Update:  I still refuse to believe that this is some developing situation, regarding the army – and that they were moved by protests.  Sami Anan’s resignation, the mid-protest statement, and the newspaper headlines seem very well-timed and in calculatingly perfect succession.

But it is no fait accompli, and there I really do not think they intend to oust him.  I suspect this is indeed blow back for what must have been a genuine ‘forced retiring’ of Former Defence Minister and Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and Chief of Staff and Lieutenant General Sami Anan.  Morsi must have felt he had a reliable partner in al-Sisi, but it would appear that this was a miscalculation.  Or at least that has been made brutally clear to him at the worst possible time.  And the newspaper headlines are inked proof that Morsi cannot rule a newspaper if they do not let him.  This may…