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You are in the the 109th Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our international friends and their courageous struggle for dignity and human rights.
BAHRAIN:
Al Jazeera Live Blog reports that Bahrain now beginning to get International attention Also at that link, chilling reports of doctors being among the patients because they were attacked while attending the wounded. How many dead is unknown because:
17:02pm Al Jazeera's correspondent says that three more bodies are being kept in the morgue of Salmaniya hospital. There are also reports of another victim - a young girl. Two more patients are fighting for their lives in the hospital. There are also a lot of missing people. A medical source told our correspondent that the army may have taken away bodies in a refrigerated truck.
More regional tidbits after the fold....
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LIBYA: Protests continue today. From CNN World:
Death, injuries reported in spreading Libyan protests
YEMEN: From MSNBC:
SANAA, Yemen — Security forces have clashed with anti-government protesters in Yemen on the seventh consecutive day of demonstrations calling for the ouster of the president, a key U.S. ally.
Witnesses say government supporters wielding batons and daggers were also involved in fighting with protesters trying to move to downtown squares in Sanaa, the capital.
As with Mubarak's regime, "pro-government" thugs are out:
IRAN: Is Iran sending warships through the Suez Canal? Iranian officials say yes. Egyptian officials say there has been no authorization. Israeli officials claim it is an act of provocation.
ALGERIA: There is a new English-speaking blog from Algerian journalists:
On Saturday February 12th, about ten thousand ( 10,000) protesters walked in the streets of the Algerian capital to vocalize their despair for a changed regime. Not a change of presidency, but an entire change of the Algerian political system that has been in place since 1962.
As ten thousand protesters were preparing to walk on the morning of the 12, an equal number of police force invaded the city’s main arteries to prevent the march from growing exponentially. One must not forget that the 10,000 police officers that showed up literally overnight were an addition to the 20,000 police officers brought out two weeks earlier for a peaceful march that burgeonned the hope to a change in Algeria.
JORDAN: Protests continued around Jordan, while most are seeking reforms for a more representative parliament and limited powers for the king, there is also this:
Meanwhile, Jordanian tribesmen, demanding return of their agricultural land the government took by force in the early 1980s, blocked the road to Amman's international airport.
A member of the Bani Sakhr tribe claimed that the government had taken 2,200 hectares of land from the tribesmen to built the airport and has not compensated them.
EGYPT: Amnesty International released a report accusing the Egyptian military of torturing protesters during the 18-day uprising.
Workers are still striking. 1,500 protested for better pay at the Suez Canal today.
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What our Egyptian brethren are fighting for according a banner held by protesters and translated to English:
1 The departure of Moubarak
2 An end to the current Parliament
3 An end of the state of emergency
4 The creation of a national united government
5 A parliament elected by the people to modify the constitution and run the presidentials elections
6 Put those responsible for the killings on trial
7 Put those responsible for stealing the country's money and other acts of corruption on trial
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Al Jazeera English - Watch Live (the Youtube link below should work for Mac users unable to load this.)
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DirecTV: Channel 375 Link
Al Jazeera Live on YouTube
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BBC Reports
BBC Middle East is doing specific Egypt coverage
WorldWideTahrir{NEW} : Worldwide protests being organized to coincide with the upcoming ones in Egypt.
bicycle Hussein paladin - Why Iran 1979 Went to the Islamists and This One Won't
weasel - Updates on the Egyptian Protests
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@speaktotweet: Egyptian Voice Tweets on Twitter
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