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Near Civil War Proportions Today/Tonight As Anti-Government Protesters Find Themselves Under Assault By Demonstrators Loyal To President Mubarak’s Regime - Things are Really Getting Ugly Folks
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
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* Telegraph.co.uk brings us today’s trouble news out of the Middle East and their report starts off like this... Anti-government protesters who had been assembling relatively calmly for days found themselves under assault by demonstrators in favor of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. In the most dramatic clashes thugs on horse and camelback charged and whipped the protesters, and dropped concrete blocks onto them... By nightfall, several buildings were ablaze from petrol bombs, with the army making belated attempts to act as a barrier between the two sides...
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* Comcast.Net has this report from Reuters and their report starts off like this... Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, throwing petrol bombs, wielding sticks and charging on horses and camels, assaulted demonstrators in Cairo on Wednesday after the army told the protesters to go home... Anti-Mubarak protesters hurled stones back and said the attackers were police in plainclothes. The Interior Ministry denied the accusation, and the Egyptian government rejected international calls for Mubarak to end his 30-year-rule now... This apparent rebuff along with the appearance of Mubarak supporters on Cairo's streets and their clashes with protesters -- after days of relatively calm demonstrations -- complicated U.S. calculations for an orderly transition of power... In pointed comments, a senior U.S. official said it was clear that "somebody loyal to Mubarak has unleashed these guys to try to intimidate the protesters."...
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-Comcast.Net also has this Reuters report posted up on their news website and it starts off like this... Automatic weapons fire pounded the anti-government protest camp in Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn on Thursday in a dramatic escalation of what appeared to be a well-orchestrated series of assaults on the demonstrators. At least three protesters were killed by gunfire, according to one of the activists... Hours after the shooting ended, the army, which protesters have criticized for failing to intervene to protect them, moved four tanks to clear a highway overpass from where supporters of President Hosni Mubarak had continued hurling rocks and firebombs onto the protesters... It was not immediately clear if the steps were part of a wider decision for the army to begin protecting the demonstrations...
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Chaos erupts in Cairo
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Chaos erupts in Cairo
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About this News Video: Thousands of supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak battled in Cairo's main square, raining stones, bottles and firebombs on each other in scenes of uncontrolled violence as soldiers stood by without intervening... Government backers galloped in on horses and camels, only to be dragged to the ground and beaten bloody... Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports on the day's events.
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