Middle East on fire

Just phoned some Friends and Family to stock up on Food and Gasoline...this is going a little too fast now for my liking.

Originally posted by Shenon
Just phoned some Friends and Family to stock up on Food and Gasoline...this is going a little too fast now for my liking.

Well apparently all western government have sent faxes to their cop departments in all big cities to be alert and prepared for any possible riots.

So yeah.

LA :

join RALLY in LOS ANGELES for EGYPT!

Los Angeles Demonstration - In solidarity with Egypt

Friday and Saturday in many big cities across the western world.

Maadi is on fire, thousands protesters on the streets

France reviewing security around embassies and mosques - some immigrants taking to the streets in low numbers at this time in support of events in the arab world

BBC Arabic reporter in Suez "Protesters used to be between 15 and 30 in past two days, now old women & workers have joined" #Jan25

Reports of landlines being cut off soon

Good luck cutting landlines...

The insanity of that dictatorship :

AlJazeera: Reports that 2 soldiers in Suez had charges brought against them for refusing to fire live ammunition on protesters

Seriously?

Breaking BBC Arabic: Protesters have stormed ruling NDP party headquarters in Ismailiya & destroyed contents. Via Mohammed Ridwan

Thousands in Jordan protest, demand prime minister step down (AP)

Aljazeer down? Stream is gone.

Nevermind,back again,got scared there for a Minute.

Cnn reporting situation in Alexandria is calming down and becoming less violent. Still thousands protesting but they are doing it peacefully and the police are responding without violence. Via Nic Robertson by sat phone.

RNN: 30,000 freemen of Mansoura gather around governorate building calling for unjustice down

Chants & protestors in thousands coming close to Cairo university

Ms_Asal: AJA: 100's of Turkish people demonstrate in Turkey to support Egypt's demand of freedom. #Jan25 #egypt

RNN: Confirmed: Minya: more than 40,000 heading to governorate building through Taha Hussein

RNN: Thousands at Bani Suef and people attack NDP building with no action from forces

Im watching Wallstreet "Brent Oil" like a Hawk right now. ATM its steady between 97.70 and 97.80...

I'm watching twitter, seems the only place minute by minute news is getting out.

Egypt is certainly fighting it's citizens in a fight to the death, one of them has got to die, Egypt, or Egyptians?

I'm hoping that they do topple Mubarrak, and tell Israel and the US to go play in the Negev.

reply to post by harryhaller


I hope so too.

BBC Arabic: Egyptian journalist Ahmad Ali estimates that the number of protesters in Alexandria has reached 100,000

Damn...

I'm about to go to sleep unfortunately... so... feel free to continue this thread.

The Telecoms company Vodafone says the Egyptian government has ordered all mobile telephone operators to suspend services "in selected areas" of the country.

In a statement, the company says that "under Egyptian legislation the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it." British-based Vodafone Group plc said Egyptian authorities "will be clarifying the situation in due course."

Originally posted by Vitchilo
reply to post by harryhaller

 

I hope so too.

BBC Arabic: Egyptian journalist Ahmad Ali estimates that the number of protesters in Alexandria has reached 100,000

Damn...

I'm about to go to sleep unfortunately... so... feel free to continue this thread.

Damn. Could ya give us some links we can follow and post Updates on please? Im tired myself though,wanted to go to sleep Hours ago.

Not just facebook rebels: how students, trades unionists and ordinary Egyptians have come together in protest t.co... #jan25

RT @bencnn: Plainclothed #Egypt policemen in Tahrir Sq attack #CNN crew, brake and steal camera. Violent suppression protesters everywhere

12.38pm: BBC Arabic says approximately 4,000 protesters have surrounded the Suez governate building and are chanting "Free Egypt, Mubarak out."

12.47pm: BBC Arabic is reporting that protesters in Ismailia have taken over the local headquarters of Mubarak's National Democratic Party.

reply to post by Vitchilo


Don't be such an Anarchist!

Storming the palace will get them nowhere!

All this violence- You really think it'll get them what they want? Let's say they manage to break through or kill all the cops and soldiers, then they reach Mubarak, and what? Kill him?

The fate of this revolution will be decided by the non violent actions that the people of Egypt will take, rather than the violent ones.

