The Egyptian people have kept idealism alive by overthrowing the thirty year dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
Victory for oppressed peoples throughout the world...
Keep an eye on Yemen and Algeria now...both countries had protests today and in Algeria there were almost 30,000 police to keep only a few thousand protestors "in line." This government is obviously scared....I also read the Algerian government shut down several facebook accounts and cut off/limited internet connection....Aljazeera was reporting helicopters flying over the protestors in Algiers, and the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rrights reported around 400 people arrested in Algiers alone....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/algeria/8320772/Algeria-shuts-down-internet-and-Facebook-as-protest-mounts.html
For the French readers, check out France 24 with their reporter Tahar Hani, who was in Algiers today...
http://www.france24.com/fr/20110212-manifestations-opposition-bouteflika-place-1er-mai-algerie-alger-rcd-12-fev-cndc-police-repression-revolte-arabe
A friend of mine put up a very appropirate facebook status yesterday when the news broke about Suleiman's speech on Egytian state TV, and that power had been handed to the Supreme Council of the Military.
"America, this is what "hope" and "change" really looks like....
Victory for oppressed peoples throughout the world...
Keep an eye on Yemen and Algeria now...both countries had protests today and in Algeria there were almost 30,000 police to keep only a few thousand protestors "in line." This government is obviously scared....I also read the Algerian government shut down several facebook accounts and cut off/limited internet connection....Aljazeera was reporting helicopters flying over the protestors in Algiers, and the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rrights reported around 400 people arrested in Algiers alone....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/algeria/8320772/Algeria-shuts-down-internet-and-Facebook-as-protest-mounts.html
For the French readers, check out France 24 with their reporter Tahar Hani, who was in Algiers today...
http://www.france24.com/fr/20110212-manifestations-opposition-bouteflika-place-1er-mai-algerie-alger-rcd-12-fev-cndc-police-repression-revolte-arabe
A friend of mine put up a very appropirate facebook status yesterday when the news broke about Suleiman's speech on Egytian state TV, and that power had been handed to the Supreme Council of the Military.
"America, this is what "hope" and "change" really looks like....
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