Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
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The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) (Arabic: المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة‎, al-Maǧlis al-ʾAʿlā lil-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥah, also Higher Council of the Armed Forces) consists of a body of 20 senior officers in the Egyptian military. As a consequence of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the Council took the power to govern Egypt from its departing President Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011. The junta meets regularly, as well as in times of a national emergency, with the President of Egypt serving as its chairman. During the course of the 2011 revolution, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces met first on February 9, 2011 under the chairmanship of the former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak. The Council met for the first time without the chairmanship of the President on February 10, and issued their first press statement, which signaled that the council was about to assume power which they did the next day following Mubarak's relinquishing of power to the military. The... (via Freebase)
 
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