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[muckefuck]

Mohamed ElBaradei says: "The Egyptian people will take care of themselves. The Egyptian people will be the ones who will make the change. We are not waiting for help and assistance. But what I expect from the outside world is to practice [what they] preach - to defend the rights of Egyptians for their universal values - freedom, dignity, social justice." (Source: BBCNews)

"Egyptians staging anti-government protests on Friday vented anger at the fact that the tear gas security forces are firing at them is US-manufactured, probably part of a massive military aid package.

"'The American taxpayer should know how their money is being spent,' shouted one young male protester who declined to give his name, brandishing a spent tear gas canister marked 'Made in USA.' (Source: AFP)

Comments

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

That's my country - arms merchant to the world.

Hey, that's capitalism for ya

[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

It was a three part BBC series on Egypt that told me about how Mubarak has been building up industry in Egypt explicitly for the military in order to co opt any nasty coup urges, since they would in theory have something to lose if they destabilized everything. Mind, the government/military controlled industries were also undermining publicly owned industries...

It wil be very interesting to see how well that policy works out

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

The protesters are still cheering the army even while cursing Mubarak; this is not lost on the men in tanks. At some point, a surgical decapitation to save the system is going to look mighty tempting. That point may already have been reached a couple hours ago, I just don't know.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

he's already refused to resign twice while dismissing the government. In the Uk 3 refusals to resign usually means the person will be gone within the day, but this is Mubarak. I have no idea.

I am, however, a little worried about how the news channels are already anointing ElBaradei. I don't know that much about him as a statesman, but that Nobel Prize puts him in the same corner as Kissinger...

...gotta get those USA tags off the crowd-mauling equipment. Maybe they could be replaced with some nice globalmerz roundel with a name that can't be nationally identified.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping for a surgical decapitation. If there is a disruption of the Egyptian military that leaves the country vulnerable to external militant meddling. This morning I was asked if there had been any substantiation to the rumors that Mubarak's son had been smuggled out or had fled the country. I've seen nothing, but I have to wonder to what extent the military would allow the problem to become re-entrenched with a passing on of power.

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

When we watched the US SoS comment on Egypt, my partner remarked: ¡Qué hipocresía!

Chuck