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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:35 AM
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Egyptian Revolution Tweets. We Won't Back Down, Part 1
Yesterday's threads, Part 1-9 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x358691">Part 1, Part 9

Some Mubarak Financial documents DDos'd to dissappear found here

To see Tahrir battlepoints Google Earth + overlay


Egyptian anti-government protesters sleep on the tires of a military tank stationed on Tahrir (Liberation) Square, which for the past two weeks has been the center of a sit-in protest by thousands of Egyptians demanding the government step down from power. Protesters created a human shield and barricades to fend off pro-Mubarak supporters from getting into the square and to prevent the military from an overnight attack to clear the square from the protesters.


Please rec if you read these
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:46 AM
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1. Young flag vendor doing brisk business on 6 October bridge, shouting out "30 years and not a pound f

bencnn benwedeman
Young flag vendor doing brisk business on 6 October bridge, shouting out "30 years and not a pound for us!" #Egypt #Jan25 #Tahrir
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:49 AM
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2. Spending the night at Tahrir Square.
anthonyshadid Anthony Shadid
Spending the night at Tahrir Square. http://nyti.ms/hGaGxM
1 hour ago

At Night, Protest Gives Way to Poetry



A camera projected a television program onto a screen in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Saturday.
By ANTHONY SHADID
Published: February
...

Egypt’s revolution is a contest of ultimatums — chaos and revolution, freedom and submission — but its arena of Tahrir Square becomes quieter at night, the cacophony of rebellion giving way to a stage of poetry, performance and politics.

Be it the canteen that prepares cheese sandwiches, the volunteers who ferry tea to guards at the barricades, the pharmacies that are overstocked with Betadine or the artists who bring their aesthetic to the asphalt, their Cairo begins as the city sleeps. The weary collapse in exhaustion, but no one else seems willing to surrender a moment that feels imbued with the idealism of defiance.

“Everyone here is awake,” Mr. Abdel-Moneim said as he passed an army checkpoint where a soldier urinated on his tank. “I might be weary, but when the morning comes, I can breathe freedom. What I’ve seen here is what I’ve never seen in my life.”

...

Protesters have called this “the Week of Steadfastness,” and there is plenty here. But there is a sense of siege, too, with a lurking fear that the optimism of the people here may eventually succumb to grimmer realities. Near fires offering more smoke than flame, men debated whether Mr. Mubarak would leave tomorrow or the day after. Neither is probably the answer, as the government begins to gain its footing in the face of a 13-day uprising.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/world/middleeast/07square.html?_r=2&ref=world
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:50 AM
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3. Army trying to starve and box in the #tahrir protesters, so orders r everything but shoot, fine, ppl
ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
Army trying to starve and box in the #tahrir protesters, so orders r everything but shoot, fine, ppl won't back down #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:52 AM
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4. Here's an acid test: when you ride the metro, cross out #Mubarak on the map and see what people say
aymanscribbler aymanfarag
Here's an acid test and way to explain: when you ride the metro, cross out #Mubarak on the map and see what people say. #jan25 #Egypt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:53 AM
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5. ahmed mahmoud march makes it into #tahrir, thousands singing national anthem

adamakary Adam Makary
ahmed mahmoud march makes it into #tahrir, thousands singing national anthem http://yfrog.com/h2isusj
1 hour ago

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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:54 AM
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6. 90 yr old Nawal Saadawi tells us #egypt is not in a state of crisis, this is a revolution for the pe
adamakary Adam Makary
90 yr old Nawal Saadawi tells us #egypt is not in a state of crisis, this is a revolution for the people and by the people
1 hour ago


Nawal Saadawi, lifelong activist especially for women's issues. Has a wiki entry
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:56 AM
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7. Video: how people say goodbye when you leave Tahrir square:

RiverDryFilm Omar Robert Hamilton
Video: how people say goodbye when you leave Tahrir square: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Akb1V4oMI&feature=youtu.be #jan25 #egypt
1 hour ago


