While John McCain is leading a growing chorus of voices in the US Congress calling for Mubarak’s immediate departure, Adm. Mike Mullen cautioned against cutting military aid to Egypt.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay praised the efforts of Egyptian protesters to win democratic reforms—while repeating concerns over mounting casualties.
Tens of thousands of protesters massed on Yemen’s Sana’a University for a “day of rage” against Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule—while Saleh loyalists occupied the city’s central square.
Fighting between protesters and government loyalists raged into a second day in Egypt, with the opposition pledging to go ahead with a massive “departure day” march tomorrow.
Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, facing growing demands that he step down, said that he will drop constitutional changes that would allow him to be president for life.
Government supporters—some on horses and camels and armed with whips—charged into the ranks of opposition protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, sparking hours of street battles.
Several hundred thousand filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the biggest outpouring yet demanding the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Protesters have given Mubarak until Friday to leave the country.
Authorities in both the West Bank and Gaza shut down Egypt solidarity rallies, as Jordan announced a new government and “day of rage” protests are called for Yemen and Syria.
Israel’s Netanyahu raised the specter of an Islamist take-over and Obama called for an “orderly transition” as a “march of a million” and indefinite general strike are declared in Egypt.
As angry protesters again filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a sixth day of defiance of authorities, a banner in English read: “USA, why do you support the tyrant and not the people?”
Protesters calling for the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed with the regime’s supporters and plainclothes police in Sana’a, the capital.
Do WikiLeaks revelations on Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak vindicate fears that neocon conspiracies are behind the current wave of unrest? No, but that hasn’t kept William Engdahl from mouthing off.
