MB Fires Egypt's Military Command

  • Middle East Newsline
  • August 13, 2012
CAIRO [MENL] -- The ruling Muslim Brotherhood has fired Egypt's military
command.
President Mohammed Morsi, the nation's first Islamist president, has
dismissed many of the members of the ruling council. Morsi, a Brotherhood
leader, fired the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces,
Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi, as well as the military's chief of staff.
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