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Egyptian Foreign Ministry Says Obama Inciting Violence
Post Date: 2011-02-02 14:52:26 by Happy Quanzaa
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Egyptian Foreign Ministry SaysObama Inciting Violence The Egyptian foreign ministry appears to be rejecting President Obama's call for an immediate transition from the government of President Hosni Mubarak -- and says that such calls are inciting violence. "What foreign parties are saying about 'a period of transition beginning immediately' in Egypt is rejected," said foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki, adding that such calls "inflame the internal situation in Egypt."
Jihaddette Christiane Amanpour Comes Under Attack In Cairo
Post Date: 2011-02-02 14:39:50 by Happy Quanzaa
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ABC's Amanpour Comes Under Attack In CairoDoors and windshield to car battered By Ben Grossman -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/2/2011 12:11:51 PM ABC's Christiane Amanpour said Wednesday that she and a crew came under attack from a "mob" on the same day CNN's Anderson Cooper reported the same. Amanpour wrote in a reporter's notebook released by ABC News that the attack came after trying to film on a bridge into Tahrir Square. "An angry mob surrounded us and chased us into the car shouting that they hate America," she said. "They kicked in the car doors and broke our windshield as we drove away."
Pandemonium In Cairo, Hundreds Hurt In Clashes
Post Date: 2011-02-02 13:26:57 by Brian S
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CAIRO – Angry partisans of President Hosni Mubarak stormed a crowded anti-regime rally in a central Cairo square on Wednesday, sparking pandemonium in which at least 500 people were hurt, witnesses said. The White House, which has called for restraint since demonstrations broke out nine days ago, deplored the violence against "peaceful protesters" while UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the attacks on protesters were "unacceptable." Supporters from both sides threw stones and battled with sticks and fists in Tahrir square, the epicentre of nine days of protests, in the clashes that broke out early afternoon and were continuing after sunset. Tension had been rising from ...
US Condemns Violence In Egypt, Chides Government Over Arrests, Press Restrictions
Post Date: 2011-02-02 11:51:34 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The United States criticized the government of President Hosni Mubarak and condemned violence in Egypt's capital as clashes between protesters and pro-government supporters demonstrated there would be no easy resolution to the unrest destabilizing America's closest ally in the Arab world. A day after President Barack Obama pressed Mubarak to loosen his grip on power immediately, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the U.S. "deplores and condemns the violence that is taking place in Egypt." "We are deeply concerned about attacks on the media and peaceful demonstrators," he added in a statement. "We repeat our strong call for ...
Mubarak Fails to Quell Protests as Turmoil Spreads to Yemen
Post Date: 2011-02-02 11:44:21 by Brian S
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Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's pledge to step down later this year failed to appease opposition groups demanding an end to his 30-year rule as the unrest that started in the region one month ago spreads to Yemen. Hours after U.S. President Barack Obama told Mubarak that the transition needs to "begin now," Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh said today he won't seek to extend his term when it expires in 2013. The opposition plans more protests in Cairo this week, with some of the hundreds of thousands listening to Mubarak's speech in Tahrir Square last night shouting "your last day will be Friday." Central Cairo was calm this ...
Anderson Cooper ‘Punched In The Head’ 10 Times By Pro-Mubarak Thugs
Post Date: 2011-02-02 11:42:04 by Brian S
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CNN's Anderson Cooper said Wednesday that he and his crew were violently attacked by pro-Mubarak forces as they tried to make their way through the streets of Cairo. "Anderson Cooper punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounds him and his crew at Cairo rally," Maan News Agency's George Hale tweeted. Cooper described his ordeal on CNN's American Morning. "I just tried to make my way to Liberation Square and got as far as the Egyptian Museum and with my team: Marion Fox, my producer and Neil, my cameraman," he began. "One man grabbed Neil's camera and started screaming, 'no, no,' trying to take the camera from him. We intervened ...
