Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called a wave of rallies on Friday in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi as the military appealed for conciliation despite a crackdown on Islamist leaders.
Ahead of the rallies, around a dozen low-flying military jets screeched across Cairo, a day after they staged a parade leaving a trail of smoke in the shape of a heart in the sky.
The call for "peaceful protests" across Egypt came from the Brotherhood's recently-formed National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, which it said were "to denounce the military coup against legitimacy and in support of the legitimacy of President Morsi"
With thousands of Morsi supporters camped outside a Cairo mosque encircled by military vehicles, the call for demonstrations raised fears of fresh violence after days of bloodshed.
The military said it supported the right to peaceful protest, but warned against violence and acts of civil disobedience such as blocking roads.
Human Rights Watch called for "prompt, impartial investigations to determine who was responsible for killings" since late June.
"The available information indicates that both supporters and opponents of Morsi -- and possibly security forces as well -- were responsible for needless loss of life," said HRW's Joe Stork.
In the Sinai, Islamist militants killed a soldier early Friday, as gunmen ambushed army and police positions with machineguns and rockets.
State news agency MENA said military Apache helicopters struck a militant's vehicle in pursuit of gunmen who attacked an airport in the north of the restive peninsula.
Some militants in the Sinai had threatened a violent response after Morsi's ouster on Wednesday.
Clashes also broke out in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya, hours after chief justice Adly Mansour, 67, was sworn in on Thursday as interim president until new elections.
The army warned Egyptians against resorting to "exceptional and autocratic measures against any political group".
"The armed forces believe that the forgiving nature and manners of the Egyptian people, and the eternal values of Islam, do not allow us to turn to revenge and gloating," added the army, even as security forces rounded up top Muslim Brotherhood officials.
The Islamists accuse the military of conducting a brazen coup against Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected but controversial president, following massive protests calling for his ouster.
Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced Morsi's overthrow on Wednesday night, citing his inability to end a deepening political crisis, as dozens of armoured personnel carriers streamed onto the streets of the capital.
Military police have since arrested Brotherhood supreme leader Mohammed Badie "for inciting the killing of protesters", a security official told AFP.
Former supreme guide Mahdi Akef was also arrested, state television reported.
Morsi himself was "preventively detained" by the military, a senior officer told AFP hours after his overthrow, suggesting he might face trial.
A judicial source said the prosecution would on Monday begin questioning Brotherhood members, including Morsi, for "insulting the judiciary". Thirty-five of them have been banned from travel.
Morsi's supporters argue the president was confronted at every turn with a hostile bureaucracy left over by former strongman Hosni Mubarak, overthrown in the country's 2011 uprising.
The deposed leader, who has not been seen since Wednesday, had issued a defiant call for supporters to protect his elected "legitimacy", in a recorded speech hours after he was toppled.
In Cairo, anger gave way to gloom as thousands of Brotherhood supporters rallied outside a mosque, surrounded by the army.
"It's a soft military coup. The military was smart, using the cover of civilians," said one of the protesters, 26-year-old Ahmed al-Sayyed.
Morsi's rule was marked by a spiralling economic crisis, shortages of fuel and often deadly opposition protests.
US President Barack Obama said he was "deeply concerned" over the developments, but refrained from calling the military intervention a coup.
In May, Washington approved $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt. That was now under review, said Obama, as he called for a swift return to democratic rule.
Germany called the military's move "a major setback for democracy in Egypt", while governments across the Middle East welcomed Morsi's ouster in varying degrees, with war-hit Syria calling it a "great achievement".
AFP
Fri Jul 05 2013
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