Egypt

I woke up this morning and saw Egypt all over every channel. Shits going down right now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_173

yeah, i really dont know what to say... not educated on this area

but a president whos been in power for 30 years is at least 20 years too long

the people are tired of the oppression from their government and are doing the only thing they can do

oggy420 wrote:

the people are tired of the oppression from their government and are doing the only thing they can do

fight amongst each other? what ever happened to peaceful protests

this ios a big problem, They are basically the only muslim country in the middle east that is on good terms with Israel and America

Sure this guy wasnot helping his nation but he was working with ours and Israel so I am very interested to see how this plays out.

Also Egypt was scheduled to pay us 1.3 billion dollars this year for weapons, those shipments arent happening until we see who takes over.

they were peacefully protesting. Then the military and police came in and hit them with tear gas and beat them with batons.

they were peacefully protesting. Then the military and police came in and hit them with tear gas and beat them with batons.

and then mubarak backers came and clashed with the protesters... at least what the news be sayin'

ya it wasnt the army, the army is riding tanks, not camels haha

Mubarak has been in power for 30 years and each elections he wins with a 99% approval rating He is about to retire and had decided to install his son as the new president. The people had enough and started protesting. The police came in and started beating them up so the people had enough and turned on the cops. The cops ran away and the army was brought in. The army is on the people's side though.

Bird, first of all Egypt isn't a middle-east country as it's African. Secondly, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan are with America and Israel also.

Look, Egypt, though oppressed, have progressed well into the 21st century, compared to half the countries of the middle-east. you got to take the good with the bad under that kind of philosophy...

So people starving and being oppressed under a dictator is ok with you? Isn't that being hypocritical after saying the Iraqi people needed to be rescued?

i believe his son has stated that he's not interested in taking over the reign

it sucks that they can't resolve it peacefully and that people are getting hurt and killed

Jamal wrote:

Mubarak has been in power for 30 years and each elections he wins with a 99% approval rating He is about to retire and had decided to install his son as the new president. The people had enough and started protesting. The police came in and started beating them up so the people had enough and turned on the cops. The cops ran away and the army was brought in. The army is on the people's side though.

Bird, first of all Egypt isn't a middle-east country as it's African. Secondly, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan are with America and Israel also.

Yes it is

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'm egyptian, it is a part of Africa (Continent) . Middle East is not a continent, it is the region where Egypt and surrounding arab countries are located. so to answer your question, Egypt is located in the Continent of Africa.

bobbitt15 wrote:

Jamal wrote:

Mubarak has been in power for 30 years and each elections he wins with a 99% approval rating He is about to retire and had decided to install his son as the new president. The people had enough and started protesting. The police came in and started beating them up so the people had enough and turned on the cops. The cops ran away and the army was brought in. The army is on the people's side though.

Bird, first of all Egypt isn't a middle-east country as it's African. Secondly, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan are with America and Israel also.

Yes it is

Jamal i love ya but is absolutely without a doubt 100 percent a middle eastern country

and a muslim one at that

and cool with isreal, for the most part (hey high five they havent fought a war with israel recently) (actually a big deal)

and duh its a part of africa doesnt mean it isnt a part f and directly affected with the middle east

Bird, I love you more but Egypt is not a middle-east country. Yes it's a muslim country but it's not part of the middle-east.

If the people want this guy gone and he's this terrible dictator then I'm all for it but I don't know that that's whats going on there the news has reported all whole lot of misleading shit. If this is what the people want why are their people supporting this dictator fight the people trying to get rid of him? I did hear a report that some said they were forced to support the president but I also heard reports of people just having to fight for their lives protecting their homes for looters so it's hard to tell what exactly is going on who is on who's side I just want us to stay the hell out of it unless the military starts opening fire on the crowds or something.

Murbarak is a horrible oppressive tyrant but because he is an allie to the US and Israel governments we will try to spin it to make him look not so bad.

as for the pro Murbarak protesters...

…Several CNN journalists heard from pro-Mubarak demonstrators that they worked for the government. Staff from the national petrochemical company said they had been ordered to come and protest.
Amnesty International researchers said witnesses told them of “lorry loads” of pro-Mubarak supporters leaving Wednesday morning from Mahalla, north of Cairo.
“These (pro-Mubarak) protests were organized by the government and the ruling National Democratic Party,” analyst Kamal Zakher told CNN. The government mustered government workers and lawmakers whose seats are threatened, he said.
… And Emad Shahin, a Mideast analyst at the University of Notre Dame, said “reliable contacts in Egypt” told him the counter-protesters were organized “by Mubarak himself,” with the aid of businessmen who support him.
“The whole objective is actually to give the impression that there is still support for Mubarak and to force the demonstrators out of Tahrir Square,” Shahin said. He said the embattled president “is presenting a very difficult choice before the Egyptian people — either liberty or security — and he is hoping that they will choose security at the expense of liberty.




Egypt PM apologizes for attack on anti-Mubarak protesters as army moves to halt fighting

By MAGGIE MICHAEL , Associated Press
Last update: February 3, 2011 - 6:15 AM

CAIRO - Egyptian army tanks and soldiers cleared away pro-government rioters and deployed between them and protesters seeking the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, as the prime minister made an unprecedented apology Thursday for the assault by regime backers that turned central Cairo into a battle zone.

Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq told state TV that the attack Wednesday on the anti-government protesters was a "blatant mistake" and promised to investigate who was behind it.

The protesters accuse the regime of organizing the assault, using paid thugs and policemen in civilian clothes, in an attempt to crush their movement. Government supporters charged central Tahrir Square Wednesday afternoon, sparking 15 hours of uncontrolled chaos, with the two sides battled with rocks, sticks, bottles and firebombs as soliders largely stood by without intervening.

The military began to move with muscle for the first time to stop the fighting early Thursday after a barrage of automatic gunfire hit the anti-government camp before dawn, killing at least three protesters in a serious escalation.

Four tanks cleared a highway overpass from which Mubarak supporters had hurled rocks and firebombs onto the protesters. Soldiers on the streets carrying rifles lined up between the two sides around 11 a.m. Several hundred other soldiers were moving toward the front line.

Thursday morning, more protesters streamed into the square, joining the thousands of defenders who spent the chilly night there, hunkered down against the thousands of government supporters in the surrounding streets.

A sense of victory ran through the protesters, even as they organized their ranks in the streets in case of a new assault. "Thank God, we managed to protect the whole area," said Abdul-Rahman, a taxi driver who spent the night in the square. "We prevented the pro-Mubarak people from storming the streets leading to the square." He refused to give his full name.

The apology by Shafiq, who was appointed by Mubarak over the weekend, was highly unusual from a leadership that rarely makes public admissions of a mistake. His promise to investigate who organized the attack came only hours after the Interior Ministry issued a denial that any of its police were involved.

"I offer my apology for everything that happened yesterday because it's neither logical nor rational," Shafiq said. "What happened was wrong, a million percent wrong, whether it was deliberate or not deliberate ... Everything that happened yesterday will be investigated so everyone knows who was behind it."

The anti-Mubarak movement, which has carried out an unprecedented 10 days of protests bringing as many as quarter-million people into Tahrir, has vowed to intensify protests to force him out by Friday. In a speech Tuesday night, Mubarak refused to step down immediately, saying he would serve out the remaining seven months of his term — a halfway concession rejected by the protesters.

The notion that the state may have coordinated violence against protesters, whose vigil in Tahrir Square had been peaceful for days, prompted a sharp rebuke from Washington, which has considered Egypt its most important Arab ally for decades, and sends it $1.5 billion a year in aid.

"If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

this shit honestly brought a tear to my eye