Breaking News & LIVE THREAD- Egypt and Middle East

Various on the internet | 28 January 2011

[SE Mom]

From FOX:

DEVELOPING: Loud explosions and gunfire were heard in the Egyptian capital of Cairo Friday, as protesters demanding the removal of President Hosni Mubarak defied a curfew, Al Jazeera reported. Egyptian television reports the ruling party headquarters in Cairo are on fire.

From TWITTER:

WashingtonPost: Clinton: We urge #Egypt authorities to allow peaceful protest, reverse unprecedented steps it has taken to cut off communications less than 20 seconds ago

[publana]

Thanks HollyB. Gotta love how they twist words.
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[livius]

I think that’s possible. Monday is when the world will be on-line and watching again, so I’m sure they want it to look as if El Baradei (clearly Obama’s pick) is riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Acclaimed by the masses, dissent from no one.

[HollyB]

Great find SE Mom. Hanging on to that one, thanks.

[Pan_Yan]

The One Person Who May Know What Egypt's Generals Will Do

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak appointed his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman vice president not because Suleiman had any sway with the Egyptian street but rather because the new veep knows the military better than anyone. A former general, Suleiman has spent his career helping keeping Egypt's officers in line. He learned by heart the biographies of every officer, uncannily capable of predicting who was loyal and who wasn't. That privileged catalog is key to anyone who wants to control the closed military dictatorship that Egypt has been since a 1952 coup d'etat overthrew the monarchy. And that's why everyone else seems to be confused about what's going to happen next in Egypt, including Egyptians.

[Woodstock]

This is a vanity post perhaps? I have 14 and 17 year old tees who have no clue abut the history of the Middle East leading up to the most recent protests. Please send me intelligent links they can understand...preferrably video. Like many, these kids want info bites, not War and Peace. If they have their way, they will never have to fall asleep reading text like I still do. Many thanks in advance!

[Woodstock]

This is a vanity post I suspect? (please do not eat me for lunch if I am posting incorrectly.) I have 14 and 17 year old tees who have no clue abut the history of the Middle East leading up to the most recent protests. Please send me intelligent links they can understand...preferrably video. Like many, these kids want info bites, not War and Peace. If they have their way, they will never have to fall asleep reading text like I still do. Many thanks in advance!

[Woodstock]

I cannot type. That is what happens when Daddy would not let his little girl, and only child, take typing for fear I would become a “secretary.”...LOL Who knew with PCs and office desk-tops (back in the day) we would have to write all our own stuff? Thanks Freeper-Dad! I have no doubt it made a huge difference in my career. Today we have voice-to-text; I really need to check that out.

[Uncle Ike]

” Like many, these kids want info bites, not War and Peace. “

That’s the attitude that got BHO elected... Those who forget - or never learn - History are doomed to repeat it, and you just can’t learn something so complex and nuanced as History from ‘info bites’...

If you read back through this thread, you’ll find that most of the serious posters here have spent years, and in some cases, decades, studying, or paying close attention to, Mideast, and World, History and Politics...

I don’t have any advice for you as to what to tell your kids, except, perhaps, that we live in a complex, dangerous, world, and if they want to survive in it, they had darned well better start paying attention....

JMO, of course - YMMV.....

[redgolum]

Do they have the same “weekend” like we do? I mean I have worked with people in the ME before, and many had Fri/Sat off with Sunday back to work.

[publana]

(CNN) — While discontent, resentment and nationalism continue to fuel demonstrations, one vital staple is in short supply: food.
Many families in Egypt are fast running out of staples such as bread, beans and rice and are often unable or unwilling to shop for groceries.
“Everything is running out. I have three children, and I only have enough to feed them for maybe two more days. After that I do not know what we will do.” school administrator Gamalat Gadalla told CNN.

http://bit.ly/gdayS0

umm... Nobody thought to stock up prior to causing their government to fall?

[Uncle Ike]

bttt

[hegemony]

Hey LW group! LTNS- link to the old Long War site it , I also sent a ping to CounterMortar

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979689/posts

[cookcounty]

"Naturally Monday is going to be when things get serious. Weekend revolutions don’t mean much until reality bites on Monday."

The "weekend" as defined in the west is different in the Middle East: Sunday is a workday.

[gleeaikin]

Here is a link about residents protecting their own, and working together with the Army. There are also 500 photos.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/30/with-egyptian-police-absent-civilians-arm-themselves-to-protect/?ncid=webmail

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[azkathy]

This should serve as a lesson for many Americans but some people just will not listen or act on it. Stores will begin to run out of supplies in 3-7 days if their normal shipments do not come through.

Freepers STOCK UP NOW!Who knows when the swhtf?

[sheik yerbouty]

Sunna or later Shi’ite happens!

[SE Mom]

Thanks so much:)

Meanwhile...

1124: The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner says this protest movement is concentrated in the urban centres such as Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, and many Egyptian peasants and farmers are likely to be quite unsettled by it. On Mubarak’s apparent intransigence to leave office, Frank Gardner says he has interviewed Mubarak and he is a man convinced that power is his birthright.

1120: Sources tell Reuters that the Egyptian leadership has formed a new cabinet, replacing Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali with Gawdat el-Malt (who has headed the audit office and gained some popularity for addressing corruption) and bringing in a new interior minister, General Mahmoud Wagdy, previously head of Cairo criminal investigations department and also a former head of prisons. Protesters had demanded former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli be sacked after brutal police treatment of protesters.

1118: The Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to form a broad political committee with Mohamed ElBaradei to talk to the army, a senior member tells Reuters

[no-to-illegals]

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