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Tensions are high across Egypt today as dueling factions take to the streets, some supporting the recent ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and others vehemently opposed to the actions by the military which led to his recent removal.

As Al-Jazeera reports:

As historian Juan Cole wrote on his popular blog Friday morning: “I have a bad feeling about this.”

In a development that adds to the already anxious situation, outlets report that Morsi was detained by military authorities on Friday. He was accused of crimes from the time when his predecessor Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 including accusations of colluding with the Hamas government in the neighboring Gaza Strip.

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Members of Morsi’s political party, the Muslim Brotherhood, denounced his detention.

“At the end of the day we know all of these charges are nothing more than the fantasy of a few army generals and a military dictatorship,” Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad told Reuters. “We are continuing our protests on the streets.”

The threat of violence, however, seemed palpable. As Reuters reports:

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