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."
4.) The pernicious role of the U.S. government and it's desperate hope to retain a Mubarak regime ("a Mubarak regime" meaning the same regime with or without Mubarak). I won't comment much on this, as it should certainly be evident to readers of this blog by now. State Department Spokesman Crowley's disavowal, noted by Richard below, that the US didn't even knew who was responsible for the violence speaks for itself. I'll add to that Hillary Clinton's stance that she had demanded of Suleiman an investigation into the violence at Tahrir by the Egyptian government, as if that could mean the slightest thing and as if she didn't know very well who was behind the violence is also an extreme exposure of U.S. hypocrisy.