The day started with that proposal from the Muslim brotherhood on its official Facebook page. To end or rather revert that "military coup" the following should take place :
- To restore the presidential , parliamentary and constitutional legitimacy.
- The elected president Morsi would hold parliamentary elections for the house of representatives that would amend the constitution
- To have a national dialogue !!
No concessions what so ever.
Then hours later we found out that State owned Ahram Newspaper published this Front page "The prosecutor general orders the detention of Morsi for 15 days pending investigations".
The report is full of juicy parts "El Ahram exclusives details the American conspiracy on Egypt and the last hours of MB's rule" like how Morsi is facing espionage charges for contacting the U.S ambassador Anne Paterson from Lieutenant general El Sisi's mobile phone on 3 July 2013. Accordingly there are recordings for these calls "which means that El Sisi's mobile phone was under surveillance !!?"
The prosecutor general denied that the report completely on air on Egyptian channels at the same time the Ahram Daily editor in chief's Abdel Nasser Salama insisted that what the paper published in its Monday issue was true.
Anyhow the army spokesperson colonel Ahmed Ali then published a statement on his official FB denying completely what came in Ahram from claims.
"What came in Ahram's issue tomorrow is untrue completely and does not depend on confirmed facts. Publishing this in this way in this timing aims to create confusion and to agitate the public opinion and to achieve the suspicious goals of certain political currents" Colonel Ahmed said in his short angry statement. This is the first time Ahram Daily is accused and attacked by the army in this way in its long history.
It is worth to mention that Ahram newspaper is supervised closely.
Of course now Ahram editor in chief Abdel Nasser Salama is in a huge trouble because Colonel Ali denied what he said completely and officially. Now people are accusing Salama of working for the sake of the MB as he was appointed by the Islamist dominated Shura council last year. It is worth to mention that that Salama is a Mubarak loyalist who used to attack the 25 January revolution in the 18 days and the revolutionaries during SCAF.
I believe that this could be a game of negotiations between the army and the MB. There are negotiations going indirectly and directly. You got local and foreign parties involved in these negotiations despite the official denials of both the army and the MB.
May be after that provoking statement , the leaks were sent to Ahram editor in chief to raise the bar !??
Another theory is that we got conflicting players now , we are not dealing with the army and the Mb alone.
By the way the MB may find it good to have Morsi officially detained as it will be used internationally for their own sake.
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