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| Egypt's Morsi Faces Trial for Prison Break, Murder |
| 2013-12-22 |
| [AnNahar] Egypt's deposed President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... and 132 others, including members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, will stand trial for a prison break and the murder of officers during the 2011 uprising, the prosecution said on Saturday. Almost 70 of the defendants are members of Hamas and Hizbullah, the Paleostinian and Lebanese groups, who will be tried in absentia. The prosecutors claim Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, Hamas, Hizbullah and jihadist faceless myrmidons attacked prisons and cop shoppes during the first few days of the revolt against dictator Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , killing coppers and helping thousands of inmates escape. They say members of the Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizbullah attacked the prisons to free Islamist inmates. Several Hamas and Hizbullah members were imprisoned in Egyptian jails and escaped during the unrest. The other defendants include leaders of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, who also beat feet from the Wadi al-Natrun prison during the revolt, and prominent Qatar-based holy man Yusef al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Lifeon Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization.Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... , the sources said. Morsi had been under investigation for the January 28, 2011 prison break along with Brotherhood members. He is already on trial for allegedly inciting the killings of opposition activists during his one year in power. And prosecutors said earlier this week he will also stand trial for espionage involving Hamas. The latest charges underscore the shift in the Islamists' fortune following Morsi's overthrow. Egypt's first democratically elected president, Morsi quickly alienated his secular opposition, the police and the military, which overthrew him in July after millions rallied across the country demanding his resignation. Morsi himself had given a telephone interview to a television station shortly after he escaped, saying the guards had left and the inmates walked out of their cells. He and other Moslem Brüderbund leaders had been rounded up on the morning of January 28, after the Islamists said they would join protests against Mubarak. The uprising forced the hated interior ministry to withdraw from the streets, and Mubarak resigned on February 11 after three decades in power and handed the reins to the military. Mubarak, his interior minister and top police commanders were put on trial for the killings of protesters during the uprising. Their defense blamed the violence on the Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizbullah. Since Morsi's ouster, more than 1,000 people, mostly Islamists, have been killed in street festivities with police, and thousands imprisoned. Morsi's supporters continue near daily protests demanding his reinstatement, while the military battles an insurgency in the Sinai peninsula that has killed dozens of soldiers and coppers since Morsi's overthrow. Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... courts this week dismissed corruption charges against Ahmed Shafiq, Morsi's rival in the 2012 election. A prime minister under Mubarak, he fled the country after narrowly losing to the Islamist. Shafiq will not stand in presidential elections scheduled for next year if military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, widely popular for toppling Morsi, declares his candidacy. |
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