- Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:27 pm
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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has removed the country's top two military officers and rescinded a June decree by the generals that kept lawmaking powers in their hands, his office announced Sunday.
Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi -- the defense minister who took power after the 2011 ouster of longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak -- and the military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Sami Anan, "will be sent to retirement," Morsy spokesman Yasser Ali said Sunday evening on state-run Nile Television. Tantawi and Anan have been appointed as advisers to Morsy, the country's first elected president, but no details of the new posts were announced.
In addition, the government has reversed a June constitutional decree by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that claimed to retain legislative authority until a new parliament could be sworn in near the end of the year, Ali said.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/12/world/mea ... ?hpt=wo_c1
The military is the only things that was keeping him in check but if he takes over the military they will go to war with Israel and the only thing that will stop that is to take out Egypt President and regain control of the country..
Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi -- the defense minister who took power after the 2011 ouster of longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak -- and the military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Sami Anan, "will be sent to retirement," Morsy spokesman Yasser Ali said Sunday evening on state-run Nile Television. Tantawi and Anan have been appointed as advisers to Morsy, the country's first elected president, but no details of the new posts were announced.
In addition, the government has reversed a June constitutional decree by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that claimed to retain legislative authority until a new parliament could be sworn in near the end of the year, Ali said.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/12/world/mea ... ?hpt=wo_c1
The military is the only things that was keeping him in check but if he takes over the military they will go to war with Israel and the only thing that will stop that is to take out Egypt President and regain control of the country..
