for Muslim Brothers .
In Sinai Peninsula, a gas pipeline was bombed, by Muslim radicals who have announced an insurrection against the military after it deposed Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Likewise in Sinai, a Coptic Christian priest was shot dead. Some Muslim radicals unfairly blame the Coptic Christian minority for the overthrow of Morsi.
On Sunday, both the Muslim Brotherhood and the left-liberal Rebellion youth movement are calling for mass rallies to support their respective position. The Egyptian military has pledged that freedom of peaceable assembly will be preserved for all. The Rebellion Movement has called for there to be a big rally in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on behalf of “popular legitimacy” and in support of the Egyptian army.
Al Ahram online said that Marches in Cairo, kicked off at 5pm on Sunday, set out from Fatah Mosque in Cairo’s Ramses district; the nearby Sayeda Zeinab Mosque; Mohandeseen district’s Mostafa Mahmoud Square and Dawaran Shubra Square in the working-class Shubra Al-Kheima district towards Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo and the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Heliopolis – focal points of mass rallies that led to the overthrow of the Islamist president.
Anti-Morsi groups warn of a US-Brotherhood plot to “occupy” their protest venues – namely Tahrir Square – the cradle of the 2011 revolution.
In Egypt’s second city of Alexandria, two marches converged at the Sidi Gaber Square – a site of many recent clashes.
Provincial towns in Upper Egypt and the Nile Delta witnessed mass rallies converged outside governors’ offices. Rival demonstrations by the former president’s Islamist backers – a strong force in Upper Egypt – were planned in the same cities, heightening fears of more violent showdowns.
T. Fateh