The Irish did the same thing during the 1863 Draft Riots in NYC.
Posted on 02/02/2011 7:31:01 AM PST by SE Mom
URGENT: Gunfire heard in Cairo's Tahrir Square as supporters of President Mubarak and anti-government demonstrators clash hours after the embattled leader defiantly said he would serve out his term in office.
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THANKS much for the *ping*!!!
“Living there”, does not guarantee that that the individual is well informed or actually understands the average sentiment. Surveys of the population say otherwise.
1624: Opposition protester Gigi Ibrahim tells the BBC she is trapped in Tahrir Square, and fears violence if she tries to leave: “The situation is escalating by the minute. If we want to get out we have to go through Mubarak supporters. I’m scared of going out because my face is now recognisable as an opposition protester.”
1621: In an interview with BBC Arabic, Egypt’s new Finance Minister, Samir Radwan, calls for the opposition to accept the offer of dialogue with the government. “They are afraid to sit and talk because it will appear that they do not have an economics of foreign affairs programme,” he says. “But we must sit together in order to avoid any chaos.’’
1616: Soldiers are using hoses to douse the flames caused by the petrol-bomb explosions, AFP reports.
Not likely.
Inshallah means no personal responsibility.
They couldn't have done other than what they did, because it was inshallah.
America, however, is always to blame and always will be to blame.... inshallah.
Because the stock market isn't really based in long-term hard reality. Volatility is all that is required for traders to make money. Dynamic = opportunity. You would have to look at exactly what the market is speculating on today to understand why it isn't tanking on the news that is coming out o the ME. Energy stocks? Companies that are insulated against or actually do better with inflation? Maybe there is hope that with the finding that the individual mandate for Obamacare is unconstitutional there will be some upside to business.
Who knows? The market can swing 200 or more points in a day without any significant change in fundamentals.
Yeah, it’s pretty wild. I wonder what the timeline will look like. The whole first part of the chapter sure came about in a hurry.
Excellent update! Thanks. Deadly accurate and realistic of the situation.
Obama is much to blame for the escalation of violence. While Mubarak said he wouldn’t run again, the WH said that wasn’t good enough, and he should step down immediately.
Obama is a complete disaster. Somebody get him on a golf course before he single-handedly causes WW3.
Very much like happened in the museums of Britain, Germany, the Vatican and other states when art and artifacts were removed, stored/hidden before aerial bombings began in WW2.
(....somehow I doubt the Egytian museum personnel had the time or the prescience to carry out removal procedures prior to the rioting. One can only pray so).
Leni
Yes, that’s the MSM’s story. Good to see you’re following along with the template.
I just woke up.. Again thank you so much for this thread!!!!!
good for them but the media are still trying so hard to ignore the muslim brotherhood angle and twist this to not hurt their messiah obama.
I hope the Coptic Christians are getting out NOW!
They will be the first to be slaughtered when Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood) takes over.
"We can handle the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Iranians, but we don't want the Irish!"
Keep in mind the evil CNN did in Iraq with it’s total whore leftist Brit reporter, I watched that guy insist we were losing as the surge worked.
CNN is running banners that say directly Mubarak’s supporters are trying to force a fight, and that they are attacking people. It’s possible, then again it seems reasonable to me that the nation of Egypt needs to return to order, and maybe without an Islamic revolution.
Good points, Leni. I know in the middle of all the chaos a lot of folks don’t think the artifacts of Egypt shouldn’t matter- but they do.
I read a tweet yesterday somewhere from a curator saying the losses were much greater than had been reported.
This violence is directly related to Obama’s inability to act quickly and decisively. His dawdling is costing lives.
If Obamacare gets declared unconstitutional and is repealed, I think it will have the opposite effect on the market however.
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