Posted on 02/11/2011 3:41:44 AM PST by SE Mom
From the BBC:
-A huge crowd has gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square for Friday prayers and a mass demonstration against Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak.
-Mr Mubarak defied protesters on Thursday, vowing to hold on to power until presidential elections in September.
-His speech drew a strong response from US President Barack Obama, who said Egypt needed a "clear and unequivocal" transition of power.
You can watch live coverage on wwitv.com and not filtered news.
On the left side of the site, go to News(live) and select the english speaking Iran station. Well, it may have some filtering but they have live pictures from Cairo.
That’s one of the problems in trying to keep up with this story- what parts of the media are reporting and which parts are editing as they go..
I don’t know the answer to your question- but there is no 2nd amendment in Egypt ;) so gunfights and skirmishes are less common ..
“he Imams back the revolution and ask protesters to continue”
Of course they do. They don’t look at it as a revolution for democracy. They look at it as the beginning of an Islamic coup, with them as the ultimate recipients of power. You will know them by their works.
From the Rumor Mill:
@marwame: Arabiya saying that #Mubarak & his wife leaving Cairo via Almaza Air Base. #Egypt #jan25
1 minute ago via HootSuite
7-10 thousand is not a “huge” crowd as the BBC has reported.
How many people in Egypt wish these “protestors” would just go away so everyone could get back to business and living their lives?
and then this
Breaking Al Arabiya: Mubarak & his family left Egypt for a break...
i suspect he is hiding in Saudi in reality jumping in and out as he expects it to get violent, if they find him, they will lynch him.
0bama has to up the ante here, otherwise he loses face. Mubarak must go.
But if Mubarak goes and an Islamist regime results, 0bama will have helped raise up another ayatollah, right next door to Israel.
Bet he now wishes he’d stayed out of it. He can be blamed now for being bested by a sick and unpopular old man — or later for the probable carnage of the overthrow and the fundamentalists that take over.
The military can stop this, but should have done so by now.
In any case, we’ve lost an ally however problematic it was, and shaken the confidence of all the others.
More- hard to know what to make of this yet
More than one news outlet reporting that #Mubarak has left. RT @zeinobia: BBC Arabic: Mubarak left the country at 1 PM! #Egypt
less than 20 seconds ago via HootSuite wikinews030:
@Reuters - any info about this? @N24_de and al arabia reporting #mubarak just left egypt
less than 20 seconds ago via web
Fox & Friends said he went to Sharm el Sheikh, the Egyptian version of Camp David.
5 dollar gas for the American peasants. That will show Boy King who is boss.
that was apparently 5 hrs ago, i read that about Sharm, but they seem to think he may be abroad now in case it gets ugly and he can’t get out.
Who knows:
AlArabiya have RETRACTED report that Mubarak left #egypt #jan25 AJE says
less than 20 seconds ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
@reuters: FLASH: Al Arabiya adjusts earlier report says Mubarak and his family left Cairo, not Egypt
less than 20 seconds ago via web
“FWIW I noticed on twitter that the Iranian government is staging massive “death to America” protests and blocking Arabia TV coverage of Egyptian protests. “
It’s the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and they do this every year.
Protests have been called for Monday by the opposition Green Party, which resulted in the regime warning people against it & Karroubi being put under house arrest. There may still be protests on Monday.
lol, none of them have a friggin clue.
It's a very good point. Who really knows what the reality is? This is why the very best solution is an open and very closely monitored election that counts the will of all the people, not just the ones in the streets. The Bolshevik Revolution gave the world the USSR, and over 100 million deaths, and it wasn't backed by the majority of Russians.
Elbaradei NYT op ed piece
Many, particularly in the West, have bought the Mubarak regime’s fiction that a democratic Egypt will turn into chaos or a religious state, abrogate the fragile peace with Israel and become hostile to the West. But the people of Egypt — the grandmothers in veils who have dared to share Tahrir Square with army tanks, the jubilant young people who have risked their lives for their first taste of these new freedoms — are not so easily fooled.
I believe him when he says he isn’t leaving Egypt.
Yes, and according to wiki, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting...
"... a 2005 study found that over 95% of Egyptian women have undergone some form of FGC."
lol, You know you’re in trouble when: Iraq embassy in Cairo urges Iraqis to return home
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