Egyptian Army Kills Over 40 Muslim Brotherhood Protesters

Egyptian Intifada Begins: Army Kills Over 40 Muslim Brotherhood Demonstrators

The Egyptian military opened fire on a crowd of unruly Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators who had staged a protest outside a military headquarters Monday, killing at least forty and wounding many others. In response, the country's other major Islamic party, Nour, withdrew from negotiations over a transitional government, calling the shootings a "massacre." The military said soldiers were attacked by a "terrorist group."

Demonstrators said that soldiers in uniform had fired tear gas, but plainclothes operatives--known in Cairo colloquially as "thugs," the same type of operatives that had accosted a CNN camera crew last week--had fired bullets directly into the crowd. Protests have continued after last week's ouster of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who has been detained along with hundreds of his fellow party members.

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