Egypt military committed no excesses, claims army chief

With the President Mohammed Mursi by his side, Egypt’s Army Chief General Abdel Fattah El Sissi warned against slandering the military, denying in remarks broadcast on Friday that the military committed any abuses against protesters in the past two years.Sissi spoke following a late night meeting on Thursday between the country’s top brass and Mursi.The meeting appeared to have been prompted by recent media leaks of parts of a report by a fact-finding mission commissioned by Mursi to investigate the deaths and abuses of protesters during and after the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.The mission, whose report was finalised in late December but has yet to be made public, reportedly found that the army unlawfully detained protesters and was possibly involved in killings of some during the uprising and during the military’s rule of Egypt after Mubarak’s ouster. source : Arabstoday