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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Egyptians in Free Mursi Qatar concerned but divided over crackdown to end Egypt DOHA: Egyptian expatriates in Qatar, while obviously unhappy about what is happening back home, say they expect the situ- ation to become clearer today as the Muslim Brotherhood has crisis: Qatar called for protests after Friday prayers all over the country. “We have to see how people FM stresses talks to find solution react after Friday prayers today to Wednesday’s military action DOHA: Reiterating its strong that saw hundreds of people condemnation of Wednesday’s killed and many others injured,” military action in Egypt that said an Egyptian, requesting saw hundreds killed, Qatar yes- anonymity. terday said no solution to the He said he didn’t anticipate crisis was possible unless former further violence as both sides, the president Mohammed Mursi army and the Brotherhood, should and other political prisoners now take defensive positions after were released. Wednesday’s bloodbath. Releasing Mursi and other solution, the foreign minister said: The expatriate said Hosni political prisoners would make “We will keep trying for a solution. Mubarak’s era was known for dialogue for an amicable solu- A solution was easier yesterday Egyptian men try to extinguish a fire in a government building that was set ablaze in the Giza district of Cairo corruption but there was no vio- tion to the imbroglio possible and than today and would not be as lence.