Egypt Newslinks 27-28 November 2011

28 November 2011 — williambowles.info

May be updated as the day wears on…

28 November 2011
Will there be another Arab Spring in 2061?
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
Sixty-two years after Cairo tried to snuff out the Muslim Brotherhood with a targeted assassination, the movement stands on the threshold of power in Egypt, while its brand of political Islam is rising throughout the Arab World. The Brotherhood of today seems more aware of the need to be democratic, but it faces the same temptations that corrupted and eventually tore down Arab nationalism. – Sami Moubayed (Nov 28, ’11)

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Video: Confirmed: Egypt forces fire live ammo on protesters — RT

22 November 2011 — Confirmed: Egypt forces fire live ammo on protesters — RT

With over 33 people already confirmed dead and about 1,500 injured during Egypt’s revolution 2.0, the toll is expected to rise as the police have started using live ammunition on protesters. RT’s Paula Slier is in the eye of the Tahrir storm.

She reports that doctors say that many of those killed, died from live bullets. Tahrir’s main holding station has run out of coffins. It has issued a call for new coffins to be brought to the area.

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Video: Confirmed: Egypt forces fire live ammo on protesters — RT

22 November 2011 — Confirmed: Egypt forces fire live ammo on protesters — RT

With over 33 people already confirmed dead and about 1,500 injured during Egypt’s revolution 2.0, the toll is expected to rise as the police have started using live ammunition on protesters. RT’s Paula Slier is in the eye of the Tahrir storm.

She reports that doctors say that many of those killed, died from live bullets. Tahrir’s main holding station has run out of coffins. It has issued a call for new coffins to be brought to the area.

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Libya’s Egyptian déjà vu — RT

23 August 2011 — RT

Cheering crowds in Tripoli’s Green Square left many around the world with a feeling of déjà vu. In February, Egyptians were hoping for a brighter future when they toppled Hosni Mubarak. Now it is a feeling of disappointment that unites them.

­Six months on, many Egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality.

‘You know, I loved the revolution. When it happened, I welcomed it,’ an Egyptian man tells RT. ‘That looked at that time like a light at the end of the tunnel. But you see it’s not getting any better. If we have nothing to eat, just don’t tell me about democracy! For hungry people it just doesn’t matter.’

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Egypt Newslinks 4 August 2011

4 August 2011 — williambowles.info

Former Egyptian Interior Minister Returns to Court
Voice of America
August 04, 2011 Former Egyptian Interior Minister Returns to Court VOA News Egypt’s former interior minister and six police commanders returned to court Thursday to face charges of ordering officers to shoot at protesters, a day after they appeared …
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Former-Egyptian-Interior-Minister-Returns-to-Court-126757048.html

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Egypt Newslinks 3 August 2011

3 August 2011 — williambowles.info

Egypt’s Mubarak, in hospital bed, goes on trial as protesters clash
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff Cairo (CNN) — An ailing Hosni Mubarak — once a symbol of autocratic rule in Egypt — was wheeled into a Cairo courtroom cage in a hospital bed Wednesday to face trial for allegedly ordering the killing of protesters calling for …
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/03/egypt.mubarak.trial/

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Egypt Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 22 February, 2011

22 February, 2011 — creative-i.info

Fleeing Egyptians Tell of Libya Carnage
Wall Street Journal
By CHARLES LEVINSON SIDI BURANA, Egypt—Anti-Gadhafi protesters are firmly
in control of the eastern Libyan town of Baida and surrounding areas,
according to Egyptian workers arriving in the Egyptian border town of Sidi
Burana. They showed flash-drive …
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576159841106539286.html

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Egypt Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 19 February, 2011

19 February, 2011 — williambowles.info

After the carrot, Egypt’s rulers show the stick
Reuters
By Sarah Mikhail and Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s new military
rulers, after promising to deliver civilian rule in six months, have warned
workers using their new-found freedom to protest about pay and conditions
that strikes must stop. …
www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/19/us-egypt-idUSTRE70O3UW20110219

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