Posted on 06/30/2013 9:10:21 AM PDT by don-o
CAIRO – Tens of thousands of opponents of Egypt's Islamist president massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in cities around the country Sunday, launching an all-out push to force Mohammed Morsi from office on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. Fears of violence were high, with Morsi's Islamist supporters vowing to defend him.
Waving Egyptian flags, crowds packed Tahrir, the birthplace of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, and chants of "erhal!", or "leave!" rang out.
On the other side of Cairo, thousands of Islamists gathered in a show of support for Morsi outside the Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque near the Ittihadiya presidential palace, which the opposition planned to march on in the evening. Some Morsi backers wore homemade body armor and construction helmets and carried shields and clubs -- precautions, they said, against possible violence.
There is a sense among opponents and supporters of Morsi that Sunday is a make-or-break day, hiking worries that the two camps will come to blows, even as each side insists it won't start violence.
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Was spinning around the dial this morning. For some reason CNN wasn’t doing live coverage of this — the way they did for the demonstrations which led to Mubarak’s ouster
Al Jazeera is providing live coverage. Non nonstop, but they do have it.
http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/
Huge crowds. Two separate rallies. Bad moon rising.
Here are livestreams. The top one seems to cut for commercials every few minutes. Scroll dow...CBS+2 is fine.
It’s a packed house with lots of noise!
http://newsblogged.com/live-streaming-video-protests-cairo-egypt-tahrir-square
Good job on the links. I have to go for the afternoon. Got a feeling it may get hot there.
OOPS!
I meant scroll down to CBC+2...not many interruptions.
http://newsblogged.com/live-streaming-video-protests-cairo-egypt-tahrir-square
Wish we could come together like that to say NO to amnesty!
Wow! Amazing crowd!
They are really getting riled up now.
Reports- anti-Mursi protester shot dead in Beni Suef - Al Arabiya
anti-Morsi protesters reportedly throw petrol bombs at Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Muqattam area of Cairo - AJE
President Morsi is in a “special situation room” following the protests at the presidential palace according to a report on Ynet.
Opposition forces urge #Egyptians to declare a public strike until #Mursi leaves power - Al Arabiya
Al Arabiya: Military source: “Protests are biggest in Egypt’s history”
AFP: A second person has been killed in protests in Egypt
I’ve been hearing sirens for the last 15 minutes or so. I wasn’t hearing them before, but no idea if it is just because they are taking sound samples from different areas or something. The crowd is riled up again.
Reports of 2 dead in clashes outside Cairo 2day. And Muslim Brotherhood supporters reportedly on the move now, not clear where they’re…
Another article.
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