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To: hegemony

Thanks so much:)

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1124: The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner says this protest movement is concentrated in the urban centres such as Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, and many Egyptian peasants and farmers are likely to be quite unsettled by it. On Mubarak’s apparent intransigence to leave office, Frank Gardner says he has interviewed Mubarak and he is a man convinced that power is his birthright.

1120: Sources tell Reuters that the Egyptian leadership has formed a new cabinet, replacing Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali with Gawdat el-Malt (who has headed the audit office and gained some popularity for addressing corruption) and bringing in a new interior minister, General Mahmoud Wagdy, previously head of Cairo criminal investigations department and also a former head of prisons. Protesters had demanded former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli be sacked after brutal police treatment of protesters.

1118: The Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to form a broad political committee with Mohamed ElBaradei to talk to the army, a senior member tells Reuters


2,639 posted on 01/31/2011 3:37:57 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

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2,640 posted on 01/31/2011 3:54:48 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: SE Mom

Apparently Al Jazeera journailists now under arrest

4 soldiers entered room took our camera. Wr ae under military arrest #Egypt #jan25
half a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone


2,641 posted on 01/31/2011 4:22:44 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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