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Sisi said that in SCAF’s meeting with the president, Morsy listened to the army leaders’ concerns regarding what they called insults to the military institution. Morsy rejected such insults and expressed his support for the Armed Forces and for SCAF, Sisi claimed. Over the past two years, the Armed Forces didn’t perform any offensive actions, the minister continued, adding that the military had completely withdrawn from the political arena after power was transferred to Morsy on 30 June 2012. Since then, SCAF had been focused on improving the army’s efficiency and upgrading its equipment and resources at “unprecedented rates,” Sisi claimed. “The Armed Forces are loyal to the country ... [the military] is an honorable patriotic institution,” he continued.
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President Mohamed Morsi "understands the implications of harming the image of Egypt's military," Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, head of Egypt's supreme military council, said in a statement following a Thursday night meeting with the president. The armed forces is affected by any allegations made against it, El-Sisi said, saying that the army had not stood against the people during Egypt's 25 January 2011 revolution, after which it assumed responsibility for the country until Morsi's election last summer. He asserted that the military did not kill civilians, "as some are saying." In his statement, El-Sisi noted that President Morsi had expressed his full support and complete trust in the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the military overall. Morsi, for his part, has stated his rejection of any abuse directed against the army or its members.
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Le président égyptien Mohamed Morsi a promu jeudi 11 avril plusieurs officiers égyptiens de haut rang et dénoncé une campagne de calomnie contre l'armée après des révélations d'un journal britannique et de la presse égyptienne sur les violences dont elle se serait rendue coupable pendant la "révolution du Nil". Un porte-parole de Mohamed Morsi a ainsi déclaré dans un communiqué que trois généraux de division ont été promus au grade de général de corps d'armée lors d'une réunion du Conseil suprême des forces armées (CSFA), qui était au pouvoir pendant la période qui a suivi l'éviction de Hosni Moubarak jusqu'à l'élection de Mohamed Morsi en juin. Le président égyptien a convoqué cette réunion "afin d'apaiser la situation et dissiper les tensions qui règnent dans l'armée, consécutives à une campagne diffamatoire et aux attaques de la part de certains politiciens", a indiqué l'agence officielle égyptienne Mena.
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More than 1 million Egyptians have signed petitions urging the military to take over the country, the activist 25 January Revolutionaries Coalition claimed Wednesday. The signatures are evidence that many citizens want the Muslim Brotherhood removed from power, said Tamer al-Gendy, the coalition's coordinator. He also claimed they provide legal and popular justification for the Army to take over and lead yet another transitional period during which a new constitution could be drafted and a national salvation government formed. However, a Justice Ministry spokesperson said no more than 800,000 signatures have been submitted on officially notarized petitions.
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Meanwhile, the country's armed forces are busy building a discount shopping mall in order to curry favor with citizens. (...) Public support for a new military takeover then grew tremendously after December 5, when the Brotherhood used organized violence against protesters outside the presidential palace. According to one poll, 82 percent of Egyptians now want the military back in power. None of the non-Islamists I interviewed - most of whom were demonstrating against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces only nine months earlier - viewed a military takeover as ideal. But they seemed oddly confident that a second military junta would be short-lived and benevolent. "We just want the military to protect us during the intermediate period, not rule," said Islam, a member of the revolutionary Suez Youth Union, who later admitted to staging a provocation that he and his colleagues used as a pretext for burning a local Brotherhood office.(...) The Egyptian military, however, hasn't fought since 1973, and its meager performance preventing weapons from being smuggled into Gaza suggests that its border-protection skills leave much to be desired. Instead, it has spent the past four decades building a vast financial empire, including extensive land-holdings and control of major industries, which is believed to comprise between 15 and 40 percent of Egypt's economy. And it's expanding those assets through the establishment of new development projects that seem geared toward improving its public standing. Eric Trager / The Atlantic Delete the scoop?
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to infiltrate the military establishment, overthrow its leadership and bring it fully under its control, Egyptian media reported Friday. The Islamist movement is not happy with the military because the latter has refused to recruit more of its members and because the generals object to President Mohammed Mursi’s rapprochement with Iran, the daily al-Masry a-Youm reported, quoting sources.
