{"id":6673,"date":"2013-07-04T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2013-07-04T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T08:24:05","slug":"6673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6673","title":{"rendered":"Morsi’s support for intervention in Syria was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"obamaegyptterror\"<\/a>The protests in Egypt against president Mohammed Morsi were \u2013 according to the BBC \u2013 the largest in history.<\/p>\n

The Irish Times reports:<\/p>\n

Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources have said.<\/p>\n

Mr Morsi himself called for foreign intervention in Syria against Mr Assad, leading to a veiled rebuke from the army, which issued an apparently bland but sharp-edged statement the next day stressing that its only role was guarding Egypt\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe armed forces were very alarmed by the Syrian conference at a time the state was going through a major political crisis,\u201d said one officer, whose comments reflected remarks made privately by other army staff. He was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to talk to the media.<\/p>\n

For the army, the Syria rally had crossed \u201ca national security red line\u201d by encouraging Egyptians to fight abroad, risking creating a new generation of jihadists, said Yasser El-Shimy, analyst with the International Crisis Group.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the military\u2019s concern is the history of militant Islam in Egypt, homeland of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The military source condemned recent remarks made by \u201cretired terrorists\u201d allied to Mr Morsi, who has deepened his ties with the once-armed group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya.<\/p>\n

Obama had recently sent American troops to prop up Morsi, and the protesters were furious at the U.S. for backing Islamic radicals.<\/p>\n

(The U.S. backed Egypt’s previous dictator, as well).<\/p>\n

Support of Western intervention in Syria was also one of the main causes of the recent enormous protests in Turkey \u2026 which came close to toppling the Turkish leadership.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the American government has been providing arms, money and logistical support to Al Qaeda in Syria, Libya, Mali, Bosnia and other countries \u2013 and related Muslim terrorists in Chechnya, Iran, and many other countries. \u00a0So moderate Arabs all over the Middle East and North Africa are becoming furious at U.S. interventionist policies.<\/p>\n

Note: \u00a0The coup is a set-back for the U.S., because Egypt – unlike Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran – isn’t on the 20-year-old list of countries targeted for regime change. – Zero Hedge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The protests in Egypt against president Mohammed Morsi were \u2013 according to the BBC \u2013 the largest in history. The Irish Times reports: Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in … Continue reading “Morsi’s support for intervention in Syria was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[3699,190,3551,198,983],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-coup","tag-egypt","tag-morsi","tag-syria","tag-terrorism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/obamaegyptterror.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}