Volatile scene unfolds in Cairo as opposing sides clash
Post Date: 2011-02-02 10:09:32 by go65
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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Stinging tear gas was fired in the epicenter of Cairo's demonstrations where pandemonium sparked by violent clashes between pro- and anti-government forces reigned Wednesday. In a surreal scene resembling the movie "Ben Hur," supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak thundered through the crowds on horses and camels in central Tahrir Square. At least one man was pulled off his horse and beaten. Mubarak's announcement that he will not seek re-election had been expected to vacuum the passion out of Egypt's nine-day uprising. But the opposite rang true, at least in central Cairo. It remained unclear whether such confrontations were ...
Australians Flee, Jam Shelters Ahead Of "Catastrophic" Cyclone
Post Date: 2011-02-01 20:23:00 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Thousands of residents fled their homes and crammed into shelters in northeastern Australia as a cyclone described as the most powerful in the country's history and with a 650 km (400 mile) wide front barreled toward the coastline on Wednesday. "We are facing a storm of catastrophic proportions," Queensland state premier Anna Bligh said after Cyclone Yasi was upgraded to a maximum-strength category five storm. More than 400,000 people live in the cyclone's expected path, which includes the cities of Cairns, Townsville and Mackay. The entire stretch is popular with tourists and includes Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Satellite images showed Yasi as a ...
Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb'
Post Date: 2011-02-01 20:12:02 by A K A Stone
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Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build "dirty" bombs, according to leaked diplomatic documents. A leading atomic regulator has privately warned that the world stands on the brink of a "nuclear 9/11". Security briefings suggest that jihadi groups are also close to producing "workable and efficient" biological and chemical weapons that could kill thousands if unleashed in attacks on the West. Thousands of classified American cables obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph detail the international struggle to stop the spread of weapons-grade ...
Obama: Egypt's Mubarak Must Begin Transition Now
Post Date: 2011-02-01 19:51:48 by Brian S
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(02-01) 16:29 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak must begin a transition immediately toward a new government and assured protesters demanding the ouster of their longtime leader that "we hear your voices." The transition "must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now," Obama said at the White House after speaking with the Egyptian president by telephone for 30 minutes. In Cairo, Mubarak said he would not seek re-election in September, but he rejected protesters' demands that he step down immediately, a halfway concession that did not calm his critics. Obama's comments suggested ...
Israel Shocked By Obama's "Betrayal" Of Mubarak
Post Date: 2011-02-01 19:47:33 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - If Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighborhood and President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame, Israeli pundits said on Monday. Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to be ready to dump a staunch strategic ally of three decades, simply to conform to the current ideology of political correctness. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ministers of the Jewish state to make no comment on the political cliffhanger in Cairo, to avoid inflaming an already explosive situation. But Israel's President Shimon Peres is ...
Obama's peeps hold secret pow-wow w/ jihadi Muzzy Bro' 'Hood
Post Date: 2011-02-01 18:20:28 by Happy Quanzaa
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U.S. 'held secret meeting with Muslim Brotherhood'Discussed fall of Egypt with group dedicated to Islam's global spread JERUSALEM – The Egyptian government has information a diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Cairo secretly met yesterday with a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the nation's major Islamist opposition group, WND has learned. The topic of the meeting was the future of Egypt following the "fall" of President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian intelligence official told WND. The claim comes amid charges from Cairo that the Obama administration has been encouraging the protests rocking Egypt and targeting the rule of Mubarak, a key U.S. ally in the ...
Obama's handling Egypt pretty well
Post Date: 2011-02-01 15:07:12 by go65
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After President Obama spoke last night about the situation in Egypt, my Twitter feed and inbox filled up with angry denunciations, with lots of people complaining bitterly that he had endorsed Mubarak's grim struggle to hold on to power, missed an historic opportunity, and risked sparking a wave of anti-Americanism. Once I actually read the transcript of his remarks, though, I felt much better. I think the instant analysis badly misread his comments and the thrust of the administration's policy. His speech was actually pretty good, as is the rapidly evolving American policy. The administration, it seems to me, is trying hard to protect the protestors from an escalation of violent ...
