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with us today early because of the fourth of july holiday tomorrow is
dennis campbell he's editor in chief of u_k_ progressive magazine also in the
context of today's topic author of gypped unshackled is a great roadmap of
how those eighteen days of revolution in puget took place dennis before we get
into the details and and looking forward
let's get up to speed on the last four to six weeks in egypt
not just the last forces race for the last forty six powers of course the
uh... the deadline set by the military to the more see government to result the
people's demands has come and gone so virtually every feeding aljazeera live
all of the broadcasters
are keeping an eye on both charges square and the presidential palace just
to the north of it
as to what might be going on in terms of the
uh... military taking action against the government
what's happened is that over a long period of time now a number of weeks the
growing anniversary
and and injection revolutions we're seeing now tend to follow
anniversary date state
all have the original on the twenty fifth january back in two thousand
eleven which was a
police national holiday so they decided that since it easier just fallen
they would also wants a huge protest on a day when most members of the police
were taking a holiday
now we're at the one-year anniversary of the twenty sixth of june
more see allotment more see taking power having been elected to the president
spoke the judge after the fall of open bar
with the economy basically in a shambles
of the vast majority of the population
under the age of thirty and not able to make more though there's a huge
percentage in publishing
unable to make more the bot two dogs day their bread lines out petro leinster are
just horrific financial conditions
the people took to the street again on the anniversary of his taking office to
dammam
that something be done that he resign
what does that look like will happen and i mean as we said oh well i was watching
the video just before coming over to the studio of what's going on in egypt
what do we expect to happen next i mean it seems up in the air there's the
possibility of civil war being discussed in earnest uh... what what what what key
points should be became attention to it
well civil war is a very key point is you should be looking at because
unlike in the situation of mubarak who was continuing and unbroken line of
military dictatorship
and very large percentage of the poor population did lawfully elect more see
as their president so what you're seeing from him him you know basically bunkered
inside of the the the presidential palace
by saying that he's not going with military walks and they're going to have
to go through the people now granted it is a much smaller demonstration and what
you're seeing interior square
demanding that he lied
but there are several thousand people another part of cairo
that are protesting demanding that he stacked
and uh... the military yesterday had a rather unique here's show
when there was actually on monday afternoon
when they announced a forty eight-hour
uh... deadline force you to do something i t emblazoned with the military has as
phrases they said they must
uh... meet the demands of the people
you did that
could be anymore open and inclusive government a new coalition government
or it could very well be that please take it out and control to resign
now the the military tends to move very very slowly and very very carefully
you remember back two-and-a-half years ago during the revolution they did not
fire
on the people because they feel they are representatives of the people unlike
but charla son syria
unlike you know strongman in tunisia in libya with qaddafi
the military art knows that you can sit and bite its time as leaders come and go
because of the end of the day they control the economy the controls forty
percent of the businesses
to tremendous amount of wealth stored in that upper class
what's your sense of of
the u_s_ and british potential involvement in going forward in other
words if they happen so what is what is the the likely reaction going to be from
the u_s_ and and brandy and the u_k_
well there was a telephone conversation uh... i'm not sure exactly what im level
that it might have been today what happened yesterday
between president obama and more c_n_n_ the transcription i read coming out of
the white house press office nut made it sound as though even though more see has
said president obama supports him
on them
president obama's statement coming out of the press office was very clear to
say
that he supports no political party that we want you know a clear
democratic government indeed be gypped
now the problem that we've had with this more see government is that it has been
very fundamentalist in various llamas
uh... and the people of egypt the eighteen million eighty five million
people strong it's a very moderate
more centrist state
so this is what you see the protest that you see the women have been completely
discounted
yet they played such a huge problem here is your pricing two-and-a-half years ago
soviets it's is all very very columns unstable situation right now
all support is not
out of the the picture
epl therefore any place across the middle east because it is a bit of a
tender bartender boxer
in terms of the content of uh... lack of
consistency between as you mentioned the more extremist
government compared to a more moderate population
are their lines of correlation to the situation in iraq where we know that
that the vast majority of duck the population particularly young people are
very moderate and that is not reflected in the leadership
you're going to see some of that here as well all of the i would say you know
that you've been in iran
there is a part that is a much more religious inside the eight seven which
is the
on a day-to-day basis and in egypt in egypt
you know i had a very large coptic christian population was changed
really a melting pot less the case there
something else to keep in mind is is is also with
instability which is seen in that region
you need to have the chance for all law of of spoke to sort through the streets
of four
but i don't see that happening at the age of twenty years which is going to
actually breakdown
and battle between those who are for the islamist government of more seeing those
who are against it
and those who are against it that's the member i think you're going to see
probably
moral coalition approach
if the military's patient off to allow it to happen
all right we're gonna keep following it make sure to check out dennis is booked
each it's unshackled the roadmap to have the eighteen days of revolution occurred
we've been speaking with dennis campbell he's editor in chief of u_k_ progressive
magazine
also host of world view we dennis campbell on youtube and book view t_v_
also on youtube dennis thanks as always and we'll talk to you next week
thank you and have a great holiday