Egyptian Revolution: "See you tomorrow!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Akb1V4oMI&feature=youtu.be

Translation:
We'll come tomorrow
And bring our friends
And after tomorrow
We'll bring our neighbours

See you tomorrow!
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:56 AM
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8. Funeral procession on #Tahrir sq for Egyptian journalist who was killed in uprising.
FDEgypt FDEgypt
Funeral procession on #Tahrir sq for Egyptian journalist who was killed in uprising. #Egypt #Cairo #Weissink
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:57 AM
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9. Prayer for journo Ahmed Mahmoud who died in protests taking place in tahrir now
hebalsherif Heba El-Sherif
Prayer for journo Ahmed Mahmoud who died in protests taking place in tahrir now #jan25
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:57 AM
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10. journalists attack the state backed head of the syndicate shouting: murderer murderer!

3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
journalists attack the state backed head of the syndicate shouting: murderer murderer!
1 hour ago
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:58 AM
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11. Won't back down.......singalong time
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:04 AM
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13. Hehee
:hi:

Listening to it now. Thanks. I love Tom Petty. Great lyrics for this.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:09 AM
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15. Seemed appropriate
:hi:
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:02 AM
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12. Article: Foreign residents become tense amid rising xenophobia in Egypt
waelabbas Wael Abbas
Foreign residents become tense amid rising xenophobia in Egypt | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt http://arb.st/gFOxbA
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Foreign residents become tense amid rising xenophobia in Egypt
Louise Sarant
Sun, 06/02/2011 - 13:08


Photographed by AFP

“We were waiting for our order when a jeep with some soldiers drove down the avenue without spotting us, it seemed. Then men having coffee and shisha on the other side of the avenue yelled at them to come back and check our IDs. That was pretty unsettling,” said Wael, a French-Egyptian teacher who lives in Mounira. He had left his flat yesterday evening with friends to buy chicken from a shop located 300 meters from his home on Qasr al-Aini street.

Xenophobia nourished by Egyptian state-run channels, which presents foreigners as disruptive elements and agents for the West and Israel, has enormously impacted the way they are perceived.

...

A French resident of Alexandria was arrested early yesterday morning in Alexandria when trying to find his way back home after sleeping over at a friend’s house. “I was walking in Fouad Street, trying to reach a parallel street in which I could hail a cab and get back home. Unfortunately, the road was blocked. Soldiers stepped down off a nearby microbus, began asking me questions, and gestured that I get inside the vehicle,” he recalled. When he categorically refused, the soldiers brought him to the secret police building located behind the National Museum a few blocks from Fouad street, where he was interrogated for two hours. “They searched my bag pack and my pockets thoroughly and whenever I opened my mouth to explain to the policeman conducting the interrogation the reason why I was outside, he would yell ‘shut up!’ very aggressively.” Finally the policeman told him “we don’t want foreigners here” and softly slapped his face in a condescending way. He was released after two hours and this morning he had coffee with a friend in “Brazilian Café” nearby. “People looked surprised to see us out , but I did not feel aggressed in any way,” he said.

...

Nicolas Geeraert, a Belgian who studies Arabic in Cairo, left Egypt Thursday morning. From Belgium, he explained that he had never planned to leave any time soon, but that the pressure against foreigners became so common place, after Egypt’s Vice President Omar Suleiman delivered a speech accusing the foreign community of conspiring against Egypt, he left precipitously. “People from my neighborhood in Garden City warned us not to approach Tahrir,” he said. “I also met a retired Egyptian doctor a day before I left who told me that I was very courageous for remaining in the country.”

...