Mubarak to Address Nation as Protests Mount
Post Date: 2011-02-01 13:52:38 by go65
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CAIRO—President Hosni Mubarak will address the nation as as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to call for an end of his rule. Top U.S. officials spoke to both Mr. Mubarak and Mohamed ElBaradei, the central opposition figure. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians filed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, forming the largest crowd yet in eight days of demonstrations. Estimates of the crowd varied, with the Associated Press reporting that more than a quarter of a million people were in the square to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak's regime. Other estimates ran from 100,000 to Al-Jazeera's estimate of one million on its website. ...
Egypt Crisis: Mohamed ElBaradei Edging Closer To Being Named Interim President; Talks To US Ambassador
Post Date: 2011-02-01 12:59:45 by Brian S
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Reports from sources close to the former UN nuclear agency chief said he met senior figures from the army on Tuesday morning as protesters gathered in major cities calling for Mr Mubarak to go. He also held a meeting with Omar Suleiman, the new vice-president, and representative of a number of opposition parties. Mr Suleiman also talked to other opposition figures. The US ambassador, was another caller, by telephone – the United States had not confirmed any direct contact with Mr ElBaradeias as late as Monday afternoon. There was still no direct sign of Mr Mubarak stepping down, and Mr ElBaradei is not personally popular. But the lack of an alternative future for Egypt after a ...
100 Healthy Sled Dogs Slaughtered As Tour Business Slows In Canadian Province
Post Date: 2011-02-01 12:41:06 by Brian S
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The 100 dogs were shot dead over two days after an expected post-Olympics boon in dogsledding business at an adventure company didn't pan out. Most died instantly, but others suffered — like the one that ran away with its "face blown off and an eye hanging out." The gruesome event was described in documents awarding compensation to a worker, who claimed post-traumatic stress disorder for having to shoot the dogs after bookings dropped sharply for a tour operator following the 2010 Winter Olympics. "He had to chase her down and finish her off," Marcie Moriarty, general manager of cruelty investigations for the B.C. Society for the ...
US Orders Non-Essential Personnel To Leave Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-01 12:13:09 by Brian S
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The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential U.S. government personnel and their families to leave Egypt amid growing anti-government protests and uncertainty over the security situation. The move came as the Obama administration grasps for a response to the revolt against its strongest Arab ally and struggles with the implications for U.S. policy in the Middle East and beyond. In Cairo on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey met with opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei to make clear Washington's desire for a peaceful transition, according to State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. "The U.S. Embassy in Cairo has been especially busy in the past several days ...
Bolton: If Mubarak Falls In Egypt, Israel Should Bomb Iran
Post Date: 2011-02-01 11:43:34 by Brian S
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Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the ouster of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would speed the timetable for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. "Do you think that the Israelis are going to have to strike — they are going to have to take action?" Fox News Republican opinion host Sean Hannity asked the former ambassador on his radio program Monday. "As you pointed out, ElBaradei ran cover for the Iranians for all those years that he was with the IAEA. And, I just don’t think the Israelis have much longer to wait… they're going to have to act in fairly short order." "I think that's right," ...
Dominos Fall as Jordan's King Fires Government
Post Date: 2011-02-01 11:41:18 by Brian S
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Middle East unrest is seeming to spread like wildfire as Jordan's King Abdullah II has essentially fired his government in the wake of violent protests. The announcement from Jordan's Royal Palace comes as thousands of Jordanians, perhaps inspired by the ouster of the Tunisian regime as well as the uprising in Egypt marched in the streets. The public called for the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai who is blamed for a rise in food and fuel prices as well as a slowing in political reforms. The Royal Palace says Rifai's Cabinet resigned on Tuesday. At the same time, King Abdullah II nominated Marouf al-Bakhit as his prime minister-designate. Bakhit is a former general ...
