Three Dead in Old Cairo

[JackLuis]

Three dead in Egypt protests

Tear gas used to disperse thousands of demonstrators in central Cairo after a day of protests against the government.

Two civilians and a police officer have died after a wave of unusually large anti-government demonstrations swept across Egypt, calling for the ouster of longtime president Hosni Mubarak.

In central Cairo, crowds numbering in the thousands protested and clashed with police throughout the day. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning, security forces violently dispersed those who remained in Tahrir Square, the heart of the city, Al Jazeera's Adam Makary reported.

Holy Tunisia, Harish!

Egypt police accused of brutality
Human rights group says torture is widespread in prisons and detention
centres.

Officers charged

Gad Sadiq Gadallah, his brother, said: "They broke into Nasser's apartment where he was with his wife and three children and four of them [police] picked him up and threw him off the balcony."

Holy Shit! Another third world shithole down the tubes.

Ooops,

Another failed Socialist Dictator under fire.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

That's my profile pic, did you ask my permission to use it?

 

[amicus]

Albatross? I thought that was an Albatross?

Obama mentioned Tunisia in the SOTU tonight, but failed to notice Egypt. Years ago, I had online friends in Egypt, too frightened by their government to even Post Poetry on another site.

What isn't being said is that Radical Muslims are moving in and establishing power and control throughout North Africa. Iran has an elbow in the pie, as does Syria, with Arms from Russia, North Korea and China. How fucking stupid can the Obama administration be in terms of foreign policy?

Amicus

 

[R. Richard]

Radical Muslims do very well with fiery political speeches and suicide bombings. However, trifling things like jobs and decent living condition for the people that they want to rule are not to be considered until 'tomorrow.'

The Russians have been supporting some Islamo-Fascist groups and fighting others. Now they have hundreds dead or wounded in an airport, due to Islamo-Fascist attacks.

Tunisia and now Egypt show what happens when the people get fed up with Islamo-Fascist rule and the resulting poverty and total lack of freedom.

There are siolutions, but the solutions are not going to be achieved by trying to talk to people who believe that they are on a mission for their god.

 

[stephen55]

What isn't being said is that Radical Muslims are moving in and establishing power and control throughout North Africa. Iran has an elbow in the pie, as does Syria, with Arms from Russia, North Korea and China. How fucking stupid can the Obama administration be in terms of foreign policy?
Amicus

ami just might be right on this one.

Why let those Ruskies, ChiComs and NorKors supply Arms (sic) to North African Islamofascists, when there are perfectly good 'Merican arms manufacturers who should be getting a piece of the action?

Damned straight!!

Fuckin' AK-47s!!

M4s, now them thar's a good killer!

Good ol' 'Merican know how!! That's what them Islamofascits really need!

 

[sr71plt]

Muslim fundamentalists have been rumbling around and vying for power in North Africa, with ebbing and flowing success, since Anwar as-Sadat was assassinated on 6 October 1981. This is hardly a "new" thing.

 

[wet_special]

Muslim fundamentalists have been rumbling around and vying for power in North Africa, with ebbing and flowing success, since Anwar as-Sadat was assassinated on 6 October 1981. This is hardly a "new" thing.

Well said. Always good to keep some perspective. Interesting to see something similar happening in Tunisia just a week or two earlier. Anyone willing to take bets on a third socialist basketcase about to collapse before V-day?

 

[JackLuis]

Riots in Suez

Reports of ‘massacre’ in Suez as protests in Egypt move into third day

Anti-government protests in Egypt moved into their third day early Thursday, with unconfirmed reports of police "massacres" of civilians in the port city of Suez.

In Cairo, protesters "played cat and mouse with police" into the early hours of Thursday, Reuters reported. Opposition groups reported on their websites that electronic communications had been cut off in the city center, and parts of the city were experiencing blackouts.

This has been brewing for Years. Minimum wage in Egypt is 6.40 a MONTH!
Hard to support a lavish lifestyle on 6.40 a month.

I don't think that this is about fundamentalism, it's about the money.

 

[JackLuis]

Egyptian Police Take the Gloves Off[

Egyptian security forces have arrested as many as 1,000 people over nationwide anti-government protests. What's it like to be in Egyptian police custody? A Guardian reporter recorded his arrest: "We ran a gauntlet of officers beating us with sticks."

We were being dragged towards a security building on the edge of the square, two streets away from my apartment, and as I approached the doorway of the building other security officers took flying kicks and punches at me. I spotted a high-ranking uniformed officer and shouted at him that I was a British journalist. He responded by walking over and punching me twice, saying in Arabic, "Fuck you and fuck Britain".

Now that's just mean.

 

[1sickbastard]

Now that's just mean.

Funny how former colonies are slow to forget the past. (Except the US, of course.)