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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:23 AM
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Egyptian Revolution Tweets. Day 18, Farewell Friday, Part 7
Egyptian Revolution Tweets. Day 18, Farewell Friday, Part 7

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Some Mubarak Financial documents DDos'd to dissappear found here

To see Tahrir reference points on Google Earth + overlay

Stop blaming Mubarak, after all it's humiliating to get screwed over by a facebook page after 30 years #egypt #jan25
- MostafaMGaafar, Mostafa M Gaafar


Egyptian Revolution 2011
Please rec if you read these, these get mercilessly unrec'd. Weird.
If you see important news, please xpost in LCoyote's Daily Thread for Day 18
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:25 AM
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1. K&R ! //nt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:26 AM
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2. Observation, that was some psychological war the ppl waged on the Army!
Never seen anything like it. Wow. n/t
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:27 AM
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3. A few pray, others keep on shouting "down w the regime"
SaadAbedine SaadAbedine
Few pray, others keep on shouting "down w the regime" http://yfrog.com/h7f4arjj
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:28 AM
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4. Advice from a protester (me): never protest with the rich crowd. They aren't angry enough
NadiaE Nadia El-Awady
Advice from a protester (me): never protest with the rich crowd. They aren't angry enough. #jan25 #egypt
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in response to earlier comment

NadiaE Nadia El-Awady
Not a single chant at pres palace. Posh upper middle class tires easily. We NEED tahrir lot here! #jan25
6 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:31 AM
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7. we r trying to send u professional chant leaders from tahrir :) hold on
monasosh monasosh
@
@occupiedcairo @NadiaE we r trying to send u professional chant leaders from tahrir :) hold on #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:33 AM
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9. aunt who lives next to the palace: the protesters are "very chic". Freakin heliopolis.
Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
Heard from my aunt who lives next to the palace that the protesters are "very chic". Freakin heliopolis. :p #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:45 AM
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23. Very upscale crowd. Even the well off want mubarak gone.

Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
Very upscale crowd. Even the well off want mubarak gone. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:30 AM
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5. Saw thousands marching on the road to heliopolis (palace). This could become another Tahrir
Edited on Fri Feb-11-11 08:33 AM by Catherina
Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
Saw thousands marching on the road to heliopolis. This could become another Tahrir. #jan25
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Sandmonkey, he's gone. The rat is gone. Opening a new bank account in the UAE at this very moment I bet. Get ready to party but watch your backs. Now all the buzzards who had nothing to do with the revolution are going to try to divide the spoils and crowd you guys out.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:31 AM
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6. BREAKING: Hundreds of thousands protesting in Zaqazeeq.
ArabRevolution تباً لك ياطاغوت
BREAKING: Hundreds of thousands protesting in Zaqazeeq. Al Jazeera #Jan25 #Egypt #Tahrir
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:33 AM
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8. Heard from my aunt who lives next to the palace that the protesters are "very chic". Freakin heliopo
Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
Heard from my aunt who lives next to the palace that the protesters are "very chic". Freakin heliopolis. :p #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:34 AM
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10. Ppl surrounded tv presenter Angy El Qady and shouted her out of the protest at pres palace

ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
Ppl surrounded tv presenter Angy El Qady and shouted her out of the protest at pres palace #jan25
1 minute ago


Good. Come pcik up Hannity and O'Reilly next please.
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:34 AM
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11. After a morning of worried indecision, the levels of energy at #Tahrir are back to 11. On a 1 to 10
TravellerW Mo-ha-med
by manal
After a morning of worried indecision, the levels of energy at #Tahrir are back to 11. On a 1 to 10 scale! #Egypt #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:34 AM
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12. a protester using the flag for prayer
SaadAbedine SaadAbedine
#Egypt, a protester using the flag for prayer, Cairo demos http://yfrog.com/gyb44njj
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:36 AM
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13. People praying in front of tanks outside presidential palace http://twitpic.com/3yn0nz #egypt #jan25
moftasa Mostafa Hussein
People praying in front of tanks outside presidential palace http://twitpic.com/3yn0nz #egypt #jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:37 AM
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14. There r some pro-Mubarak supporters on the side here holding up a banner of support, maybe 50 #jan25
ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
by Ssirgany
There r some pro-Mubarak supporters on the side here holding up a banner of support, maybe 50 #jan25 they aint thugs, regular ppl
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:38 AM
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15. The planning behind the Egyptian protests -- not organized on Facebook, great WSJ article
abuaardvark abuaardvark
The planning behind the Egyptian protests -- not organized on Facebook, great WSJ article http://on.wsj.com/fnfNhn
3 minutes ago

FEBRUARY 11, 2011
The Secret Rally That Sparked an Uprising
Cairo Protest Organizers Describe Ruses Used to Gain Foothold Against Police; the Candy-Store Meet That Wasn't on Facebook


By CHARLES LEVINSON And MARGARET COKER

CAIRO—...
...

