Posted on 02/11/2011 8:15:59 AM PST by Daisyjane69
As protesters fill Tahrir Square in another day of demonstrations, an Israeli military intelligence official told Fox News that President Mubarak has left Cairo via helicopter, and was headed to his residence in Sharem a-Sheikh, a resort town in Egypt.
The development comes a day after the embattled leader told protesters he planned to stay in office until the country’s upcoming elections in September. Mubarak will make an "important" statement later Friday, according to reports on state TV.
U.S. State Department officials, however, expect Vice President Omar Suleiman to release a statement within hours.
More than 20,000 protesters gathered in front of the president's palace in Heliopolis, just outside Cairo. Army officials offered the protesters food amid a jubilant atmosphere, Fox News in Egypt reports.
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Yet again???
So, what we have learned is that 20,000 angry protesters in the capitol’s square can make a president step down? Hmmm.........
Al Haig to the Courtesy desk...paging Mr. Haig :-P
The Egyptian Army is.
Maybe he’s on the stair stepper? Wait 20 minutes for his cool down for a final answer.
Yay...a big win for the Bamster, right? Muslim Bro’s, come on down! /sarc
Obama thinks it’s HIMSELF. We (U.S.) should mind our own business, mostly in the Middle East.
Watch for the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood to quickly seize control with help from Iran. One result will be $5 per gallon gasoline in the US by summer.
Yeh...hmmm
I thought it was way higher number, but that's what I've been thinking too. Is it really that easy to topple a government these days? Who knew?
The media said he stepped down yesterday. I see we have learned nothing since then.
he he he! He’s in charge...
How soon before Obama visits Egypt?
These are no longer protesters...they are celebrating the end of a tyrants rule over them...God Bless Egypt!
Just because the old war horse left Cairo does not mean he stepped down. It is a smart move for him to go to his seaside estate and rule from there and let the VP and military clean up the city
If he goes to Saudi Arabia or Germany- THAT is stepping down.
Godalmighty, someone please buy the AssPress and Shep Smith some paper bags to breathe into
You realize that Iran is a non-Arab Shia country and Egypt is an Arab Sunni one? Cause those guys hate each other’s guts.
“The Egyptian Army is.” ~ fireforeffect
Yep!
AMB. JOHN BOLTON
Fox News ^ | 28 January 2011 | John Bolton (Interview)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2664992/posts
“...I think after the Friday prayers the Brotherhood brought its people out. That’s why the protests are even more extensive today. That constitutes no doubt about it a direct threat to the military government, and I think the failure of the other security forces to bring the demonstrations under control also now explains the presence of the military.
Let me be clear here, this is not just the Mubarak-family government. The military has ruled Egypt since Gamal Nasser and they over through King Farook. It’s the military that is the real government and they are not going to go peacefully. I think the question is whether and to what extent the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamists have infiltrated the leadership.
If the military holds firm it’s entirely possible, although bloody, that the government can hold onto power. That doesn’t necessarily mean Mubarak will be in power, but the military will be, and I think that is why this contrast makes it so important for people to understand, this is not a choice between the Mubarak government on one hand, and sweetness and light, Jeffersonian democracy on the other.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2665403/posts?page=13#13
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Atlas Shrugs
Pamela Geller - Thursday, February 10, 2011
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
Egypt Army Steps In, Takes Over — Bad for the Muslim Brotherhood
The army didn’t wait for Mubarak to resign. The Muslim Brotherhood fears Egypt’s army staging coup. If it’s bad for the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s good for humanity.
A senior Muslim Brotherhood official on Thursday said that he fears the Egyptian army is staging a military coup, Reuters reported.
“It looks like a military coup ... I feel worry and anxiety,” Essam al-Erian stated.
Egypt army takes charge, Mubarak to address nation Yahoo
CAIRO – Egypt’s military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Mubarak planned a speech to the nation Thursday night, raising expectations he would step down or transfer his powers.
Protesters packed in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square broke into chants of “We’re almost there, we’re almost there” and waved V-for-victory signs as more flowed in to join them well after nightfall, bringing their numbers well over 100,000. But euphoria that they were nearing their goal of Mubarak’s fall was tempered with worries that a military takeover could scuttle wider demands for true democracy. Many vowed to continue protests.
The developments created confusion over who was calling the shots in Egypt and whether Mubarak and the military were united on the next steps.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672074/posts?page=10#10
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