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Excerpts: Pro-Morsi protests lowered. Lebanon -army arrests 2 suspects
Excerpts: Pro-Morsi protests lowered. Lebanon -army arrests 2 suspects for
firing rockets towards – Israel 31 August 2013
+++SOURCE:KUWAIT TIMES via Egypt Daily News 31 Aug,Brotherhood protests
small and scattered in Egypt
SUBJECT: Pro-Morsi protests lowered
FULL TEXT:CAIRO: Several thousand people heeded calls by the Muslim
Brotherhood and protested yesterday throughout Cairo and other cities
against a coup and deadly crackdown as the police and army blocked key roads
and beefed up security. In one of the larger marches of about 5,000 people,
protesters chanted slogans against the countrys army chief, Gen Abdel-Fatah
El-Sissi, who led the popularly backed July 3 ouster of President Mohammed
Morsi, a longtime leader of the Brotherhood. The people want the death of
the assassin! the protesters yelled while holding up yellow posters with
the outline of four fingers.
Morsi supporters have used the symbol in online and street campaigns to
remember the sit-in protest around the Rabaa El-Adawiyah mosque, which in
Arabic means fourth. Security forces cleared out that sit-in and another one
two weeks ago in violent raids that sparked several days of violence. More
than 1,000 people, most of them people opposed to Morsis ouster, have been
killed since. The Interior Ministry says more than 100 policemen and
soldiers have also died in the violence.
Hundreds of Brotherhood members, including top leaders, have been arrested
and accused of inciting violence. The fierce security crackdown has weakened
the Brotherhood, once Egypts most powerful political group. The streets of
Cairo were largely empty yesterday in anticipation of the protests. Security
forces blocked main roads with barbed wire, tanks and armored vehicles to
bar protesters from reaching Sphinx Square in Cairo where the Brotherhood
called on its protesters to converge and set up another sit-in.
About 150 people protested peacefully outside a mosque near the square after
midday Islamic prayers. Security forces fired two canisters of tear gas at
the crowd. Security forces also fired tear gas at about 3,000 protesters in
the Nile Delta city of Tanta. Despite mass arrests, the Brotherhood has been
able to get out its message and organize marches through Facebook campaigns.
Still, yesterdays protests appeared much smaller than those in previous
weeks. Say it without fear: El-Sissi must go and The coup is terrorism
were among pro-Brotherhood chants yesterday.
Not all of the protesters were Brotherhood members. Some said they were only
seeking justice for relatives killed by security forces this month. Sherif
Osama, a 27 year-old protester, said his cousin was killed during a raid
against the Rabaa sit-in and that he is out to take revenge. He was
killed by a bullet in his back that went out from the front, he said of his
cousin. At the morgue they wrote on the death certificate that he committed
suicide.
Like others, Osama warned that officials from the authoritarian regime of
ousted President Hosni Mubarak were behind Morsis demise and were looking
to return to power. Meanwhile, Egypts state news agency said unidentified
gunmen in two cars opened fire on a police station in the upscale Cairo
neighborhood of Heliopolis, killing an officer and a civilian. The drive-by
attack yesterday wounded another officer, according to the MENA agency.
The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said in a nationally
televised statement Thursday that its forces would deal with firmness
against acts that threaten national security and that police had orders to
use deadly force in defense of public and private property. The ministry
said that the Brotherhoods calls are aimed at stirring chaos. A nighttime
curfew in Cairo and 13 other provinces started yesterday at 7 pm and end 6
am._ AP
+++SOURCE: Naharnet (Lebanon) 21 Aug,13:Army:Two Arrested in Connection to
Firing Rockets from South to Israel
SUBJECT: Lebanon Army arrests 2 suspects firing rockets towards Israel
FULL TEXT:_The army announced on Saturday[31Aug,] that it had arrested two
Lebanese in connection to the firing of rockets from southern Lebanon
towards Israel.
The Army Command said in a statement that Youssef Mohammed al-Fleity and
Omar Abdul Mawla al-Atrash confessed to transporting rockets from the Gaza
region in the Bekaa to individuals in the southern region of Tyre.
The rockets were since fired from al-Hawsh-Tyre region towards Israel on
August 22.
Four Katyusha rockets were fired in the incident and Israel’s Channel 2 said
a rocket landed in the town of Nahariya.
The Israeli army said its Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted one
of “three or four rockets fired from south of Tyre.”
The other rockets did not land in Israeli territory.
The attack prompted Israeli warplanes the next day to strike a Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) base in a valley
in Naameh that lies 16 kilometers south of Beirut. The strike did not cause
any casualties or material damage.
The PFLP-GC denied it was involved in the rocket attack.
On Friday[30 Aug,], State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr
ordered the arrest of two suspects linked to the incident.
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Sue Lerner – Associate, IMRA
Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=61820
