Posted on 02/10/2011 10:31:42 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
CAIRO – State TV says Egypt's information minister has denied that President Hosni Mubarak will step down.
The comment by Anas el-Fiqqi, in a written scroll on state television, comes ahead of an address by Mubarak to the nation. Announcements by the military that the demands of protesters calling for his immediate ouster would be met raised their expectations he would announce his resignation.
But the minister's comment raises the possibility that Mubarak could announce a half-measure, such as keeping his title while relinquishing his executive powers.
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NBC broke this story and everyone has been running with it. I wonder who their source was?
Got’s me, but if its true Cairo will burn...
It’s the Media Magic Show: Now you see him... now you don’t. Probably speculation and rumor based on the announcement of his speech tonight.
Anas el-Gibbsie?
Yes, it’s the lead story at Drudge....also at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41506482/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
Sooo, we’ll have to wait and see....
Conflicting reports???
Is the Information Minister named “Baghdad Bob”?
barky is suppose to come out and issue a statement soon too
Fun to have conflicting reports.
Obama is probably having whiplash...as Rush says ,...he is eager to take credit for whichever way it goes...
Gotta admit, our community organizer knows how to turn a crowd into a mob.
Only the protesters will burn, when the Egyptian Army
realizes its alone stands between real Egyptians and
the minimal MSM-alQaeda-outsider ‘infection’.
Makes you wonder. Have media outlets ever been caught running false but plausible stories to force the hand of someone by building public expectations?
Mubarak may very well wait for 0h0m0 to speak about an outcome THEN he comes out and screw him as usual!
0b0z0 is co-opting the situation.
Most likely giving up power to Suleiman backed by the army is the outcome becomes clear!
Nobody matter what happens, Obama will claim credit
Maybe the original story was planted by Gibb’s goons? O goons?
US Weekly..............
There is an info war going on- also a rumor today that the Saudi Prince had died...
Says we are following events in Egypt...and we are seeing a moment of History being made...by young people...who want their voices to be heard.
....comments on an interconnected world...
Any sources for the Saudi rumor....
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