Newswire from Egypt

[danyboy27]

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE!!
But the job is half done, although the president resigning is a great success, the regime is still there, and if the vice president assumes control, the revolution will still be on, because in arab countries, the head of the intelligence is the symbol of the oppression the people have been going through, and if the vice president ( Head of the intelligence agency) becomes the president this means the revolution will only grow bigger.
We should bow in respect for our fellow Egyptians.

lets wait for what mubarak will say.

if he is a smart guy he will dismiss his vice president and give temporary power to the head of the parlement for transition.

The army have huge stake in the economy and cannot allow further failures.

their prestige are in jeopardy has well if they miss this opportunity.

[Ligeia]

7:44pm: "If General Sulieman or the military take over, that is of great concern to everyone," says Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin. "While the military is very much respected, people here want to see a transition from military rule to civilian rule." The past four leaders of Egypt have had a military background.

7:50pm: More on that concern of the Muslim Brotherhood. " It looks like a military coup," said the Brotherhood's Essam al-Erian. "I feel worry and anxiety. The problem is not with the president, it is with the regime."

Aljazeera

[ckaihatsu]

Recap: Mubarak warned of a possible coup and threatened martial law, the military met separately from him and expressed support for the people of Egypt, and now Mubarak has said he will be stepping down.... Correct? So this is an "inverse" of the pro-Bush soft coup of 2000 in the U.S. -- here the political infrastructure is bending in the direction of the *people* instead....

[Dimentio]

Mubarak seems to be willing to resign now.

I have mixed feelings about that. Then West will cheer and Suleiman would urge the protesters to get home. If they don't, he crack down. If they do, he silently puts them into jail later.

[PhoenixAsh]

well reuters is saying the minister of information said the president will not step down....


its going to be hitchcockian suspense

[Dimentio]

He will never step down.

[S.Artesian]

Workers began their strikes yesterday, today the military announces it has established an emergency council that will stay in session around the clock. Cynical, jaded me, I think those two things are connected and that the "people's military" will pretend to force some reforms unto the Mubarak regime, with or without, Mubarak, split the student and young demonstrators from the workers, and then mobilized to break the strikes.

I don't know why I think that. I must have read about that happening somewhere before this. Or maybe I'm paranoid. But hey, just because being paranoid doesn't mean the the world isn't out to get you.

[ckaihatsu]

*Whoever*'s up there can't stall for *too* long -- the markets are going to start *****ing again pretty soon....

[chegitz guevara]

10:52pm Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office immediately, as demanded by the protesters:

I will work to peaceful transition of power. Want to take country from these harsh moments - looking to backing of everyone

[PhoenixAsh]

he is transfering power to Suliman...

[PhoenixAsh]

wtf...is he saying Egypt will not end until he does? Or did I mishear?

and again with the I will be burried here....

People are now incredibly angry....this coul very well be leading to violence....

[Tommy4ever]

I can't believe that Mubarak has refused to step down. He may well push the crowds to violence. Which could be beneficial in the end.

[danyboy27]

bad bad bad political move.

Now there are an increasing number of peoples who are in the street who are frustrated i would suggest him to run for his life right now.

with that much frustration and anger contentrated into huuge crowds, there is no riot police or military that could possibly stop massive riot to dispose the governement.

this guy is detatched from reality, big time.

[danyboy27]

funny post from huffingtonpost about this:

What a bunch of self gratifying b.s. The farmers and the cops?.....*..........*...oh yeah thyr're right behind you.....wi*th pitchforks and god knows what else! Catch a plane while you can fool !

[PhoenixAsh]

In Alexandria protestors are going to the military base... o.o

[Sasha]

bad bad bad political move.

Now there are an increasing number of peoples who are in the street who are frustrated i would suggest him to run for his life right now.

with that much frustration and anger contentrated into huuge crowds, there is no riot police or military that could possibly stop massive riot to dispose the governement.

this guy is detatched from reality, big time.

Wich is probably why the speech was pre recorded and he went to safe sharm-A-sheik tis afternoon. Now the question will be when it will turn into riots again whether the army will strike them down or remove Mubarak by coup....

[danyboy27]

report of a crowd leaving tahiri square and moving toward the presidential palace.


i pity the fool.

[Sasha]

9.05pm GMT: A clear translation of Mubarak's words will take a while so it's hard to know exactly what Mubarak was saying. But from the reaction on the ground, it seems that these minor concessions will not be enough.
There was little that was new in Mubarak's speech, and he granted some powers to Omar Suleiman, but little else and far less than many were expected.
None of this meshes with the statements issued by the military leadership today: that hints at a palace civil war going on behind the scenes.

[danyboy27]

Wich is probably why the speech was pre recorded and he went to safe sharm-A-sheik tis afternoon. Now the question will be when it will turn into riots again whether the army will strike them down or remove Mubarak by coup....

economicly speaking, taking down mubarak would be preferable.

the repercussion of a massive repression would be catastrophic at long term.

and beside, the army is ill equiped to crowd control, they have no real formation or equipement for that.

and killing thousand of civilian in order to establish order is out of the question, especially with the internet working and all those cellphone.

[chegitz guevara]

report of a crowd leaving tahiri square and moving toward the presidential palace.


i pity the fool.

Source?