Egyptians brace for Friday protests as internet, messaging disrupted

CNN ^ | January 27, 2011 | By the CNN Wire Staff

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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Hours ahead of what are expected to be massive displays of anti-government ferment across the world's most populous Arab nation, the internet went dark in parts of Egypt early Friday, and text messaging appeared to be blocked.

The Muslim Brotherhood has called for its followers to demonstrate after weekly Muslim prayers on Friday, the first time in the current round of unrest that the largest opposition bloc has told supporters to take to the streets.

Egyptian authorities arrested a prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader in Friday pre-dawn hours, detaining the party's main speaker, Issam al-Aryan, according to his son-in-law.

Police came to al-Aryan's Cairo home at 2.30 a.m. local time, his son-in-law said.

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It does not look like this is going to go away any time soon now that the Islamo wackos are heating this thing up.

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BTW there is a video at the site.

[JimSEA]

I guess we will find out just how sucessful the Muslim Brotherhood has been in infiltrating the Officer Corps in Eygpt.

[ZOOKER]

Obama must be jealous - Mubarak can shut down his opposition's communications with the flip of a switch.

I'm sure it's in the interest of fairness and neutrality...

[kdot]

Flash video. Wish my new iPad could display it. I’m 0 for 3 tonight with the videos. Love the iPad, but c’mon.