Egypt: On Ground Updates - February 08, 2011

- Egypt: On Ground Updates -

Anti-Government Demonstrators continue to reject government’s approach to political change - Renewed demands for immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak continues

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

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* The New York Times had the following report up on their website early this Tuesday morning and their report starts off like this... With a new wave of demonstrations in Tahrir Square on Tuesday - by some measures the largest anti-government protests in the two-week uprising - Egyptians loudly rejected their government’s approach to political change and renewed their demands for the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak...

Read this report in full at link below...

Protests Swell in Rejection of Egypt’s Limited Reforms

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* VOANews.com has his report posted up on their website this Tuesday afternoon and their report starts off like this... U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia should inspire other governments in the Middle East to enact reforms he says the United States has been advocating for years. In his first public comments since the Egyptian protests began two weeks ago, Gates also said the Egyptian military has done everything U.S. officials have asked, and made a contribution to what he called “the evolution of democracy” in the country... Secretary Gates calls the protests in Tunisia and Egypt “a spontaneous manifestation of discontent,” and he says other governments in the region should take note, and take action...

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Gates Calls Egypt Protests Signal to Other Mid-East Leaders

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- More up-to-date info/videos/photos and more HERE

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Google Exec Freed in Egypt Rejoins Protests

About this News Video: A young leader of Egypt's anti-government protesters, newly released from detention, joined a massive crowd of hundreds of thousands in Cairo's Tahrir Square for the first time Tuesday. (Originally posted Feb. 7th)

This News Video posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress

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