An Impending Bloodbath in Egypt?

An Impending Bloodbath in Egypt: Will It Break the Coup? » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the NamesBut the setback to the march of freedom and democracy in a region that has been plagued with despotism, repression, foreign domination, and corruption, could not have taken place without the active scheming and subversive action by myriad players led by the fulool counter-revolutionaries, or Mubarak loyalists and corrupt oligarchs, as well as the “deep state,” which is a decades-old web of corruption and special interests entrenched within the state’s institutions. Former justice minister Ahmad Makki detailed in recent interviews the depth of the entrenched elements of Mubarak loyalists including the judiciary, which 

actively undermined Morsi’s introduction of real reforms.