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Egypt salutes president: Tahrir goes mad as Morsi addresses the nation
Published: 24 June, 2012, 18:29
Egyptian president-elect Mohamed Morsi, the first Islamist head of state in the Arab world's most populous nation, has delivered an encouraging speech stating that under his rule Christians and Muslims will unite and make Egypt proud and great again.
In his televised address to the nation, Morsi thanked the people of Egypt for making him president and vowed to continue the revolution until its goals are achieved, bringing huge applause from a crowd of his supporters on Tahrir Square in Cairo. As he spoke, the crowd went mad, cheering "Morsi! Morsi!"
The new president also said that Egypt will respect all treaties but will not allow interference in Egypt's sovereignty and internal affairs.
On Sunday, Egypt's election commission announced the official results in a televised press conference, naming Muslim Brotherhood candidate Morsi as the country's first post-revolution president. Morsi defeated former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq.
The commission chairman also spoke at length about various voting violations, including fake identity cards and ballot stuffing. In all cases, the votes were either recounted or disqualified. In the end, Morsi received over 13 million, or 51.7 per cent, of the votes, while Shafiq got 48.27 per cent.
A huge crowd of Morsi's supporters, who were waiting for the announcement on Tahrir Square, erupted into cheers and chants as the result was read. Hundreds of thousands of people set off fireworks, waved flags and chanted. The celebrations are likely to continue through the night, RT’s correspondent Paula Slier reports from the Egyptian capital.
Morsi is an American-educated engineer who holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California. He was an MP from 2000 till 2005, elected as an independent candidate because the Muslim Brotherhood was banned from running for parliament when Hosni Mubarak was in office. He remained with the Brotherhood until last year, when the Freedom and Justice Party was formed, and Morsi was named a presidential candidate.
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Originally Posted by Tony Cartalucci
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US Struggles to Install Proxy "Brotherhood" in Egypt
From Egypt to Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood does the West's bidding - now joined by overt State Department fronts.
June 24, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Were anyone to still believe the rhetoric of the so-called "Arab Spring," one would be admittedly confused over the emerging political landscape in Egypt where the military establishment and the Muslim Brotherhood have emerged from what was supposedly a "pro-democracy" "popular uprising."
However, if anyone understood that the "pro-democracy" protesters were in fact US State Department-funded, trained, and equipped mobs providing cover for the attempted installation of the Muslim Brotherhood amongst many other potential Western proxies, the current political battle would make perfect sense.
The Egyptian military, like in many developing nations, may accept money from the West, may train with Western forces, and may even participate in Western machinations of global domination, but are ultimately nationalists with the means and motivation to draw lines and check the West's ambitions within Egypt and throughout Egypt's sphere of influence. The necessity for the West of removing not only Hosni Mubarak who had refused to participate in a wider role against Iraq and Iran, but the grip of the military itself over Egyptian politics and replacing it with the Muslim Brotherhood who is already hard at work in Syria attempting to overthrow one of Iran's primary regional allies, is paramount.
"Pro-democracy" movements, particularly the April 6 youth movement, trained, funded, and equipped by the US State Department, serve the sole purpose of giving the Muslim Brotherhood's installation into power a spin of "legitimacy" where otherwise none exists. Those within these "pro-democracy" movements with legitimate intentions will be inevitably disappointed if not entirely thrown under the wheels of Western machinations as regional war aimed at destroying Iran, Syria, and Lebanon's Hezbollah arch of influence slowly unfolds.
Despite the Brotherhood's lofty rhetoric, it has from its inception been a key proliferator of Western foreign policy. Currently, the Syrian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has been involved heavily, leading in fact, the US, Israeli, Saudi, and Qatari-backed sectarian violence that has been ravaging Syria for over a year.
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Weakening Egypt before NATO's assault on Libya was a crucial step in ensuring the latter's absolute destruction and the creation of what is now a Libyan terror-emirate shipping cash, weapons, and fighters east and west to destabilize and overthrow various governments on the Anglo-American's long "to-do" list. The West's ability to install a Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt, with it's substantial regional standing and influence would be a serious blow not only to Syria, but to Iran as well. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is already echoing calls by the US and Israel for "intervention" in Syria.
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