the revolution in egypt: mubarak resigns

The bread hats did the trick.

  On 2/11/2011 at 4:27 PM, jefferoo said:

  On 2/11/2011 at 3:32 PM, verticalhold said:

I think I'm intelligent, but I'm really not.

 

hey what did i do!?

I'm confused what made the people in Cairo so convinced, when they were duped yesterday

edit: i guess what im not finding out from reading this news, is how was the message of Mubarak actually stepping down spread? Yesterday it was a televised speech, did he do a new speech today or something? Most of the media reports aren't going farther than 'word spread Mubarak stepped down among the protestors'

and is the surrogate president really Omar Suleiman? The person in charge of the USA's rendition/torture program taking over Egypt seems great for us, but not so great for the Egyptians

Well played Egypt, well played....

This video gave me the chills. Well played on the Stones' tune, too. I could watch the bit at 2.18 forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUMB2RbZOlc

  On 2/11/2011 at 7:46 PM, Awepittance said:

I'm confused what made the people in Cairo so convinced, when they were duped yesterday

 

edit: i guess what im not finding out from reading this news, is how was the message of Mubarak actually stepping down spread? Yesterday it was a televised speech, did he do a new speech today or something? Most of the media reports aren't going farther than 'word spread Mubarak stepped down among the protestors'

 

and is the surrogate president really Omar Suleiman? The person in charge of the USA's rendition/torture program taking over Egypt seems great for us, but not so great for the Egyptians

you know what you get? a lot of people talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking,

11022011

as an egyptian just stated 'im broud to be egybtian now'

source: al jazeera, the tv of the people

  On 2/11/2011 at 7:46 PM, Awepittance said:

I'm confused what made the people in Cairo so convinced, when they were duped yesterday

 

edit: i guess what im not finding out from reading this news, is how was the message of Mubarak actually stepping down spread? Yesterday it was a televised speech, did he do a new speech today or something? Most of the media reports aren't going farther than 'word spread Mubarak stepped down among the protestors'

 

and is the surrogate president really Omar Suleiman? The person in charge of the USA's rendition/torture program taking over Egypt seems great for us, but not so great for the Egyptians

Suleiman is not in control. The combined generals of Egypt's armed forces are in charge in the interim. This was announced by Suleiman in a speech yesterday afternoon. I thought you were supposed to be well-informed?

Anyway, next stop Riyadh if there's any justice in this world.

it's still a US guy in control (as are all the generals, don't be naive) . Whether they now transition to 'free and fair' elections, or just use this interim posting to defuse the protesting. Remains to be seen.

What I want to know is what the Egyptian Generals said to Mubarak to make him change his mind overnight.

edit: Also it's just a tad naive to believe that the guy who was in charge of Egypt's national intelligence agency for 18 years isn't going to have any say in what the military regime does...

  On 2/12/2011 at 5:56 PM, chenGOD said:

What I want to know is what the Egyptian Generals said to Mubarak to make him change his mind overnight.

he was just stalling so that he could get his money out.

letting people enter the polls would be news already

  On 2/12/2011 at 12:12 PM, Iain C said:

 

Suleiman is not in control. The combined generals of Egypt's armed forces are in charge in the interim. This was announced by Suleiman in a speech yesterday afternoon. I thought you were supposed to be well-informed?

 

because of him saying that.. you automatically believe him? thats strange to say the least.

edit: edited to avoid escalation

  On 2/12/2011 at 5:56 PM, chenGOD said:

edit: Also it's just a tad naive to believe that the guy who was in charge of Egypt's national intelligence agency for 18 years isn't going to have any say in what the military regime does...

yes i'd say a lot more than a 'tad'.

mubarak's 10/02/2011 whole speech. full recording here

note:

this was NOT recorded several times before he managed to speak cos he was sick, like all the media reported

this is live and direct, i have screenshots of his eyebrows made at that second that prove it

fuckers

Partial Egypt results show Muslim Brotherhood lead

http://www.france24....mocracy-mubarak

"God is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations."

Great Job Egypt !

Like that's any different from most countries anyway.

People are stupid.

  On 2/11/2011 at 9:08 PM, Gocab said:

Well played Egypt, well played....

  On 12/1/2011 at 1:04 PM, Gocab said:

People are stupid.

Yes, I could try to go in depth here as to why I posted both those statements but I can't be bothered, let's conclude. Democracy: it's not easy when you don't know how.

Iran jr.

Doesn't matter - Egypt is still under military rule. The military no likey Muslim brotherhood or salafi. Military have guns. I think even you can do that math eugene.

if the military truly desired to/could stay in power they wouldn't have allowed those elections.