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/foreign-residents-become-tense-amid-rising-xenophobia-egypt?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:05 AM
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14. journalists march from their syndicate to tahrir, denouncing the govt.
3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
journalists march from their syndicate to tahrir, denouncing the govt. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:11 AM
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16. Support #Jan25 Egypt Uprising, add a #twibbon now! - http:
Kikiesque Sara El-Sayeh
Support #Jan25 Egypt Uprising, add a #twibbon now! - http://twb.ly/eGUB91 - Create one here - http://twb.ly/f02AU3
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I'm still trying to figure this one out exactly.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:12 AM
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17. Will b on BBC world in half an hour. Send me your voices.
amrwaked Amr Waked
Will b on BBC world in half an hour. Send me your voices.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:12 AM
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18.  two dozen pissed off people outside a closed national bank of egypt, they may have just missed a 13

evanchill Evan Hill
Around two dozen pissed off people outside a closed national bank of egypt, they may have just missed a 130 closing time
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:26 AM
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33. Crowd banging on closed doors of bank in Agouza. Not yet back to normal.
bencnn benwedeman
Crowd banging on closed doors of bank in Agouza. Not yet back to normal. #Egypt #Tahrir #Jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:27 AM
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34. @bencnn which bank ?

Zeinobia Zeinobia
@
@bencnn which bank ?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:13 AM
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19. Brother of missing Google exec says Wael Ghonim expected to be released by Egyptian authorities this

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Brother of missing Google exec says Wael Ghonim expected to be released by Egyptian authorities this afternoon,10 days after he disappeared
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:13 AM
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20. most looted/destroyed shop on 26th july st in mohandiseen is drinkies, cairo's dependable beer shop/
evanchill Evan Hill
Not surprised that the most looted/destroyed shop on 26th july st in mohandiseen is drinkies, cairo's dependable beer shop/delivery service
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:15 AM
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21. Anyone remember the renovation proposals to make downtown Cairo a car free zone?
degner Egypt Photographer
Anyone remember the renovation proposals to make downtown Cairo a car free zone? Done ahead of schedule, and I like the results. #Jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:15 AM
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22. Where is Suzanne Mubarak ?
Zeinobia Zeinobia
Where is Suzanne Mubarak ? http://yfrog.com/hsj9txlj
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:16 AM
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23. Heard in Cairo: we have effectively already entered the post-Mubarak era. Umar Sulaiman is the new s

bencnn benwedeman
Heard in Cairo: we have effectively already entered the post-Mubarak era. Umar Sulaiman is the new strong man." #Egypt #Jan25 #Tahrir
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:20 AM
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25. indeed he is, just look at Al Ahram paper, the king is dead , long live the king
Zeinobia Zeinobia
@
@bencnn indeed he is , just look to how Al Ahram speaks about him and how it speaks about Mubarak , the king is dead , long live the king
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:16 AM
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24. A symbolic funeral for those who died while chanting down with Mubarak and down with tyranny
Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج
A symbolic funeral for those who died while chanting down with Mubarak and down with tyranny #Tahrir http://yfrog.com/h7pcacfj
1 hour ago


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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:21 AM
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26. Ahmed Mahmoud's family &all the families of those who lost their lives,,. In won't be in vain
Beltrew Bel Trew
Thinking about Ahmed Mahmoud's family &all the families of those who lost their lives on #Tahrir Square. In won't be in vain though. #Jan25
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:21 AM
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27. no negotiations with tyrants, chant the protesters.
3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
no negotiations with tyrants, chant the protesters. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:21 AM
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28. I reckon @barackobama was annoyed at Wisner's comment because the US want to back Omar Suleiman now
Beltrew Bel Trew
I reckon @barackobama was annoyed at Wisner's comment because the US want to back Omar Suleiman now, not #Mubarak. I hope I'm wrong #Jan25
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:22 AM
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29.  stuck in #cairotraffic? Tune in to 88.2 fm playing national songs to get in revolution mood!

Rouelshimi Rowan El Shimi
For those stuck in #cairotraffic, I highly recommend tuning to 88.2 fm playing national songs to get in revolution mood! #jan25
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:23 AM
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30. chant: the ppl want to try the murderer
ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
chant: the ppl want to try the murderer #tahrir #jan25 “@3arabawy: هتافات: ‏الشعب‏ ‏يريد‏ ‏محاكمة‏ ‏السفاح‏ ‏”
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:25 AM
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31. Video of unarmed protester gunned down, last week in Alexandria
ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Video of unarmed protester gunned down, apparently from last week in Alexandria. Anybody have more info? #egypt http://tinyurl.com/6yzqt9f
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2s0LQXLyI&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1
This is an absolutely heartbreaking video from Alexandria, Egypt.

