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After Egypt crackdown, charred remains of the Islamists’ cause

Residents survey the damage at at the burned Rabaa al Adawiya mosque in Cairo. Islamists vowed to rally later in the day in support of deposed President Mohamed Morsi despite a violent crackdown that sparked Egypt's worst day of violence in decades, with more than 500 people killed. As the death toll soared, condemnation of the previous day's crackdown on two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo poured in.

Residents survey the damage at at the burned Rabaa al Adawiya mosque in Cairo. Islamists vowed to rally later in the day in support of deposed President Mohamed Morsi despite a violent crackdown that sparked Egypt’s worst day of violence in decades, with more than 500 people killed. As the death toll soared, condemnation of the previous day’s crackdown on two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo poured in.   (Khaled Desouki / AFP/Getty Images)

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The Muslim Brotherhood is gone, scoured away by a crackdown on a sit-in that had fanned out from the Rabaa al Adawiya mosque into alleys and avenues.

Remains of Egypt crackdown

Egyptian scrap collectors arrive with a horse-drawn cart to gather items from the remains of burned vehicles outside the destroyed camp at Cairo’s Rabaa al Adawiya mosque.   (Khaled Desouki / AFP/Getty Images)

Remains of Egypt crackdown

A defaced poster of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi adorns a shop near the Rabaa al Adawiya protest site in Cairo.   (Ed Giles / Getty Images)

Remains of Egypt crackdown

A poster of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi lies amid the debris outside Cairo’s Rabaa al Adawiya mosque.   (Ed Giles / Getty Images)

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