http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/9380534.stm
2014 US President Barack Obama has convened his national security team at the White House to discuss the ongoing crisis in Egypt. The meeting lasted just over an hour, we are told. The president was updated on the situation in Egypt, and reiterated the US focus on opposing violence and calling for restraint; supporting universal rights; and supporting concrete steps that advance political reform within Egypt.
2010 The ruling National Democratic Party’s Maged Boutros tells the BBC that if the protests get any worse, the rule of law will break down. “People have to wait and be patriotic, and not allow mobs and looters to dominate the streets,” Mr Boutros tells BBC News. He says Mr Mubarak was legitimately elected, and people are using an illegitimate way of expressing their views by violence, warning against what he describes as “mob rule”.
2019 Ghorab tweets: “told by a trusted source that looters were arrested in Manial and found to be NDP [Mr Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party] members.
Obama was out watching Shasha play B-Ball.