The man who posted it on YouTube says the boy in this video was likely killed on Friday, January 28.

Start watching around 1:33.



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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:26 AM
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32. "People were killed a few days ago yet Tahrir is full of people doing art, playing their guitars, re

NadiaE Nadia El-Awady
"People were killed a few days ago yet Tahrir is full of people doing art, playing their guitars, reciting poetry, and playing out sketches"
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:27 AM
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35. Commercial strips around Tahrir are mostly open for biz. Traffic lighter than usual. Getting passpor

TamerELG Tamer El-Ghobashy
Commercial strips around Tahrir are mostly open for biz. Traffic lighter than usual. Getting passport photos now for press id
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:29 AM
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41. 12 instant passport photos for 30 pounds.
TamerELG Tamer El-Ghobashy
12 instant passport photos for 30 pounds.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:28 AM
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36. Heavy army, police presence outside Israeli embassy. Flag removed.
bencnn benwedeman
Heavy army, police presence outside Israeli embassy. Flag removed. #Egypt #Jan25 #Tahrir
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:28 AM
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37. Kareem Amer's phone is now switch off, he might have been arrested
Salamander Sally Sami
Kareem Amer's phone is now switch off, he might have been arrested #jan25 #tahrir
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:28 AM
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38. If anyone sees kareem amer in #tahrir sq plz let us know
Salamander Sally Sami
If anyone sees kareem amer in #tahrir sq plz let us know #jan25 #tahrir #egypt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:28 AM
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39. many Egyptians are confused and don't know who or what to believe regarding change, stability, mubar
Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
ِSomeone told me that many Egyptians are confused and don't know who or what to believe regarding change, stability, mubarak, etc
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:30 AM
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42. reach out to these people and explain to them.. protesters' demands & deconstruct TV propaganda

Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
The idea is to reach out to these people and explain to them what's happening in Tahrir, protesters' demands & deconstruct TV propaganda
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:29 AM
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40. Todays arrests so far, Wael Abbas and Karim Amir. How can govt expect anyone to trust their promises

ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Todays arrests so far, Wael Abbas and Karim Amir. How can govt expect anyone to trust their promises when the KEEP ARRESTING people? #egypt
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:31 AM
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43. outside festive Tahrir bubble, easy to find normal Egyptians fed up with revolution and disruption o

ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Important to note: outside festive Tahrir bubble, easy to find normal Egyptians fed up with revolution and disruption of normal life #egypt
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:31 AM
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44. Definite risk that large numbers of normal #egypt citizens will grow fed up with Tahrir protesters i
ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Definite risk that large numbers of normal #egypt citizens will grow fed up with Tahrir protesters if this settles into long standoff #egypt
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:31 AM
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45. Still confirming arrest report on @waelabbas. Stay tuned...

ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Still confirming arrest report on @waelabbas. Stay tuned...
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:32 AM
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46. Just talked to @waelabbas he's not detained

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
@ashrafkhalil Just talked to @waelabbas he's not detained
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:33 AM
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47. do we know anything about @ramyraoff? He's usually online all the time&we've seen nothing of him,not
Beltrew Bel Trew
@ashrafkhalil do we know anything about @ramyraoff? He's usually online all the time&we've seen nothing of him,not answering his emails.
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:33 AM
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48. dozens of coptics in black shirts show up in contingent, chant in solidarity with the revolution.

