"We have people hit in the head, we have bullets that exploded as they entered the body, cluttering organs and body parts", said Gehad Haddad, a spokesman for Muslim Brotherhood.
Adamant that the role of police and army is to "safeguard the people's revolution", no matter their particular political affiliation, military spokesman Ahmed Ali said security forces acted "in self-defense against armed men attacking them from various locations, including rooftops."
No one disputes that there were clashes between Morsi supporters - at least some of whom also appeared to be armed and intent on violence - and the security forces sent in to remove them, but it's unclear who the gunmen were:
Witnesses, including Brotherhood supporters at the scene, said the army fired only tear gas and warning shots and that "thugs" in civilian clothes had carried out the deadly shooting.This bloodbath comes on the heels of arguably the largest mass demonstrations in modern history, and is almost certainly going to spiral out of control and plunge Egypt into chaos.
This is not the first time 'mystery gunmen' have begun shooting people in the head since the uprising began in 2011. In March 2013, a Morsi government inquiry into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters in Egypt at the end of Mubarak's reign concluded that "police were behind nearly all the killings and used snipers on rooftops overlooking Cairo's Tahrir Square to shoot into the huge crowds."
Police officials told the commission that snipers' equipment of the kind used during the uprising could only be found with members of an elite counterterrorism unit that worked under Mubarak's pervasive state security agency and took orders directly from the interior minister.So, Mubarak ordered teams of snipers to shoot protesters in the head in order to justify widespread repression of the uprising in a last-ditch effort to maintain power.
Most the victims were shot in the head or chest, suggesting the use of snipers, and bystanders were also killed or wounded as they watched the clashes from their homes, the report said.
Case closed?
Not quite. Sniper attacks continued during Morsi's brief reign, with more 'mystery' snipers picking people off in Port Said as recently as January this year.
Given that he was forced out of office in early 2011 and subsequently imprisoned in 2012, Mubarak himself can't be blamed for the recent coordinated efforts to generate chaos. But throughout his reign, there was much more to the Egyptian elite than Mubarak. How much change can anyone expect in a society when only the political and military elite's front man is removed?
So while the identities of those who have always preferred a shoot-to-kill policy on the streets of Egypt may forever remain unknown, the modus operandi is the same as ever. We saw it in Tunisia in 2011; we saw it Iran in 2009; we saw it in Venezuela in 2002; we see it in Syria to this day. Protesters are always shot randomly - usually in the head - to maximise mass panic and stimulate in-fighting.
The people behind this understand that 'régime change' - perhaps more accurately termed 'régime management' in Egypt's case - depends on instability. The media always reports its effects in general terms, lamenting the 'tragic escalation of violence', but never homes in on the clear and deliberate efforts of parties unknown to instigate bloody mayhem to make sure the people remain divided and perpetually powerless.
The NY Times recently printed a revealing few paragraphs on the topic:
As President Mohamed Morsi huddled in his guard's quarters during his last hours as Egypt's first elected leader, he received a call from an Arab foreign minister with a final offer to end a standoff with the country's top generals, senior advisers with President [Obama] said.Yet thanks to the CIA concept of 'plausible deniability', Obama can sit back, enjoy a round of golf, and say with a straight face that the U.S. is "not getting involved by backing any particular Egyptian party or group."
The foreign minister said he was acting as an emissary of Washington, the advisers said, and he asked if Mr. Morsi would accept the appointment of a new prime minister and cabinet, one that would take over all legislative powers and replace his chosen provincial governors.
The aides said they already knew what Mr. Morsi's answer would be. He had responded to a similar proposal by pointing at his neck. "This before that," he had told his aides, repeating a vow to die before accepting what he considered a de facto coup and thus a crippling blow to Egyptian democracy.
His top foreign policy adviser, Essam el-Haddad, then left the room to call the United States ambassador, Anne W. Patterson, to say that Mr. Morsi refused. When he returned, he said he had spoken to Susan E. Rice, the national security adviser, and that the military takeover was about to begin, senior aides said.
"Mother just told us that we will stop playing in one hour," an aide texted an associate, playing on a sarcastic Egyptian expression for the country's Western patron, "Mother America."
But what does that mean coming from the spokesman for a country that has effectively covertly ruled Egypt for decades, at arm's length, through massive military 'aid' and directly through CIA machinations on the ground?
It means that, like the Lavon Affair...
The Lavon Affair refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence for plans to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned civilian targets, cinema, library and American educational center. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, "unspecified malcontents" or "local nationalists" with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone....these sniper massacres serve one goal: to create a "climate of sufficient violence and instability" that enables the ruling elite in Egypt and their brethren in the U.S. and Israel to subvert, at all costs, the dreams held by ordinary Egyptians of realising self-government by, for and of the people.
Is that that there is an overwhelming group in Egypt, and Turkey as an example (and other parts of the world) have ears to hear and eyes to see, they are becoming aware that the reality that they see has been corrupted by a force that is driven by (although they do not have a name) psychopathology.
They are becoming aware that what they see are not the values that we as a humanity aspire too, creativity, collaboration and cooperation to come together as a group to discover a more human way of solving problems
This is a predatory force, so malign the only way it can survive is to destroy any creative thought or action that would benefit mankind in order to survive there parasitic lifestyle.