Don't worry, we'll finance you - Saudi Arabia tells Egypt army

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CAIRO, Aug 20: Saudi Arabia was not only the first regime to welcome Egypt’s military coup but has also announced that together with Arab countries it would finance Egypt if Western countries cut off aid to Cairo over the murderous crackdown on peaceful protesters. While there is little prospect of any aid cut off, the Saudi announcement is revealing.

"To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, [we say that] Arab and Muslim nations are rich ... and will not hesitate to help Egypt," Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (pic) said in a statement yesterday.

The Saudis are in fact financing the slaughter of thousands of innocent Egyptian civilians at the hands of a military that has gone berserk. On August 14, the very first day when the military and police launched their operations, some 2,600 people were murdered and more than 10,000 injured. Most had gun shot wounds to the head and chest.

The Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque where many of the dead and wounded were taken, looked like a morgue rather than a mosque. Not satisfied with killing so many people the military also set fire to the mosque. Two days later, it attacked the al-Fath Mosque as well where protesters had congregated after Juma Salat. The army and police attacked the mosque and after beating up all its occupants, they were dragged away to police vehicle. Their whereabouts are unknown.

Yesterday, the military perpetrated another blood bath when 52 detainees were shot and killed. According to the military they were being transferred to another prison when they were killed. How they died is not clear but the military’s versions kept changing. First, it claimed the prisoners attacked one of the guards inside the vehicle that was transporting them. Later it changed its story to the vehicle being attacked by gunmen on the way.

The fact is these prisoners were murdered in cold blood as has been the case in numerous other cases since the military launched its attack on peaceful sit-ins in Nasr City and Giza City.

The Saudi aid offer to Egypt came in the wake of US Congress members demanding cut off of US aid to Egypt because of the massacre of civilians. Foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) also plan to hold emergency talks on Wednesday to review their ties with Egypt and the nearly five billion euros in loans and grants promised to Egypt for 2012-2013.

In other news, a court in Egypt ordered the release of the former dictator Hosni Mubarak from jail while the military appointed regime announced today it was charging Mohamed Mursi, the elected President ousted from power through a military coup, with murder. A mass murderer like Mubarak is to be set free while an innocent person (Mursi) is being charged.

The regime has clearly embarked on a policy of genocide and appears determined to wipe out the Muslim Brotherhood even if it means killing tens of thousands of people.

Whether it will succeed in such a policy is debatable but what is certain is that the clock has been set back decades in Egypt and any hope of its recovery or settling down soon appears remote.

Source harakahdaily