Crowds Form in Tahrir Square to Protest 'Counter-Revolutionary Coup' in Egypt
<div class='node-body'><p>A pair of judicial decisions on Thursday by Egypt's high court have set the nation back into revolutionary mode on the eve of presidential elections that were suppose to solidify a pathway to a new democracy. Instead, the parliament was dissolved and legislative authority was handed back to the military council.</p>
<p>Growing crowds are now gathering in Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest the court decisions, which many are calling a 'coup' coordinated by 'counter-revolutionary' forces from the old regime and military circles.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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