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| Mohamed ElBaradei |
CAIRO (AFP) – Nobel
Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei was chosen Saturday as premier to help lead
Egypt out of a deepening crisis, sources said, after bloodshed followed the
ouster of the country’s first freely elected president.
The Tamarod movement,
which engineered mass protests culminating in the overthrow of Islamist
president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, made the announcement after talks with
Egypt’s new interim leader.
The news of the
appointment, which a military source confirmed to AFP, was greeted with cheers
outside Cairo’s Ittihadiya presidential palace, where opponents of Morsi
frantically waved Egyptian flags and honked car horns.
It came as the Muslim
Brotherhood staged a new show of force to demand that the military restore
Morsi, after dozens of people died and hundreds more were injured in 24 hours
of violence.
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