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June 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A Brotherhood spokesman, Mahmoud Ghozlan, had already warned earlier that the
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled Egypt since Hosni
Mubarak’s overthrow last year, might be preparing to steal the election. He
said that the refusal by Mr Morsi’s opponent, Ahmed Shafiq, a former general
and Mubarak-era minister, to concede defeat and his insistence that he would
be declared the victor raised suspicions that the army had “bad intentions”.
“If Shafiq is declared the winner, this will make the coup clear,”
Mr Ghozlah, told the Saudi-backed newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat. “This
encroachment on the result may lead to a confrontation between the people
and the army”.
Suspicions over the intentions of the army among both the Brotherhood and the
young secular revolutionaries was exacerbated by
the sudden – and incorrect – announcement that ex-president Hosni Mubarak
was “clinically dead” on Tuesday night.
The election polls closed on Sunday night, with 14,000 polling stations
handing in their results to the Commission and the candidates by next
morning. Mr Shafiq has yet to make clear how his figures for the totals are
different from everyone else’s.
The Commission has confirmed it is examining 400 complaints from both sides,
but Dr Morsi’s lead of almost a million votes would require very heavy and
one-sided disqualifications to be overturned.
There were further reports that the Commission, whose head, Farouq Sultan, was
appointed by Mubarak, was preparing to postpone an announcement.
The Brotherhood has so far backed off a major showdown with the army, even
though it has already this week announced the dissolution of the
Brotherhood-led parliament and reserved to itself the right to legislate,
set a national budget and veto any part of the new constitution that is
being drawn up.
The Brotherhood led a march of tens of thousands of people to Tahrir Square on
Tuesday night in protest but, in contrast to the days of revolutionary
fervour leading to the overthrow of Mubarak, they then dispersed.
Today a cluster of banners and a handful of young men and food stalls were the
only sign of resistance to the all-powerful military council.
Reports of Mubarak’s demise distracted protesters on Tuesday night.
Although there seems no doubt that he is seriously ill – his doctors say he
suffered a stroke and remained unconscious and on life support – his
opponents claim there is a pattern of exaggerating his health crises in
order to win sympathy and to distract from politics. On Tuesday night,
various reports had Mubarak “clinically dead”, “dead”,
or in a coma. His heart reportedly failed in prison and had to be
defibrillated.
Mubarak, 84, who was jailed for life earlier this month for complicity in the
murder of hundreds of protesters in the uprising last year, was joined by
his wife Suzanne at the Maadi Military Hospital where he was taken on
Tuesday night from Tora Prison.
The premature announcement of his death by state media on Tuesday night,
combined with the uncertain outcome of the election, caused much mirth on
social networks. “We have two presidents, and a third who is both dead
and alive,” said one comment on Twitter.
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