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Egypt's army ran the revolution's transitional phase with all impartiality and integrity until power was transferred on time to a civil, elected president, Minister of Defence and Military Production Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday. The armed forces are racing against time to regain their combat efficiency, a process which is running at unprecedented rates, First Lieutenant General al-Sisi said during a speech after inspecting an air defence formation. The minister put emphasis on maintaining the efficiency of the armed forces and their weapons and equipment as well as making use of scientific and research capabilities in light of the current economic status, the official Facebook page of the army spokesman reported al-Sisi as saying.
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Egyptian forces on Monday raided a workshop producing counterfeit military uniforms north of Cairo, a military source said.
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Two years after the Egyptian uprising, speculation about the role of the military establishment in the political process continues to dominate public discourse in Egypt. Though the occupation of the presidential seat by a civilian was expected to bring such conjectures to an end, President Mohammad Mursi’s affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood has only intensified them. And while Mursi has had an impressive start – setting the precedent of a civilian president appointing the defense minister – the relationship between the presidency and the military establishment has been on the downswing. The most recent episode of the contentious relationship between the presidency and the military was trigged by the rumor that Mursi was considering dismissing his minister of defense, Colonel General Abdul Fatah Saeed Hussein Khalil al-Sisi. Fingers were pointed at the Muslim Brotherhood for being behind the rumor (given the movement’s general distrust of the military). The rumor was seen as the organization’s way of fighting back against the growing power of the military with respect to the presidency. Daily Star Delete the scoop?
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Fears of the “Ikhwanization” of the Egyptian army have been raised after Egyptian Military Academy Director Major General Esmat Murad revealed that students with links to the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafist political factions have been accepted into the academy, including President Mohamed Mursi’s own nephew. An Egyptian soldier, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on the condition of anonymity, revealed that “for the first time, students whose families or relatives are involved in political activism, whether for the Muslim Brotherhood or anybody else, are being accepted into the Egyptian armed forces which had traditionally investigated the [political] background of recruits, rejecting those with any such connection.” Until the January 25 revolution both Egypt’s military and police academies routinely rejected students who held political views or were members of political movements the authorities judged to be subversive, even going so far as rejecting recruits if members of their family had any such views or ties to Islamist organizations. However since the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi came to power in late June 2012, and particularly after he forced out Field Marshal Tantawi, there have been escalating fears of the “Ikhwanization” of the military, although this is something that senior military figures have repeatedly denied.
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An Egyptian security official says the military is investigating whether the Palestinian group Hamas is linked to a batch of confiscated fabric that could have been used to make counterfeit uniforms.
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A tunnel opening discovered recently in the Sinai Peninsula’s El-Saroserya region near Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip was found to contain fabrics used in uniforms worn by Egyptian soldiers, an Egyptian military spokesman said in a Sunday statement. According to the spokesman, three different fabrics resembling those used in Egyptian military uniforms, along with two white fabrics similar to those used in Egyptian police uniforms, were found at the tunnel opening. “The armed forces calls on Egyptians to show vigilance in the days ahead in the event of any incident involving the impersonation of military personnel,” the spokesman said. This content is from :El Ahram, via Aswat Masriya Delete the scoop?
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Armed Forces claim finding fabric for military and police uniforms in Gaza tunnel and asks Egyptians to exercise caution
The Egyptian army found three rolls of fabric used to make army uniforms and two rolls for police uniforms in a tunnel between Sinai and Gaza on Saturday, according to a statement from the spokesperson of the Armed Forces on Sunday. The military said it found the materials in a tunnel in the Al-Sarsoureya region. The three rolls of fabric were “identical” to those used in the making of army uniforms, according to the army, and the other two rolls of cloth were the same as those used in the manufacturing of police uniforms. “The Armed Forces appeals to Egyptian citizens to exercise caution,” read the statement. It also warned of the possibility of an incident involving the impersonation of Egyptian military personnel. The military has worked to destroy the various tunnels from Sinai to Gaza in an effort to restrict illicit trade violating the current blockade and border regulations at the Rafah border crossing.
