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Monday, March 11, 2013

Police strike against the Muslim Brotherhood


Egyptian army soldiers stand guard as they take control of the state security building after several days of clashes between protesters and riot police in Port Said, Egypt, Friday, March 8, 2013.

Egyptian police protest Muslim Brotherhood control
  • As Egyptians rise up in protest against fascist control by the Muslim Brotherhood, Comrade Obama pumps the Islamist Treasury full of American cash and sends arms to Egypt.


Strikes by Egyptian security forces spread swiftly around the country Friday, as police walked off the job or took to the streets, angry at being blamed for crackdowns on protests against the Islamist president and accusing his Muslim Brotherhood of trying to control them.

The wave of police discontent adds a new layer to Egypt's turmoil and political breakdown. In a sign of the disarray, a powerful hard-line Islamist group said its members would now take over policing a southern province because most security forces in the province were on strike.

Strikes by policemen and riot police were reported in at least 10 of Egypt's 29 provinces, including at several stations in the capital, Cairo. Even as some police went on strike, others were clashing with protesters in Cairo, the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta industrial city of Mahalla el-Kubra. Dozens injured in the fighting, according to security officials and witnesses reports ABC News.


Egypt police strike



Egyptians chant slogans on top of Egyptian army vehicle as soldiers
take control over state security building.

In Cairo, police demonstrated in front of the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the security forces, and demanded the resignation of the minister, their boss.

In Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, police closed their stations and plastered posters on the door reading, "We don't want politics" and — in an attempt to show unity with the public — "Police and the people are one hand."

Near daily, the demonstrations have turned into clashes with police in multiple cities, resulting in the killing of around 70 protesters. Each death has increased public anger against the security forces, fueled further by reports of torture of some activists by security agents. The force is already widely hated because of its legacy of abuses and brutality under ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Now that has sparked a backlash by many of the lower-ranking members of the security forces. Protesting police accuse Morsi of using them to crack down on his opponents and demand the resignation of the current, Morsi-appointed interior minister, who they accuse of engineering efforts to bring Islamist sympathizers into the ministry.

Police officers in the southern city of Sohag marched in front of one station, holding signs reading, "No to the Brotherhoodization of the ministry."

On Thursday, protesting riot police trapped the Central Security's top commander for several hours inside their camp at the city of Port Said, refusing to deploy in the city against protesters.






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