Egyptian riot police stand guard during a demonstration by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi near Tahrir Square in Cairo on July, 17, 2013.
A senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says that the country’s security forces plan to carry out bombings in various places in Cairo and Giza and blame the supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi for them.
Essam el-Erian, the deputy head of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), wrote on his Facebook on Tuesday that the security forces plan to use the bombings as an excuse to break up the peaceful pro-Moris demonstrations that have been going on for the past several weeks.
The Brotherhood supporters have been holding demonstrations against what they call a military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected president, demanding the reinstatement of Morsi.
In a televised speech late on July 3 night, Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that Morsi, a former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was no longer in office and declared that the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mahmoud Mansour, had been appointed as the new interim president of Egypt. The army also suspended the constitution.
Army officials said ousted President Morsi, who took office in June 2012, was being held “preventively” by the military.
On July 4, Mansour was sworn in as interim president. Next day, he dissolved the Shura Council by decree.
On July 5, Muslim Brotherhood supreme leader Mohammed Badie said the coup against Morsi is illegal and millions will remain on the street until he is reinstated as president.
Badie vowed to "complete the revolution" that toppled the Western-backed regime of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
At least 100 people have been killed in an unrelenting wave of violent clashes between Morsi supporters, his opponents and security forces since the ouster of the president.
The Egyptians launched the revolution against the pro-Israeli regime on January 25, 2011, which eventually brought an end to the 30-year dictatorship of Mubarak on February 11, 2011.
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