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Le président Mohamed Morsi et le chef de l'armée égyptienne ont démenti que les militaires aient commis des meurtres ou des exactions depuis la révolte de début 2011 contre le régime de Hosni Moubarak, après des fuites d'un rapport mettant en cause des soldats. "Les forces armées sont sincères et n'ont commis aucun acte contre le peuple égyptien depuis le 25 janvier 2011 (date du début du soulèvement) et n'ont tué personne comme certains le prétendent", a affirmé le ministre de la Défense, le général Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, cité vendredi par l'agence officielle Mena. La veille au soir, le président islamiste, flanqué de hauts gradés, a promu trois responsables militaires, dans une manifestation de soutien très ostensible à l'armée. M. Morsi a voulu "apaiser la situation et dissiper les tensions qui règnent dans l'armée, consécutives à une campagne diffamatoire et aux attaques de la part de certains politiciens", a rapporté la Mena.
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Egypt’s army chief has warned against slandering the military, denying the military committed any abuses against protesters during the turbulent transition of the past two years. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi spoke late Thursday following a meeting between the country’s top brass and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. El-Sissi’s comments come after media leaked parts of a report by a fact-finding mission commissioned by Morsi that documented abuses by the armed forces during its nearly 17-month rule after the 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The report found that the army unlawfully detained protesters and was possibly involved in killings of some. El-Sissi swore the military “didn’t kill, didn’t order any killings” since the uprising and warned against defaming the military. Speaking alongside el-Sissi, Morsi said he won’t allow such “slanders.”
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Le président égyptien, Mohamed Morsi, a promu mercredi des officiers généraux pour montrer son soutien à l'armée, alors que la situation reste tendue entre le leader islamiste et les militaires. Ces promotions surviennent après des révélations de la presse égyptienne et du quotidien britannique le Guardian sur des abus commis par des militaires lors des émeutes de 2011 qui ont abouti à l'éviction de l'ancien président Hosni Moubarak, mis en évidence par une commission d'enquête.
Un porte-parole de M. Morsi a déclaré dans un communiqué que trois généraux de division ont été promus au grade de général de corps d'armée, lors d'une réunion du Conseil suprême des forces armées (CSFA), qui était au pouvoir pendant la période qui a suivi l'éviction de M. Moubarak jusqu'à l'élection de M. Morsi en juin. M. Morsi a convoqué cette réunion "afin d'apaiser la situation et dissiper les tensions qui règnent dans l'armée, consécutives à une campagne diffamatoire et aux attaques de la part de certains politiciens", a indiqué l'agence officielle égyptienne Mena.
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Un rapport publié par un journal britannique confirme le rôle des militaires dans la disparition de dizaines de révolutionnaires.
«Le peuple et l'armée, d'une seule main!» Le slogan était scandé sur tous les tons, pendant les 18 Jours, cette période entre le 25 janvier et le 11 février 2011 qui a vu les manifestations sur la place Tahrir déboucher sur la chute de Hosni Moubarak. La réalité est différente. L'armée a bel et bien participé à la répression de la révolution, pendant les 18 Jours - sans compter les nombreux morts de la période de transition, jusqu'aux élections présidentielles. C'est ce que révèle un rapport de 800 pages, publié par le journal britannique The Guardian. C'est le président égyptien lui-même qui avait désigné un comité d'experts en juillet 2012 pour enquêter sur les crimes de la révolution. Le document confirme 68 disparitions - mais sous-entend qu'il ne s'agit là que de la partie émergée de l'iceberg. Une autre organisation, Hanlaihom (Nous les retrouverons) parle elle de 1200 disparus. Des cartes sim aux abords d'une caserneCertains épisodes précis ont été détaillés. Comme un check-point au sud du Caire, près des pyramides de Dahshour, où quatre personnes auraient disparu fin janvier. Certains d'entre eux ont été retrouvés dans les morgues du Caire, leurs corps marqués de traces de tortures. Des prisonniers ont été transférés dans une caserne de la police égyptienne Djebel el-Ahmar. Leur trace a été retrouvée grâce aux cartes sim de leurs téléphones portables, négligemment jetées aux abords de la caserne, et récupérées par les habitants des environs.
