Thursday, July 11, 2013

Egypt Brotherhood says it will keep defying military coup, denounces attack on army commander


Egypt Brotherhood says it will keep defying military coup, denounces attack on army commander

(Hussein Malla/ Associated Press ) - An Egyptian boy stands among the supporters of ousted Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, who are offering the the Tarawih prayer, after the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. Egypt’s military-backed government tightened a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, ordering the arrest of its revered leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate President Mohammed Morsi one week after an army-led coup.
  • (Hussein Malla/ Associated Press ) - An Egyptian boy stands among the supporters of ousted Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, who are offering the the Tarawih prayer, after the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. Egypt’s military-backed government tightened a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, ordering the arrest of its revered leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate President Mohammed Morsi one week after an army-led coup.
  • (Hussein Malla/ Associated Press ) - Supporters of the ousted Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, hold his portrait during a demonstration after the Iftar prayer, evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. Egypt’s military-backed government tightened a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, ordering the arrest of its revered leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate President Mohammed Morsi one week after an army-led coup.
  • (Hussein Malla/ Associated Press ) - Supporters of ousted Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, hold his portraits and wave Egyptian flags as they shout slogans during a demonstration after the Iftar prayer, evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. Egypt’s military-backed government tightened a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, ordering the arrest of its revered leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate President Mohammed Morsi one week after an army-led coup.
  • (Hussein Malla/ Associated Press ) - A supporter of ousted Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, cries during the Tarawih prayer, after the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. Egypt’s military-backed government tightened a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, ordering the arrest of its revered leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate President Mohammed Morsi one week after an army-led coup.
  • (Hussein Malla/ Associated Press ) - Supporters of ousted Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi shout slogans during a demonstration after the Iftar prayer, evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. Egypt’s military-backed government tightened a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, ordering the arrest of its revered leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate President Mohammed Morsi one week after an army-led coup.
  • (Hussein Malla/ Associated Press ) - Supporters of the ousted Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, wave an Islamic group flag with Arabic words which read “No God but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet,” during a demonstration after the Iftar prayer, evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. Egypt’s military-backed government tightened a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, ordering the arrest of its revered leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate President Mohammed Morsi one week after an army-led coup.

By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, July 11, 7:23 AM

CAIRO — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood vowed Thursday to continue its “peaceful” resistance in defiance of the military’s ouster of the country’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
A Brotherhood statement also distanced the group from an assassination attempt Wednesday against a senior army commander in the Sinai Peninsula.
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The statement came a day after Egypt’s military-backed government tightened its crackdown on the Brotherhood, ordering the arrest of its spiritual leader in a bid to choke off the group’s campaign to reinstate Morsi, now held at an undisclosed Defense Ministry facility.
The Brotherhood is outraged by the overthrow of Morsi and demands nothing less than his release from detention and his reinstatement as president.
“We will continue our peaceful resistance to the bloody military coup against constitutional legitimacy,” the Brotherhood said. “We trust that the peaceful and popular will of the people shall triumph over force and oppression.”
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