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| Sisi Vows to Fight Terrorism, Make Egypt Stable |
| 2013-12-27 |
| [An Nahar] Egypt's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the ouster of Islamist 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... , vowed Thursday to fight terrorism and stabilize the deeply polarized country. "Do not worry or fear, the army will sacrifice for Egypt. We will eliminate" terrorism, Sisi said at a military ceremony, in his first comments after Egypt was rocked by two kabooms this week. "Do not allow these terrorist actions to affect you. If you want freedom and stability, which is not achieved easily, then you have to trust God and your army and your police," said Sisi, who is also defense minister, in a statement released by the army. Sisi, whose popularity has soared since he ousted Morsi, said the defense forces had the capability to make Egypt "stable, secure and progressive." On Tuesday, a massive suicide boom-mobileing in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura killed 15 people and maimed scores, and a bomb went kaboom!near a bus in Cairo on Thursday, wounding five. Sisi's remarks came a day after the military-installed authorities labelled Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund as a terrorist group. The bombing in Mansoura was claimed by an al-Qaeda-inspired jihadist group and was condemned by the Brotherhood, but the authorities have blamed the Islamist movement for carrying it out. |
| Posted by:Fred |