{"id":7982,"date":"2013-05-23T00:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T00:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-president-claims-victory-in-captives\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T00:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T00:55:05","slug":"egypt-president-claims-victory-in-captives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-president-claims-victory-in-captives\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt President Claims Victory in Captives&#8217; release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt&#8217;s Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country.}}<\/p>\n<p>Seated with top military brass and senior officials, an animated Mohammed Morsi lauded the release as a show of how unified and strong his leadership is and urged his opponents to work with his government in dealing with Egypt&#8217;s multiple crises.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the end of the nearly weeklong kidnapping drama, however, Morsi&#8217;s government has left unresolved the issue of widespread lawlessness and growing power of Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula. <\/p>\n<p>Key questions remained over how the release of the six police conscripts and a military border guard was negotiated and whether the militants suspected of kidnapping them will be pursued.<\/p>\n<p>Critics warned that the resolution only boosted militants. The biggest winners from the crisis may be hardline Islamists on whom Morsi relies for political support and who said they played a role in mediating the captives&#8217; release.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2760 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/hhh-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt&#8217;s Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country.}} Seated with top military brass and senior officials, an animated Mohammed Morsi lauded the release as a show of how unified and strong his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}