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Mubarak's Egypt - 'End this Corrupt Regime' « @ggregator - 0 views

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  • that the rich and powerful are friendly with Mubarak. 
  • co-owner of Easter Mediterranean Gas Company, Hussein Salem, is a good friend of President Mubarak.
  • When not selling Egypt’s natural gas to Israel (Gas started flowing in 2008) he also happens to be a hotel magnate and  arms-dealer.
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  • estimates run that Mubarak regime has over 17,000 political prisoners
  • Unemployment runs at about 26.3 per
  • $62 billion dollars has flown into Egypt since 1977 from the US in aid.  Most Egyptians get by on $2 a day.
  •   Relations with Israel appear to be quite friendly in the background, up to and including gassing people in tunnels leading out of Gaza, and keeping the border firmly shut at Rafah, even when Israel goes to war against the Palestinians.
  • Egypt is building a wall 18 meters underground made from super-strength steel in order to seal off all tunnels that lead into Gaza.  The Mubarak regime first of all kept this a secret
  • Mubarak does not have an enemy in Israel, he has a market.
  • enemies are at home.  They are internal and are leftist, human rights activists and above all, Islamists.   This has lead to regular torture of people in police stations and to the establishment of the Ministry of the Interior
  • because the Muslim Brotherhood won 88 of 160 seats in Legislative elections in 2005.  Since then they’ve been put back in their box.  They were refused the right to run in elections to the upper house, polling stations were attacked and arrests followed. An Emergency law exists which conveniently for Mubarak does not allow freedom of assembly, which curtails the possibility of any political movement or party getting off the ground.
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BBC News - Egypt country profile - 0 views

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  • stepped down in February 2011 after 30 years in power.
  • was responding to weeks of street protests, which began in January 2011, only days after the president of Tunisia fled a popular uprising.
  • vice-president announced Mr Mubarak's resignation and said he had handed power to the army
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  • the only opposition organisation which has broad public support, the Muslim Brotherhood, is banned from open political activity and could not field a candidate
  • gained a fifth consecutive term in presidential elections in September 2005, when he was aged 77. The poll was the first under a new system which allows multiple candidates to stand.
  • He is seen as Egyptian politics' great survivor, having escaped no fewer than six assassination attempts
  • his government promised economic reforms. But Egypt remains plagued by high unemployment and low standards of living
  • 1979 Camp David agreement led to Egypt being expelled from the Arab League until 1989,
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Egypt's Anwar Sadat Assassinated in 1981 - 1 views

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  • Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978 led to a negotiated peace between those two nations in 1979,
  • Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
  • The agreement with Israel brought peace to Egypt but not prosperity. With no real improvement in the economy, Sadat became increasingly unpopular
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  • he reacted to criticism at home by expanding censorship and jailing his opponents
  • May 1980, an impressive, nonpartisan body of citizens charged Sadat with superseding his own constitution.
  • months leading up to the assassination Sadat had lost much of his support at home and in the West due to a brutal crackdown on fundamentalists.
  • Sadat cracked down on both sides with mass arrests and brutal police tactics. The powerful Islamic student associations were banned on September 3
  • was attending an annual military parade celebrating the “successful” campaigns during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He was saluting the troops when an assassination team ran from one of the parade vehicles and began firing weapons and throwing grenades into the reviewing stand
  • Following Sadat’s assassination, the killers were identified as Muslim radicals, members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 6 | 1981: Egypt's President Sadat assassinated - 0 views

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  • President Sadat of Egypt has died after being shot by gunmen who opened fire as he watched an aerial display at a military parade
  • other dignitaries including foreign diplomats were killed
  • taken the salute, laid a wreath and was watching a display from the Egyptian Air Force when two grenades exploded
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  • Gunmen then leapt from a military truck in front of the presidential reviewing stand and ran towards the spectators, raking officials with automatic gunfire
  • Security forces then shot and killed two of the attackers and
  • attackers benefited from high-level intelligence and support
  • Reaction to President's Sadat's death has been mixed.
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  • Graduated from the "Military Academy" on the 2nd of Feb. 1949.
  • Air Academy" on the 2nd of Feb, 1949 and graduated as a pilot officer on the 13th of March 1950.  
  • Fighter Squadrons "SpeedFire" for two years then he became an instructor in the " Air Academy " till Jan. 1959.
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  • Oct. 1966 President Mubarak held the position of the "West-Cairo Air - Base" commander,
  • he was granted the "Air Chief Marshal" rank in 1973. 
  • 1975, he held the position of Vice President of the Republic.
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Mubarak steps down, prompting jubilation in Cairo streets - 0 views