The demonstrations that now bedevil Mr. Mubarak across Cairo and Egypt took seed in part thanks to one trick play, interviews with several protest planners show.

On Jan. 25, the first day of protests, the organizers from the youth wings of Egypt's opposition movements created what appeared to be a spontaneous massing of residents of the slum of Bulaq al-Dakrour, on Cairo's western edge. These demonstrators weren't, as the popular narrative has held, educated youth who learned about protests on the Internet. They were instead poor residents who filled a maze of muddy, narrow alleyways, massed in front of a neighborhood candy store and caught security forces flatfooted.

That protest was anything but spontaneous. How the organizers pulled it off, when so many past efforts had failed, has had people scratching their heads since.

...


They chose 20 protest sites, usually connected to mosques, in densely populated working-class neighborhoods around Cairo. They hoped that such a large number of scattered rallies would strain security forces, draw larger numbers and increase the likelihood that some protesters would be able to break out and link up in Tahrir Square.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576135882356532702.html
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:38 AM
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17. Wrong place n/t
Edited on Fri Feb-11-11 08:40 AM by Catherina
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:38 AM
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16. At helio protest. There are two of them. On marghany the army guy is arguing with the dude carrying
At helio protest. There are two of them. On marghany the army guy is arguing with the dude carrying blankets. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:39 AM
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18. The thugs #AJ keeps reporting at pres palace is group of 30 posh-looking men & women chanting EGYPT
NadiaE Nadia El-Awady
The thugs #AJ keeps reporting at pres palace is group of 30 posh-looking men & women chanting EGYPT. They just want others 2 stop protesting
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:39 AM
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19. Be careful, according to an ORF-korrespondent the presidential guards near the TV-building just got
cigarmanArno Arno Cincelli
by ArabRevolution
@NevineZaki Be careful, according to an ORF-korrespondent the presidential guards near the TV-building just got ammunition for machine-guns.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:40 AM
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20. LPC: Protesters continue moving in large groups towards #Mubarak palace in Heliopolis
Jan25voices Jan25 Voices
LPC: Protesters continue moving in large groups towards #Mubarak palace in Heliopolis. #Jan25 #Egypt
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LPC Live Phone Call
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:43 AM
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21. Song by Natasha Atlas dedicated to the Egyptian uprising "Rise to Freedom "
Sarahcarr أبو كار
Song by Natasha Atlas dedicated to the Egyptian uprising http://bit.ly/hViVeN Egypt: Rise to Freedom #jan25
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Egypt: Rise to Freedom by Basha Beats and Natacha Atlas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGiF2zLu39U&feature=player_embedded
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:44 AM
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22. Ahram says the plane made a tour to an unknown destination before returning to sharm
Linaattalah Lina Attalah
@
@ashrafkhalil Ahram says the plane made a tour to an unknown destination before returning to sharm
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Sharm is a distraction. Al-Arabiya keeps pushing that story for their good buddy. He's already in the UAE now
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:22 AM
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62. Check the source of the El Sharm rumor, NDP spokesman and Israel
Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
RT @DailyNewsEgypt: NDP spokesman Mohammed Abdellah to AFP: Mubarak left with his family; "he is in Sharm El-Sheikh” #jan25
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Israel source was in last thread.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:46 AM
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24. Mubarak is officially on a plane which doesn't change the situation HM, OS, regime illegitimate
Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج
Mubarak is officially on a plane which doesn't change the situation ..Omar Suileman, Mubarak, & this regime are all illegitimate
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:46 AM
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25. Very upscale crowd. Even the well off want mubarak gone.
Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
Very upscale crowd. Even the well off want mubarak gone. #jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:49 AM
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26. Wyclef Jean - "Freedom" (Song For Egypt) via @wyclef http://bit.ly/eDZB2I
ArabRevolution تباً لك ياطاغوت
Wyclef Jean - "Freedom" (Song For Egypt) via @wyclef http://bit.ly/eDZB2I #Jan25 #Egypt #Tahrir @HindAwwad
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That shortened link goes to this YouTube page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efcn8LpwlPo
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:50 AM
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27. all troops r from Paratroopers. Major smiling, shaking hands with protesters.
3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
all troops r from Paratroopers. Major smiling, shaking hands with protesters. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:52 AM
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33. people tell officer: Paratroopers r ok. We dont want Presidential Guards. He smiles back.

