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Egypt anti-government protests grow

Sky correspondent reporting huge number of protesters fighting across Nile Bridge to get to govt buildings and the main square.

Police are firing tear gas at point blank range and the protesters stopped to pray before charging again.

They are Back to UK politics now *mad*
 
AJ reported that christians had been offering to protect muslims during prayers. Which is nice of them.
 
goldenecitrone said:
I just invented it now!:mad:
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you are right. I sarcastically called it the lilac revolution in a post about how the regime will reinvent itself post Mubarak Damn, Lotus is much better.
The regime will remain minus Mubarak and his son and nothing will change for the mass of the working class and poor. The "revolution" will be given a fancy new name, like the Lilac revolution or something and the worlds leaders will praise the country as a new democracy. the middle classes and elites who are advocating political reform will be satisfied and the working classes who are motivated by economic demands will get shat on.
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butchersapron said:
I read that they're undepaid and as malnourished as the protesters so not physically up for a drawn out fight...

40 000 people in mansoura destroy ruling party HQs is latest report...not confirmed
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Yes, the pay and conditions in the Egyptian police are shit. A lot of young men join because it's literally the only job they can get that pays anything.

I am filled with a mixture of hope and utter dread. I want to watch it on TV but at the same time I don't want to because I feel so utterly impotent.
 
The tahir square takeover now seems to be followed by the police sealing the people there in - potentially very bad, but also potentially very dangerous as to break out the police will have to be taken on directly, kicking things up a notch.
 
This bears reposting from the Graun blog:-

An eyewitness account from Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, who says police immediately set upon peaceful protesters.

We are in East Alexandria. Immediately after prayer, the people came out of mosque with banners and started marching, shouting 'we are peaceful, we are peaceful'. Security arrived and immediately began shooting teargas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, about 600. Then one-hour rock throwing clash, but police didn't advance more than one block and kept being pushed back. Then a massive column of protesters came from the other direction and blocked in police, holding up their hands and shouting we are peaceful. Right now police is held up in the yard of mosque and protesters all around, police can't move. They repeatedly ran out of teargas and begged protesters to stop, protesters telling them to join them.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates
 
Holy fuck, on Al-Jaz live feed the protesters just drove an armoured vehicle back across a bridge.
 
here is a very clear report from yesterday on Sky, its very revealing how the crowd are terrified of the plain clothes brutes/secret police

 
btw, all the tools of oppression used by the security services, tear gas, riot trucks, seem to be made(funded) by the West, eg riot trucks, Ford..
 
Reports of Biden refusing to call Mubarak a dictator merely shores up the assertion that the US have no interest in a regime change, unless a new one would have someone like El Baradei at the helm.
 
On the AJ stream, who are the casually dressed people with truncheons attacking people, 3 or 4 on 1. Plain clothes police or other thugs?
 
Dan U said:
Water cannon on the bridges now pushing people back
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The Bridges are important strategically because they connect the city areas. The government seem to want to keep demonstrators from joining up. To do that they need to close the bridges.
 
dylans said:
The Bridges are important strategically because they connect the city areas. The government seem to want to keep demonstrators from joining up. To do that they need to close the bridges.
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That's exactly what the guy on sky is saying.
 
dylans said:
The Bridges are important strategically because they connect the city areas. The government seem to want to keep demonstrators from joining up. To do that they need to close the bridges.
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What about the ferries?
 
'they just want people to stop hitting them, across the Arab world'

Sky correspondent summing it up.
Eta - he sounds a bit emotional as it goes.
 
BBC correspondant "Egyptians just want those in power to stop hitting them." This is so true in many ways. The response of the Mubarak regime to anything is to beat and repress people.

sorry Dan, We both felt the truth of that statement, I guess.
 
BBc news is fucking shit.

Just watched their report - 'clashes between police and protestors', no mention of how widesrpead it is or of police losing control and changing sides - its like they are deliberately trying to play it down. you look at the news feeds on the internet and its like a totally differnt event.

They had a middle east 'expert' on who was saying that muslim brotherhood are the only credible opposition and that they have faile ddue to the effectiveness of the security clampdown.
Followed by Tony Blair saying that 'we' need to manage change 'carefully'. (by we I assume he means him and his mates at Davos).

I think the lameness of the BBC coverage reflects the establishment unease about whats going on.
 
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