[Dr. Shon Thomson]

Thousands of prisoners escape in Egypt; death toll touches 102
Cairo, Jan 30

Gangs free militants, foreigners try to flee Egypt

Thousands of prisoners escaped from jails across Egypt as anti-regime riots entered the sixth day today, with looters rampaging through malls and luxury shops and a number of armymen doffing uniforms to join the unprecedented protests that have claimed at least 102 lives.

Embattled President Hosni Mubarak, 82, clung to power despite mounting pressure to quit as the situation in the world's most populous Arab nation deteriorated.

The President last night named intelligence chief and his close confidante Omar Suleiman as Vice President for the first time in his 30-year rule.

He also chose aviation minister Ahmed Shafiq as new prime minister, hours after sacking the Cabinet and promising democratic and economic reforms. Shafiq, a former chief of Air Staff, has often been mooted as a potential successor to Mubarak.

Numerous jailbreaks were reported overnight from Alexandria, Aswan and other places. An estimated 5,000 inmates broke free from a jail in El Fayoum, south of Cairo, killing a senior police officer, media reports said.

The violent protests against Mubarak autocratic regime, which began on Tuesday, have so far left at least 102 people dead, including 33 who were killed yesterday, the reports said.

In the deadliest day of protests on Friday, 62 people were killed, including 35 in Cairo. Seven people were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday in Cairo and the canal city of Suez.
Several thousand people had also been injured, amid reports that more and more armymen were joining the protests against Mubarak.

Breaking into malls along the Nile, looters last night picked up TV sets, furniture, electronic items and clothes defying curfew and and heavy presence of security personnel in the capital.

Thousands of protesters defied the curfew for the second night and Cairo's central Tahrir (Liberation) Square remained filled with protesters.

Troops and armoured vehicles had been deployed across the city to guard key government buildings, and major tourist and archaeological sites.

Despite heavy security presence, at least two looters managed to get into Cairo's museum of antiquities and damaged some of the exhibits. Thieves also broke into the Arab International Bank and several cafes and eateries.

To protect their property from looters, residents of the city set up committees armed with guns, clubs and knives.

Protesters yesterday also tried to storm the Interior Ministry in central Cairo.

Protesters also besieged a police station yesterday in the Giza neighborhood of Cairo and looted and pulled down Egyptian flags before burning the building to the ground.

Pro-democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel laureate and former IAEA chief, said Mubarak's appointments of Vice President and Premier were insufficient.

"I tell President Mubarak and his regime to leave Egypt as soon as possible. It will be better for Egypt and for you," he told Al-Jazeera television.

ElBaradei was put under house arrest after he joined the wave of protests against Mubarak following his return from Vienna, where he was based.

As Mubarak refused to quit, influential Arab cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi accused him of having turned "blind, deaf and dumb" and asked him to step down,

"President Mubarak ... I advise you to depart from Egypt ... There is no other solution to this problem but for Mubarak to go," Qaradawi said.

The widely respected Sunni Muslim cleric asked Mubarak to quit for the good of the country, as his ouster was the only solution to Egypt's crisis.

CAIRO – Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police vanished from the streets of Cairo and other cities.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo told its citizens in Egypt to consider leaving the country as soon as possible, and said it had authorized the voluntary departure of dependents and non-emergency employees, a display of Washington's escalating concern about the stability of its closest Arab ally.

[PypeDeft]

First the Tunisan uprising....




then follow by Egypt...



who's the next unlucky country???

[AssinHT]

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Next!

[DebtDetox]

Egypt's leader has been co-opted by the American and Israel governments.

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's dictator of 30 years and 100% endorsed by America, shoves political dissidents into jails and the news reports calls them "militants" as if somehow bad people are organizing this nationwide coup against an American lackey.

What's happening in Egypt today, Tunisia yesterday and hopefully Yemen, Pakistan, Jordan, Palestine, Sudan and finally Saudi Arabia tomorrow, is the people of those countries are booting out the American and Israeli puppets who suppress the population and stunt the economic development and advancement of vast swathes of innocent lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Timvu9bDUSo

[AngelinaTheElf]

Guest Post: Is the Egyptian Government Using Agents Provocateur to Justify a Crack Down On the Protesters?

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 01:28 AM PST

→ Washington’s Blog

Al Jazeera reported today:

[Al Jazeera reporter] Ayman Mohyeldin reports that eyewitnesses have said “party thugs” associated with the Egyptian regime’s Central Security Services – in plainclothes but bearing government-issued weapons – have been looting in Cairo. Ayman says the reports started off as isolated accounts but are now growing in number.

