CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's interim president on Tuesday defended the military's ouster of his predecessor said his government's top priority was restoring security in the face of terrorism.
Adly Mansour's interview with Egyptian state television, the first since his appointment, aired on the same day that a military tribunal issued verdicts against supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and a court ordered channels sympathetic to the former regime off the air.
The wide-ranging interview appeared aimed at putting a civilian face on the military ouster of Morsi amid concerns that the country's powerful army is pulling the strings from behind the scenes.