Miltary Coups always turn out so well: At least 150 killed as troops clear pro-Morsi camps [View all]

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Who could have predicted this? I did and I'm hardly an expert.

Egypt’s capital descended into a chaotic bloodbath Wednesday after security forces moved in on protest camps set up by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, sparking deadly violence.

A month-long nationwide state of emergency was declared as the interim government tried to maintain order.

At least 95 people were killed and 874 injured, the country’s health ministry said, as unrest spread to other parts of the country.

Witness reports and pro-Morsi volunteers at the camp put the toll much higher, but the none of the higher figures could be immediately confirmed by NBC News.

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Appointment of 19 Generals as Provincial Governors Raises Fears in Egypt

Egypt’s new military-appointed government on Tuesday named a roster of generals as provincial governors, raising fears of a return to the authoritarianism of former President Hosni Mubarak.

Of the 25 provincial governors named, 19 are generals: 17 from the military and 2 from the police. One police general has become well known for his openly insubordinate refusal to protect supporters of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist whose candidacy was advanced by the Muslim Brotherhood.

A military general appointee, Gov. Mahmoud Othman Ateeq of Sohag, a former deputy governor in Alexandria, was filmed in 2011 raising a gun at a demonstration of teachers, who can be heard begging for their lives.

Of the six civilians, two are judges known as Mubarak loyalists deeply hostile to the Islamists behind Mr. Morsi. In Giza, the second-largest province by population, the civilian governor has held the job since he was appointed by the military council that seized power after Mr. Mubarak. In Cairo, the capital and most populous province, the new governor, Galal Mostafa Saed, was a senior figure in Mr. Mubarak’s old governing party. Mr. Saed had governed a smaller province before he was thrown out during the 2011 revolution.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/middleeast/egypt.html

edited to reflect updated death toll