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karangan ~PakKaramu~ on 8/17/2013

The fresh unrest caps a week of widespread and unpredictable violence that killed more than 800 nationwide.

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CAIRO — Chaos spewed around a central Cairo mosque Saturday as the death toll from weekend violence climbed and authorities considered disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood.

In Ramses Square, Egyptian security forces stormed the Al-Fateh mosque, where protesters had remained overnight, barricading themselves inside. The mosque had been serving as a makeshift hospital and morgue after Friday's violent clashes.

On Saturday, gunmen ascended the mosque's minaret and opened fire on security forces and civilians below, state news agency MENA reported. Video footage broadcast on local television showed security forces shooting back. Later in the afternoon, police dispersed protesters at the mosque, MENA reported.

Security officials told the Associated Press that officers raided the mosque out of fear the Muslim Brotherhood planned to set up a new sit-in protest camp. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

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A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of ousted president Mohammed Morsi runs past a burning vehicle during clashes with security officers close to Cairo's Ramses Square. Backers of Egypt's ousted president pledged to stage daily demonstrations as they ended a day of angry protests in which at least 173 people were killed during the day.
A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of ousted president Mohammed Morsi runs past a burning vehicle during clashes with security officers close to Cairo's Ramses Square. Backers of Egypt's ousted president pledged to stage daily demonstrations as they ended a day of angry protests in which at least 173 people were killed during the day.  Virginie Nguyen Hoang, AFP/Getty Images
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  • A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of ousted president Mohammed Morsi runs past a burning vehicle during clashes with security officers close to Cairo's Ramses Square. Backers of Egypt's ousted president pledged to stage daily demonstrations as they ended a day of angry protests in which at least 173 people were killed during the day.
  • The ruins of the Evangelical Church of Malawi are seen after it was ransacked, looted and burned on Thursday by an angry mob, in Malawi, south of Minya, Egypt. In the province of Minya, south of Cairo, protesters attacked two Christian churches, security officials said. Many of Morsi's supporters have criticized Egypt's Christian minority for largely supporting the military's decision to remove him from office, and dozens of churches have been attacked this week.
  • Egyptian security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque and through angry crowds, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, following a day of fierce street battles that left scores of people dead, near Ramses Square in downtown Cairo.
  • Muslim Brotherhood supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president are vowing to defy a state of emergency with new protests.
  • Egyptian security forces help an injured man after he left the al-Fateh mosque at Cairo's Ramses Square. Egyptian security forces entered a mosque in Cairo after an exchange of gunfire with barricaded backers of toppled Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
  • Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi carry a wounded man to safety during fighting with security forces Aug. 16 in Cairo's Ramses Square.
  • Muslim Brotherhood members gather in the Abbassiya neighborhood.
  • A Mohammed Morsi supporter wears a homemade gas mask during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Ramses Square in downtown Cairo.
  • A wounded man is carried away at Ramses Square.
  • A man covered with blood shouts at a makeshift hospital inside the Al-Fath Mosque.
  • People mourn over the bodies of their relatives at a temporary morgue inside the Al-Fath Mosque.
  • Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi move a wounded man during clashes with security forces at Ramses Square.
  • A woman screams during a battle between security forces and pro-Morsi supporters.
  • Armed civilians walk down a street in the Zamalek neighborhood in Cairo.
  • Supporters of Mohammed Morsi carry a wounded protester.
  • Pro-Morsi forces clash with Egyptian security troops at Ramses Square.
  • A man receives treatment for his wounds.
  • Morsi supporters collect stones to throw at security forces.
  • A man flashes the victory sign during a battle with security forces.
  • People mourn over the bodies of their relatives in the Al-Fath Mosque in downtown Cairo.
  • Demonstrators have their wounds treated inside the Al-Fath Mosque.
  • Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi carry a casket of a victim who was killed during clashes with security forces during a funeral at the Amr Ibn Al-As Mosque.
  • Muslim Brotherhood supporters carry a wounded demonstrator at Ramses Square.
  • Morsi supporters help a wounded protester as he is evacuated on a motorcycle at Ramses Square.
  • A Muslim Brotherhood supporter passes fires as demonstrators battle police at Ramses Square.
  • Members of the Muslim Brotherhood gather in front of al-Fatah Mosque.
  • Protesters gather in Ramses Square during a demonstration in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
  • Muslim Brotherhood supporters carry the body of a comrade who was shot during clashes with security forces in Giza.
  • Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi shout slogans during a march in Alexandria.
  • People help a wounded protester after a Muslim Brotherhood protest march approached a church protected by the Egyptian army on Mourad Street in Giza.
  • Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi march towards downtown Cairo from the Mohandeseen neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug, 16, 2013. Egypt is bracing for more violence after the Muslim Brotherhood called for nationwide marches after Friday prayers and a "day of rage" to denounce this week's unprecedented bloodshed in the security forces' assault on the supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president that left many dead. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell) ORG XMIT: TBH103
  • Mohammed Morsi suporters gather at the Fateh Mosque in Ramses Square for midday prayer.
  • An Egyptian man mourns the death of a relative on Aug. 15 in Cairo.
  • People salvage items left by protesters one day after the clearing of the sit-in of Rabaah al-Adawiya Square.
  • Soldiers clear debris in Nasr City.
  • Egyptians walk among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo.
  • An Egyptian examines the damage surrounding the Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque.
  • People mourn over the bodies of their relatives in the El-Iman Mosque in Nasr City.
  • A man sits next to a body at a mosque in Cairo.
  • Egyptians mourn at a mosque.
  • Bodies are wrapped in shrouds.
  • A man cries over a body.
  • A man searches through debris for valuables at a destroyed protest camp in Nahda Square in Giza.
  • A man walks through a destroyed pro-Morsi camp at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo.
  • Burned vehicles and debris litter Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.
  • Egyptian soldiers patrol a smoldering protest camp on Aug. 15.
  • A man photographs the damage inside the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo.
  • Soldiers patrol past the burned Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque.
  • A Morsi supporter reacts during clashes with security forces in Cairo's Nasr City district on Aug. 14.
  • An injured supporter of Morsi lies on the ground as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district.
  • Egyptian security forces detain supporters of Morsi as they clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district.
  • A government soldier kicks a supporter of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi as forces clear a makeshift camp near Cairo University.
  • A security force officer escorts a wounded Mohammed Morsi supporter from a makeshift camp.
  • A Morsi supporter shouts slogans during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Nasr City.
  • An Egyptian army vehicle burns as supporters of Mohammed Morsi stage a protest.
  • A Morsi supporter fires a slingshot at Egyptian security forces in Rabaah Al-Adawiya.
  • A person holds up a gas mask with a bullet hole.
  • Morsi supporters aim weapons as others take cover during clashes with security forces.
  • A man counts bodies at a makeshift morgue in Cairo.
  • Supporters of Mohammed Morsi overturn a truck during protests in Giza.
  • An injured demonstrator is carried away from the scene of a street battle.
  • A protester protects a wounded comrade as security forces move in to clear supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi from a makeshift camp in the Nasr City district of Cairo.
  • A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October Bridge by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.
  • A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October Bridge.
  • An injured soldier lies on the ground near his vehicle after it was pushed off the 6th of October Bridge by protesters.
  • A handcuffed protester watches as security forces clear a camp.
  • A man looks at bodies at a makeshift morgue.
  • Women gather stones as they battle security forces.
  • A woman checks a body.
  • Supporters of Morsi confront Egyptian security forces as they clear a makeshift camp.
  • A demonstrator throws a water container onto a fire.
  • A woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from running over a wounded man at a protest camp near the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque.
  • Morsi supporters chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during clashes with security forces.
  • A military bulldozer moves in to destroy a protest camp.
  • Protesters surrender to security forces.
  • A woman brandishes a stick at security troops as they clear a sit-in camp.
  • Security forces move in on a camp near the Rabaa Adawiya Mosque.
  • Egyptian riot police arrest a demonstrator.
  • An aid worker looks at injured Morsi supporters in Nasr City.
  • A wounded protester is helped by a fellow supporter, a riot police officer and a photographer.
  • Egyptian security forces evacuate an injured comrade.
  • An Egyptian military bulldozer smashes a protest camp at Al-Nahda Square.
The fresh unrest caps a week of widespread and unpredictable violence that killed more than 800 nationwide after security forces crushed two protest camps in Cairo on Wednesday with bulldozers, gunfire and tear gas and protesters again took to the streets Friday, clashing with police.

