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Title: Hosni Mubarak Must Go By Friday, Says Mohamed ElBaradei
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The Australian
URL Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new ... i/story-e6frg6so-1225998404724
Published: Feb 2, 2011
Author: John Lyons, Cairo
Post Date: 2011-02-02 18:10:16 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 136
Comments: 8
FRIDAY is set as D-Day - departure day - for Egypt's embattled President, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed ElBaradei, who is emerging as a leader of anti-regime protests, declared last night. Dr ElBaradei asked for a "safe exit" for Mr Mubarak. "What I have heard (from protesters) is that they want this to end, if not today, then by Friday maximum," he said, adding that Egyptians have marked Friday as "Departure Day". "I hope President Mubarak goes before this and leaves the country after 30 years of rule . . . I don't think he wants to see more blood." At least 300 people have died in eight days of protests, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said last night. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo last night for the "million-strong march" against Mr Mubarak, and another march was planned in the port city of Alexandria although national train services were cancelled and major roads closed in a bid to hinder protests. In an unexpected move, Turkey, which also has a history of military influence in national affairs, called on Mr Mubarak to meet his people's "desire for change". Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described his appeal to the Egyptian leader as "very sincere advice, a very sincere warning". "Hear the cry of the people and their extremely humane demands . . . Meet the people's desire for change without hesitation," Mr Erdogan said. In Jordan, King Abdullah last night attempted to pre-empt a democracy push among his subjects by naming Maruf Bakhit as prime minister, with orders to carry out "true political reforms". Fifty Egyptian human rights groups yesterday called on Mr Mubarak to step down to "avoid bloodshed". "President Mubarak must respect the wishes of the Egyptian people and step down to avoid shedding the blood of Egyptians," a joint statement from the groups said. Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last night told protesters in Egypt through a BBC interview that "we're all with you". The Nobel peace laureate, who has resisted the military regime in Burma for decades, urged protesters to stay strong. "It's necessary to keep cool heads and strong hearts and not ever to lose hope and to keep on going," she said, in response to a caller from Cairo who asked her advice as he faced a "very scary moment of transition" in Egypt. She added: "We're all with you -- that people all over the world who want freedom, somehow or the other feel connected to other people who are struggling for freedom." Mr Mubarak on Monday night swore in a new cabinet that excluded the much-hated former interior minister Habib el-Adly, whose notorious security forces have been accused of human rights violations. The newly appointed Vice-President, Omar Suleiman, Mr Mubarak's first deputy, said he was prepared to talk to opposition groups. There was no evidence that the moves had mollified the public. The US yesterday gave the first hint it would accept the presence of groups such as the banned Muslim Brotherhood in a new government. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said a new government "has to include a whole host of important non-secular actors". The New York Times reported that a veteran US diplomat had been sent to Cairo. It was not known if Frank Wisner, a former ambassador to Egypt who knows Mr Mubarak, would urge the President to leave office. With agencies
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Demonstrators have captured an overpass. Opening a route for re inforcements to the center of Tahrir Square. the Army is exposed. Gunfire, automatics, molotovs. Snipers shooting into demonstrators. Obama to Mubarak: 'Faster please.' ;}
The Bankers and Elites want the Mooo si lum Brotherhood to have political leverage in Egypt. Hoser Mubarak being betrayed by the NWO he served,.....you gotta love the Irony.
They should be fired for incompetence since they only hit one guy in the huge crowd. They're shooting in the air, trying to scare the mooslimes. The guy they hit was probably sitting at a bar on the other side of town.
Throwing cinder blocks on women/children. From 11 stories up. They're bound to hit someone then, eh 8D
be Al Qaida, but Al Qaida is busyn elsewhere. Doing Allah knows what. Probably drug running. That's what the CIA does with excess help/folks on down time. 8D
So this is it? All that LF can russel up for the fascist goon squads? And you've got something better to talk about today? Just like the USSA MSM. The Truth replaced by Silence. You can tell we won yesterday, as there is ZERO coming out of the zionist/fundy media. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Israel's advice to Mubarak Netanyahu advised Mubarak: why not declare the hundreds of thousands of protesters as terrorists and then kill them all. After all, this is how Israel has been handling protesters ever since it was created (as a usurping entity). Posted by As'ad at 11:14 PM
1.) These "Pro-Mubarak demonstrators" (as Al Jazeera was still somewhat infuriatingly calling them as recently as the past hour) have incontrovertibly been revealed as state-organized thuggery. This is not to say that there aren't perhaps a handful of people that indeed support Mubarak, as even the narrowest of patronage regimes will always have their small populations of genuine supporters. When the altercations were breaking out in Alexandria, I was unwilling to unequivocally decide that they were state-organized, but the evidence that the "Pro-Mubarak demonstrators" were organized and unleashed by the state has now mounted to incontrovertible levels. Among that evidence: the numerous reports from multiple eyewitnesses that the thugs detained had IDs from state security or the NDP; the very coordinated movements of these forces as they appeared and disappeared over the course of the afternoon and evening, brought in and taken away by vans and buses; and, as commented on by various figures on Al Jazeera as event unfolded, the sheer number of molotov cocktails and other weapons they were able to deploy over the course of the night (and the horses and camels and whips, etc.)
USSA 'conversation with El Baradei didn't go so well. Baradei didn't think so much of Usrael, eh?
#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
so that the Fear of that can be played off on the dozy Juice nextdoor.
Muslim Brotherhood can zenith AL Qeada for most evil on the planet award.
The Elites can run all kinds of False Flag events,....and blame Moo si lum Brotherhood.
They can now have False Flag events with White AL qeada after the Russian airport bombing.
#3. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
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Snipers shooting into demonstrators.
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
#5. To: Parrot with speed dial (#2)
The Bankers and Elites want the Mooo si lum Brotherhood to
#6. To: hondo68, All (#3)
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