Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
Ali Bin Salabim | 30.01.2011 12:22 | Guantánamo | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | Cambridge
US-!CANNISTER! used by Egypt-Police
US-!CANNISTER! used by Egypt-Police
Courtney Graves, American living in Giza, in email to the BBC: "I have to pay 150 pounds a day to bribe police officers to let me sell on this pavement. How can I be this educated and not find proper work?"
Ramadan Mohamed, Law graduate selling sunglasses on Cairo street: "I'm standing here to defend and to protect our national treasure."
Farid Saad, Engineer, one of the men protecting the museum: "They are torching down the prisons. Our lives and property are at risk. Get out of the way."
Unknown shopper, Overheard echoing the anxieties of many as they raced to stock up at stores: "The crowds are very pro-army. I filmed an amazing moment when a charismatic one-star general addressed the public and spoke of the importance of maintaining public order. People kept shouting, are you with or against Mubarak? He answered that his mission is making sure the looting stops, and that the issue of who governs is the people's decision, not the army's, and that government should be civilian." Issandr El Amrani, Blogging as The Arabist
More from Robert Fisk: ......... http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/
Robert Fisk: A people defies its dictator, and a nation's future is in the balance ... A brutal regime is fighting, bloodily, for its life. Robert Fisk reports from the streets of Cairo .......... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/robert-fisk-a-people-defies-its-dictator-and-a-nations-future-is-in-the-balance-2197769.html
Our writer (Robert Fisk) joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regimeAnti-Mubarak .... protesters in Cairo yesterday climb on an army tank ....... Photos More pictures: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-egypt-death-throes-of-a-dictatorship-2198444.html?action=Gallery
PIC.....: US-!CANNISTER! used by Egypt-Police ...... 'Made in U.S.A.' printed on ***cannister*** used by #Egypt police. Ppl are furious abt this. ... (posted by @mideastmedia from Yfrog) ....... http://yfrog.com/h7a0dvj
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