Muslim Brotherhood prisoners killed in Egypt

[Bosonic]

Source: Al Jazeera

At least 38 people described as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have been killed in Egypt while attempting to escape police custody.

The men were killed after taking a police officer hostage while being transferred on Sunday in a police vehicle to Abu Zaabal prison near Cairo, sources told Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Cairo, quoted a source as saying that the men had been arrested in the clearout of Cairo's Fateh mosque on Saturday.

He said the men somehow took the police officer hostage in an attempt to break free. However, other police officers attacked the vehicle with guns and tear gas and all inside were killed.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013818175824286257.html

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. More mass murder by the people Kerry said were "restoring democracy" in Egypt.

The Obama administration needs to quit mealy-mouthing around, follow US law, and cut off economic aid to the coupmeisters.

Let the Saudis pay the people doing their bloody handiwork. We don't need to.

[cosmicone]

2. I can't stop my tears

I am weeping and sobbing really hard.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. You are really outing yourself today. And it isn't pretty.

What is like for someone to be so embittered they have lost all semblance of humanity?

[cosmicone]

6. What?

You don't like me lamenting such a vast genocide?

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. Should I shed similar crocodile tears for the victims in Mombai?

Would you find that amusing?

Face it, your hateful remarks today have gone over the edge, even for DU. Maybe you should take some time to reflect.

[cosmicone]

10. Such a vast massacre ... I mean genocide

second only to Pol Pot's or Hitler's ... and one cannot even weep without being criticized.

[Turbineguy]

3. Shot whilst trying to escape?

[Igel]

5. Or during a fight.

Either way, it was less a "van" and more a "bus."

Wonder what happened to the police they're alleged to have taken captive?

Or why there were so many prisoners and so few guards.

I can make the story make sense. Don't know that I want to put out the effort.

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. CNN just reported that most of them were asphyxiated.

Smothered to death by tear gas lobbed into the van in which they were locked.

Accident? Somehow I doubt it.

[dipsydoodle]

19. UK news reporting the same.

Teargas.

This might turn out to be interesting :

Four Irish siblings held in Cairo.

Four Irish siblings caught up in the violence in Cairo are being held by Egyptian authorities, their family said on Sunday.

Sisters Omaima Halawa, 20, Fatima, 22, and Somaia, 27, and their brother Ibrihim, 17, were among hundreds of people cleared out of the al-Fateh mosque when security forces stormed the building on Saturday.

Their father, Sheikh Hussein Halawa, is the imam of Ireland's largest mosque, in Dublin. At the family home in Firhouse, south Dublin, another sister, Nasaybi, said the four were being held at a jail in Cairo.

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The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said it was working closely with counterparts in Egypt to try to secure the safe release of the family. The four siblings have not been able to contact their family directly. It is understood their mobile phones have been seized.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/four-irish-siblings-held-cairo

Hopefully they're ok and will also be provide some information on exactly what "detention" means.

[azurnoir]

9. So we're to believe that the Egyptian police attacked this van

while one of their own guys was being held hostage inside? Either total BS as to what the circumstances were or total disregard for life even one their own

Take your choice

[jessie04]

11. Total disregard I suspect.

The people who did this are contemptible.

[azurnoir]

12. well of course you do :)

[another_liberal]

13. These bastards always blame the victims.

I'm sure the truth is far different than the official story coming from Fascist sources.

Thirty-eight more people were murdered by the coup leaders and their lackeys. Add their names to the ever-growing list of politically motivated killings, perpetrated by our Egyptian "allies."

[Devil Child]

17. These bastards always blame the authorities.

I'm sure the truth is far different than the alleged story coming from Terrorist sources.

Thirty-eight more terrorists were killed in action by the lawful security forces of the Egyptian Government. Add their names to the ever-growing list of enemies killed in action while defending the state against Islamic revolution, carried out by our Egyptian allies.

See, it can work both ways.

[another_liberal]

20. Shooting dozens of unarmed prisoners to death is a joke?

Some sense of humor you've got there, D.C.

[David__77]

14. The story is suspect.

But the bottom line is that the Egyptian authorities - if they want to avoid an Islamist revolution - will have to strike hard to snuff out the threat of insurgency.

[cosmicone]

15. +1,000,000

Although I had a post hidden in another thread for saying the same thing.

[rafeh1]

18. survey shows 69% of Egyptians oppose coup

Vast majority of Egyptian oppose coup regime. It is same as Chile in 73 with Pinochet doing the mass killing.

The coup supporters come from primarily Mubarak supporting elites and constitute around 25% of Egyptian society. They are vocal and hate the mass of poor Egyptians who voted for MB (67% in parliament, 64% constitution and 52% for Dr. Morsi). These elites want no more election at least elections where MB can participate.

The real issue is not Islamist but Egyptian Army control of Egyptian economy.

http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/6850-study-shows-opposition-to-morsi-ouster-rises-to-69#sthash.SGN2kQ5J.dpuf