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Tear gas fired at protesters in Cairo
Reuters Video: Police fired teargas in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square at several hundred mainly Egyptian youths, some of whom threw stones and demanded that trials of former senior officials proceed more swiftly. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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WikiLeaks: Cairo Cables Index
(Source: kopoint)
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Images out of Cairo via Al-Jazeera’s Flickrstream
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Who is Mohamed ElBaradei?
via TimesPeople
Mohamed ElBaradei, an Egyptian-born lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, headed the International Atomic Energy Agency for 12 years. He gained attention when he became the West’s main way of negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program. His star rose as European diplomacy stalled and as American credibility on atomic intelligence declined.
Since his return to Egypt in February 2010, he has been seen by disillusioned Egyptians as a symbol of change and by many more as the most serious challenger to President Hosni Mubarak’s 29-year hold on power.
Despite only sporadic engagement with the country’s political scene, Dr. ElBaradei’s pronouncements have carried considerable weight.
As one of Egypt’s most prominent opposition leaders, Mr. ElBaradei in September 2010 issued the strongest call to date for a widespread boycott of parliamentary elections in the falll.
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Unfortunately for the censors, Twitter allows other companies to develop their own applications using its programming interface. This has led to the development of a plethora of tools that allow users to post to Twitter without ever pointing their browsers to Twitter.com. These third-party clients still appear to be functioning in Egypt. There have even been reports of activists updating Twitter through the professional résumé-sharing site LinkedIn.
(Source: marathonpacks, via abbyjean)
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المواطنين والمحلات لغوا باسوردات شبكات الوايرلس والمعتصمين في التحرير يستطيعون الآن التواصل مع الناس#Jan25 #fb
“cairo residents remove wifi passwords so protestors can communicate more freely with the rest of the world”
Egypt: Night Falls, After Day of Rage · Global Voices
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Oh, that’s badass.
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