EGYPT!
benwedeman ✔ @bencnn
Photo: The anti-Morsi demonstrations are THE biggest I've ever seen in #Egypt. #30June pic.twitter.com/BTA0N18RVq
10:36 AM - 30 Jun 2013
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Reuters actually quotes an unnamed Egyptian military source putting the number at 14 million - which would be roughly a sixth of the country’s population. As Reuters notes that number seems “implausibly high” and it is not at all clear that the military is an impartial judge (an ambiguity which could have great portent in the coming days). But as a national institution monitoring protests around the country via helicopter, the military is perhaps the best or only institution in a position to assay an estimate.
http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/06/amazing_9.php?ref=fpblg
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/30/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE95Q0NO20130630
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