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As it turned out, events moved faster than anyone expected, with the uprising in Tunisia triggering street protests in Cairo in January 2011. Within a week, the army had enacted the plan Mr Sisi recommended, putting troops on the streets and saying it stood with the Egyptian people - making clear that Mr Mubarak and his sons were expendable, but the army was not. Mr Mubarak was duly forced to resign on February 11. The revelations about the army’s role at the time of his downfall are causing many of the revolutionaries to question whether the Tahrir Square protests brought down anything more than the figurehead of the old regime. “When the revolution of January 25 exploded, the army already had plans to deploy,” said Hassan Nafaa, a prominent political scientist who was briefed personally on his report by the then General Sisi. “I came to the conclusion that the army took advantage of the revolution to get rid of Mr Mubarak’s scheme of succession - maybe also that they had to sacrifice Mubarak, rather than the regime itself.” Mr Sisi, who was promoted to field marshal shortly before leaving the army to stand for election, is buoyed by an outpouring of praise in the mass media. The official message is that he represents the values of the 2011 revolution, whose catchphrase was “The people want the fall of the regime”.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:17:31 +0000

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