Egyptian Revolution Tweets February 3 2011 Crackdown Part 9

Egyptian Revolution Tweets February 3 2011 Crackdown Part 9

Previous thread here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x344131

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CAIRO — Whipped up by state television and spoiling for a fight, thousands of supporters of President Hosni Mubarak flooded into the center of Egypt’s capital Wednesday, sparking violent clashes that shifted the momentum in a political confrontation that has gripped the region and the world.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020203035.html?wprss=rss_print

CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak struck back at his opponents on Wednesday, unleashing waves of his supporters armed with clubs, rocks, knives and firebombs in a concentrated assault on thousands of antigovernment protesters in Tahrir Sqaure calling for an end to his authoritarian rule … The crackdown was in defiance of calls by the United States and Europe to avoid violence … The Mubarak supporters emerged from buses. They carried the same flags and the same printed signs, and they all escalated their actions, from shouting to violence, at exactly the same moment: 2:15 p.m. The protesters showed journalists police and ruling party identification cards which they said had been taken from Mubarak supporters who had been caught infiltrating Tahrir Square, also known as Liberation Square, and detained in a holding pen.

www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03egypt.html

False reporting can't erase the fact that "In Egypt the People Are Taking Control"



Please rec if you like this. These are getting immediately unrec'd

Zeinobia Zeinobia
Omar Soliman’s First interview in the media #Egypt #media #citizenJournalism → http://bit.ly/i40CyQ
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

(in English)

jonsnowC4 Jon Snow
Courageous Shaheera Amin resigns Egypt State Nile TV for pressuring her to deliver propaganda....the revolution continues..
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply



See Turorama's thread. Information there
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x341039

BloggerSeif Ali Seif
okay im gonna go finish eating now that i set up tweetdeck on phone. be in Tahrir soon today. #jan25
51 seconds ago

gonna go finish eating now that i set up tweetdeck on phone. be in Tahrir soon

hamish6PM Hamish Macdonald
Big day of Friday prayers & protests. Our full story on working under media crackdown (live from our hotel room) tonight on #6PM #egypt

jonsnowC4 Jon Snow
Mubarak thugs smash foreign media broadcast gear, beat up journos on street, renedering proper journalism/broadcasting all but impossible

hamish6PM Hamish Macdonald
Dawn in Cairo. Friday protest and a mass protest ahead. More military about this AM, but things could turn ugly again #6pm #egypt
2 minutes ago

hamish6PM Hamish Macdonald
live broadcast position we've been using in Cairo has been destroyed by pro-Mubarak crowds, so we're live from the hotel room at #6PM #egypt

MostafaMGaafar Mostafa M Gaafar
RT @omarsamra: heading home to do my part for the #jan25 movement
1 minute ago


MostafaMGaafar Mostafa M Gaafar
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LaraABCNews Lara Setrakian
Egyptians keep asking us to pray for them, how this all turns out...say it's a historic day in their country. Air is thick with intensity.
2 minutes ago

But check the year. ;)

Oh no! And the editing time is way past.


This is really, really embarrassing!

No big deal.

BloggerSeif Ali Seif
As a Lebanese man, I am honored to be wearing Egypts flag on my chest today #Jan25
3 minutes ago

@Elizrael
Elizabeth Tsurkov
Ahmed Seif, human rights lawyer, father of @alaa and @monaSosh was arrested today. See his bio from Amnesty here http://is.gd/qfvbBN

ashrafkhalil ashraf khalil
"The day of hunting journalists" in #Egypt #Jan25 http://tinyurl.com/69vdpyj
3 minutes ago



ashraf's article

NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
by Mwforhr
Senior judge calls yesterday's Cairo clashes “massacre” & tells us regime should face war crimes tribunal. #Egypt #jan25 #Mubarak

Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
VIDEO: Battle for Tahrir Square http://youtu.be/dpSSwp17PzY #jan25 #egypt by the brilliant @3effat for @DailyNewsEgypt
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

monasosh monasosh
Tahrir square says good morning world #Jan25 http://yfrog.com/hsqi0mjj
2 minutes ago




I tweeted back on behalf of the world for y'all with a Hasta la victoria siempre.

NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
We Are All Egyptians -What I saw at Tahrir; my column http://nyti.ms/hz7lq5
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Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh time in 24 hours that he had needed medical treatment for injuries suffered at the hands of government-backed mobs. But as soon as Mahmood was bandaged, he tottered off once again to the front lines.

“I’ll fight as long as I can,” he told me. I was awestruck. That seemed to be an example of determination that could never be surpassed, but as I snapped Mahmood’s picture I backed into Amr’s wheelchair. It turned out that Amr had lost his legs many years ago in a train accident, but he rolled his wheelchair into Tahrir Square to show support for democracy, hurling rocks back at the mobs that President Hosni Mubarak apparently sent to besiege the square.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/opinion/04kristof.html

hamish6PM Hamish Macdonald
a special cairo #ff from me today: @peterstefanovic @nolanjazeera @jonsnowC4 @lindseyhilsum @Firas_Atraqchi all doing great stuff in egypt
4 minutes ago

jonsnowC4 Jon Snow
Have a look at this on Huffington if u want more on Vodaphone/Cairo http://huff.to/fPedGQ
3 minutes ago



HUFFINGTON POST? So see, one person can make a big, big change. Lawsuits galore coming against Vodafone.

Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
Anyone heard anything from @TravellerW last night? Last thing was his tweet about head injury.
3 minutes ago

BloggerSeif Ali Seif
So much hope today, so much determination... #jan25
3 minutes ago

monasosh monasosh
People! I am a woman I swear! :) #Jan25
3 minutes ago

Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
RT @BloggerSeif: EVERYONE TO TAHRIR TODAY, SPREAD THE WORD! #jan25
2 minutes ago

details Egypt and Soliman's cooperation with the U.S. "rendition" and torture program, which began in 1995: There is a very generous preview of the book at this link. Can't wait to delve in to it.

The United States offered its rich resources to track, capture and transport terrorist suspects globally--including access to a small fleet of aircraft. Egypt embraced the idea immediately. "What was clever was that some of the senior people in Al Qaeda were Egyptian," said. "It served American purposes to get these people arrested, and Egyptian purposes to get these people back, where they could be interrogated." Technically, U.S. law required the CIA to seek "assurances" from Egypt that rendered suspects wouldn't be tortured. But even during the Clinton Administration, this obligation appears to have been little more than a sham...

Each rendition was authorized at the very top levels of both governments....The long-serving chief of the Egyptian central intelligence agency, Omar Suleiman, negotiated directly with top Agency officials. Walker described the Egyptian counterpart, Suleiman, as "very bright, very realistic," adding that he was cognizant that there was a downside to "some of the negative things that the Egyptians engaged in, of torture and so on. But he was not squeamish, by the way."

Alex Kane blogs on Israel/Palestine and Islamophobia at alexbkane.wordpress.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexbkane.

MrSportAus Alex L
@
@hamish6PM will you have live reports from people in Tahrir square? thx! :) #6PM is awesome for #egypt cvg!!
1 minute ago


(SKY News)

Ssirgany Sarah El Sirgany
He's in Tahrir. Follow RT @alaa: Mood is picking up harrasment from thugs all night while not really threatening but kept us on edge. #Jan25
4 minutes ago


He's in Tahrir. I think that's Traveller since someone asked where he was

ShaimaStreet Shaima
@
GOOD MORNING #TAHRIR!!! #egypt #Jan25 @monasosh
4 minutes ago

MostafaMGaafar Mostafa M Gaafar
Egyptian judge: Mubarak should stand trial for his crimes (via Piers Morgan) Live now on CNN #egypt #jan25
3 minutes ago

lisang Lisa Goldman
.@sandmonkey was arrested today & his blog has been suspended. Read his very important final post about #jan25 here: http://bit.ly/hqIJ2b
16 hours ago
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He's been released and tech spent hours trying to get his twitter access back. Hard to know

BloggerSeif Ali Seif
i want everyone to pay attention to @lubyzz . remember the Pro Mubarak thugs online we heard about, found one look at her tweets. #Jan25 :)
2 minutes ago


Yuck, I went there. I need a bath

She'll spend all day trying to cause chaos and confusion on twitter. Forewarned, and forearmed

ShaimaStreet Shaima
Bundle up for tonight RT@cairoweather: Current Fair, 20 CForecast: Fri - Mostly Cloudy. High: 22 Low: 16 #jan25 #tahrir #cairo #egypt
5 minutes ago

( My last contribution for the evening, must go to bed)

LaraABCNews Lara Setrakian
Perhaps ironically, we're told Tahrir Square is the safest place in town. Elsewhere around cairo there's danger and less cover. #Jan25
6 minutes ago

TamerELG Tamer El-Ghobashy
Friday morning outside Tahrir Sq. Army presence more pronounced with formations around major roads leading to the Meydan.
6 minutes ago

BloggerSeif Ali Seif
Our pictures were submitted to media this morning. Rushdi took it to people uploading from homes today #Jan25
6 minutes ago

glcarlstrom Gregg Carlstrom
Does Obama administration really want to be seen as helping to install Mubarak's righthand man as his replacement? http://ow.ly/3Q5qZ #egypt
5 minutes ago

Sandmonkey Sandmonkey
Ok, it' me and I have access to my Twitter account again. about damn time too! Thank you Twitter ! #jan25
5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

@BloggerSeif where the pictures can be seen? #tahrir

BloggerSeif Ali Seif
given to all media, we just give them our memory sticks, dunno where RT @emailcircles:

pakinamamer Pakinam and Voice
If you're going down today, stay in the middle of the #Tahrir square where it's safest. Violence reportedly happens on the edges #Jan25
4 minutes ago

justimage matthew cassel
8am Tahrir: crowds' chants have turned into song. Beautiful demo already happening, it didn't stop from last night.
3 minutes ago

monasosh monasosh
Just now from Tahrir square #Jan25 http://yfrog.com/gzv6xczj
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

BloggerSeif Ali Seif
leaving now, will let you know when im in! #Jan25
3 minutes ago

waelabbas Wael Abbas
I did not tell ABC: "I might have to try to get out of the country" #a7a where the hell did they come up with that!!!
3 minutes ago


#a7a means #WTF or #Shit in Arabic

pakinamamer Pakinam and Voice
I'm being interviewed live on @BBC Wales right now, Good Morning Wales, talking about the latest developments. #Jan25 #Egypt #UK
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

mosaaberizing Mosa'ab Elshamy
Good morning, fellow freedom fighters.
1 minute ago