What to make of the Egyptian president’s recent decisions to sack both his minister of defense, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, and the army chief of staff, Sami Hafez Enan, to force the heads of the air force, navy and air defense to retire, and to annul the addenda to the constitution issued by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on June 18, just prior to the elections?
Baghdad on the Nile
Maliki and Morsi have a paranoid mindset that sees a need to preempt perceived coup attempts and crackdown on supposed threats to one’s power.
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi


