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another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
Fri Aug 2, 2013, 06:40 PM Aug 2013

John Kerry needs to watch this video . . .

Before John Kerry again uses the "many millions of protesters" who rallied to oust Egyptian President Morsi as his justification for continuing aid to the coup-leading generals, he needs to watch this video.

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2013/07/2013731172227211968.html

Tahrir Square and its side streets can only hold about a quarter of a million people, maximum, not the several fucking millions so widely reported! If you add in the maximum capacity of the other centers of anti-Morsi protest, such as Alexandria and Port Said, it comes to a total of maybe one to one and a half million, not the fourteen to thirty million CNN's Wolf Blitzer so confidently estimated. In fact, the actual number of anti-Morsi demonstrators rallying at the end of June was probably somewhat less than a million, nation-wide.

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