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The Committee to Protect Journalists has accused the Egyptian government of using "blanket censorship, intimidation, and today a series of deliberate attacks on journalists carried out by pro-government mobs" to deprive the world of independent information about the unrest. Reporters Without Borders, meanwhile, has said "infiltrated policemen" joined the assaults.
(Source: BBC)
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A doctor at a clinic near Tahrir Square tells the Reuters news agency that more than 1,500 people have been injured so far in Wednesday's violence - nearly three times the official figure.
Mr. Mubarak, you believe to be doing what you have to do. But this is a terrible delusion. You are committing suicide, perhaps quite in the physical sense. For the sake of Allah, do wake up to the responsibility conferred upon you by the position you have been holding for 30 years and to the loyalty you owe to this country! Save your own life and the lives of the sons and daughters of Egypt! Let the darkness cover you and leave tonight!Like ReplyReply
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Sending in the embarrassed and armed state police with carte blanche and paying rowdies to bring violence to a peaceful demonstration... there's your US taxpayer dollars at work. Thanks, Obama, for being a predictable corporate stooge. He and other stuffed-shirt EU and US officials blatantly tripping and stumbling over their long-standing hypocrisies, their century's old practice of imperial double-talk, their continued support of useful-to-corporate-profits tyrants, their lip-service to liberty and justice, and their crass support of endless and ineffectual establishment remedies.
The forces of repression and illegitimate authority understand only force; they will never understand that some of us are not for sale, and that certain principles are non-negotiable for a free people.
"[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy."
(Dr. Michael Parenti)
EVERYONE listen carefully, starting tweeting, its time to take out the STATE owned TV channel, start tweeting it now, its now time to take Mubaraks Media away.......
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This was so clearly planned I find it incomprehensible that anyone could think otherwise. The police have been in hiding for days, planning their strategy, hiring thugs as needed, and getting fancy, professional banners printed. The violent outbreaks have been simultaneous and well-coordinated. Anyone can see this as clear as the noon-day sun. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar with an agenda.
10:55pm Latest from Al Jazeera Web Producer in Cairo's Tahrir Square:
The pro-Mubarak crowd suddenly retreated, and the pro-democracy protesters advanced a moveable wall of metal shields to a new front line much further up.
A side battle erupted down a street behind the pro-Mubarak lines, with rock throwing and molotov cocktails.
An armored personnel carrier opened fire into the air, shooting red tracers up over Cairo, in an apparent effort to disperse/frighten the pro-Mubarak crowd, who contracted again.
The pro-democracy protesters are now advancing their line of staggered metal shields farther and farther and seem to have gained decisive momentum.
glcarlstrom Most pro-Mubarak rioters have pulled back onto an overpass. They're throwing Molotov cocktails down at the anti-gov't crowd. #egypt 3 minutes ago · reply
evanchill Someone just attempted to drive a bus into the Tahrir protesters, rumbled through for about 50 feet before he was stopped by the sheer mass. 6 minutes ago · reply
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