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Leaked document shines light on crimes including forced disappearances during uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt's armed forces participated in forced disappearances, torture and killings across the country – including in the Egyptian Museum – during the 2011 uprising, even as military leaders publicly declared their neutrality, according to a leaked presidential fact-finding report on revolution-era crimes. The report, submitted to the president, Mohamed Morsi, by his own hand-picked committee in January, has yet to be made public, but a chapter obtained by the Guardian implicates the military in a catalogue of crimes against civilians, beginning with their first deployment to the streets. The chapter recommends that the government investigate the highest ranks of the armed forces to determine who was responsible. More than 1,000 people, including many prisoners, are said to have gone missing during the 18 days of the revolt. Scores turned up in Egypt's morgues, shot or bearing signs of torture. Many have simply disappeared, leaving behind desperate families who hope, at best, that their loved ones are serving prison sentences that the government does not acknowledge. The findings of the high-level investigation, implicating Egypt's powerful and secretive military, will put pressure on Morsi, who assumed power from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces after his election last June and has declined to prosecute any officers, despite allegations that some participated in abuse.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt’s military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state. According to U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports, the government of President Mohamed Morsi is covertly taking steps to take control over the pro-Western military and the police forces as part of a campaign to solidify Islamist control. Egypt for decades had banned the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamist groups from both the military and police academies after Islamic terrorists in the military assassinated Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in 1981. The Egyptian military also for decades has maintained close ties to the U.S. military. Analysts in the U.S. intelligence community and the military are viewing the introduction of Islamists into the national military academy, disclosed last week, with concern. Muslim Brotherhood members and hardline Salafi groups are regarded as dedicated first to jihad, or holy war, and other Islamist principles rather than to the country.
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Egypte actus's insight:
It is to be expected that people differ in their analysis of the reasons for the current state of affairs in Egypt. Some hold the former regime responsible for the situation and perceive it as their heritage, while others see it as a normal consequence of the so-called democratic transition. Additionally, an increasing number of other Egyptians are linking the situation to the failure of President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood in administering the country. For every theory on why the situation in Egypt has deteriorated to the verge of collapse, there are as many theories on how to pull the country back from the edge. Some supporters of the current regime call for the implementation of Shari’a, claiming there is no other alternative. They cling to an oft-repeated phrase, calling on all to respect the legitimate choice of Egyptians. Another sector of society recalls the days of the former regime with a sense of nostalgia, ignoring the many reasons people took the street against Mubarak and his government in January 2011. Whether they are among those who personally benefitted from the previous regime, or are among those who associate Mubarak’s government with stability and security, the fact of the matter is, returning to the previous state in Egypt is impossible. On the other side of the conservative spectrum, there are those who don’t believe that Morsi is capable of implementing Shari’a .They envision a ‘state of Islam’, obliging women to wear a veil, forcing non-Muslims to pay a tax (jizya) money to live safely, and preventing a ‘corrupt media’ from exposing their scandals.
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To many Egyptians, the armed forces seem like the last option to save their country and guide it towards the liberal democracy. From the window of my office in the Moqattam district of Cairo, I followed with much curiosity Friday's violent clashes between protesters and Muslim Brotherhood members, outside the group's headquarters.(...) The anger of the Egyptian people is now turning towards the Brotherhood (MB) to which President Mohammed Morsi belongs. People understand that it is not the president who is making the moves that are hurting the nation's economy and threatening its stability, but the Brotherhood.(...)
Since the beginning of March, Egyptians from various backgrounds have joined demonstrations in different cities, calling for the military's return to political leadership. Since the deadly riots in Port Said in eastern Egypt, in January and again this month, tens of thousands of ordinary citizens have gone to the offices of notaries public all over the country, to sign petitions calling for a return to military rule.(...)
A public opinion survey by my Ibn Khaldun Center over the past month discovered that no known political party or group is behind the wave of petitions. This is a spontaneous search for a viable and realistic alternative to Mr Morsi's failing government. The surveyed sample involved Egyptians with different social and political backgrounds, urban and rural: greater Cairo, the Delta, Upper Egypt and the eastern governorates. Most of the people polled were under 35.(...)
The ultimate goal of the majority of Egyptians, especially the young people who led the drive to bring down former leader Hosni Mubarak, is to have a liberal democratic state.
