[lbo-talk] NYT: Egyptian Liberals Embrace the Military, Brooking No Dissent

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Jul 17 01:00:47 PDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:31 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:

Were there 33 million people protesting as some reports said ?

Hell, no. Not only is it a transparently silly claim (40% of Egypt's predominantly rural population? really?!), no one even seems to remember where it originated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23312656 http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/resources/commentary-and-analysis/6574-30-june-anti-morsi-crowd-figures-just-dont-add-up

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