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Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:23 am
by nowaysj
"Get it into your thick head, donkey"
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:43 am
by pkay
yeah this is great and all but the situation in Lebanon has me just a weeee bit more concerned.
May wanna check that out. Since they don't pump oil it's probably not on your yahoo news app
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:00 am
by Alty
hutyluty wrote:While the army back mubarak nowts gonna happen
I don't think it's going that way. I think the Army is more sympatheic to the people (read:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12330169). Probably what makes or breaks the whole thing really. There's just a danger of it turning to a Police vs Army civil war..
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:05 am
by pkay
Alty wrote:hutyluty wrote:While the army back mubarak nowts gonna happen
I don't think it's going that way. I think the Army is more sympatheic to the people (read:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12330169). Probably what makes or breaks the whole thing really. There's just a danger of it turning to a Police vs Army civil war..
Whoever controls the army controls the country in Arab countries. Unless something changes in that regard, nothing will change.
The bad news is, if someone breaks that line it will likely be someone in the military and Egypt stands a chance of becoming a military state.... which even briefly will destabilize the region for quite a while.
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:06 pm
by jdw
Really impressive protests today.
"Al Arabiya TV is now reporting that President Hosni Mubarak will say in a speech that he will step down at the next election but will stay in office till then to meet demands of protesters in that period."
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:29 am
by AllNightDayDream
Glad that obama took a (diplomatically worded) side on the issue
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:37 am
by pkay
now that the hip social media revolution of the year is over with, anyone got any opinions on a terrorist organization taking control of Lebanon?
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:09 am
by nowaysj
Attempt at sarcasm, yeah, but kind of ugly.
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:10 am
by particle-jim
pkay wrote:now that the hip social media revolution of the year is over with, anyone got any opinions on a terrorist organization taking control of Lebanon?
I'm not the best placed to talk about hezbollah with any real authority but i was at one point romantically involved with a lebanese girl (who shortly after, returned to lebanon) and i know she certainly was not a fan of them... to put it lightly
to be honest, I don't really care for the politics or international relations or any of that, my only real concern about the whole situation is that she is safe
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:32 am
by pkay
particle-jim wrote:pkay wrote:now that the hip social media revolution of the year is over with, anyone got any opinions on a terrorist organization taking control of Lebanon?
I'm not the best placed to talk about hezbollah with any real authority but i was at one point romantically involved with a lebanese girl (who shortly after, returned to lebanon) and i know she certainly was not a fan of them... to put it lightly
to be honest, I don't really care for the politics or international relations or any of that, my only real concern about the whole situation is that she is safe
Most Lebanese people aren't. Hezzbollah are Shi'a which makes up about 20% of the Lebanese population.... yet they have the manpower and pollitical clout to take over a country?
How you ask? Iran, 95% Shi'a, forcing their hand in a country.
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:47 pm
by phrex
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
WATCH NOW!!!
fuckin hell - pro mubarak supporters clashh with demonstrators!
EDIT:
im sure that this is very intendet to cause chaos!
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:00 pm
by phrex
''men on horseback and camels rushing into tahrir square''
wtf is going on
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:16 pm
by Basstronomer
No one is here to keep them away from each other... Shit's gonna blow, Braveheart stylee
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:20 pm
by phrex
djekos wrote:No one is here to keep them away from each other... Shit's gonna blow, Braveheart stylee
just watch these pictures - this is evil!!
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:22 pm
by phrex
aljazeera correspondent suspects that the pro-mubarak supporters are riot police (the guys that suddenly disappeared last friday)
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:22 pm
by phrex
police IDs seized from pro-mubarak ''protesters''
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:37 pm
by phrex
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:01 pm
by Basstronomer
and here comes the army...
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:03 pm
by phrex
FUCK... pro mubarak stnuc overtook cars of the army...
Re: the situation in egypt
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:04 pm
by phrex
and now drive into the anti mubarak protest mass