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Cash-starved Egyptians turn on each other
AP/YahooNews ^ | 2/3/11 | TAREK EL-TABLAWY
Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:06:28 PM by Kartographer
For more than a week, Zaki Abdel-Aziz had been out of work and nearly out of money, joining millions of Egyptians living more on hope than cash as the capital plunged into chaos and the economy ground to a virtual halt.
His wife and three children were hungry, tired and tense. There was just over $17 (100 pounds) in their apartment, and no way to borrow more. Then a chilling call came Tuesday night.
“The guy asked me, ‘Zaki, you haven’t worked for a week, right? You don’t have money?’” Abdel-Aziz, 45, recalled. “He said, ‘Come out tomorrow and you’ll get 100 pounds and a bag of food. All you have to do is join us against those traitors in Tahrir.”
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” Cash-starved Egyptians turn on each other “
Interesting question from downthread —
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2668122/posts?page=5#5
To: Kartographer
Some Egyptian guy in NYC called into Savage yesterday and said his family members in Egypt reported that money was being handed out to the demonstrators in the square. Where was that $ coming from? Iran?
5 posted on Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:11:53 PM by JPG (Work for conservative change like your country depended on it.)
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