Reply to: Egypt - Tahrir Square demo

[Paddy]

Mubarak has gone

BBC better drink up and leave the bar at the Hilton and find out what's going on

President Hosni Mubarak's family fortune could be as much as $70bn (£43.5bn) according to analysis by Middle East experts, with much of his wealth in British and Swiss banks or tied up in real estate in London, New York, Los Angeles and along expensive tracts of the Red Sea coast.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...family-fortune

Makes Tony Blair's 1/2 billion look small

[RichardCranium]

That's it just blame the whole crisis on Francis Rossi

Yeah - he's just a victim: he is frequently stoned.

[amcdonald]

pretty disappointed that its pretty well status-quo today bar some arrests and beatings. Even AlJazeera has stopped the wall-to-wall coverage.

That's it just blame the whole crisis on Francis Rossi

[lilelvis2000]

pretty disappointed that its pretty well status-quo today bar some arrests and beatings. Even AlJazeera has stopped the wall-to-wall coverage.

[minestrone]

Transitions of power in countries who have had leaders for 30 years rarely go peacefully.

Mubarak will be offering the top flight in the army shed loads and that will trickle down in orders to shoot or be shot in the next few days.

While much of the west was giving a "we are not getting involved" mantra, Obama was mouthing off and egging on protests against a secular middle east country when the Muslim Brotherhood is poised to step in when the power vacuum takes place. Naive fruit loop.

A spelling mistake sure but I called it right.

[RichardCranium]

Naiive

Or even naïve.

:ontopic: there's not many decent gags doing the rounds about this. Other than:

They've turned off the comms systems to reduce the rioting. If they really want people to sit at home on their arse all day, they should turn the Internet back on!

[wobbegong]

Yeah, now she's split up with that cage-fighter bloke, he could well be in with a chance.

[dang65]

Any clues as to where Mubarak will go if he does leave?

Jordan would be my guess, although he should probably leave his bag packed.

Yeah, now she's split up with that cage-fighter bloke, he could well be in with a chance.

[minestrone]

So when does the shoe throwing start?

Is that prayers over?

[Paddy]

And protesters blame the West for propping up Mubarak. Nice we get blamed for everything, maybe we should have imposed crushing sanctions on Egypt or invaded and got him out. Oh no, hang on a minute, we get blamed for that sort of thing too.



Jordan would be my guess, although he should probably leave his bag packed.

Does the 1956 British invasion ring a bell?

[lilelvis2000]

And protesters blame the West for propping up Mubarak. Nice we get blamed for everything, maybe we should have imposed crushing sanctions on Egypt or invaded and got him out. Oh no, hang on a minute, we get blamed for that sort of thing too.



Jordan would be my guess, although he should probably leave his bag packed.

My guess was Saudi - there are troubles in Jordan and I'd think the King wouldn't want more trouble!

[suityou01]

Transitions of power in countries who have had leaders for 30 years rarely go peacefully.

Mubarak will be offering the top flight in the army shed loads and that will trickle down in orders to shoot or be shot in the next few days.

While much of the west was giving a "we are not getting involved" mantra, Obama was mouthing off and egging on protests against a secular middle east country when the Muslim Brotherhood is poised to step in when the power vacuum takes place. Naive fruit loop.

Naiive

Didn't teach you to spell on this degree course did they?

[xoggoth]

And protesters blame the West for propping up Mubarak. Nice we get blamed for everything, maybe we should have imposed crushing sanctions on Egypt or invaded and got him out. Oh no, hang on a minute, we get blamed for that sort of thing too.

Any clues as to where Mubarak will go if he does leave?

Jordan would be my guess, although he should probably leave his bag packed.

[Paddy]

Just watching on BBC live now - propaganda going back and forth. A NDP official just on blaming western media for making up a anti-Mubarak propaganda machine.

Any clues as to where Mubarak will go if he does leave?

It seems that the protestors are going to march on the presidential palace tonight. I think that is a bad move as they should take over the TV Stations first.

[lilelvis2000]

Just watching on BBC live now - propaganda going back and forth. A NDP official just on blaming western media for making up a anti-Mubarak propaganda machine.

Any clues as to where Mubarak will go if he does leave?