Egypt Child Diary #3

by Flyswatterbanjo

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Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 at 9:21:23am PST

FINAL UPDATE 3:00PM EST: Child Diary #4 is now up here.

Have at it people. I will post updates as I get them. Just wanted to throw this up to start a new thread.

Please don't rec this one, rec the mothership diary instead if you haven't done so already.

Also, please unrecommend the now-full 2nd child diary, http://www.dailykos.com/...

UPDATE:

unspeakable reports downthread a tweet from an AJ reporter in Arabic:
The curfew has been lifted in most of Egypt, except for Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez.
Here are the last few updates from the BBC

Sultan al-Qassemi tweets: "Protestors have stormed Egyptian TV building&have destroyed some equipment. Helicopter is arriving. #Jan25."

Some support for the Mubarak regime from north of the border. "We believe that Egypt is going to overcome the current wave of demonstrations, but we have to look to the future," Time magazine quotes an Israeli government minister as saying.

From BBC Arabic Correspondent Khaled Ezzelarab in the Egyptian capital: Military helicopters are roaming the skies of Cairo.

Al Jazeera English Feed. h/t unspeakable
BBC Live Update h/t dibsa
Talking Points Memo Egypt Feed h/t LNK

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