3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
people tell officer: Paratroopers r ok. We dont want Presidential Guards. He smiles back. #jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:50 AM
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28. all troops r from Paratroopers. Major smiling, shaking hands with protesters.
3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
all troops r from Paratroopers. Major smiling, shaking hands with protesters. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:50 AM
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29. Guys is it just me or have both Jazeera (Arabic) and Arabeya been wrong A LOT today?
ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Guys is it just me or have both Jazeera (Arabic) and Arabeya been wrong A LOT today? #egypt #jan25
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Look who they work for and there's your answer. Disinfo for the regime.
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:51 AM
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30. Please beware: Al Jazeera is not quoting its own sources, not confirming Mubarak left. It is quoting
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Please beware: Al Jazeera is not quoting its own sources, not confirming Mubarak left. It is quoting just "sources". Vague #jan25 #egypt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:51 AM
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31. Pic: The Talaat Harb entrance

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج
The Talaat Harb entrance #Tahrir http://yfrog.com/gy26017769j
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:52 AM
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32. people tell officer: Paratroopers r ok. We dont want Presidential Guards. He smiles back.
3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
people tell officer: Paratroopers r ok. We dont want Presidential Guards. He smiles back. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:52 AM
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34. Regardless of where Mubarak is, the protests will continue cuz he still did NOT resign &Sulieman is

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج
Regardless of where Mubarak is, the protests will continue cuz he still did NOT resign &Sulieman is nobody w/ no legitimacy or credibility
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:53 AM
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35. Need more protesters on the salah salem side. There are only 1000 there with thousands on roxy side
occupiedcairo Occupied Cairo
RT @Sandmonkey: Need more protesters on the salah salem side. There are only 1000 there with thousands on the roxy side. Pl retweet #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:55 AM
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36. Ghonim: Dear Western Governments, You've been silent for 30 years supporting the regime. Stay away
Ghonim Wael Ghonim
Dear Western Governments, You've been silent for 30 years supporting the regime that was oppressing us. Please don't get involved now #Jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:55 AM
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37. People of the Revolution: We Need 250,000 to head straight for Maspiro ASAP. Maspiro is now Pressure
Messrologist ريان Ryan الريان
by ArabRevolution
People of the Revolution: We Need 250,000 to head straight for Maspiro ASAP. Maspiro is now Pressure Focal Point. Head For Maspiro #jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:01 AM
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43. self-delete
Edited on Fri Feb-11-11 09:02 AM by highplainsdem
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:57 AM
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38. peaceful protestors enjoying view of the Nile, @TV Bldg
Edited on Fri Feb-11-11 08:57 AM by Catherina
ishta_dreams Rachel Beth Anderson
TV building surrounded by 1000s of peaceful protestors enjoying view of the Nile #Egypt #jan25 http://yfrog.com/h76goxpj
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largish pic
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:58 AM
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39. Ppl walking from Tahrir met huge protest in Abbesya. They are 1000s heading towards palace

occupiedcairo Occupied Cairo
Ppl walking from Tahrir met huge protest in Abbesya. They are 1000s heading towards palace #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:58 AM
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40. Protesters outside palace telling me they don't care if Mubarak is inside or left
RawyaRageh Rawya Rageh
Protesters outside palace telling me they don't care if Mubarak is inside or left #Egypt #Jan25
2 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 08:59 AM
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41. Long, long line of people still headed to presidential palace after a pause for afternoon prayers
evanchill Evan Hill
Long, long line of people still headed to presidential palace after a pause for afternoon prayers
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:01 AM
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42. AFP: Mubarak leaves Cairo with family
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
AFP: Mubarak leaves Cairo with family —source http://bit.ly/hQTmiX
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Mubarak leaves Cairo with family —source

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 21:44:00 02/11/2011

Filed Under: Unrest and Conflicts and War, Politics, Middle East Africa - Africa
CAIRO - Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak left Cairo with his family on Friday, a source close to the government told AFP, but his destination was not immediately clear.

"Mubarak has left Cairo with all his family," the source said, but refused to say whether the president had left the country or was headed to his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

News of his departure comes on the 18th day of massive nationwide rallies demanding his immediate overthrow.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters have rejected concessions made by Mubarak's government and vowed to keep demonstrating until their demands are met.

