A colleague sent me this: "The Americans and the SCAF will make sure that Mursi cannot do anything. If he
mobilizes against them, they will assassinate him, and if he does not , he will
have no power and will lose any popularity. The Americans screwed up, had they
allowed Sabbahi to win with these restrictions, he would not have been able to
mobilize the population against them, this guy will, but it will be a
game. The delay in announcing the results was clearly spent deciding what is
riskier: to have to completely crack down now and have Shafiq assume power,
which was a risk whose outcome was uncertain; or give it to Mursi and choke him
slowly with the possibility that he could mobilize against them at which point
they would crack down."