Tweets From Egypt: Update 5

 Al Jazeera Live is online once again.

Vodafone says was ordered to send mobile-phone text messages by the Egyptian government, urging people to confront “traitors and criminals” as demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

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Times are local in Egypt, GMT+2)

6:16pm One of Al Jazeera's correspondents near Tahrir Square says:

People are hurling petrol bombs down at the crowds below, and you can see small fires breaking out...It's difficult to determine who is who and which supporters belong to which group. We were also hearing a string of gunshots and seeing flares fired into the air - we assume by the military.

6:11pm Egypt's Health Ministry says that 13 people were killed and 1,200 injured in last night's clashes between pro- and anti-government demonstrators.

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Mubarak not A Poor Man…

…which is no big surprise. Most of the dictators of the world live quite comfortably while the folks that they rule over go broke and starve.

   ABC News has a story online reporting on just how much Mubarak has amassed over his 30 year insult    reign  of the Egyptian people, and it is quite a lot. Some estimates have put the Mubarak family’s net worth at between $40 billion and $70 billion, which is not chump change.

Experts say the wealth of the Mubarak family was built largely from military contracts during his days as an air force officer. He eventually diversified his investments through his family when he became president in 1981.

  It is noted also that Mubarak made tons of money from looting Egypt’s public resources and from corruption.

    Why else be a dictator if you are not going murder and pillage the country that you are controlling? unfortunately, Mubarak will still have billions of dollars when his sorry ass is finally forced to leave the country.

Jamal said that Mubarak's assets are most likely in banks outside of Egypt, possibly in the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

"This is the pattern of other Middle Eastern dictators so their wealth will not be taken during a transition, she said. "These leaders plan on this."

   I would not be shocked to learn that the Mubarak clan has some of that cash in American banks and brokerages.

   In the end it does not really matter as long as Mubarak leaves, either on foot or by stretcher.

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