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.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Egypt in a fifth day of protests, with police stations torched and several reported dead in Cairo and Alexandria.
California-based Narus apparently sold Egypt technology to monitor Internet and mobile phone traffic—now being used by the regime to crack down on communications as protests erupt.
More than 1,000 protesters have been detained in Egypt as demonstrations against the 30-year reign of President Hosni Mubarak entered their third day.
Thousands of anti-government protesters again took to the streets of Sana’a, adopting pink as their color to emphasize their commitment to non-violence—but warning they could escalate to “red.”
Egyptian police and protesters clashed in Cairo’s city center and in the port city of Suez, in a second day of anti-government rallies. Four are reported dead in the unrest so far.
