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Red Alert: Mubarak Resigns, Military is in Charge
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman delivered the following statement
Feb. 11: “In the name of God the merciful, the compassionate, citizens,
during these very difficult circumstances Egypt is going through,
President Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down from the office of
president of the republic and has charged the high council of the armed
forces to administer the affairs of the country. May God help
everybody.”
Suleiman’s statement is the clearest indication thus far that the
military has carried out a coup led by Defense Minister Field Marshal
Mohammed Hussein Tantawi. It is not clear whether Suleiman will remain
as the civilian head of the army-led government. Egypt is returning to
the 1952 model of ruling the state via a council of army officers. The
question now is to what extent the military elite will share power with
its civilian counterparts.
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