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8 Dec 2012

Egyptian military urges dialogue to avert "catastrophe"

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

A sign is pictured on a barbed wire barricade guarding the presidential palace in Cairo, as Republican Guard soldiers stand in line behind the barricadeCAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's military said on Saturday only dialogue could avert "catastrophe", stepping into a crisis pitting an Islamist president against opponents of his drive to reshape a nation in turmoil since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow. An army statement, which state radio and television interrupted their programs to read out, told feuding factions that a solution to the upheaval in the most populous Arab nation should not contradict "legitimacy and the rules of democracy". …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-opposition-shun-mursis-national-dialogue-030606290.html