Wes Clark & Robin Wright on Egypt

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4. And we may yet have a mess, if Badr/Tamarrud get their way (per der Spiegel)

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/aegyptens-neue-fuehrung-unter-general-sisi-veraergert-usa-und-europa-a-917124.html

I suspect that Tamarrud, admired by many, will suddenly take a hit to its fan club.


I don't do German. Google doesn't, not really, but here's what it has for parts of the above link.

Cairo - A month ago, they have overthrown Mohammed Mursi, now they want to take on Barack Obama. The organizers of the Tamarud movement that mobilized millions of Egyptians in late June to mass demonstrations against the Islamist president, have set a new target. Since Saturday afternoon, the movement gathers signatures on its website for an end to the partnership with the U.S..

Their demands: "First, the refusal of aid from the United States to Egypt in all its forms. Secondly., The abrogation of the peace treaty between Egypt and the Israeli entity," U.S. interference in the internal affairs of Egypt and Washington's support for "terrorist groups in Egypt" - meaning the Muslim Brotherhood - must stop.

The Tamarud movement has evolved to youth development organization located in military dictatorship. Her spokesman Mahmoud Badr, was allowed on 3 July on state television to talk right after army chief Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi the dismissal of President Mursi announced. Since then, the 28-year-old in polo shirt appears regularly on television to the nation to sell the policies of the new leaders. On Thursday, he praised the security forces for the resolution of the Islamist camp in Cairo, at the same time he called on Egyptians to form vigilante groups in their districts, to oppose the "terrorists".