Sunday, January 30, 2011

As it Happens... EGYPT NEWS UPDATES & LINKS Nr.45

Jan25 Voices
 
Reuters: Police getting back to streets of for traffic, crime control but not sent in to confront protesters

Jan 25 Live
 
RNN: World Associate of Muslim Scholars: to protestors, you are the rightful, hold your position, what you are asking for is worth sacrifice

Sultan Al Qassemi
 
Al Jazeera: Ahmad al-Raysuni of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Jeddah: "Mubarak has appointed a cabinet of war"

Asa Winstanley
 
Welcome to all my new followers. If you object to frequent expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people, you're in the wrong place

Sultan Al Qassemi
 
Al Arabiya: Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament, Dr Fathi Suroor "The former government has failed to meet the demands of the parliament"

Mona Eltahawy
 
Telling CNN "uprising" not "chaos" in and on rendition Egypt US torture

Jan 25 Live
 
RNN: Worl Association of Muslim Scholars: we support the speech of Qardawi to Mubarak .. leave.

Amr El Beleidy
 
So we took two 4x4s (one of them mine) and blocked our street entrances with them, now they can't drive in

Amr El Beleidy
 
Turns out that a stolen police car is close by, and people have fired upon it and it upon them, so that was the gunshots I was hearing

Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
 
AlJazeera: hunderds of thousands are still on Tahrir Square downtown Cairo. Demos continue in Alexandria Ismailia Mahalla Suez

Sultan Al Qassemi
 
BBC Arabic: Martin Indyk former US Ambassador to Israel & Brookings VP says that it seems the US government is leaning to @

Real World News
 
ElBaradei: "We are beginning a new era in Egypt"

Salim Z
 
the only one in abiding by the curfew is

Sultan Al Qassemi
 
El Baradei in Tahrir "As we have stated, we have one main demand: the ousting of this regime & the beginning of a new era"

Sultan Al Qassemi
 
El Baradei in Tahrir "Fellow Egyptians, today you must recapture your rights. What we have started will never be turned back again"

Real World News
 
Breaking News: Mohamed ElBaradei tells protesters in 's Tahrir Square that 'what we have begun cannot go back'.

Mike
RT @: Egypt speaker says will reverse results of parliamentary elections: .
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Alaa Abd El Fattah
 
♻ @: This is something everyone has to know, I have never felt safer, well protected in my country as i did today.

Sultan Al Qassemi
 
See picture of El Baradei at Meydan Tahrir now

Nic Robertson
 
Soldiers w/AK-47's locked and loaded guarding key govt buildings in Alex, allow no one to pass them.

Mona Eltahawy
 
Reminder that didn't organize nor lead uprising vs regime. He is just 1 of hundreds of 1,000s

is overwhelmed by the crowd! RT @ AM Uh oh! ElBaradei fainted before he could make his big speech.
Nic Robertson
 
Thousands protesters still on streets Alexandria, heavy machine gunfire high over their heads

Sultan Al Qassemi
 
Al Arabiya: Egyptian police (absent for three days) will direct traffic in Cairo tomorrow amongst other duties except for Meydan Tahrir.

Mostafa Hussein
 
Pic from Friday: 2 women 1 wearing a cross & the other in a niqab in midst of shooting and tear gas in Ramses protesting

Jan 25 Live
 
RNN: Journalist Daoud Hasan: Number of protestors in is increasing continuously, and protest to continue throughout the night
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Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
 
Al Baradei is reported to be already leaving Tahrir Square, or may have already left.. his point is? A cordial visit?
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Khaled Said
 
Aljazeera reporter: AlBaradei is not feeling well & had to leave Tahrir square without doing a speech.

Sharif Kouddous
 
Chanting against Omar Suleiman and Ahmed Shafik calling them collaborators with US
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Mona Eltahawy
 
Booysa! RT @: This woman @ must be stopped. She threatens 30 years of glorious stability.
Sharif Kouddous
big part of crowd sitting down to hear/see Baradei speak
Mike
Israel Says Peace Treaty With Egypt Must Be Preserved

Asa Winstanley
 
All of a sudden the BBC claims ElBaradei is "one of Mubarak's most prominent opponents". Truly clueless.

Sharif Kouddous
 
Omar Suleiman ran 's US-backed torture program. He is unacceptable.
Amr El Beleidy
people who don't like ElBaradei, use him for the transition and vote for who you like, no point starting squabbles now Egypt
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Mike
Major computer fail here i apologise for no updates- had to change hardware! !!!!!!!!!!!
You have taken back your rights and what we have begun cannot go back...We have one main demand -- the end of the regime and the beginning of a new stage, a new Egypt...I bow to the people of Egypt in respect. I ask of you patience, change is coming in the next few days...
6:26pm Mohamed ElBaradei has joined protesters at Tahrir Square in central Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood has said that ElBaradei is to negotiate for the opposition.

6:14pm Al Jazeera staff forced to go through multiple checkpoints as they drive through the capital. Listen to audio clips here.
6:12pm AJE has been contacted by friends of Wael Ghonim, head of Google Middle East, who has been missing since last week. His wife is appealing for any information on his whereabouts. Ghonim was guest speaker at the Al Jazeera Forum for Online Journalism & Freedom of Opinion earlier this month.
4:39 pm: Hundreds of judges join the protests in Cairo.
4:25 pm: Ahmed Salah, a protester, was in Tahrir square when the fighter jets flew overhead.
"It was extremely loud; it was very shocking, but then we would turn our victory sign to say we are not scared by their actions. The people were shouting, "Irhal - leave!

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