CAIRO: The Egyptian foreign ministry has summoned the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the country after that country's top police official wrote what Cairo considers “anti-Egypt” statements on his personal Twitter account, Egypt's state-run MENA news agency reported late on Thursday. It comes as the UAE has publicly stated its fears over the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and President-elect Mohamed Morsi in Egypt as a result of the protests that swept the country in January 2011. They fear the rise of Islamic groups could foment tension and possible protests in the country. Egypt was reported to have said that the envoy to Cairo was summoned to request “clarification from the United Arab Emirates about statements that do not go along with the nature of the special relationship between the two countries.” It said the statements, made on Twitter, were an “attack on Egypt,” but the report did not say which specific remarks that caused the offense. State-run newspaper Al-Ahram's website said Egypt was responding to Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan who made comments about Egypt on Twitter after Muslim Brotherhood candidate Morsi won the presidential election. “If they tried to shake the security of the Gulf, bloodshed will be up to their knees,” Khalfan said, according to the tweet reported by Al-Ahram which was no longer on Twitter. In other tweets, also after Mursi's win was announced, he said: “An unfortunate choice. The repercussions of this choice will not be light for poor ordinary people.”
