In the last hour, news outlets have been reporting that the Egypt-Israel gas pipeline has been blown up by a group of masked men in an event described by Egyptian state television as a “terrorist” act. Sky is reporting that it happened near El-Arish in northern Sinai, and there are huge fires there, meanwhile other explosions continue all through the pipeline as well. Ha’aretz’s source, via Reuters, is SITE, an intelligence [...]
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As part of the ABC’s continuing coverage of the demonstrations in Egypt, they’ve included a nice map on every piece of news, just so you know where Egypt is.1 The problem is, as you can see to the right, they’ve forgotten a few lines in the maps. It’s clear that there’s no line along the Jordan River to separate what is now Jordan from the West Bank. Up until 1967 [...]
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Here are some suggestions for people to follow on Twitter, if you want to stay up-to-date with the situation in Egypt: CNN’s Cairo correspondent Ben Wedeman – @bencnn Cairo-based writer Gordon Reynolds - @gordon_reynolds This tweeter has great updates, but I’m not sure of their story. I first came across them during the Tunisian crisis, and then when Lebanon was firing up - @draddee @Jan25Voices is described as such: “We are using phones [...]
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The New York Times, on the continuing protests in Egypt: While some protesters clashed with police, army tanks expected to disperse the crowds in central Cairo and in the northern city of Alexandria instead became rest points and even, on occasion, part of the protests as anti-Mubarak graffiti were scrawled on them without interference from soldiers. “Leave Hosni, you, your son and your corrupted party!” declared the graffiti on one [...]
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This is a great photo, courtesy of the White House. Here’s the caption below it, at Flickr: President Barack Obama talks on the phone with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in the Oval Office, Jan. 28, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden listens at left, and the President’s National Security team confer in the background. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) The question is: What are the President’s National Security [...]
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The story of a photo that’s gone viral of the #Jan25 protests. [The protest] was mostly young people, but there were some old people as well. A woman that looked 60 was marching beside me from Gamet El Dowal street to Tahrir Square, almost two hours of walking and shouting. The scene was absolutely wonderful last night in that square. The support of the people around you gives you so [...]
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Egypt’s the place to be, at the moment. The scent of a distant change is in the atmosphere as “Egypt’s most high-profile dissident”, according to AFP, hit the streets to try to convince the Egyptian people that now is the time to change (sound familiar?). That’s right, former head of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei is in Egypt campaigning for the presidency. The rhetoric isn’t quite the same — “What I [...]
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