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| Egypt protesters clash with police |
| 2011-01-25 |
| Police fire tear gas at anti-government demonstrators in Cairo as thousands call for ouster of president Hosni Mubarak. Inspired by Tunisian demonstrators, thousands of Egyptian protesters on Tuesday gathered in Cairo and other major cities, calling for reforms and demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Al Jazeera's correspondents have reported. The anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing atop an armoured police truck, were chanting slogans against Mubarak, who ruled the country for three decades. Downtown Cairo came to a standstill with protesters chanting slogans against the police, the interior minister and the government, in scenes that the capital has not seen since the 1970s. Demonstrators marched toward what Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh called the "symbols of their complaints and their agony," the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party, the foreign ministry and the state television. But police responded with blasts from a water cannon and set upon crowds with batons and acrid clouds of tear gas to clear demonstrators crying out "Down with Mubarak'' and demanding an end to the country's grinding poverty. Earlier on Tuesday, Rageh reported from the protests, calling them "unprecedented" in the leniency showed by security forces who allowed demonstrators to march through the capital. The Egyptian government had earlier warned activists hoping to emulate Tunisian pro-democracy protesters that they faced arrest if they went ahead with Tuesday's mass demonstrations, which some labelled the "Day of wrath". |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Flash on two nations - Egypt and LEB. Tunisia cited as lead. And Gadaffi Duck is squawking again. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-01-25 20:13 |
| #1 Is this backed by the Brotherhood, or is it the usual rabble? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-25 17:18 |