"Whatever the majority in the People's Assembly, they are very welcome, because they won't have the ability to impose anything that the people don't want."
Thus declared Gen. Mukhtar al-Mulla, a member of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
Al-Mulla's message was that the Islamists' victory in Egypt's recent election gives them neither executive power nor control of the framing of a new constitution. But Gen. Sami Anan, chief of staff and the SCAF's deputy head, quickly countered that al-Mulla's statement does not necessarily represent the official views of the council.