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Title: Volatile scene unfolds in Cairo as opposing sides clash
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CNN
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/afric ... ypt.protests/index.html?hpt=T1
Published: Feb 2, 2011
Author: CNN
Post Date: 2011-02-02 10:09:32 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 3247
Comments: 13
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 being repeated elsewhere. The sound of gunfire reverberated in Tahrir Square and people hurled verbal insults, Molotov cocktails, rocks and anything else they could find -- shards of metal, sticks, shoes -- at one another. Desperate for more ammunition, they dismantled sidewalks and picked up chunks of curb stones to throw. They beat each other in what rapidly spiraled into utter mayhem.
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#2. To: go65 (#0)
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www.bom.gov.au/products/IDE00902.loop.shtml The Counter Revolution. US/UK/Israel. Israel is happier today. They think they've won a throw. Watch when the people take over the army. When the slaves begin to hold USSA MSM will cut away to more pressing matters. LMFAO Arab TV versus people like you "MADDOW: Well, let me ask you about one tactical question in this diplomatic dance, I guess. Are American officials making appearances on Arabic language TV channels at this point? Should they be prioritizing doing that right now? INDYK: Probably. I don't think they are doing a lot of that at the moment, partly because the Arab interviewers are likely to be a lot more pressing than polite people like you. MADDOW: I think that is a great insult, thank you. INDYK: No, that was meant as a compliment." (thanks Nasser). PS But let me say this: I don't understand the point by Maddow. Does she mean that this is the time in which the US should engage in intense propaganda to justify the criminal anti-democratic stance of the US administration? This is the issue now? But I assure you that what Indyk said is true: American Zionists like him don't get gentle treatment on Aljazeera. But what are you afraid of, Indyk?
Please take your worthless commentary elsewhere.
I was here before you. And judging from your posts, will be here after you're gone. "As in the 15th century, the law doesn’t necessarily matter at all. Nor do we necessarily have a police force to do anything about it. More and more it’s might makes right. I guess our “civilization” hasn’t advanced so much after all. Or, as so many other signs show, we’re headed back to feudalism."
Democracy Can you imagine how disgusted Arabs will feel now anytime an American official utter the word democracy? Posted by As'ad at 5:15 AM BWHAHAHAHAHA USSA EMpire collapsing in front of our eyes. Haven't had time to check on our Invasions of Iraq/the Afghans. Bet fuel's kinda hard to get right now, though. ;}
You've got spam for every occasion, I see. You know a lot about eeeeeeverything.
Facts are spam? Ignorance is Strength? Ad Hominems as arguements? Just tell me you agree the corporations are killing the planet and we can start being friends. ;}
That's right. Facts are against you, as is history. That's why you ramble on and on. You have nothing to say so you try to hide that fact with babble and off-topic information.
#9. To: Rudgear (#8)
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA Again nothing of information added. Give us some arguement. INITIAL POST: You can watch Operation Ajax, pulled out of the drawer, dusted off and updated for Egypt, live on Al Jazeera. As As'ad Abukhalil prophetically said yesterday: The US is now arranging for a coup against the will of the Egyptian people. Now, we can watch the implementation of it live over the Internet. If such technology had existed in 1953, the coup in Iran, carried out by the US and the UK through Operation Ajax, might have failed. Interesting to see the US media coordination on it. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refused to attribute the violence to Mubarak today, and, in an interview on Al Jazeera just now, former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns, currently associated with Harvard, said that he couldn't tell who was responsible for the violence from Boston. Everyone is singing from the same songbook, and conforming to the Israeli insistence that there should be no criticism of Mubarak.
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#4. To: Abu el Banat, All (#3)
Please take your worthless commentary elsewhere.
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#7. To: Rudgear (#6)
You've got spam for every occasion, I see. You know a lot about eeeeeeverything.
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Replies to Comment # 8. That's right. Facts are against you, as is history.
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