Every account I have read in every media source quotes the same number but I wasn't there to actually count the bodies.

No one seems to be contesting the security forces count and there was funeral yesterday

http://www.enca.com/africa/egypt-pol...-repel-attacks

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97F0G920130816 Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has said 43 policemen were killed, a toll the Brotherhood dismissed as part of propaganda to demonize the group and justify an even tougher crackdown. The burnt-out remains of police vehicles still lay abandoned on roads near where the main pro-Mursi sit-in was dispersed.

According to Reuters photos/eyewitnesses 4 policemen for sure and counting.


A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October bridge by protesters close to the largest sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Egyptian police in riot gear swept in with armored vehicles and bulldozers Wednesday to clear the sit-in camps set up by supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president in Cairo, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out. (AP Photo/Aly Hazzaa, El Shorouk Newspaper)


A member of the security forces is dragged and stripped of his vest by protesters after his police vehicle was pushed off the 6th of October bridge by protesters. (AP Photo/Sabry Khaled)

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Egyptian police officers participate in a funeral where coffins are seen covered with national flags for policemen who were killed during Wednesday's clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist presiden ... http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_23867533

None of this proves 43 police dead but then there is no proof now of the pro-Morsi / Muslim Broterhood's death counts either.

Like most violent political events there never is a full accounting of all the dead.

I am not trying to justify all that has happened the past few days in Egypt just to point out that if you try to attack riot police and soldiers in all likelihood if you are not shot you will be beaten badly.

And I have a horse in this race -- Maya wont be able to join me in Athens next month because she needs to renew her passport and get a visa to Greece -- so I am pissed off about this whole thing on a personal level.

I am getting a lot of background info from her point of view, feet on the ground so to speak, as she feels a deceived person by the whole revolution and counter revolution that has occurred in the past 2 years in Egypt. She lives in Alexandria, Egypt on the Mediterranean coast -- Egypt's second largest city.

Her Internet went off when they declared the state of emergency there yesterday at the time I was trying to ask her what she was hearing locally on the police death toll and if it was a true number.