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Egyptians Turning on Each Other (EGYPT LIVE THREAD # 2)
FOX NEWS ^ | 2 February 2011

Posted on 02/02/2011 7:31:01 AM PST by SE Mom

URGENT: Gunfire heard in Cairo's Tahrir Square as supporters of President Mubarak and anti-government demonstrators clash hours after the embattled leader defiantly said he would serve out his term in office.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 300dead; acoopergobsmacked; bedouins; cairo; camels; egypt; husseinobama; injuredjournos; israel; mb; molotovcocktails; mubarak; muslimbrotherhood; obamasfault; tahrirsquare
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To: no-to-illegals

THANKS much for the *ping*!!!


161 posted on 02/02/2011 8:37:22 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Michael Barnes

“Living there”, does not guarantee that that the individual is well informed or actually understands the average sentiment. Surveys of the population say otherwise.


162 posted on 02/02/2011 8:37:28 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: wolf24

1624: Opposition protester Gigi Ibrahim tells the BBC she is trapped in Tahrir Square, and fears violence if she tries to leave: “The situation is escalating by the minute. If we want to get out we have to go through Mubarak supporters. I’m scared of going out because my face is now recognisable as an opposition protester.”

1621: In an interview with BBC Arabic, Egypt’s new Finance Minister, Samir Radwan, calls for the opposition to accept the offer of dialogue with the government. “They are afraid to sit and talk because it will appear that they do not have an economics of foreign affairs programme,” he says. “But we must sit together in order to avoid any chaos.’’

1616: Soldiers are using hoses to douse the flames caused by the petrol-bomb explosions, AFP reports.


163 posted on 02/02/2011 8:37:28 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
they lit the building on fire!
The Irish did the same thing during the 1863 Draft Riots in NYC.

164 posted on 02/02/2011 8:38:12 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: odds
Yes, and inshallah they will accept the blame themselves?

Not likely.

Inshallah means no personal responsibility.

They couldn't have done other than what they did, because it was inshallah.

America, however, is always to blame and always will be to blame.... inshallah.

165 posted on 02/02/2011 8:39:13 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
“Why is the market not tanking?”

Because the stock market isn't really based in long-term hard reality. Volatility is all that is required for traders to make money. Dynamic = opportunity. You would have to look at exactly what the market is speculating on today to understand why it isn't tanking on the news that is coming out o the ME. Energy stocks? Companies that are insulated against or actually do better with inflation? Maybe there is hope that with the finding that the individual mandate for Obamacare is unconstitutional there will be some upside to business.

Who knows? The market can swing 200 or more points in a day without any significant change in fundamentals.

166 posted on 02/02/2011 8:40:46 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle (Left vs. Right = Pseudo-intellectuals vs. Grown-ups)
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To: refreshed

Yeah, it’s pretty wild. I wonder what the timeline will look like. The whole first part of the chapter sure came about in a hurry.


167 posted on 02/02/2011 8:40:47 AM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: SE Mom

Excellent update! Thanks. Deadly accurate and realistic of the situation.


168 posted on 02/02/2011 8:41:52 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: bergmeid

Obama is much to blame for the escalation of violence. While Mubarak said he wouldn’t run again, the WH said that wasn’t good enough, and he should step down immediately.

Obama is a complete disaster. Somebody get him on a golf course before he single-handedly causes WW3.


169 posted on 02/02/2011 8:42:44 AM PST by Carling (Remember November)
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To: SE Mom
I hope Egyptian museum curators and staff plus volunteers had the foresight to remove and hide as many antiquities as they could before the radicals start burning down the venerable buildings full of historical, irreplaceable treasures.

Very much like happened in the museums of Britain, Germany, the Vatican and other states when art and artifacts were removed, stored/hidden before aerial bombings began in WW2.

(....somehow I doubt the Egytian museum personnel had the time or the prescience to carry out removal procedures prior to the rioting. One can only pray so).

Leni

170 posted on 02/02/2011 8:42:50 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Michael Barnes

Yes, that’s the MSM’s story. Good to see you’re following along with the template.


171 posted on 02/02/2011 8:43:34 AM PST by Carling (Remember November)
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To: SE Mom

I just woke up.. Again thank you so much for this thread!!!!!


172 posted on 02/02/2011 8:45:45 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: Freddd
Apparently Anderson Cooper was assaulted . No it wasn’t the Nazi Teabaggers it was the peace loving Muslims...

I hope Katie Clueless is over there to get some real world experience with the peace lovers.
173 posted on 02/02/2011 8:46:22 AM PST by crosshairs (The word for actor in Greek is hypocrite (its true).)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

good for them but the media are still trying so hard to ignore the muslim brotherhood angle and twist this to not hurt their messiah obama.


174 posted on 02/02/2011 8:46:50 AM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: Palladin

I hope the Coptic Christians are getting out NOW!

They will be the first to be slaughtered when Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood) takes over.


Have a co-worker who is a Coptic Christian and who has family there. He says that it ain’t that easy - you have to have a country that will take you. My guess is that won’t happen until there’s blood flowing in the streets.


175 posted on 02/02/2011 8:48:04 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: oh8eleven
The Irish did the same thing during the 1863 Draft Riots in NYC.

"We can handle the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Iranians, but we don't want the Irish!"

176 posted on 02/02/2011 8:48:06 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Jubtabulously We Thrive!)
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To: wolf24

Keep in mind the evil CNN did in Iraq with it’s total whore leftist Brit reporter, I watched that guy insist we were losing as the surge worked.

CNN is running banners that say directly Mubarak’s supporters are trying to force a fight, and that they are attacking people. It’s possible, then again it seems reasonable to me that the nation of Egypt needs to return to order, and maybe without an Islamic revolution.


177 posted on 02/02/2011 8:48:24 AM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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To: MinuteGal

Good points, Leni. I know in the middle of all the chaos a lot of folks don’t think the artifacts of Egypt shouldn’t matter- but they do.

I read a tweet yesterday somewhere from a curator saying the losses were much greater than had been reported.


178 posted on 02/02/2011 8:49:05 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

This violence is directly related to Obama’s inability to act quickly and decisively. His dawdling is costing lives.


179 posted on 02/02/2011 8:49:34 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Good analysis. I am in the camp that “investing” in markets that do better under inflation or economic upheaval, is like hoping things get worse and helping them along.

If Obamacare gets declared unconstitutional and is repealed, I think it will have the opposite effect on the market however.

180 posted on 02/02/2011 8:50:12 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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