Amy Goodman
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Egypt's Morsi Ousts Top Generals, But Key Military Insiders Tapped to Fill the Gaps
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August 14, 2012
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15:28Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - In a major shakeup, Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi, dismissed the country's two top generals over the weekend, field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and military Chief of Staff Sami Enan. Morsi also quashed the army's recent constitutional declaration that had curbed the new leader's powers. "What's most important to realize is that all of the new appointments came from within the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces," Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous says from Cairo. "These weren't outsiders who came to replace them."
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