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In many ways Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made his own end, but in a lot of others, everyone from young rebels to police to the military to even the people running the oil supply conspired to degrade and ultimately overthrow Morsi.
The latest evidence is the sudden end to Egypt's crippling energy shortages, as reported by Ben Hubbard and David D. Kirkpatrick in the New York Times:
The Muslim Brotherhood and Mr. Morsis 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.
Granted, other reporting from Al Arabiya makes clear that the energy crisis isn't exactly over.
Nonetheless, it seems apparent that organized groups put a stranglehold on an already ailing system. That organization was staggeringly deep and detailed.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-growing-evidence-vast-conspiracy-234418891.html
magellan
(13,257 posts)I was no fan of Morsi, but his supporters won't forget that we had a hand in his ousting. Do we really need that trouble?
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moondust
(19,981 posts)Who knows at this point?
I remember wondering if the Benghazi attack was funded by Sheldon Adelson & friends to cause trouble for Obama before the election. Big money has a long reach these days.
Look at the royal clusterfuck in Syria.
There's still a lot of killing going on in Iraq.
Just about anything is possible with that much upheaval and radicalism in the air. This kind of stuff could probably go on for a fairly long time before things get settled.