Protests entered their fifth straight day today in Egypt. There are reportedly (twitter) higher numbers of protesters in Cairo today than yesterday, and more are on the way. Internet appeared blocked for a second day to hamper protesters even after Barack Obama urged the regime to restore services. Al Arabiya reported that police station in Port Said (pop 600,000) is burning. Egyptian television reports that the country’s cabinet has formally submitted its resignation. Israeli carrier El Al was trying to arrange a special flight Saturday to take roughly 200 Israeli tourists out of the country.

Egyptian anti-government protesters clash with riot police at the port city of Suez, about 134 km (83 miles) east of Cairo, January 27, 2011. Police fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern city of Suez, on a third day of protests calling for an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year-old-rule. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany (Cool Pix)

Saudi Arabia’s king told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that he stands with the Egyptian government. In the statement reported by the Saudi Press Agency.

50,000 protestors gathering in Tahrir square calling for Mubarak’s resignation (twitter)

Mariam Solayman, a member of an Egyptian activist group, shouts anti-government slogans in front of a police cordon during a demonstration outside the press syndicate in central Cairo January 27, 2011. Demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, in power since 1981, have raged since Tuesday in several Egyptian cities, with the biggest clashes in Cairo and Suez. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (Cool Pix)


Plainclothes police arrest a protester during clashes in Cairo January 26, 2011. Thousands of Egyptians defied a ban on protests by returning to Egypt’s streets on Wednesday and calling for President Hosni Mubarak to leave office, and some scuffled with police. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (Cool Pix)

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  1. #1 January 29, 2011 at 7:19 am

    Zilla of the Resistance commented:

    One thing I don’t understand is how Mubarak could be referred to as a “President when the press until a few days ago was saying that his son was likely to assume the role of “president” when his father was done. That sounds more like a monarchy. Also, Mubarak ran “elections” with only himself on the ticket. That sounds more like a dictatorship, no?
    So big surprise that nobody is listening to Barry, why should they? It’s not like America is a strong presence in the world anymore (thanks to Barry’s global bow & grovel campaign).

  2. #3 January 29, 2011 at 7:27 am

    ∅ commented:

    I find it interesting the the Obama Administration is telling the Egyptian government to restore access to the internet, while asking Congress to provide the executive branch the ability to use an “Internet Kill Switch”, during a “cyberemergency.”

    I’m sure, nay positive, it’ll never be abused.

  4. #5 January 29, 2011 at 7:49 am

    John commented:

    As I looked at the picture of Mariam Solayman (second photo) the thing that came to mind is that “you had better be careful what you ask for Mariam.”

    If this goes the way many thing it will, Mariam will find herself unable to walk the streets without a veil and three steps behind her owner husband

  5. #6 January 29, 2011 at 7:52 am

    pamlinson commented:

    Obama agenda will use this to their advantage, “Never let a crisis go to waste” Oil and gas prices will sky rocket, and everything else behind that. They will probably even try to give us justification for the government cutting off the internet so it sounds like the right thing to do.

  6. #7 January 29, 2011 at 7:56 am

    sv commented:

    This is the same secular outburst as in Tunisia, Lebanon, and Jordan. It is due to stagnant governments which ignored their people for decades. The protestors are young, 60% unemployed, and are fed up with old men running their countries. The US has been financially supporting these governments. THIS IS HUGE!

    Sorry, no link, but see the Sidney Herald (?) for startingly lucid indictment of Obama in this mess. (Will search for link.)

  7. #8 January 29, 2011 at 8:02 am

    sv commented:

    Here’s the address for my comment above, http://www.smh.com.au/world/revolution-is-in-the-air-but-us-sticks-to-same-old-script-20110128-1a8e6.html

    The Australians are excoriating Obama on this matter.

  8. #9 January 29, 2011 at 9:05 am

    donh commented:

    Mubarak will not leave. He is waiting for that one high placed guard loyal to Allah to enter his office with a sword , and butcher him like Commander Kurtz…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5bbBMO_5Y&feature=related

  9. #10 January 29, 2011 at 9:22 am

    Reaganite Republican commented:

    This is an UNMITIGATED DISASTER-

    All Obama/Gibbs needed to say is that they supported Mubarak when asked… they declined, instead mouthing the meaningless rubbish “the US considers Egypt a strong ally”

    THAT was all the green light they needed… probably turned the military on him too, as they’d like to maintain their position of privelege with or without Hosni Mubarak

    Words have consequences… right Obammunist idiots?

    Most of you are rooting for the wrong side here… be sure to come by my blog and admit it when the Islamists take over.

    Monday, expect oil prices to soar and the Dow will be in the toilet

  10. #11 January 29, 2011 at 9:43 am

    avery commented:

    I” suppose they blame the “TEA PARTY”.

  11. #12 January 29, 2011 at 11:03 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    are the powers that be manipulating a backlash against Muslims
    as an excuse for Martial Law, or perhaps something worse?? :-(

    [But already I have started getting reports from citizen journalists that government-hired thugs will make sure that nothing about tomorrow is peaceful. They say that in several low-income parts of Cairo and Alexandria, government-hired thugs were seen to be splashing petroleum over parked cars. This to prepare for protests in which they’ll light vehicles on fire when the time is right for them.

    They’ve also heard rumours that the intelligence services will release a separate group of thugs under the name Akhwan al- Haq, or Brothers of Truth, a trumped-up extremist group, that will charge through the streets with swords and caustic acid to splash on the protesters – thus placing all the blame of a peaceful uprising gone violent on a certain kind of Islamic extremism.]

    ==

  12. #13 January 29, 2011 at 11:11 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    Reaganite Republican #10

    i’m on the side of truth, something that is sorely lacking no
    matter which side or what fence one is highly perched on..

    ==

  13. #14 January 29, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    Joanne commented:

    They’ll probably beat that arrested man to death – the police in Egypt are *ssholes to say the least. I hope he survives – people should have come to his aid.

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