EGYPT, TUNISIA AND MANY MORE--How the world powers manipulate the public opinion?

[Aslan]

Syrian authorities have shut down the internet as well now.

 

[Aslan]

The condition is getting worst

This should be an eye opener for the b@sterds sitting in Pakistan that how their follow comrades who use to act like gods are running and hiding now.

 

[Aslan]

Saw this on twitter.

Nancy_Shehata‎ Someone called my husband and said police and military joined protesters in Alexandria #Egypt

 

[monitor]

Mohammad al baradi on house arrest according to high level official.

 

[SekrutYakhni]

THE WORST OUTCOME OF THIS 'PRE REVOLUTION' is a dummy person coming to power, Elbaradei,.

Pakistan was also in a 'pre revolution' mode when people were marching towards Islamabad to reinstate SC Judges. However, as usual, that movement was hijacked by Nawaz Sharif and his bud, Kiyani.

According to the news, Kiyani asked NS to stop there. It was a good move BUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
SAME status quo in power.

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I HOPE THAT EGYPT, YEMEN, SYRIA AND TUNISIA gets a LOCAL and PATRIOTIC leadership this time.
No dummy from Arabi, the holy guys nor from the west.

 

[monitor]

Syrian authorities have shut down the internet as well now.

When the peoples are desperate no obstacle can force them back down . inshaallah peoples will win in this struggle of freedom from oppression and dictatorship .


CHANGE

 

[SekrutYakhni]

When the peoples are desperate no obstacle can force them back down . inshaallah peoples will win in this struggle of freedom from oppression and dictatorship .


CHANGE

BUT I HOPE THAT THE WEST AND ARABI REFRAIN FROM SENDING THEIR DUMMY TO EGYPT.

 

[Aslan]

BUT I HOPE THAT THE WEST AND ARABI REFRAIN FROM SENDING THEIR DUMMY TO EGYPT.

El Baradai is the same but this time with what has happened he will realize that he cant play around like Mubarak.

 

[Durrak]

Many building are burnt by the protesters in Cairo

 

[SekrutYakhni]

If Elbaradei, former IAEA guy comes to power...NO QUESTION!

The movement was hijacked by the kings and the west.

Should I tell you the track record of Elbaradei?
The revolutionary guy!

 

[monitor]

BUT I HOPE THAT THE WEST AND ARABI REFRAIN FROM SENDING THEIR DUMMY TO EGYPT.

If the people remain vigilant and united then no more dictator will emerge in Egypt . its the time to change the history .

 

[SekrutYakhni]

El Baradai is the same but this time with what has happened he will realize that he cant play around like Mubarak.

Take this as a peanut.

Egyptians were fed up with Mubarak and his family. Elbaradei kicks in, new man, people will have expectations from him..People will calm down in the beginning.

This is just another way to calm people down.

 

[Durrak]

CAIRO: Tens of thousands of Egyptians joined protests on Friday to call for the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo and other major cities including Alexandria, Mansoura, Suez and Aswan, Reuters witnesses and other reports said.

There was no official figure from the authorities.

Some of the demonstrations turned violent, with protesters clashing with police and shouting: "Down, down Mubarak."

 

[SekrutYakhni]

Someday, we will get these protests in Pakistan against corrupt mafia including corrupt military establishment. (not all)

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Egypt should get a 'home grown' leadership. Same goes to other Arab states!

 

[Durrak]

CAIRO: Egyptian demonstrators fought security forces into the early hours of Friday in the city of Suez, and the Internet was blocked ahead of the biggest protests yet planned against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.

Emboldened by this month's revolt that toppled the authoritarian leader of Tunisia, Egyptians have staged mass protests since Tuesday. The biggest demonstrations yet are planned for Friday afternoon after weekly prayers.

"This is a revolution," one 16-year-old protester said in Suez late on Thursday. "Every day we're coming back here."

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, who returned to Egypt from Vienna on Thursday, has called for Mubarak to resign and said he would join the protests on Friday.

Internet access was shut down across the country shortly after midnight. Mobile phone text messaging services also appeared to be partially disabled, working only sporadically.

Activists have relied on the Internet, especially social media services like Twitter and Facebook, to organise.

US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a "tweet" message on Twitter: "We are concerned that communications services, including the Internet, social media, and even this tweet are being blocked in Egypt."

A page on Facebook social networking site listed more than 30 mosques and churches where protesters were expected gather.

"Egypt's Muslims and Christians will go out to fight against corruption, unemployment and oppression and absence of freedom."

In Suez, which has been ground zero for some of the most violent demonstrations, police fired tear gas at protesters who hurled stones and petrol bombs into the early hours of Friday.

Fires burned in the street, filling the air with smoke.

The city fire station was ablaze. Waves of protesters charged towards a police station deep into the night.

Demonstrators dragged away their wounded comrades into alleys.

Security forces shot dead a protester in the north of the Sinai region on Thursday, bringing the death toll to five.

Video images obtained by Reuters showed the man among a small group of protesters some distance from the security forces when he suddenly collapsed with a gunshot wound and was dragged away by other demonstrators. The video circulated widely on the Internet, galvanising anger.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including at least eight senior officials of the opposition group and its main spokesmen, were rounded up overnight. A security source said authorities had ordered a crackdown on the group.

"WIPED FROM THE GLOBAL MAP"

US-based Internet monitoring firm Renesys said the total shut-down of the Internet it recorded early on Friday was "unprecedented in Internet history", going far beyond measures taken during Tunisia's protests or a 2009 uprising in Iran.

"Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing table," it said. "The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map."

The United States is Egypt's close ally and major donor, and has tread carefully over unrest in a country it considers a bulwark of Middle East stability.

In his first comments on the unrest, President Barack Obama avoided signs of abandoning Mubarak but made clear he sympathised with demonstrators.

"...I've always said to him that making sure that they are moving forward on reform -- political reform, economic reform -- is absolutely critical to the long-term well-being of Egypt," Obama said in comments broadcast on the YouTube website.

"You can see these pent-up frustrations that are being displayed on the streets."

ElBaradei and other opposition figures say the government exploits the Islamist opposition to justify authoritarianism.

The Muslim Brotherhood has kept a low profile during the protests, although of its supporters were expected to join demonstrations on Friday. The government has accused it of planning to exploit the youth protests for its "hidden agendas", while the Brotherhood says it is being used as a scapegoat.

FRUSTRATED

As in many other countries across the Middle East, Egyptians are frustrated over surging prices, unemployment and an authoritarian government that tolerates little dissent.

Many of them are young. Two thirds of Egypt's 80 million people are below the age of 30, and many of them have no jobs.

About 40 percent of Egyptians live on less than a $2 a day.

The government has urged Egyptians to act with restraint on Friday. Safwat Sherif, secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party, told reporters: "We hope that tomorrow's Friday prayers and its rituals happen in a quiet way that upholds the value of such rituals ... and that no one jeopardises the safety of citizens or subjects them to something they do not want."

ElBaradei, 68, a former head of the UN nuclear watchdog who has campaigned for change in his native country since last year, told reporters at Cairo's airport he would take part in Friday's protests. He added: "I wish we did not have to go out on the streets to press the regime to act."