Al Jazeera's live channel, Al Jazeera Mubashar, has been blocked completely in Egypt. #jan25

RT @ShereefAbbas: "Abbas bridge in Giza is closed off, 15 CS trucks there" via @ghorab #Jan25 #jan28 #egypt

2:47 pm - Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton says there was a large protest on Gelaa St., outside Al Jazeera's bureau in Cairo, and that tear gas wafted in through the windows when our team there tried to look outside.

2:38 pm - Latest video from Suez shows a small line of riot police, four men deep, looking swamped by a much larger crowd of protesters

2:34 pm - Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal, in Suez, reports that several fire trucks sped down a street toward protesters, who had to scatter to avoid being run over and then pelted the trucks with stones. Elshayyal estimates the crowd at 2,000 to 3,000 people, who have lit fires in the street.

2:31 pm - Dutton, in Cairo, says protesters have also placed blame on the United States for supporting president Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.

2:55 pm - Our Arabic channel is reporting that 40,000 protesters in Mansoura - a mid-sized, working-class town in the Nile Delta - are attacking the offices of the ruling National Democratic Party. That would be an enormous crowd, and we haven't confirmed the number.

Shadi Hamid, of the Brookings Institution, says from the studio here in Doha that no matter where these protests go, the Egyptian people have made a huge accomplishment.

Mansoura NDP headquarters destroyed by protestors #Jan25 #Egypt

12.59pm: In another extraordinary audio report Jack Shenker in Cairo reports on signs that the police are siding with the protesters. He saw a senior police officer discard a teargas canister to signal to protesters that he was on their side. Will the regime fall he asked a state journalist. "It's already falling, it can't stop," Jack was told.

Israel expects Egypt to use necessary force against protestors, minister says

Someone help please,i cant speak Arabic.

1.09pm: Al-Jazeera in Suez says the police station in the port city has been taken over by protesters who have freed detainees. They have also set fire to three armoured cars. The reporter said the police were overpowered within minutes.

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3:03 pm - Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, in Cairo, said he was at the mosque in Giza, on the outskirts on the capital, where Mohamed ElBaradei prayed this morning. Police formed a cordon around the mosque's exits and, as of 90 minutes ago, were keeping ElBaradei and his brother inside. Mohyeldin and our crew managed to get out.

3:07 pm - Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal, in Suez, says protesters have apparently taken over a police station in the city and set free those who have been arrested in the past 48 hours.

heh

Originally posted by Eliad
reply to post by Vitchilo

 

Don't be such an Anarchist!

Storming the palace will get them nowhere!

All this violence- You really think it'll get them what they want? Let's say they manage to break through or kill all the cops and soldiers, then they reach Mubarak, and what? Kill him?

The fate of this revolution will be decided by the non violent actions that the people of Egypt will take, rather than the violent ones.

Maybe they can reach him and ask him nicely if he'd mind stepping down??
I can see that working....

1.12pm: An eyewitness account from Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, who says police immediately set upon peaceful protesters.


We are in East Alexandria. Immediately after prayer, the people came out of mosque with banners and started marching, shouting 'we are peaceful, we are peaceful'. Security arrived and immediately began shooting teargas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, about 600. Then one-hour rock throwing clash, but police didn't advance more than one block and kept being pushed back. Then a massive column of protesters came from the other direction and blocked in police, holding up their hands and shouting we are peaceful. Right now police is held up in the yard of mosque and protesters all around, police can't move. They repeatedly ran out of teargas and begged protesters to stop, protesters telling them to join them

Priceless

1.21pm: Moving pictures of people praying in the streets in Cairo are currently being broadcast.

"Nour", a young activist who was locked in the back of a police van with Jack Shenker, has told al-Jazeera that his Dad, Ayman Nour, a prominent dissident, is in intensive care after being hit on the back of a head by a rock thrown by government thugs. His father has diabetes and a heart condition. His father challenged Hosni Mubarak for the presidency in 2005 and was thrown in jail for his troubles.

Nour said there were government thugs in Cairo with "steel and sticks. It is very frightening and intimidating."

