to go through. and just to give a little bit of context, the field marshal was probably the most powerful man in egypt, now mohamed morsi is the most powerful man in egypt. also comes as president mohamed morsi sacked his head of intelligence. he sacked the head of the republican guard, which oversees security. there was a lot of turnover right now within the security service, within the military. this is all coming as we have this conflict going on in sinai. a lot of people are wondering why he would fire his top military commander while an ongoing operation against militants is happening in the sinai, and why didn t he do this when he had a cabinet reshuffle just a couple weeks ago. so there is a lot of questions people are asking. right now it s safe to say that egypt is in a state of shock as this news comes out. so ian, lots of estions, lots of confusion. and while some reports he s fired them, in others he s asking them to retire, and at the same time morsi may be off