5 p.m. Egypt time: Muslim Brotherhood says there has been defection in the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOI).
“A call to the officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs: Don’t follow or obey orders to shoot live ammo on protesters. Resist to such instructions. The protesters are Egyptians. Egyptians can’t kill Egyptians.”
This announcement was picked up a few minutes later by a pro-Muslim Brotherhood page, citing defection within the MOI:
They copy the post.
But the police says it was a hack:
“The Ministry of Interior Affairs announces that it was hacked by the Muslim Brotherhood as a part of its cyber campaign. For your information, the semi-official pages right now are the pages of the Egyptian police and the spokesman of the MOI. On those pages we will publish our official announcements until we retrieve our pages of the MOI.”
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