(WASHINGTON POST) CAIRO — Past the bouncy castle and the inflatable kiddie pool, past the potted plants, cashew vendors and signs welcoming visitors to come in peace to the protest rally and sit-in by supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, security teams led by the Muslim Brotherhood were busy early Monday filling sandbags and erecting brick walls reinforced with rebar.
They were fortifying themselves for what the backers of toppled president Mohamed Morsi say could be a bloody siege of two massive encampments in Cairo, both still filled with women and children.
Egyptian security officials warned media Sunday that time was running out for the tens of thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators who have been camped out near Cairo University and the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque for more than a month.
