Live: Al Jazeera coverage of Egypt’s growing revolution

[Jeff]

Egypt state TV text: Muslim Brotherhood threw Molotovs from the rooftops to light the fire of unrest.

http://twitter.com/evanchill/status/32847991836508160

[Jeff]

It was clear from Bill Daley -- the new White House chief of staff, at a roundtable with reporters this morning -- that the White House had no warning of today's events in Egypt.

Daley said the president's 30-minute conversation with Mubarak last night was "cordial not heated."

He said the history of the military in Egypt is "an enormous plus" for the transition. Given the history going back to Nasser, he said that there is an obvious possibility that the next leader come from the military. He also said that there have been extensive, continuing contacts with the military, but the bottom line is that the people will control this.

Based on the overnight news -- and morning broadcasts -- he said, "All the signs are there is a return of some normalcy" pointing to the Internet being back on, and some businesses reopening, clearly outdated by events.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... k-protests

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Aljazeera | | Egyptian Ministry of Health: a solider was killed and 403 injured in clashes at El Tahrir Square today

[barracuda]

Mubarak's cavalry:

[seemslikeadream]

[quote="barracuda"]Mubarak's cavalry:

Wackenhut has arrived

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RNN | News
News leaked from the White House: An officer close to Mubarak is the one who sent the security officers and thugs to frighten the citizens

[American Dream]

Egypt: Retrofitting "Operation Ajax" to Support the Pharaoh against the People

[vanlose kid]

6.59pm: The Associated Press has written up the comments by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, see (6.45pm):

The White House said Wednesday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has a chance to show the world "exactly who he is" by bringing desperately needed transition to his country now. Press secretary Robert Gibbs also decried bloody violence happening in Cairo, where pro-government forces clashed with protesters a day after Mubarak announced he would not seek re-election in September. That was not good enough for the protesters, who want him out now. If any of the violence is instigated by the government it should stop immediately," Gibbs said, while declining to speculate whether the government was in fact behind the violence. Protesters contend plainclothes police are among the pro-government attackers. Gibbs said no decision had been made on cutting off the $1.5 billion in annual aid the US provides Egypt but that it was still under review. Gibbs reiterated President Barack Obama's call from Tuesday night that transition in Egypt must begin now but he did not explain exactly what that meant or say whether Mubarak should resign now. "Now means now," Gibbs said at the White House briefing. "The people of Egypt need to see change, the people of Egypt need to see progress," he said. Gibbs didn't directly answer when asked whether Obama viewed Mubarak as a dictator, saying the Egyptian president had a chance to show who he was.

6.55pm: We received a very interesting email from a Brit living in Cairo, who does not want to be named:

I received a txt message from "Egypt Lovers" telling me to go to Tahrir Square and show my support for the regime! The message was translated for me by a friend and I understand it has been sent to everyone. How did the pro-Mubarak supporters do that? How did they get everyones phone numbers? Perhaps because "Egyt Lovers" are actually the interior ministry...?

6.53pm: Al Aribaya says one of its journalists has been kidnapped by pro-Mubarak supporters.

@SultanAlQassemi

Al Arabiya is pleading for assistance in finding its missing reporter (captured by NDP thugs) Ahmad Abdallah to call 257 85 005.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/201 ... s#block-80

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[crikkett]

Ahmad Abdallah was found!

[crikkett]

https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?hl=e ... GkYYBmPOKQ

It's the speak2tweet translation spreadsheet!

[gnosticheresy_2]

As of 19.58 GMT

http://twitter.com/#!/hadeelalsh

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Both sides battling on side streets. Pro-mubarak carrying machetes #egypt #jan25
15 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
The energy is still v high. people not relenting #egypt #jan25
17 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Fyi I am located on the anti-mubarak side. Everything I tweet is on this side. Its too dangerous for me to be on pro side #jan25
20 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Women are in this totally. Banging the metal fences, carrying blankets of rocks, leading chants. #egypt #jan25
22 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Shobra men flooding the battle line crying Allahu akbar #egypt #jan25
26 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
More gunfire. Thousands from Shobra neighbourhood arrived #egypt #jan25
28 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Thousands still flooding to the battle lines. #egypt #jan25
30 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Anti-mubarak standing on tanks calling on supporters to come to "jihad" #egypt #jan25
32 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Clarification: the anti-mub holding pro-mub prisoner in the sadat metro which is a makeshift jail now #egypt #jan25
33 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
So much gunfire #egypt #jan25
36 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Fires keep breaking out close to #egypt museum but put out quickly #egypt #jan25
36 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Air thick w smoke. Loud w drumming on metal fences #egypt #jan25
38 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
More gunfire now #egypt #jan25
41 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Dozens injured. Bleeding heads, limbs, and eyes. Doctors seem overwhelmed and overworked #egypt #jan25
42 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
People using scarves, cardboard and pepsi boxes as helmets #egypt #jan25
43 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
People calling this jihad. Rallying the troops. Azharis and salafis giving doomsday speeches #egypt #jan25
44 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Got punched in the face when pro-mubarak crowd charged in. Not pleasant #egypt #jan25
45 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Army fired into the air to keep a group of pro-mubarak from entering tahrir #egypt #jan25
46 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
the sadat metro is being used as a jail, holding pro-mubarak detainees #jan25 #egypt
47 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Around tahrir: makeshift clinics, ppl breaking pavement, selling tea and women helping to distribute water #egypt #jan25
48 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Looking straight at a shower of rocks being hurled from both sides #egypt #jan25
52 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Air is smoky. Molotov cocktails thrown from the top of buildings. Raining #egypt #jan2
52 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Tahrir's pavements destroyed. Ppl breaking them to make rocks for the fight #egypt #jan25
55 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
The battle is still going on near the egyptian museum. Ppl drumming, praying, hurling rocks #jan25
55 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
@
@Ilikepolitics I mean molotov cocktails, rock hurling and beatings
56 minutes ago

hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Am in the middle of the Tahrir battlefield #egypt #jan25
1 hour ago

[eyeno]

This footage looks a bit more recent than some I have seen. Maybe not. But here it is. It plays in the lower part of the screen.
http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish

[barracuda]

I just saw a guy accidentally drop a molotov cocktail and set himself on fire right in front of the museum.

Armed Mubarak thugs said to be approaching the square, as the military warns protesters to go home.

Prayers for Alice.

[Laodicean]

"I Either Leave Here Free Or Dead": Egyptian Protester Refuses to Leave Tahrir Square Despite Violent Attacks By Mubarak Supporters

Egyptian protester Nazly Hussein describes bloodshed in Cairo and role of the United States in funding the violent oppression by the Egyptian government.

Video/Audio @ Democracy Now!

"We've been hit with all kinds of weapons. All made from the United States of America."

[Jeff]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair explained Tuesday that the embattled Egyptian president was "immensely courageous and a force for good."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/tony ... orce-good/

These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:
That one doctor will not save him
That two healers will not heal him
That three eyes will not see him
That four ears will not hear him
That five walls will not hide him
That six diggers will not bury him
And that seven deaths shall never kill him