3:18 pm - Senior ruling party member Mustafa al-Fiqi on the phone with Al Jazeera English: President Hosni Mubarak's government should issue a response, this is not a sign of weakness. He is sure Mubarak will "face the people in the the coming days ... otherwise the situation will be escalating and we won't feel the limits to what is going on now."

Originally posted by Eliad
Don't be such an Anarchist!

Storming the palace will get them nowhere!

All this violence- You really think it'll get them what they want? Let's say they manage to break through or kill all the cops and soldiers, then they reach Mubarak, and what? Kill him?

The fate of this revolution will be decided by the non violent actions that the people of Egypt will take, rather than the violent ones.

Oh you tell THAT to the French, British, Russians, Italians ... just about every "civilised" nation out there!! They all stormed the palace was the best damned thing they could have done. All for exactly the same reason mind you.

Difference between a european politician and an african politician?

The european have taken the leaders out and put a bullet in them. Then turned around and asked who is next. The africans have still got to get there.

Non violence my sweet ass. Never worked, never will. About time some african dictator blood got spilled. Really, it's time. Enough of every body else's blood thanks. Watch carefully what the Egyptian authorities are doing to maintain power ... releasing prisoners to attack peaceful protestor? Unleashing plainclothes policemen with knives into the melee?

Fight fire with fire.

Police is pretty outnumbered right now and gets pushed back mostly peaeful looking at Al Jazeera.

Curtis/AP Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch in Alexandria, has just sent an update that the police where he is have given up and are withdrawing.

Heh

3:27 pm - Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal, in Suez, says protesters have taken over the central part of the city, called al-Arbayyin. The momentum seemed to turn in their favor after several fire engines tried to barrel through a crowd, sending people scattering; the crowd subsequently began pelting the trucks with stones."It's getting from bad to worse as far as the security services here are concerned," he tells us.

evanchill Al Jazeera footage: Protesters crossing on 6th of October bridge being hit by tear gas canisters streaming down from above. #jan25

reply to post by Shenon


Live video feed can be found here:

english.aljazeera.net...

Originally posted by Foxoutfoxing
reply to post by Shenon

 

Live video feed can be found here:

english.aljazeera.net...

I know,im watching it right now...though i only got 3 Sources right now to post updates.

Protestors are throwing stones at the Police and push them back on the Bridge

1.33pm: More from Peter Bouckaert, from Human Rights Watch, in Alexandria:

The police have now given up fighting the protesters. The police and protesters are now talking, with protesters bringing water and vinegar (for teargas) to the police. Afternoon prayer has just been called and hundreds are praying in front of the mosque in east Alexandria.

3:40 pm - Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal, in Suez, says that the seizure of the al-Arbayyin police station in the city is symbolic: Israel used it as a command post during the 1973 war. Protesters now say they're fighting an "identical battle" against the government of president Hosni Mubarak.

In some parts of Alexandria the Police has given up and is joining/helping the Protestors now!

3:42 pm - Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, in Alexandria, says protesters set two police trucks on fire, with a civilian car "sandwiched inbetween." Rageh says she's seen protesters carrying wounded police officers, who tell the protesters, "We're all Egyptians, we're with you."

15:42 AFP: Egypt releases arrested French reporters

15:41 AFP: Egypt ruling party official wants "unprecedented" reforms

1.44pm: Peter Beaumont reports on a pitched battle between police and protesters on the Kassr Nile bridge. "It is white with gas, but the protesters are pushing the police back," he says. Like Jack Shenker and Human Rights Watch, Peter has also seen signs of protesters trying persuade police to join them.

3:46 pm - Just to give you a sense of how fast things are moving in Egypt: On Gelaa Street outside of our bureau in Cairo, where hundreds of protesters were peacefully praying just half an hour ago, police have now cleared everyone out with tear gas. One of the capital's landmarks, the Hilton Ramses hotel, is right next door, and tourists have been driven inside off their balconies by the wafting clouds of gas

3:50 pm - Our sister station Al Jazeera Arabic has been reporting from throughout Egypt today, they're currently telling us of other large protests in Port Said, which lies at the mouth of the Suez Canal on the Mediterranean Sea, and in Damietta, a town in the Nile Delta. They report tens of thousands of protesters in Port Said and thousands in Damietta, where crowds set fire to the office of the ruling National Democratic Party.