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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“Jesus, that sounds like huge artillery fire now going on.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41403357#41403357
I’d say. It’s almost deafening! God, please protect the reporters who are filming that....I don’t care if they are from MSNBC.
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“The Middle East Crisis Part XIV: Al-Qaeda Deputy Leader Al-Zawahiri Deputy Encourages Egyptians to Stand Fast and Topple Mubarak”
2/3/2011
http://m.memri.org/14499/show/38ba1c7d4a5404b129477882143979d3&t=20320d97cb30b6845cb6422bedb5dfbe
It is so sickening that it has come to this......the US government and Al-Qaeda having the same goal.
What we should have done is screaming, loud and clear: SUPPORT PRESIDENT MUBARAK!!!!......but it has fallen on deaf ears.
Yes it does need to be documented- and in reference to that here’s what I just heard-
On MSNBC Chris Jansen was talking to Nicholas Kristof from the NYT who sounded truly frightened for the first time since I’ve heard him over there- he’s in the middle of Cairo and his voice was shaking and he was having difficulty focusing on the questions being asked and sounded unsure of how to answer them.
Next up was Ron Allen who had been in Alexandria and was making his way to Cairo. He told of going through a checkpoint that was pretty intense and then mentioned “colleagues in the middle of Cairo trying to get out”...and the crackdown going on against journalists.
The people from NBC in Cairo now are Brian Wilson, Richard Engel and a couple of others.
It’s getting very dicey.
This has been sitting in the back of our minds, but to read the intention so blatantly is.... is ...I can’t find the words.
The region is changing, right before our eyes.
1502: Al-Arabiya reporting that Mubarak supporters have stormed hotels in Cairo, chasing foreign journalists.
“The region is changing, right before our eyes.”
Exactly, and I have to agree with Israeli PM Netanyahu that Iran is most likely behind this.
We’re looking at the rise of radical, terrorist theocracies all over the Middle East, just like Iran.
“1502: Al-Arabiya reporting that Mubarak supporters have stormed hotels in Cairo, chasing foreign journalists.”
I think Mubarak is probably quite upset now with the West, and rightfully so. We threw him under the bus and spat in his face. Despicable!
And, as awful as that is, this is going to have/is having a massive ripple effect throughout the Middle East.
Thanks for all the updates - I’m forced to be in and out this morning, dealing with frozen water pipes —
-8 (that’s ‘minus’ 8) degrees overnight here in Sunny Southern New Mexico, and our plumbing just wasn’t designed to deal with this.. :(
I’ll be popping in from time to time to try to keep caught up (and get warm, of course...)
Terrible Uncle Ike, didn’t realize it ever got that cold down there. Praying no serious damage. Stay warm, sending you some ear muffs!
Oh no :( sorry to hear about your water pipes. Good luck.
1522: BBC Arabic correspondent Khaled Ezzelarab: Heavy gunfire heard in Abdel Monem Riyad Square in downtown Cairo.
1518: Ashraf Khalil tweets: “Huge plumes of smoke coming from up the river past national archives. Hard to tell but could be Arcadia mall.”
1516: AFP citing witnesses saying a supermarket on the outskirts of Cairo is on fire.
“I don’t think the Americans understand yet the disaster they have pushed the Middle East into,” said lawmaker Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who until recently was a Cabinet minister and who is a longtime friend of Mubarak.
“If there are elections like the Americans want, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Muslim Brotherhood didn’t win a majority, it would win half of the seats in parliament,” he told Army Radio. “It will be a new Middle East, extremist radical Islam.”
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110203/D9L59U1G0.html
No!
Why do you think we have a right to interfere with their government? Would you like them to actively support/undermine Obama or Palin?
Egypt has a constitution and elections. We should stay out of their affairs. No wonder they hate us.
But we don’t throw our allies under the bus.
We should at least have aknowledged Mubareks relationship to us and peace with Israel.
Al Jazeera breaking: AFP: Foreigner dies in Meydan Tahrir
Now this is either a journolist or its one of those code pink mob? Who else would it be.
Oh no...checking around but can’t find more on this- will post if/when I do.
He is our ally. I’m not saying send troops in, but to publicly disgrace and throw him under the bus is just WRONG. It shows that we don’t keep our word.
We did interfere in this mess by supporting his opposition. And, as so many others have said, it’s incomprehensible that we are supporting terrorists, while we didn’t lift a finger to support those in Iran who did fight for freedom.
The call is going out on terrorist forums for AQ to join in the fun; they will ‘help’ the protesters; perhaps ‘staying out of their affairs’ is not such a great idea...
The iraqis are leaving Cairo, they say its safer in Baghdad.
now you don’t hear that often.
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