Broad Protests Across Egypt Focus Fury on Mubarak
By KAREEM FAHIM and MONA EL-NAGGAR
NYT
CAIRO — Thousands of people calling for the end of the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with riot police in this Egyptian capital on Tuesday, on a day of some of the most serious civil unrest in recent memory here.
A soldier died of injuries he sustained during the protest in Cairo, security officials said, and two protesters were reported killed in the port town of Suez.
The protesters, mobilized largely on the Internet and energized by recent events in Tunisia, occupied one of the city’s most famous squares for hours, beating back attempts to dislodge them by police officers wielding tear gas and water cannons.
“Freedom, freedom, freedom,” they chanted. “Where are the Egyptian people?”
(More here.)
NYT
CAIRO — Thousands of people calling for the end of the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with riot police in this Egyptian capital on Tuesday, on a day of some of the most serious civil unrest in recent memory here.
A soldier died of injuries he sustained during the protest in Cairo, security officials said, and two protesters were reported killed in the port town of Suez.
The protesters, mobilized largely on the Internet and energized by recent events in Tunisia, occupied one of the city’s most famous squares for hours, beating back attempts to dislodge them by police officers wielding tear gas and water cannons.
“Freedom, freedom, freedom,” they chanted. “Where are the Egyptian people?”
(More here.)
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Egypt is an integral part of the Israeli policy of Palestinian containment. Without them, the Palestinians might actually gain a leg to stand on in future negotiations. We'll just have to wait and see if a new Egyptian government opens their border crossing to them.
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