adminMcCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, urged President Barack Obama to be prepared to use billions of dollars of American aid as leverage to force Egypt’s first Islamist leader to change course.
Asked about the chance of a new Islamist state in Egypt, McCain replied: “I think it could be headed that way.
“You also could be headed back into a military takeover if things went in the wrong direction. You could also see a scenario where there is continued chaos.”
Mursi last Thursday undercut a hostile judiciary that had been considering whether to scrap an Islamist-dominated panel drawing up a new constitution, stripping judges of the right to rule on the case or challenge his decrees. — AFP.
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