February 11, 2011
Cairo, Egypt
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Mubarak's Lack of Resignation
Aljazeera reported 3 million Egyptians in the streets of Egypt. They waited 7 hours to hear what the army and the new head of the National Democratic Party (NDP) suggested would be Mubarak’s resignation speech. They were stunned by Mubarak’s non-resignation speech last night. Incensed by his speech, and only half way through it, they defiantly waved their shoes in the air. And yet they remained peaceful I don’t know how they did it.
Today there are a million people in and around Tahrir Square and noon prayers have not even started
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The military’s upper echelon essentially is still standing by the regime and have issued a public communique:
- The emergency laws will be repealed
- Steps to insure a peaceful transition will be monitored.
- Those arrested will be released
- Egyptians should return to work and resume their everyday lives.
The question is whether or not the middle and lower ranks will follow the upper ranks. So far 25 of its members have turned in their arms and publically stood with the demonstrators.
The muezzin is calling noon prayers.
Amal Sedky Winter, PhD
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