CAIRO: An Egyptian military prosecutor has summoned two activists and bloggers, Alaa Abd El Fattah and Bahaa Saber, for investigations. It remains unclear why they have been summoned. Many have speculated that the military court wants the two to act as eyewitnesses to the October 9 violence at a Coptic Christian protest that left 27 protesters dead and nearly 300 wounded in Cairo. El Fattah, who is currently out of the country, tweeted, “it is confirmed am being prosecuted by military and will be charged probably with incitement to violence and destruction of public property,” on Monday. An Egyptian TV host “Ahmed Spider,” who is associated with the former President Hosni Mubarak regime, accused El Fattah of being involved in the evening's violence. “I don't know if I am summoned because I am accused or because I am a witness, but it's quite scary,” Saber told Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper. Eyewitness accounts and video footage has indicated that Egypt's military used excessive force on the protest, however Egyptian state discourse has propagated a narrative of Christian protester-incited violence against an unarmed military. Saber was arrested in 2006 for speaking out against the government of former President Hosni Mubarak. He was again detained and tortured in 2010. El Fattah was arrested in 2006 as well. The summoning came on the same day that United States President Barak Obama called to urge the head of Egypt's ruling military council, Hussein Tantawi, to urge him to bring an end to the practice of trying civilians in military courts. BM