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Response: Egypt as a velvet revolutionIn a New York Review article in 2009, Timothy Garton Ash offered some generalizations about the "Velvet Revolution" [VR] as a historical phenomenon. Its archetype is Eastern Europe in 1989, but other important examples have occurred in South Africa, the...
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The government plans for looting</A> (Arabic)
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b
Could you or somebody please translate that?
Gad our government keeps dancing around the issues. Nearly all of the weapons use by the Egyptian military was paid for by the U.S. even the tanks on the streets. And the U.S. line has been to side with both Mubarak and the people. Sorry Obama and Hillary you can't have it both ways. There is no in-between in this matter.
firecrackers from china.
smoke grenades from usa.
those superpowers know how to create a new years party everyday...
Like those days in Soweto : Don't mourn, mobilize !!!!
greetings from Brazil !
Demeur
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Hi,
I'm usually in total agreement with your posts but I find this one a little disingenuous. I've seen the protesters armed with bottles and stones, as well. While I accept the point that the Egyptian security forces have guns and various types of munitions it seems slightly partial to only list a firecracker as the protesters' weapons. I'm not saying there is anywhere near parity - there isn't - they are largely peaceful civilians, but I feel presenting all the facts is important.
Just my initial feeling. :(
Just randomly throwing a bottle to the sea: I got arrested by the baltageya last Friday (28 January) on Ramsis street. As a foreign (French) observer I only stayed for a few minutes in the police truck before being released (without wallet, mobile and camera and with my share of brutal beating, but that's a minor thing). Enough time to meet young Egyptians in the truck who despite being in much deeper shit than I was welcomed me with great care and a smile. There was an American guy, too. It was about 4pm.
I am just wondering whether anyone who was in this truck reads this blog. I'm curious to know what happened to them.
b
thank you for the translation. Sorry but I forgot that google feature.
Ben were you the reporter who reported while in the van? If so I heard you on the radio here on Saturday.
Demeur, no, it wasn't me. Well at least it shows that many reporters/observers got arrested that day.
don't give up! we are with you. shame on mubarak, unwilling to listen to the people. we don't believe to the liars.
i'm so touched by revolution. ana masri!
good luck sisters& brothers. don't get in violence with the supporters- that's what he is waiting for!
in solidarity
michèle meyer, switzerland
Most of which are supplied by the US
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