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Egypt unrest: Tense stand-off in Cairo's Tahrir square : open battles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12345656 ^ | BBC

Posted on 02/02/2011 4:41:13 AM PST by sunmars

Update : battles have started.

There is a tense stand-off in the Egyptian capital's main square, after fights broke out between supporters and opponents of beleaguered President Hosni Mubarak.

Thousands of the president's supporters had surged into Cairo's Tahrir Square, dismantling barricades set up by anti-Mubarak groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: dictator0bama; egypt; get0ut; mb; muslimbrotherhood; sourcetitlenoturl; tahrirsquare
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To: sunmars

Brooke Shields on FoxNews

or

Egyptian crisis on english.aljazeera

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http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/


121 posted on 02/02/2011 6:00:23 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Think free or die; NRG1973
ArabRevolution تباً لك ياطاغوت by amrgeddon Congrats @BarakObama you successfully turned the whole of #Egypt into "Jihadists" #Jan25
122 posted on 02/02/2011 6:01:25 AM PST by HushTX (If the best defense is a good offense, it's a good thing I'm really offensive.)
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To: HushTX
I take very seriously the idea that no man will know the hour. So I don’t try to know.

While no man knows, we are instructed to watch and understand unfolding events. And we are given powerful prophecy and are charged with seeking to understand it ("Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast").

1Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch...
Rev 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

123 posted on 02/02/2011 6:03:26 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (I am inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and call for the ouster of Obama!)
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To: Melchior

Thanks for the reply. Very interesting perspective.


124 posted on 02/02/2011 6:04:06 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: paulycy

I could hear gunshots over the live feed, but I’m not sure what to make of it. The commentators didn’t say anything. Might be they didn’t hear it because they were talking. Could be nothing.

The commentator is calling this a “million man march.” REALLY?


125 posted on 02/02/2011 6:04:21 AM PST by HushTX (If the best defense is a good offense, it's a good thing I'm really offensive.)
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To: HushTX
The commentator is calling this a “million man march.” REALLY?

I highly doubt it. The Muslim Brotherhood and Al Baradai wanted it to be the other day but it fizzled down to less than about 250,000. It may be larger now but I haven't heard numbers. But if it had quadrupled in size the talking heads would be shouting about it.

126 posted on 02/02/2011 6:06:39 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: HushTX

Pro Mubarak supporters have beaten military up and stolen vehicles, loading them with supporters and driving to the square.


127 posted on 02/02/2011 6:06:43 AM PST by sunmars
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To: sunmars

I’m watching cnn, no fighting there. All I see is men hollering, waving fingers and newspapers. That’s not how men fight.


128 posted on 02/02/2011 6:08:57 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (BYOST -- bring your own sark tag. Thank you.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

There is, of course, more than one reason why a Christian shouldn’t ease off of his zeal to live righteously. If a supernatural event does not intervene in the world, one could simply die. Either way the meeting could happen without warning. Better not to have too many embarrassing things to explain (they will be forgiven, but the encounter will not be comfortable).


129 posted on 02/02/2011 6:09:31 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: sunmars

alJz report

3 military vehicles have been taken over by the rioters, driving them toward the square.

Vehicle (another one?) moving toward anti-Mubarak rioters.

Seems to be anti- against pro-Mubarak groups, without military or police presence.


130 posted on 02/02/2011 6:09:51 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

you’ve obviously not been watching long, its been going for hours.


131 posted on 02/02/2011 6:10:14 AM PST by sunmars
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To: coaltrain

If you don’t think that POTUS Obama and Egyptian America hater, ElBaradei are not two birds of a feather, then you are either insane, drinking too much Kool-Aid or smoking too much reefer. The Obama that Rev. Jeremiah Wright & Van Jones birthed is alive, well and doing his utmost best to destroy the United States of America. Ladies & Gentlemen, our POTUS Obama has not only lost Egypt, he as lost the entire Middle East as allies of the USA!!!


132 posted on 02/02/2011 6:10:18 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: PghBaldy

And many of their demonstration signs are in English. Go figure!
133 posted on 02/02/2011 6:11:45 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: sunmars
"Pro Mubarak supporters have beaten military up and stolen vehicles, loading them with supporters and driving to the square."

So the military is either ordered to not resist or that weak?

134 posted on 02/02/2011 6:11:52 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Kolokotronis
Why do you think there is any comparison between Iran in 1979 and Egypt today beyond the fact of hated American supported dictators?

Well, perhaps because in each case there were Islamic fundamentalists who wanted to see the more secular government toppled so they could install a more Islamic government?

135 posted on 02/02/2011 6:12:15 AM PST by Will88
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To: sunmars

You may be right, I may need to spend more time watching tv online :)


136 posted on 02/02/2011 6:12:48 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (BYOST -- bring your own sark tag. Thank you.)
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To: HushTX

If the people are smart they’ll ally with Israel. In many ways they already have, but those are hushed up. The Egyptians have far more in common with Israelis than “Palestinians”. When Jews lived well in Egypt, Egypt lived well. Same thing with Iraq, fwtw.


137 posted on 02/02/2011 6:14:56 AM PST by bvw
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To: HushTX
Yes. From the BBC: # 1405: Gulf News reporter Abbas Al Lawati tweets: "Just saw a foreign journalist being chased by a mob with weapons. He was alone. They got him. God help him." Feed is back http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
138 posted on 02/02/2011 6:16:23 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: sunmars

alJz reporter

Violence only arises when the pro-Mubarak protesters encounter the anti’s. [Implies the pro’s are causing the violence.]


139 posted on 02/02/2011 6:18:20 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: PghBaldy

God help him, these journalists need to be more careful, they are targets for this regime.


140 posted on 02/02/2011 6:18:51 AM PST by sunmars
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