Revolt/Revolution in Egypt

[al Roumi]

I have noticed that too.

While membership of the MB is estimated at about 18% it is not about to overcome everyone else in a popular uprising.

It just attracts attention. A little Fear Mongering to sell the story?!

Undoubtedly , and I'm afraid I get irked by the focus on the marginal risk of even a whif of islamist government.

This should be a beautifull moment for democracy, not a scaremongerers love-in. The west should do its utmost to aid the Egyptian people to move towards true democratic rule. That does require us to be grown up and accept that they might well select a government that has Egypts best interests closest to its heart...

[Fragony]

Looks like he's throwing in the towel and heading to our German neighbours. I kinda feel sorry for him, he certainly isn't the worst of the worst. Glad for the Egyptians anyway if it's true.

[Husar]

Where did you get that from?
I just heard in the news that he wants to form a group that should bring about reforms, rework the constitution and make it easier to run for president, no word of him stepping down.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Looks like he's throwing in the towel and heading to our German neighbours. I kinda feel sorry for him, he certainly isn't the worst of the worst. .

Sorry for Mubarak?


The guy is (possibly / maybe) going to flee to Germany. Then he's going to do what all the others before him have done: drive to Switzerland and collect his haul. In his Mubarak's case, estimated at a staggering seventy billion dollar. He's got a few decades left to spend that in Switzerland, Monaco, Paris. Real estate prices always increase in Paris when dictators are ousted in Africa. They tend to bring large families and lots of trustees in need of luxury homes.

An Egyptian biographer and an American professor claim that the Mubarak family is worth from $40 to $70 billion, according to ABC News. Experts say the wealth of the Mubarak family was built largely from military contracts during his days as an air force officer. He eventually diversified his investments through his family when he became president in 1981. The family's net worth ranges from $40 billion to $70 billion, by some estimates.

$70 billion would put Mubarak somewhere between Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett in terms of wealth. Is this realistic? It could be when you consider that he spent thirty years as the ruler of a large country and American ally.
Mubarak's family is said to own properties in London, Paris, Madrid, Dubai, Washington, D.C., New York and Frankfurt, according to IHS Global Insight.

http://www.businessinsider.com/mubar...#ixzz1DNNSaPhc

[al Roumi]

More and apparently new protesters gatheirng in Tahrir square, to urge Mubarak to bugger off.

I've not seen anything on what Frag's has mentioned. It would be good riddance if he did step down, shame if he took that much of the country's wealth with him (from the above link):

"about 20 lawyers have petitioned Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, the country's prosecutor general, to try Mubarak and his family for allegedly stealing state wealth.

Ibrahim Yosri, a lawyer and a former deputy foreign minister, has drafted the petition."

[ICantSpellDawg]

I seems like there has been somewhat of a military coup. Mubarak may announce his resignation within the next 2 hours. There was an announcement by the military that all of the protesters demands would be met "today". Pumped. I'm glad the administration pulled its head out of its ass and started supporting the movement.

[Ronin]

now we start seeing if this is good news, or if we will all miss Mubarak in a couple of years.

[ICantSpellDawg]

now we start seeing if this is good news, or if we will all miss Mubarak in a couple of years.

Nope, He reneged. Bummer of the year award. Even Panetta was confused.

[Fisherking]

Undoubtedly , and I'm afraid I get irked by the focus on the marginal risk of even a whif of islamist government.

This should be a beautifull moment for democracy, not a scaremongerers love-in. The west should do its utmost to aid the Egyptian people to move towards true democratic rule. That does require us to be grown up and accept that they might well select a government that has Egypts best interests closest to its heart...

Then we may miss a great opportunity, huh?

[Greyblades]

And I will fall on my sword if I have to.

Please do.

[ICantSpellDawg]

ALLAHU AKBAR! ALLAHU AKBAR! ALLAHU AKBAR!

[Fragony]

Congrats Egyptians. No sportscar in the world goes faster from 0 to 100 than an angry Arab

[al Roumi]

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...441731292.html

Lets get down to business!

[Fragony]

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...441731292.html

Lets get down to business!

Let's get to work, the protesters are actually cleaning up the square. That is pretty awesome. Really impressed, of course there has been violence but these Egyptians deserve the Ghandi-award anyway. Heard of no attacks against any minorities or fractional disputes. Expected that, it's good to be wrong.