Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) never resorted to taking "exceptional" measures during its interim tenure in power, the military council declared in a Monday statement, one day after parliament's lower house was reinstated via presidential decree. The SCAF went on to assert that its decision last month to dissolve the People's Assembly had been based on a ruling returned by Egypt's High Constitutional Court (HCC). Full text of the SCAF's Monday statement to be published shortly