Trust but verify :)
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White House chief of staff William Daley told reporters that Washington had no warning of today’s events, which came as a surprise after President Barack Obama’s “cordial” phone call with Mubarak yesterday, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell reports.
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http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/02/5975729-pro-mubarak-protests-take-us-by-surprise
That point is irrelevant. There are 1.7 Million middle class Egyptians who are living large off Mubarak. If he goes, their gravy train goes with him. I imagine the new government will even the score with those secular money scrubbing hogs.
This is probably the group who we are seeing in the streets. (trust)