Coptic Christians Worry About Future Without Mubarak
Post Date: 2011-02-01 01:17:51 by Ferret Mike
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—Like the protesters who have flooded the streets of Egypt in the past week, the country's large minority of Coptic Christians worry about joblessness and lack of freedoms. But most want President Hosni Mubarak to stay in power. Fear of what may follow the removal of Mr. Mubarak, a secular strongman who has ruled the country for the past 30 years, is making reluctant supporters out of the country's Christians, an estimated 10% of Egypt's 80 million population. Mr. Mubarak has been aggressive in pursuing perceived Islamist extremist groups, a policy that has endeared him to Coptic Christians, not to mention the U.S. Many Copts worry that Mr. Mubarak's ...
Radical political religion will soon shape the Mideast
Post Date: 2011-02-01 00:58:54 by A K A Stone
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When the time comes for genuine elections in Egypt, the country's future will be determined not by university graduates in Cairo but by 70 million villagers. And also, for example, by the one million people living in the City of the Dead, the cemetery in northern Cairo. They will vote for the Muslim Brotherhood because no liberal party can give them the rapid change desperately longed for by the masses, who suffer from shortages of flour, clean drinking water, jobs and housing. The parties will be myriad and fragmented, colorless and disappointing, left-wing and right-wing - and all of them hostile to Israel, of course. An unstable, rudderless transition period, a parliamentary ...
Israel Supports Mubarak, Allows Egyptian Troops into Sinai
Post Date: 2011-02-01 00:43:35 by A K A Stone
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Israeli officials said Monday that they agreed to allow Egyptian soldiers into the Sinai Peninsula for the first time since the 1979 peace treaty demilitarized the peninsula. 800 soldiers were moved into the Sinai Sunday because the Israelis are worried that Palestinian militants could take advantage of Egypt’s unrest to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip through the border. Israeli officials have been banned from talking about the situation in Egypt by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. All Israeli officials have spoken on the condition of anonymity. Mubarak’s support has been essential for Israeli on numerous occasions. Mubarak has stridently honored the treaty and served as ...
American Jewish Leader: ElBaradei A 'Stooge For Iran'
Post Date: 2011-01-31 19:35:27 by Brian S
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Israeli leaders and many of their American allies don't much like where this is going, as peace with Egypt is central to Israel's security. Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, speaks for a lot of Netanyahu's American friends in this interview, I think. "There is a myth being created that ElBaradei is a human rights activist," Hoenlein told the Orthodox Jewish site Yeshiva World News. "He is a stooge of Iran, and i don't use the term lightly. When he was the head of the International Atomic Energy Agnecy, for which he got a Nobel Peace Prize, he fronted for them, he distorted the ...
149-mph cyclone could wallop Australia
Post Date: 2011-01-31 17:15:37 by go65
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A strong cyclone thrashed flood-ravaged Queensland, Australia, this week, but another storm is about to hit the highly populated north coast – and it is much bigger. Forecasters say Cyclone Yasi could reach 149 miles per hour, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Many are concerned that Yasi could mean setbacks for the coal-mining sector of the region, which was socked by recent massive flooding, the paper reports. Yasi is expected hit overnight Wednesday, according to The Australian, and will come ashore between Innisfail and Proserpine, directly hitting Queensland's capital, Townsville. Click for Full Text!
Israel Urges World To Curb Criticism Of Egypt's Mubarak
Post Date: 2011-01-31 14:05:25 by Brian S
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Jerusalem seeks to convince its allies that it is in the West's interest to maintain the stability of the Egyptian regime. By Barak Ravid Israel called on the United States and a number of European countries over the weekend to curb their criticism of President Hosni Mubarak to preserve stability in the region. Jerusalem seeks to convince its allies that it is in the West's interest to maintain the stability of the Egyptian regime. The diplomatic measures came after statements in Western capitals implying that the United States and European Union supported Mubarak's ouster. Israeli officials are keeping a low profile on the events in Egypt, with Prime Minister Benjamin ...
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