3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
dozens of copts in black shirts show up in contingent, chant in solidarity with the revolution. #jan25
1 hour ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:34 AM
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49. I'm taken aback by the # of people who think democracy is good for Americans & Israelis, but dangero

NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
I'm taken aback by the # of people who think democracy is good for Americans & Israelis, but dangerous for Egyptians.
1 hour ago


Nicholas Kristof, NYT I believe
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:34 AM
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50. Had a long sleep today, my legs still hurt, but time to head out for supplies to take to Tahrir
RiverDryFilm Omar Robert Hamilton
Had a long sleep today, my legs still hurt, but time to head out for supplies to take to Tahrir #jan25 #egypt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:34 AM
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51. Soldier often apologetic about body pat downs.
TamerELG Tamer El-Ghobashy
Soldier often apologetic about body pat downs.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:38 AM
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52.  As first journalist dies in Egypt protests, CPJ compiles list of attacks http:
Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
RT @journalismnews: As first journalist dies in Egypt protests, CPJ compiles list of attacks http://bit.ly/e0qT8b #journalism #jan25
53 minutes ago



An Egyptian photographer has become the first journalist to die covering the anti-Mubarak protests.
Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud, who worked for Al-Ta’awun, died from gunshot wounds sustained a week ago when he was shot by a sniper.
Journalists face ongoing attacks and detentions in Cairo. The Committee to Protect Journalists has compiled a round-up of the latest attacks on the press.

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/02/07/journalist-dies-as-egypt-anti-press-attacks-continue/



Egyptian media say foreign journalists have 'hidden agenda'


An Egyptian general walks through protests in Tahrir Square. (AP)

New York, February 5, 2011--As journalists face ongoing attacks and detentions in Cairo, they are increasingly concerned that state broadcasts are creating an atmosphere that is encouraging violence against the media, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. State television and radio, along with pro-Mubarak private stations, are giving frequent airtime to presenters and guests who claim that foreigners, including international journalists, have a "hidden agenda" against the government, according to CPJ research. Local journalists have been called "infidels" for working with international media while Al-Jazeera has been accused of "inciting the people."

"While officials in the Mubarak government publicly pledge to uphold the rights of journalists, state media are blaming the press for the unrest," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. "In the current climate, such rhetoric is extremely dangerous, as it could be interpreted as a green light to violent forces that have engaged in a systematic campaign to intimidate journalists."

Gamal Eid, executive director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information told CPJ that there have been "numerous instances of provocation against foreigners, including journalists, on state-run media." He added that scores of journalists have relayed their fears to him as a result of the state broadcasts. Thierry Thuillier, head of news at French public broadcaster France Televisions, said: "Egyptian state television has referred to foreign journalists as being responsible for what is happening," Sky News reported.

Egyptians monitoring the broadcasts both inside and outside the country sent CPJ descriptions of what they were watching and transcribed quotes:

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http://cpj.org/2011/02/egyptian-media-say-foreign-journalists-have-hidden.php
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:38 AM
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53. From friends in #tahrir still strong, lots of ppl
ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
From friends in #tahrir still strong, lots of ppl #jan25
55 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:39 AM
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54.  @waelabbas was NOT arrested. But Karim Amir and Samir Eshra WERE arrested last night

ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Apologies for innaccurate tweet. @waelabbas was NOT arrested. But Karim Amir and Samir Eshra WERE arrested last night. #egypt
54 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:44 AM
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55. chtting w/ Max Rodenbeck about #Jan25 and his special report on #Egypt back in July

LaurenBohn Lauren E. Bohn
@sarahbethlynch and I are chtting w/ Max Rodenbeck about #Jan25 and his special report on #Egypt back in July: http://econ.st/9WXUip #Cairo
55 minutes ago


The long wait
After three decades of economic progress but political paralysis, change is in the air, says Max Rodenbeck
A special report on Egypt Jul 15th 2010 | from PRINT EDITION

...

Losing patience

Nevertheless, the expectation of a seismic shift is almost tangible in the air, and not just because of Mr Mubarak’s health. Egyptians may be renowned for being politically passive, but the rising generation is very different from previous ones. It is better educated, highly urbanised, far more exposed to the outside world and much less patient. Increasingly, the whole structure of Egypt’s state, with its cumbersome constitution designed to disguise one-man rule, its creaky centralised administration, its venal, brutal and unaccountable security forces and its failure to deliver such social goods as decent schools, health care or civic rights, looks out of kilter with what its people want.

