Suez is in chaos. According to eyewitness reports police stations are being torched, along with other government buildings.
Anonymous computer experts are helping Egyptians get around DNS blocks. They're posting instructions for proxies and direct IP connections on twitter with the #jan25 hashtag. A recent tweet asked wireless users in Cairo to disable password protection on their networks so that everyone could get information out. Some reports say they've cut land lines out of Suez, the only communications still up are through Vodaphone.
A BBC World Service broadcast played Hillary Clinton's response around 9 PM Eastern. The Egyptian government has only responded by cracking heads.
Update: BBC Reports that Clinton has responded with even stronger language, saying "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Egypt to "respond to the legitimate needs" of the people."
"We support the universal right of the Egyptian people, including the right to freedom of expression, association and assembly."
The revolt was caused by anger at continued injustice. One young activist became the rallying cry for many Egyptians. This is the story of Khaled Said.
Meet Khaled Said:
Khaled, or Khalid depending on how you move from alphabet to alphabet, was just like us.
Khaled would have been an amazing Kossack. What he wanted was for Egypt to be a better place. And like any twenty eight year old activist would have, he took a video of police impropriety with his cellphone camera.
He watched some of his local police officers sharing out the spoils of a drug raid. He took some video and uploaded it to the internet. This simple act brought him to the attention of the Egyptian Government.
What happened to Khaled Said, happened because of us. For decades, since Nasser, we've been propping up the dictatorship within Egypt. Their soldiers and police wield weapons provided by American tax dollars. What was done to Khaled was done with our money, and in our names.
The Egyptian government still lies about Khaled Said. Officially, Khaled is a drug offender and an army deserter. Officially, his cause of death was a drug overdose.
Khaled was tracked down by the police. His crime: he wanted to make his country a better place by exposing police impropriety. So they beat him to death in the doorway of the netcafe where he uploaded his video.
This is the work of our tax dollars and our foreign policy. I'm linking it because of how graphic it is. But as someone who pays taxes, as someone whose government has been supporting the Mubarak government in Egypt, I needed to see it. And I think you do too. This is what we have allowed..
When you think of Egypt. Remember Khaled Said. Remember that this is our responsibility.
They remember him. "We are all Khaled Said," they say.
But there's still hope. Despite the chaos in suez last night, the reports on twitter of police gunning down protesters with American bullets, protests have already begun anew this morning.
We have to do our part, now, to stop this.
Call the Whitehouse and the State Department, and demand the condemnation of the Mubarak regime.
Remember Khaled Said. He was one of us.
State Department: 202-647-4000
White House
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Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Update:Raw Story reports multiple claims of a massacre in suez.
Update: Video of protesters stopping subway train: http://www.youtube.com/...
Update: Wall Street Journal chronicles the twitter updates of an Egyptian journalist up until his arrest.
Update: Examiner.com Reports, "An Italian news publication has just announced that Gamal Mubarak, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's son who is widely tipped as his successor, has fled to London with his family, Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab said on Tuesday, January 24, 2011."
Update: Guardian journalist beaten severely.
Update: Bedouin Tribes in armed revolt
Masrawy.com reports that Sinai Bedouin are attacking police stations and government buildings with automatic weapons and Rocket Propelled Grenades.
Reported at, 8:18 PM, Egypt Time, 1:18 PM EST. Source is in Arabic. Use Google Chrome or Google Translate.
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Update YEMEN joins Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia!
UPDATE AP Video verifies police shooting protesters with live ammunition.