Egypt’s president seizes powers back from military

By HAMZA HENDAWI SARAH EL DEEB
Published August 12, 2012 4:00am ET
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Egypt’s president seizes powers back from military
RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP - Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi swears in newly-appointed Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. Egypt's Islamist president ordered his former defense minister and chief of staff to retire on Sunday and canceled the military-declared constitutional amendments that gave top generals wide powers. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency) | AP

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Islamist president ordered the retirement of the defense minister and chief of staff on Sunday and made the boldest move so far to seize back powers that the military stripped from his office right before he took over.

Mohammed Morsi has been locked in a power struggle with the military since he took office on June 30. But after militants killed 16 Egyptian soldiers a week ago at a border post with Israel in Sinai, he has sought more aggressively to assert his authority over the top generals.

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