Army comesout of tanks to prevent pro Mubarak

[malaise]

forces from attacking the anti-Mubarak folks.
They are waving Egyptian flags saying Enough, ENOUGH!

[chimpymustgo]

1. I just posted same. Will join your thread.

[malaise]

5. Good Morning

"I will die on this soil...(even if I have to kill anyone who does not accept that I am indispensible) - 82 year old lunatic Mubarak.

The pro Mubarak thugs are coming on horseback with riot police.

[era veteran]

2. Good n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Please update me...

It's hard to get up to speed after being away from the news overnight. :(

Are there reports of the pro-Mubarek crowd bringing weapons? Did they create the violence?

Who ARE the pro-Mubarek people? Is it a class thing, are they paid thugs rather than those who simply want "stability" as the M$M is saying?

We're not going to see the truth on M$M here. I'm hoping those following overnight can update me as to the truth of what seems to be happening now.

Thanks! :hi:

[malaise]

9. Follow here - men on horseback, one with a camel

charging people. This is Mubarak's response.
http://www.tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=9

[OneGrassRoot]

11. holy shit. thanks, malaise. n/t

[chimpymustgo]

4. Who's on the horses? Reporter says the are pro-Mubarak rushing toward protestors

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Mubarrak's Dreaded Riot Police

Crap

[chimpymustgo]

6. Report: Al Arabia reporter has been STABBED.

[chimpymustgo]

8. MSNBC finally showing video. Today show now showing live vid.

[chimpymustgo]

10. It's so wild so see the camel cavalry.

[dipsydoodle]

12. Those are pro Mubarak thugs riding those

.

[malaise]

13. Unfuggingbelievable

Damn!! Despots really love power.

[florida08]

14. similiar situations happening in Suez

Concerted effort by pro Mubarak supporters

[malaise]

15. This started in Alexandria minutes after the Mubarak speech

Everyone knows this is his response. The army will have to remove him.

[florida08]

16. I saw the exchange in Alexandria too

Mubarak using scare tactics..sounds familiar doesn't it. Think the army will?

[malaise]

17. So typical

It's all about him.

[florida08]

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AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera correspondent in Tahrir Square says that the pro-government mob is chanting slogans against Al Jazeera and trying to find them.
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[malaise]

21. You can't be speaking about discussions

while you attempt to divide and rule. Leave Mubarak, leave.

[charlie]

19. The big question hanging over Tianamen

was -- will the People's Army fire on its citizens? It was horrible when they threw their lot in with the rulers.

Seeing the Egyptian Army behave decently toward its charges is soooo heartening.

[malaise]

20. Yes indeed

They're showing the police IDs from the pro-Mubarak mob

[Diclotican]

23. charlie

charlie

In 1989 they had to have soldiers from parts away from Bejing, as the regular police and army in the area of Bejing was, at least sympatic to some of the protesters, they shared a lot of the same griveances when it came to housing and so one.. When the Army was shipping in soldiers from far a way parts of China, the demostrators know they was in trouble... And the upprising was quelled in a sea of blood, thousands of chinese dissents had to flee, many was arrested, and some are still not counted for.. Mostly becouse they are still under house arrest somewhere in the interiour of China... And as a resoult for this, Chinas government indeed started some reformes, to answer some of the griveances the students had.. Today the griveances are still there, but the Tiamen Square scared a whole generations of student, so it is less posible today, to have a new Tiamen Square, than it was in 1989.... The government have also been bussy keeping an eye on all eletronic communications, they missed it out in 1989, when the students was using fax machines to spread the word.. Today the government have a whole "eletronic whall of china" who are keeping an eye on everything happend inside China... And to keep unwanted information from coming in... Or at least, they try to do it... The dissents have their way to get communication out, and in, but it is not so easy as it might see, the eletronic wall is a big wall, who is more or less impregnable... But it exist ways to get around, under or below it... And the dissents is given a lot of information, about China, who you might never read in the news papers..

I guess, and it is just a guess, that the Egyptian Army for the most part, know how the situation are, and is tired of mr Murbarak, who have been rulinq the country as a "Fharao" for the last 30 year.. And have also discovered that the regiem for the most part is corrupt from every angle. And the army have a lot of contacts with the peopole, as the conscripts for the most part ARE part of the people.. And not part of the "elite".. Even the brass know that the situation in Egypt are not good.. And have not been good for a long time... Just the situation with the food prizes are enough to get pepole angry, the prizes had risen to a level that even stable food, who the poor are depended of are now to expensive to most pepole.. Or at least on a level that can danger them.... In our parts of the world, food is not nessesary the most expensive we have to get every week or month.. But in other parts of the world, like in Egypt, the prizes of food have just rising and rising, withouth the sallaries going the same way... And Egypt are STILL a rather poor country with a lot of peopole on parts of the country, posible for human living... Most of the country are dessert and sand.. And you can't live on rocks and sand...

Diclotican

[OneGrassRoot]

22. Anderson Cooper/Fox

Anderson Cooper reported that he and his crew were attacked by pro-Mubarek people.

I never do this, but I turned to Fox to see if they even have anyone over there. Not sure if they do, but they were showing the same video most of M$M is showing, were reading from Al-Jazeera reports, and saying that the pro-Mubarek people are the ones creating violence.