The death toll from Friday's clashes rose to 173, Egyptian government spokesman Sherif Shawki said Saturday. The Health Ministry said at least 683 were killed Wednesday as security forces cleared the sit-ins and retaliatory attacks and clashes billowed across the country.

On Saturday, the brother of al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahri was arrested and moved to a heavily guarded prison, MENA reported. Mohammed Al-Zawahri, who lives in Egypt, follows a hard-line Islamic ideology and was allied with the ousted Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi.

In another sign of a widening crackdown on Egypt's Islamists, Shawki said Saturday that interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi assigned the Social Solidarity Ministry to study the legal possibilities of dissolving the Brotherhood.

The 85-year-old movement has won in every election since the 2011 ouster of Hosni Mubarak, but over the past six weeks, many of its leaders and members have been arrested.

Historically, the state and Brotherhood have been at odds for decades, with many members having spent years in jail under Mubarak.

Egypt is facing "war by the forces of extremism" and will confront it with "security measures within the framework of law," Mostafa Hegazy, adviser to Egypt's interim president, said in a press conference Saturday.

Morsi supporters, however, blamed the government for starting ongoing violence that began Friday afternoon as Morsi supporters marched to Ramses Square, now the center of conflict in central Cairo.

"We don't have weapons ... and they are shooting us." said Jamal Salam as he marched to the square in a Brotherhood-incited "Friday of Anger."

Scenes of chaos gripped the city as heavy gunfire resounded across the capital Friday.
"People are afraid," said Sabr Agaya, who lives and works in Giza near the pyramids. "They are afraid from people dying downtown. They look at the TV, and they're so afraid."
Contributing: The Associated Press

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