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Egypt anti-government protests grow

Although I am not exactly enamoured with anonymous and agree that they are melodramatic and high handed. However, I don't share the hostility to them that some have indicated. I think they have a useful role to play. For example the Egyptian government has just shut down twitter across the country. DOS attacks on Egyptian state run websites seems an appropriate and suitable response to this. Of course it is hoped that Egyptians learn to do this but it is much safer done outside the country and in this the likes of anon can serve a useful purpose. The web has become a battlefield. So we should welcome cyber activism if it helps.
 
dylans said:
I think Tahrir square is going to be the battleground. Thousands of demonstrators are heading there from all over Cairo and there are calls on twitter for people to head there. The crowd in Tahrir is 20.000 strong and growing and is fighting a pitched battle with cops for possession of the square right now.
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oh jesus, it really is gonna kick off
 
I lived in Cairo for a while, had many friends and very good times there. Watching this with a mixture of joy and worry. Hoping very much that the police draw back. Not much chance of that, I know...
 
LJo said:
I lived in Cairo for a while, had many friends and very good times there. Watching this with a mixture of joy and worry. Hoping very much that the police draw back. Not much chance of that, I know...
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Which part of Cairo did you live in? I used to live there too in the early 90s. In Mahdi (which has also seen demonstrations) and I used to work in Mohendiseen. It's kind of strange watching footage of events occurring in places and down streets that I know. For example Tahrir Sq is right in the centre of Cairo, in what is known as downtown. It's kind of like their Trafalgar Sq, a huge intersection surrounded by traffic and side roads in every direction. Every tourist knows Tahrir. It's home to the Egyptian museum. To see a riot taking place there gives me a strange feeling of nostalgia, concern and excitement.
 
I lived in Agouza, on Sharia Ferdows, first, and then I lived further out nearer Heliopolis, in the late 90s. I used to go through Tahrir almost every day for one thing and another. First time I ever went there, as a backpacker, I stayed in a hostel downtown, just off Tahrir. And to the bloody Mugamma every time I needed a visa extension. Can't say I'd be sorry to see that bloody place burned to the ground...joking aside, I share your feelings...it's very strange.
 
Apparently one protester dead - Mostafa Reda Mahmoud, & a hundred injured. Huge number of riot police deploying next to Egyptian museum, troop trucks moving in crackdown.

Guardian reports that, 'Mubarak & family have fled to the UK.' (?)
 
2 protesters killed and one copper dead. Apparently. The OB are trying to spin it that one protester died because they have pre-existing respiratory condition and other killed by a protesters rock.

The (dis)information war begins.
 
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