Egypt protests: Police disperse Cairo crowds

Source: BBC

Thousands of people had joined the protests in Cairo, inspired by the uprising in Tunisia and vowing to stay in place until the government fell.

At least three people are reported to have been killed during Tuesday's "day of revolt" across the country.

The US has urged the government to be "responsive to the aspirations of the Egyptian people".

Protests are uncommon in Egypt, which President Hosni Mubarak has ruled since 1981, tolerating little dissent.

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just updated at the BBC... tomorrow will be all but amusing. I wonder how many regional powers are going on alert and I am positive POTUS got an update after the SOTU. This is getting quite hot regionally and we must ask... who is next?

-today's protestors

And the Muslim Brotherhood, alleged political "opposition", has been sitting the revolt out; good, they're unecessary and are just as historically complicit in supporting US/Saudi/Israeli interests in the region.

but I suspect London will be more to his liking.

democratic governments in that part of the world (or anywhere?.) One person, one vote..that sort of thing? They are getting it now in spades. Should we give them a call and ask if they are happy to have their desires gratified?

somehow I don't think it is. Otherwise our 24 hour nooz would be all over it. Otherwise we peasants may get ideas.

I am at a loss for our own national lethargy and also do not know how things will break if our own populace rises. I suspect,as some have mentioned, a disintegrating USSR syndrome. NO, our "news" will not cover this save for the BBC reports I get on PBS.

Somalia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, Portugal, France and England. It is going to get here...as to the end of empire it is comming and disintegration is very possible. Listen to Ryan's response and parse it. I might not like his philosophy but his dark vision of end of Empire was there, in code. Now first Foreign Affairs last year and now Foreign Policy this month are running articles on this. The intellectual right has seen the proverbial writing.

I disagree with his domestic views but he is right on the drawbacks of the neocon approach to Weltpolitik.

Twitter is blocked BUT here's a message from Egyptian youth. Apparently they were prepared. I found relays all over the place.



And this one, best of ALL!

the Security Forces had back up. Tim Marshall of Sky News stayed on after most of the foreign journalists had left the scene. He reported that the Security Forces had a line of at least 100 youths in plain clothes armed with clubs ready for use against the crowd.

Egypt has banned street protests, one day after thousands of people joined a "day of revolt" against the government of President Hosni Mubarak.

Public gatherings, protests and marches are all now prohibited, the country's official news agency reports.

Anyone joining in unauthorised action will be detained and prosecuted, the interior ministry said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12283849