‘Arab leaders tacitly back crackdown on Brotherhood’

Most Arab leaders tacitly support Egypt’s deadly crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, fearing the group’s growing regional influence since the Arab Spring threatens their own power, analysts say. Egypt’s army, directly or indirectly in power since 1952, ousted the Brotherhood’s democratically elected Mohamed Morsi as president in a 3 July coup and installed an interim civilian government in its place. Death toll from clashes, has reached 600 people.