...

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20110211-319719/Mubarak-leaves-Cairo-with-family-source
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:02 AM
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44. Wrong place n/t
Edited on Fri Feb-11-11 09:05 AM by Catherina
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:03 AM
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45. Crowd pressure pushes down stretch of barbed-wire fence front of State TV, then pulls it back, chant
bencnn benwedeman
Crowd pressure pushes down stretch of barbed-wire fence front of State TV, then pulls it back, chanting "silmiya" "peaceful" #Egypt #Jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:04 AM
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46. AP has a local government official confirming Mubarak is in Sharm el-Sheikh
Edited on Fri Feb-11-11 09:08 AM by Catherina
abususu yassin musharbash
AP has a local government official confirming Mubarak is in Sharm el-Sheikh #Mubarak #Jan25
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I seriously, seriously doubt that. Could be wrong though.

AJE doesn't trust these Al Arabiya stories at all; if they did it would be front page banner news. All the reporters pushing this story on the tweets are the *copy* crowd that rely on news from Al-Arabiya. That includes BBC.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:05 AM
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47. workers from Helwan Military Factory no. 63 r raising banners: Revolution till Victory.
3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
#egyworkers from Helwan Military Factory no. 63 r raising banners: Revolution till Victory. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:05 AM
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48. March now passing by the ministry of defense. Army officers watching from the balconies and roof

evanchill Evan Hill
March now passing by the ministry of defense. Army officers watching from the balconies and roof inside walled compound
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:09 AM
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49. From a friend in Assiut: no police, no army, people throwing stones at the NDP HQ
Sarahcarr أبو كار
From a friend in Assiut: no police, no army, people throwing stones at the NDP HQ #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:09 AM
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50. Beautiful Alexandria
waelabbas Wael Abbas
from alexandria
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:11 AM
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51. 1mill protestors at palace in Alex.

Sarahngb Sarahngb
RT @ahmada2: 1 mill protestors at palace in Alex. ...
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:11 AM
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52. Looked as if the military was handing out bottles of water to people in Alexandria?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:16 AM
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54. Didn't see that but I believe it. Where d'ya see that?
:hi:
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:43 AM
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73. AJE
Guys with red berets and uniforms were handing out bottles to the crowd. It also looked like they were setting up a PA system to address the protesters. Haven't seen anything else, though.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 10:56 AM
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74. Same in Cairo now. Water and cookies.
This is the most polite revolution in history!
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:15 AM
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53. Must read by Hani Shukrallah at Ahram Online, who knows a thing or two about revolutions
ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
Must read by Hani Shukrallah at Ahram Online, who knows a thing or two about revolutions #egypt #jan25 http://tinyurl.com/5va95vt
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Egyptians have chosen, time for the state to accept their choice

The choices facing Egypt are not between dialogue and coup d’état, as the vice president said yesterday, but between a rickety authoritarianism and full vibrant democracy

Hani Shukrallah , Friday 11 Feb 2011


...

We now know, and I am sure the vice president and the prime minister are equally aware, if not more cognizant of the facts: an alliance of NDP officials and Oligarchs and the interior ministry and Egyptian state TV pursued a deliberate “scorched earth” strategy aimed at sowing fear and panic among the Egyptian people and the international community to show that without the Mubarak regime Egypt would fall into inescapable chaos and destruction.


So that we do not forget, the cynical criminality of this strategy involved the killing of some 300 peacefully protesting citizens and the wounding of thousands, the torching of public buildings, the attempted looting, torching and destruction of the Egyptian Museum, the overnight disappearance of the whole internal security apparatus and the synchronized opening of prison gates around the country, meanwhile letting loose criminal gangs of police agents alongside police and oligarch-run networks of thugs and diverse criminal elements to attack private citizens, public and private property, to murder, torch and loot. This, by the way, is the same “coalition” that was responsible for wholesale rigging of the 2010 and other elections.

The counter-revolution’s last card lay in the madness of the “foreign fingers” in the Egyptian uprising. The police agents and their thuggish friends were sent to infiltrate the “popular committees”, spread misinformation and hysteria about allege Israeli, American, Iranian, Hamas, Hizbullah and all sorts of other foreign conspiracies to foment revolution in the country. Foreigners, including a great many “foreign-looking” Egyptians were exposed to brutal attacks everywhere. The very people who were bemoaning the loss of foreign investment and tourism were willing to ensure that no one elsewhere in the world will even nod our way, possibly for a great many years.

...

