Egypt: Protests Continue to Rage Across Country for Fifth Day…
The “Hosni Mubarak flees Egypt” countdown has officially begun.
CAIRO — Egypt was engulfed in a fifth day of protests on Saturday but an attempt by President Hosni Mubarak to salvage his 30-year rule by firing his cabinet and calling out the army appeared to backfire as troops and demonstrators fraternized and called for the president himself to resign.
While some protesters clashed with police, army tanks expected to disperse the crowds in central Cairo and in the northern city of Alexandria instead became rest points and even, on occasion, part of the protests as anti-Mubarak graffiti were scrawled on them without interference from soldiers.
“Leave Hosni, you, your son and your corrupted party!” declared the graffiti on one tank as soldiers invited demonstrators to climb aboard and have their photographs taken with them.
“This is the revolution of all the people,” declared the side of a second tank in downtown Cairo. Egyptian men all serve in the army, giving it a very different relationship to the people from that of the police.
The feared security police had largely withdrawn from central Cairo to take up positions around the presidential palace, with their places taken up by the army.
Following Mr. Mubarak’s demand in his late-night speech, the Egyptian cabinet officially resigned on Saturday. But there was no sign of letup in the tumult. Reports from morgues and hospitals suggested that at least 50 people had been killed so far.
In Ramses Square in central Cairo Saturday midday, protesters commandeered a flatbed army truck. One protester was driving the truck around the square while a dozen others on the back were chanting for President Mubarak to leave office. Nearby, soldiers relaxed around their tanks and armored vehicles and chatted with protesters. There were no policemen in sight.
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Get ready to welcome the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD regime………
Moolahs will tell them what to believe, where to believe, when to believe……etc.
If they think life is tough now wait until the Mullahs take charge.
Obama cannot wait until he can return to Egypt and speak to his throngs of supporters.
I have a great idea. When he does, he can just stay there since he has been privately backing the Muslim Brotherhood to takeover (guess it’s not private anymore since it’s on Drudge).
Obama’s Mind: Demonstrations, uprisings, innocent people Killed, Muslim Brotherhood installed as new defacto Rulers of Egypt = GOOD!
Obama’s Mind: Demonstrations, uprisings, innocent people Killed; Mullahs in Iran overthrown and Democracy installed in…IRAN = BAD!
Ah, okay, I get that, sure makes sense to me…./sarc!
Another unmitigated disaster for the US, thanks to squirrelly Chicago double-gamer Obama… who with a few words could have helped to prevent this.
This could be even worse for us and Israel than Iran ’79… there were no other Persian nations to follow suit, but there sure are a lot of unstable Arab ones left…
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2011/01/egypt-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html
Soon the Beheadings and mutilating will follow…….They know how to Party those muzzies.
Obama and the State Dept (and Europe) said and did nothing when the trial balloon attacks on ethnic Christians occurred.
Egypt is lost already. Military out with tanks and joining the protesters. The Muslim brotherhood is making a “never let a crisis go to waste” move, which means AQ taking over – which is in Obama’s job description. Now there will be an AQ war machine capable of producing M1 tanks.
Egypt will be the new Iran. Obama will let Egypt fall, just like Carter let Iran fall. Thanks to Carter, Egypt has received three billion US dollars in military aid – every year for twenty years.
Any new Egyptian government will be riddled with hardline Islamic fundamentalists, if not right away, within months. Now there will be an AQ war machine capable of producing M1 tanks.
Demonstrators will quickly learn that replacing secular authoritarian rulers with religious totalitarian rulers = Meet the new boss…same as the old boss, only now with the go-ahead from Allah.
As usual, BlueSky, very good analysis.
May the head-loppings BEGIN!
And a side-order of Christian genocide, if you please. Yes. I want to super-size my order……
Like Porky said….those muzzies REALLY know how to party!!!!!!!!!!!
SARC!
Hell, we already have Al Qaeda in the White House……how much WORSE can it get?
Look in the Mirror, America: WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES
http://www.practicalstate.com/?p=4932
Cheers
Funny thing is, when 1M (ish) TP protesters PEACEFULLY occupied DC for a day, NO ONE noticed?
Hmmmm…
@Pete ?
the only thing I recall from that episode (the TP demonstrations ) was the reporting of the skirmishes with what turned out to be leftie plants –and the signs that were very -um-what’s the word ? hostile… only those were leftie plants also. Only that part was never mentioned or corrected upon by MSM.
pretty much got me motivated to seek news and conservative viewpoints elsewhere (the internet).
U DIRTY MIND CHRISTIAN PEOPLES.
Abdul, you just a dirty muzzie. Period.
Abdul!!!!
You FOOL!!!!!
Where ya been, goat-boy??? Out dating your local herd??????
You filthy bastards will convert or DIE!
@Abdul
Q; What’s the difference between a Muslim and a bag of dogpoop?
A: The bag of dogpoop doesn’t smell as bad.
Q: Why do Muslims smell worse than dogpoop?
A: So blind people can hate them too.
Q: What should I do about the Muslim hanging out in my back yard?
A: Cut him down from the tree.
BRO I’M NOT UR ENEMY BUT JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE R HUMAN BEINGS.
RESPECT EACH OTHER FAITH .
IF U HAVE WRONG INFO ABOUT ISLAM GO GET RIGHT INFO FROM ISLAMIC SIDES.
OR WATCH VIDEOS OF ZAKIR NAIK DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ISLAM.
FIRST COME TO COMMON TERMS MY BRO.
I’M NOT UR ENEMY.
WATCH VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE OF ZAKIR NAIK
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM.
RESPECT EVERY RELIGION.
IF U R HUMAN BEING.
Hey Adoodoo…. there’s a goat calling your name….
This is getting pretty scary. Iranian Revolution v2.0 and the outcome of that from day one was BAD. Now we’re seeing it all over again. We are next AMERICA so….LOCK AND LOAD! FIGHTS ON.
He Abduffus! When was the last time you heard of CHRISTIANS or JEWS trying to violently overthrow any government? Rape, pilage and behead innocent citizens? Go kiss your camels you scumbag.
ANYWAY BYE BLOODY CHRISTIANS
bye bye goat fucking muslim
As always, Larry7, I very much appreciate your kind and generous attention. All too often I fail to follow up your comments with proper thanks.
In truth, I hope that time and tide will prove me dead wrong on the unfolding Egypt events. We shall see.
Cheers.
BlueSky, I hope you’re wrong about the outcome, too. But if Mubarak is forced out, I think sadly you have the causes and sequence of likely events pretty well figured out. Even in the event Mubarak stays, you have Zero figured out above.
Thanks for helping to make WZ great.
The situation in the region is very surprising so far, with Tunisia on its feet and Egypt rioting heavily there is a chance to change the region quite significantly. If Lybia was surrounded by two newly established pro-democratic states it would be a different story from the current situation. I personally am very interested how the USA are going to approach the situation in Egypt, because so far, we have not heard anything comprehensible from them.