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  • after 30 years of autocratic rule over the Arab world's most populous nation.
  • Mubarak became the second Arab leader in a month to succumb to his people's powerful thirst for freedom
  • Egypt were unclear as the armed forces took control and gave little hint of how they intend to govern
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  • thousands of protesters who marched to Mubarak's presidential palace to demand that he leave.
  • ubarak's abrupt abdication came just 19 hours after the 82-year-old leader had appeared on national television to declare defiantly that, despite the swelling protests against his rule, he had no plans to quit.
  • then left Cairo, apparently bound for internal exile in the Red Sea
  • six decades in which the army has been the country's dominant force.
  • Egyptian lawyers said they would submit a complaint to the country's attorney general seeking the prosecution of the Mubarak family on corruption charges
  • Tahrir Square, the plaza in central Cairo where the protests began Jan. 25
  • Angered by Mubarak's refusal to resign Thursday night, Egyptians responded early Friday with their biggest demonstrations ye
  • Emily B on 25 Mar 11
     
    this article is from the washington post. It talks about the time line of the protests and how at first Mubarak said he wasn't going to step down from presidency but 19 hours after this announcement, he did indeed step down. It also has a few quotes from citizens in celebration about and after he officially resigned they felt like they had changed the world, which they had, and finally felt free
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Egypt's Mubarak resigns after 30-year rule - CNN - 0 views

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  • Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday and handed over power to the military
  • In a televised speech Thursday night, Mubarak had indicated he was delegating authority to Suleiman, but Friday, deeply disappointed crowds calling for his ouster kept swelling throughout Cairo and in other major cities
  • Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, however, sounded words of caution amid the euphoria. He urged Egyptians to stay united beyond the moment of euphoria
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  • Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian activist who became a reluctant hero of the revolution said only one word would be used to describe Mubarak in history books: "Dictator."
  • Emily B on 23 Mar 11
     
    This article is from CNN and is about the after effects of the protest and how citizens were able to get Mubarak to step down. In the moment people were shocked and so thrilled when it was announced the riot basically turned into a giant celebration. Power was then rewarded to the more trusted military forces in Egypt. Although they had success getting mubarak out, they still however have a lot of work ahead of them in order to become a free nation, and by some a military takeover is feared.
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What's Going On In Egypt? - 0 views

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  • Protests started on Tuesday, January 25,
  • protest poverty, rampant unemployment, government corruption and autocratic governance of President Hosni Mubarak
  • The government responded by blocking Twitter, which was being used by organizers to coordinate protests
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  • Blocking Twitter not only enraged Egyptian citizens; it also brought increased national attention to the uprising. Over the course of the next two days, Egypt proceeded to block Facebook while the much-hated riot police took to the streets, arresting and injuring hundreds with batons, tear gas water cannons. Protests occurred not only in Cairo, the capital, but also in Alexandria and Suez, two other major cities
  • The largest protests were planned for Friday, at which point the government took the unprecedented step of blocking all Internet services in the country. With Twitter and Facebook already down, email other social networking outlets fell as well. Text messaging was also blocked. Protestors and journalists began finding alternate means of getting online and pushing out information
  • the military was called in to take over security
  • After a long silence, President Hosni Mubarak appeared on state television to announce that while he would be dismissing the government, he would not resign. Protestors continued to chant "Down, down with Mubarak" after his announcement
  • Emily B on 23 Mar 11
     
    This article is from the huffington post and gives background info about these protests in Egypt. Basically people were fed up with poverty and corrupt government so they began to arrange protests via twitter and facebook, in order to try to get president Mubarak to step down from his position. Basically what ended up happening was all forms of mass communication were blocked, twitter face book, text messaging, etc. People felt as though the government was trying to steal their voice so people were further angered and the riots continued. The president at first said things would change, but he would not step down. The riots did not end at this point however. People wouldn't give up until he was out of office.
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