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Calls are growing, both on the streets and in the media, for the Egyptian army to return to the political arena, with some seeing the military as Egypt’s last refuge against chaos and collapse. Rather than demand for the return of military rule, I call on all secular parties to look for “democratic” solutions to the current state of affairs. While these calls have not abated, and we have instead seen an increase in ‘popular movements’ calling for the consolidation of power in the hands of the army, there are many dangers that could come of this demand. The Egyptian army is a national institution and a key pillar of the state, but its task today is to protect the country, without interfering in politics or the management of public affairs. This task extends to the protection of vital state institutions (The Suez Canal), and to securing, in exceptional circumstances, the country’s internal line of defence, i.e. the governorates bordering the Canal.
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Avec l’arrivée au gouvernement de Mohamed Morsi, certains Egyptiens dont les partisans de l’ancien régime de Moubarak souhaiteraient que l’armée intervienne en faisant un coup d’Etat. Mais pour le chroniqueur, l’armée n’en a simplement pas les moyens.
De même qu’il y a en Turquie beaucoup de gens qui, malgré les nombreux succès enregistrés ces dernières années, pensent que l’armée doit intervenir en faisant un coup d’Etat, certains Egyptiens commencent à revendiquer leur désir de voir l’armée renverser le gouvernement des Frères musulmans. Bien qu’ils soient conscients que l’armée n’est pas en mesure de résoudre les problèmes du pays, ils voient dans le coup d’Etat le seul moyen de se débarrasser du gouvernement des Frères musulmans. Parmi eux, on trouve les partisans de l’ancien régime de Moubarak. L’armée égyptienne entreprendra-t-elle un coup d’Etat à la faveur de ce contexte ? Si tel était le cas, est-ce qu’il mettrait fin à l’anarchie qui prévaut dans le pays ? Et l’Egypte sortirait-elle de cette situation de crise pour accéder à l’étape suivante ? Plus:http://www.zamanfrance.fr/article/il-n-y-aura-pas-coup-d-etat-militaire-en-egypte ; Delete the scoop?
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The Egyptian army issued new camouflage uniforms to some of its soldiers, saying that would make it tougher for “infiltrators” to whip up unrest by impersonating troops. The military has suggested militants operating in Gaza might have planned attacks on Egyptian forces, and has declared it would destroy the network of smuggling tunnels underneath the Gaza-Egypt frontier that serve as a conduit for weapons and militants, as well as commercial goods. It began flooding some of the tunnels with sewage last month.
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L'armée égyptienne a mis en garde dimanche la population contre de faux militaires, après la saisie de tissus utilisés pour la confection des uniformes acheminés clandestinement vers la bande de Gaza.
Le porte-parole de l'armée, le colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali, a déclaré que des soldats avaient confisqué des tissus kakis et blancs "identiques à ceux utilisés pour les uniformes" au moment où ils allaient être introduits dans l'enclave palestinienne, via des tunnels de contrebande avec l'Egypte.
L'armée "demande aux citoyens égyptiens de faire preuve d'une prudence et d'une vigilance accrues face à la possibilité que des gens se fassent passer pour des militaires", a-t-il ajouté.
Selon des informations récentes de la presse égyptienne, des Palestiniens pourraient chercher à entrer en Egypte avec des plans pour porter atteinte à la sécurité, ce que des responsables du Hamas, au pouvoir à Gaza, ont démenti avec force.
Un haut responsable du mouvement islamiste palestinien, Mahmoud Zahar, a assuré que le Hamas était "attaché à la sécurité de l'Egypte et ne cherchait pas à provoquer des affrontements", dans un entretien récent avec l'agence officielle égyptienne Mena.
Les informations de source non-identifiée parues dans la presse "ne cherchent qu'à monter les Egyptiens et les habitants de la bande de Gaza les uns contre les autres", a-t-il jugé. Selon des articles parus dans la presse égyptienne, des éléments du Hamas venus de Gaza se seraient infiltrés en Egypte par des tunnels.
La presse égyptienne a également fait état de sept Palestiniens de Gaza appréhendés à l'aéroport du Caire en possession de cartes sur lesquelles figurent des installations vitales en Egypte.
AFP, via L'Orient Le Jour
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