For some time Egyptian commentators have been noting resemblances between now and the years before Egypt’s previous seismic shift. That happened in 1952, when a group of army officers rolled their tanks up to King Farouk’s palaces and tossed him out. The coup was wildly popular at the time. It had followed a period of drift and growing tension, marked by strikes, assassinations, riots and intrigues between Communists, Muslim Brothers and the king. Egypt was thriving economically, but the spoils flowed mostly to a cosmopolitan elite that was out of tune with the street. It had a functioning democracy, but ever-squabbling politicians seemed unable to get things done. To general chagrin they could not shake off the lingering influence of Britain, whose soldiers refused to budge from the Suez Canal where they had been encamped since 1882.

The officers’ coup replaced this genteel but dysfunctional constitutional monarchy with one-party rule, fronted by a strongman and backed by secret police, with the tanks idling nearby. Republican Egypt became a model for other Arab dictatorships and forced wrenching changes at home. Its promises of free health and education, land reform and jobs in state factories and offices did lift millions out of misery to mere poverty. The ideology of pan-Arabism trumpeted by the coup leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, gave Egyptians a place of pride in the world, even if his boldness brought ruinous wars in Yemen and against Israel.

Six decades and four presidents on, the revolutionary regime has metamorphosed into one that encourages private business and allows for some pluralism. Yet it looks to many Egyptians like a waning dynasty—the 45th in the long line of houses that have ruled the world’s most enduring nation since 3000BC. Its promises are largely in tatters. Schools and hospitals are indeed free to enter, but they are grim, bare, crowded places where getting learning or treatment requires cash that many still do not have. The lower middle class of army officers and bureaucrats who rose in the revolution have joined the gentry they were supposed to have ousted, adopted their haughty ways and now share Egypt’s spoils with them. The poor still queue for government-subsidised bread and must scrimp and save to buy a pair of shoes.

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http://www.economist.com/node/16564206?story_id=16564206
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:45 AM
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56. who says egyptians are chaotic? Im in a 1km queue outside #tahrir
MostafaMGaafar Mostafa M Gaafar
who says egyptians are chaotic? Im in a 1km queue outside #tahrir #jan25 #egypt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:45 AM
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57. Sitting in front of the tanks
norashalaby Nora Shalaby
Sitting in front of the tanks #Jan25 http://yfrog.com/hsj23rgj
54 minutes ago


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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:52 AM
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58. regime's plan is slow death. We need to mobalize #egypt OUTSIDE #tahrir. We have internet now rememb
estr4ng3d Abdelrahman
The regime's plan is slow death. We need to mobalize #egypt OUTSIDE #tahrir. We have internet now remember?? 10m march Friday? #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:52 AM
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59. Will be on @democracynow at around 8:10am EST. Stream live at http://www.democracynow.org
sharifkouddous Sharif Kouddous
Will be on @democracynow at around 8:10am EST. Stream live at http://www.democracynow.org
52 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:53 AM
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60. people r sleeping around every single tank in the square to prevent the army from moving.

3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
people r sleeping around every single tank in the square to prevent the army from moving. #jan25
46 minutes ago
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:53 AM
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61. K&R ! //nt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:59 AM
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64. Thanks to you and all who read, rec, disseminate, absorb, support,,,,, n/t
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:55 AM
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62. Posted some observations of army behaviour on @occupiedcairo

RiverDryFilm Omar Robert Hamilton
Posted some observations of army behaviour on @occupiedcairo late last night #jan25
45 minutes ago





Second guessing the army
Posted on February 7, 2011 by admin

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/cairo/


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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 09:20 AM
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65. Read this n/t

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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 08:58 AM
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63. Part 2 here
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 10:22 AM
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66. K&R
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