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            Egypt Bracing for Marches by Pro- and Anti-Morsi Groups

   Cairo is bracing for a day of mass protests Friday by supporters and
   opponents of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, with both sides promising
   to march peacefully.
   Mr. Morsi`s Muslim Brotherhood is refusing to back down from demands
   that he be reinstated. It strongly opposes plans for a transitional
   government.
   A Brotherhood spokesman tells VOA that the group will keep pressuring
   the leaders of what he calls a military coup with sit-ins and million
   man marches. He says the movement believes in non-violent, democratic,
   and peaceful change.
   Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department says the arrests of Brotherhood
   leaders are not in line with the national reconciliation the interim
   Egyptian government says it wants.
   Spokeswoman Jan Psaki says if politicized arrests and detentions
   continue, it would be hard to see how Egypt can move forward.
   Egypt`s public prosecutor ordered the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood
   leader Mohamed Badie and some other senior Islamists. He accuses them
   of inciting Monday`s clash between Morsi supporters and the army which
   killed 51 people.
   The military overthrew President Morsi last week after days of massive
   anti-government protests. Morsi opponents accuse him of betraying the
   2011 revolution that forced long-time president Hosni Mubarak from
   office.
   The U.S. State Department said this week that Mr. Morsi`s government
   was not a democratic rule, but is refusing to take sides in the current
   political crisis. It says any transitional government must include all
   voices and parties.
   The United States is still evaluating if Mr. Morsi`s ouster was a
   military coup. If such a determination is made, U.S. law would require
   the government to suspend all non-humanitarian aid to Egypt. Meanwhile,
   the U.S. says it is going ahead with a planned delivery of four F-16
   fighter jets to Egypt. The planes are scheduled to arrive in August.
   They are part of a set of 20 planes Egypt is to receive this year under
   a deal approved in 2010.
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