Cosmetically treated authoritarianism, we’ve had for the past 30 years. Indeed, that’s what we have had more or less of since the late President Sadat launched his experiment in controlled pluralism way back in 1976. And, if a full scale revolution is any indication, we’ve had enough.

...

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContentP/4/5314/Opinion/Egyptians-have-chosen,-time-for-the-state-to-accep.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:16 AM
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55. A group of doctors have arrived at pres palace protest to huge applause lol
ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
by moftasa
A group of doctors have arrived at pres palace protest to huge applause lol #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:16 AM
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56. Group of young doctors just arrived at pres palace to staff field hospital, huge applause
NadiaE Nadia El-Awady
Group of young doctors just arrived at pres palace to staff field hospital here #jan25 #egypt
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ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
A group of doctors have arrived at pres palace protest to huge applause lol #jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:17 AM
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57. magic of tv: broadcasting live from a cairo balcony using hotel broadband, a bed sheet to reflect li
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
by ArabRevolution
magic of tv: broadcasting live from a cairo balcony using hotel broadband, a bed sheet to reflect light & an ironing board as a desk!
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:17 AM
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58. Two marches meet in Abbaseia. Now I cannot see either end of it. Heliopolis Palace will see a big cr

gharbeia Amr Gharbeia
Two marches meet in Abbaseia. Now I cannot see either end of it. Heliopolis Palace will see a big crowd in an hour #Egypt #Jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:18 AM
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59. Two marches meet in Abbaseia. Now I cannot see either end of it. Heliopolis Palace will see a big cr
gharbeia Amr Gharbeia
by Raafatology
Two marches meet in Abbaseia. Now I cannot see either end of it. Heliopolis Palace will see a big crowd in an hour #Egypt #Jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:18 AM
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60. BREAKING: 80,000 protesters are on their way to the presidential palace in Cairo.
ArabRevolution تباً لك ياطاغوت
BREAKING: 80,000 protesters are on their way to the presidential palace in Cairo. via Al Jazeera Arabic #Jan25 #Egypt #Tahrir
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:19 AM
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61. Enormous crowd being held back from Alexandria presidential palace.
UKProgressive DenisCampbell
Enormous crowd being held back from Alexandria presidential palace.
3 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:26 AM
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63. This is so funny, Army throwing candy at us over barbed wire at Presidential Palace

Sarahngb Sarahngb
Translation RT @drnemovet: This is so funny, Army throwing candy at us over barbed wire at Presidential Palace #jan25 #tahrir
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:26 AM
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64. Sudanese friend with me asks if the army stole the candy from the palace?
Sarahngb Sarahngb
My thought exactly! LOL RT @bandidoofoz: @Sarahngb Sudanese friend with me asks if the army stole the candy from the palace? #Jan25 #Egypt!
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:27 AM
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65. Picture
Edited on Fri Feb-11-11 09:27 AM by Catherina

Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
Biscuits RT @asirgany: Thrown from the army to us http://yfrog.com/h32mqwbj
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Are they gonna pour you tea now or what?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:28 AM
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66. HAHAHAHAH, Kentucky Fried Candy?

Sarahngb Sarahngb
HAHAHAHAH RT @Brommmietze: @Sarahngb Kentucky Fried Candy?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:28 AM
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67. BREAKING: Thousands of protesters take over the NDP HQ in Asyoot
ArabRevolution تباً لك ياطاغوت
BREAKING: Thousands of protesters take over the NDP HQ in Asyoot. via Al Jazeera Arabic #Jan25 #Egypt #Tahrir
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:29 AM
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68. Khalifa Mamoun street completely full of ppl heading to palace. 10s of thousands
occupiedcairo Occupied Cairo
Khalifa Mamoun street completely full of ppl heading to palace. 10s of thousands #jan25
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:31 AM
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69. People are peacefull but very angry. This is interesting.
Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
People are peacefull but very angry. This is interesting. #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:32 AM
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70. Protesters have begun to inhabit area arnd pres palace like Tahrir, ppl cleaning up, food and water
ElFoulio Abdel-Rahman Hussein
Protesters have begun to inhabit area arnd pres palace like Tahrir, ppl cleaning up, food and water handed out #jan25
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:32 AM
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71. Unbelievable scene in #Cairo: I'm on the road to presidential palace. It's a river of humanity stret
TerryMoran Terry Moran
Unbelievable scene here in Cairo: I'm on the road to the presidential palace. It's a river of humanity stretching for miles and miles.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:35 AM
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72. Part 8 here
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