Egypt: high-wire acts
November 24, 2012  03:49
Fresh from a week in which he was declared the chief beneficiary of Israel's eight-day war in Gaza, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi lost no time in turning his replenished guns on foes closer to home. Some of the elements of the decree he issued on Thursday were popular, even among those revolutionary groups who have bitterly opposed him on other issues. 

Sacking the prosecutor general, Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud, a Mubarak-era hatchet man whose blatantly tainted actions resulted in cases collapsing against attackers of demonstrators, is one. Offering cash to the victims of military and security forces' brutality and retrials was another.

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