Egypt Protests - Updates

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A Manifesto for Change in Egypt
Egyptian police used water cannon against Nobel laureate and pro-democracy leader Mohamed ElBaradei and his supporters as anti-Mubarak protests heated up Friday. Then ElBaradei was put under house arrest as riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters. The Muslim Brotherhood says at least five of its leaders and five former members of parliament have been arrested.

Police alone can't keep rulers in power. Egypt's battle is on
It was an unforgettable day for me. I joined the demonstrators in Cairo, along with the hundreds of thousands across Egypt who went on to the streets on Tuesday demanding freedom and bravely facing off the fearsome violence of the police. The regime has a million and a half soldiers in its security apparatus, upon which its spends millions in order to train them for one task: to keep the Egyptian people down.

President Mubarak dissolves Cabinet after night of protests

America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising

Egyptian Police Using U.S.-Made Tear Gas Against Demonstrators
Photographs From Cairo Document Canisters Labeled 'Made in U.S.A.'

Dramatic video as thousands clash with Egypt riot police in Cairo
The Egyptian capital Cairo was the scene of violent chaos on Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, who fired back with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons. It was a major escalation in what was already the biggest challenge to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak's 30 year-rule. They are demanding Mubarak's ouster and venting their rage at years of government neglect of rampant poverty, unemployment and rising food prices.

Egyptian Civil Strife Sends Oil Close To $100 On Suez Canal Fears

How Egypt shut down the internet
Virtually all internet access in Egypt is cut off today as the government battles to contain the street protests that threaten to topple President Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptian Hacktivists and Entertainers

Egypt Protests: LIVE Updates As Opposition Fills The Streets

Liveblog – Egypt's protests erupt

Explosions, Gunfire Heard in Cairo as Protesters Defy Curfew

Arab world unrest has Jordan's king under pressure

Iranian Media Hail 'Revolution' in Iran's Rival, Egypt

Egyptians renew protests after curfew

U.N. rights chief says Egypt has arrested 1,000

Egyptian Nobel laureate ElBaradei in house arrest

Protests against Egyptian president spread

Police members remove suits and join protests

Egyptian protests intensify, as clashes spread across the Middle East

Opposition in Egypt Gears Up for Major Friday Protes

Egypt braces for Friday protests

Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood leaders

Joe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down

US Urges Reform in Egypt

Protesters demonstrate at Egyptian embassy in Dublin
Reaction to unrest in Egypt has spread internationally, including the United States and Europe. In this amateur video, Egyptians demonstrate in front of their country's embassy in Dublin.

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Fear Extreme Islamists in the Arab World? Blame Washington
In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. questioned U.S. military interventions against progressive movements in the Third World by invoking a JFK quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Egypt Protests Show American Foreign-Policy Folly
While popular uprisings erupt across the Middle East, America stands on the sidelines. Stephen Kinzer on why the U.S. should abandon its self-defeating strategy in the region.

Egypt's Next Strongman
Meet the two men most likely to succeed Egypt's aging president: His son, Gamal Mubarak, and his spy chief, Omar Suleiman. But does either one really represent desperately needed change?

A people defies its dictator, and a nation's future is in the balance
A brutal regime is fighting, bloodily, for its life. Robert Fisk reports from the streets of Cairo

Chaos engulfs Cairo as Mubarak points to successor
With protests raging, Egypt's president named his intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president on Saturday, setting the stage for a successor as chaos engulfed the capital. Soldiers stood by – a few even joining the demonstrators – and the death toll from five days of anti-government fury rose sharply to 74.

Egypt vigilantes defend homes as police disappear
Egyptians armed with sticks and razors have formed vigilante groups to defend their homes from looters after police disappeared from the streets following days of violent protests.

BBC: Egypt unrest day five

Egypt protest death toll hits 73

Egyptian army storms museum to protect from looters

Live blog 29/1 - Egypt protests

Egypt protests draw mixed reaction in region

Jordan's opposition: Arabs will topple tyrants
The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States.

BACKGROUND: Key players in Egypt
The outcome of the current unrest sweeping through Egypt remains uncertain. The fate of long-time President Hosny Mubarak, who is clinging on to power, will be decided by the following players...

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Egypt's generals tell Mubarak to quit as Army confronts protestors
Egypt's most senior military officers have reportedly asked President Hosni Mubarak to quit from office, as the nation tumbled into anarchy. Many victims are reported to have been seen around the main prison building in Cairo as a violent shootout ensued with demonstrators who stormed the jail in a bid to free hundreds of prisoners.  And the Army is stepping up security in Cairo and other major cities.

A Nation in Waiting

Fighter jets swoop over Cairo in show of force

Egypt's Mubarak faces crisis as protesters defy curfew
President Hosni Mubarak, clinging on despite unprecedented demands for an end to his 30-year rule, met on Sunday with the military which is seen as holding the key to Egypt's future while in Cairo, protesters defied a curfew.

Cairo protesters stand their ground
Warplanes and helicopters flew over the main square and more army trucks appeared in a show of force but no one moved.

More Egyptian Forces Move In as Curfew Passes
Thousands of inmates poured out of four prisons and the United States said it was organizing flights to evacuate its citizens Sunday, as the Egyptian army struggled to hold a capital seized by growing fears of lawlessness and buoyed by euphoria that three decades of President Hosni Mubarak's rule may be coming to an end.

Dozens dead as thousands escape Egypt prisons
Bodies littered the road outside a Cairo prison and troops with bayonets fixed moved into another facility after thousands of convicts broke out of jails or were abandoned by guards in protest-hit Egypt.

ElBaradei joins protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square

US 'losing credibility by the day' on Egypt: ElBaradei
The United States is "losing credibility by the day" in calling for democracy in Egypt while continuing to support President Hosni Mubarak, leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday.

Egypt protests: Hillary Clinton urges 'orderly transition'
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for an "orderly transition" to democracy in Egypt, but warned there is a long way to go in the process.

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The mighty sistren who started it all... who says one person can't make a difference? Massive Respect to Sis. Asma Mahfouz:
Meet Asmaa Mahfouz and the vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution

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Hosni Mubarak resigns as president
Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces.

Suleiman: Mubarak waives office

Mubarak resigns, hands power to military
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday after 29 years in power, bowing to a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands. "The people ousted the president," chanted a crowd of tens of thousands outside his presidential palace in Cairo.

Mubarak and family leave Cairo for Sharm: party official
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family have left Cairo for the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, proving he is giving up his presidential powers, a ruling party official said on Friday.