Tanks moving - heavy automatic fire; sounds like a .50 BMG answering small arms fire. One recently killed by gunfire.
Somethings going on!
The Imam on Hannity: “Sharia is coming to America”.
I am going to watch a movie.
Anyone have any updates. In the dark myself.
Tweets from the BBC blog on Egypt:
0022: Brian Katulis of the Center for American Progress tells the BBC’s Matt Frei that most of what the US is doing on Egypt is happening behind the scenes. He says there is an “aggressive diplomatic surge” to push Egypt’s rulers to the next stage: a negotiation over power. That looks to be a complicated political negoitation involving a diverse array of opposition figures. Mr Katulis says we should not forget the real fragility of the situation: this is a country that has suffered before at the hands of Islamic extremists.
0019: The BBC’s Katty Kay says that despite extensive aid and incredibly close military ties, the Obama administration does not seem to be able to say to President Mubarak that he must leave now and make the transition peaceful. He is digging in his heels. The army wants to make sure that there is stability but in such a way that it benefits the army. But if there are genuine free and fair elections, the army will lose some of its power.
0015: Dr Essam el-Erian, a spokesman for the Islamist opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, tells the BBC: “Nobody in Egypt can trust this promise. Mr Mubarak, staying in power for 30 years, made many promises and did not fulfil them at all. He promised that we could have a free and fair election. All the world knows that [last] election was rigged. And he’s still saying that election was good.”
0013: Anthony DeRosa of Reuters tweets: “Mubarak supporters have smashed the lights near the area they have quartered off and gathered rocks so they cannot be well seen.”
0010: In a blog, Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch writes: “Sources in Damascus told me that at around 8:30pm, Syrian security forces violently dispersed a candlelight vigil held for Egyptian protestors. The vigil was held in the Bab Touma neighborhood in old Damascus. The police beat those gathered and took some of them, including known activist Suheir Atassi, to the Bab Touma police station. Suheir has been released and is doing fine.”