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East Coast Pirate

(775 posts)
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 06:56 PM Jul 2013

Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi

CAIRO —The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt: Gas lines have disappeared, power cuts have stopped and the police have returned to the street.

The apparently miraculous end to the crippling energy shortages, and the re-emergence of the police, seems to show that the legions of personnel left in place after former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 played a significant role —intentionally or not —in undermining the overall quality of life under the Islamist administration of Mr. Morsi.

And as the interim government struggles to unite a divided nation, the Muslim Brotherhood and Mr. Morsi’s supporters say the sudden turnaround proves that their opponents conspired to make Mr. Morsi fail. Not only did police officers seem to disappear, but the state agencies responsible for providing electricity and ensuring gas supplies failed so fundamentally that gas lines and rolling blackouts fed widespread anger and frustration.

“This was preparing for the coup,” said Naser el-Farash, who served as the spokesman for the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade under Mr. Morsi. “Different circles in the state, from the storage facilities to the cars that transport petrol products to the gas stations, all participated in creating the crisis.”

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/world/middleeast/improvements-in-egypt-suggest-a-campaign-that-undermined-morsi.html

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Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi (Original Post) East Coast Pirate Jul 2013 OP
If you think that is something, wait until Obama is out of office and the US economy miraculously kelliekat44 Jul 2013 #1
 

kelliekat44

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1. If you think that is something, wait until Obama is out of office and the US economy miraculously
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 07:24 PM
Jul 2013

improves. The campaign to undermine Obama is and will have been the most sophisticated and successful in world history. All e oi can say is that Obama has done a great job in the face of the opposition he has had to deal with.

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