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Egyptian Rage Is Now Focused On The US Ambassador In Cairo
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Jul 07, 2013 09:58pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Monday, July 8, 2013 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Badry says that crowds once again Sunday poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square carrying signs and a one large national flag reading, "Go Away." Following Saturday's rising violence, today's protest's both in Cairo and Alexandria killed more than 30 people before crowds began thinning out toward midnight.
Though Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi was removed by the country's military last week, his party has no intention of stepping aside without a fight. Badry says the Brotherhood isn't going to fade away or settle for a part in the military's interim government, instead it plans to keep protesting until Morsi's reinstated.
Badry says residents are scared. They're ability to provide for themselves and their families has never been more difficult or more uncertain. The heavily subsidized gas that powers the country's vehicles has been cut raising fuel prices with utility, gas and food prices escalating with it. Coupled with a rising twelve-and-a-half percent unemployment rate and a plummeting currency, even the jobs that are available often don't pay more than a few dollars a day.
If the aid provided by the U.S. were cut even that would be harder to earn. That decision rests with the Obama administration's choice on whether to call Morsi's ousting a coup. Resentment toward the White House and its ambassador to Egypt is growing by the day. |
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