The Telegraph reports:

“Thugs” going around on motorcycles looting shops and houses, according to Al Jazeera. They say they are getting more and more reports of looting. More worryingly, one group of looters who were captured by citizens in the upmarket Cairo district of Heliopolis turned out to have ID cards identifying them as members of the regime security forces.

Similarly, Egyptian newspaper Al MasryAlyoum provides several eyewitness accounts of agents provacateur:

Thugs looting residential neighborhoods and intimidating civilians are government-hires, say eyewitnesses.

In Nasr City, an Eastern Cairo neighborhood, residents attempting to restore security told Al-Masry Al-Youm that looters were caught yesterday.

“They were sent by the government. The government got them out of prison and told them to rob us,” says Nameer Nashaat, a resident working alongside other youths to preserve order in the district. “When we caught them, they said that the Ministry of Interior has sent them.”

In Masr al-Qadeema, another district, scrap metal dealer Khaled Barouma, confirmed the same account. “The government let loose convicts. They let them out of prisons. We all know them in this neighborhood,” he said, adding that the neighborhood’s youth is trying to put the place in order by patrolling its streets with batons.

“The government wants people to believe that this is an uprising of convicts, which is not the case. The government is the one that is a criminal,” Khalil Fathy, a local journalist covering the events closely, said.

In Rehab City, a wealthy gated community in New Cairo, masked thugs broke through a civilian barricade in a truck and were caught by a neighborhood watch that has been guarding the city this evening.

“Even though we caught the ones we saw, now that they’re in, we know that more will be coming and we’re all running to protect our families and houses,” said Karim el-Dib, one of the men guarding the community.
Meanwhile, protestors caught two police informants attempting to rob a bank in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

Ayman Nour, opposition leader and head of the Ghad Party, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that his fellow party members have caught several thugs who work forthe Interior Ministry. After capturing them in downtown Cairo and Heliopolis, Nour’s followers found ministry of interior IDs on them, Nour said.

“The regime is trying to project the worst image possible to make it clear to people that they have only one of two alternatives: either the existing order or chaos,” he said.

Scores of looting incidents have been reported since yesterday. Many residential neighborhoods have been attacked by thugs and ex-convicts, despite military presence.

Bikyamasr reports:

Eyewitnesses reported that one plain clothed man attempted to loot and destroy private property, and when confronted he was shot. Bystanders then took his identification out and revealed that he was a police officer, leaving a number of demonstrators to argue that the government has told police to instigate looting and unrest.

And American intelligence service Stratfor provides the following unconfirmed report today:

Security forces in plainclothes are engaged in destroying public property in order to give the impression that many protesters represent a public menace.

As I noted in 2008:

When agents provocateur commit violence or destroy property at peaceful protests, they are carrying out false flag terrorism.

Wikipedia defines false flag terror as follows:

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy’s strategy of tension.

If intelligence agencies or federal, state or local police themselves commit acts of violence against people or property, and then blame it on peaceful protesters, that is – by definition – false flag terror.

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Read this to see how eagerly the mainstream media are to pin acts of violence on peaceful protesters, instead of the thugs who actually committed them.

And if you don’t know about agents provocateur, read this statement about Burma:

“They’ve ordered some soldiers in the military to shave their heads, so that they could pose as monks, and then those fake monks would attack soldiers to incite a military crackdown. The regime has done this before in Burma, and we believe they would do so again.”

And see this news from Canada, and this Wikipedia discussion.

And as I pointed out last year:

United Press International reported in June 2005:

U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.

Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers
At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence
Similarly, an Indonesian fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that “elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked”.

[beriarele]

Who let the dregs out???

[AngelinaTheElf]

Egypt's leader has been co-opted by the American and Israel governments.

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's dictator of 30 years and 100% endorsed by America, shoves political dissidents into jails and the news reports calls them "militants" as if somehow bad people are organizing this nationwide coup against an American lackey.

What's happening in Egypt today, Tunisia yesterday and hopefully Yemen, Pakistan, Jordan, Palestine, Sudan and finally Saudi Arabia tomorrow, is the people of those countries are booting out the American and Israeli puppets who suppress the population and stunt the economic development and advancement of vast swathes of innocent lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Timvu9bDUSo

My dear friend,you have conveniently forgotten to include SINGAPORE in yr list!!

[Dr. Shon Thomson]

Egypt's leader has been co-opted by the American and Israel governments.

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's dictator of 30 years and 100% endorsed by America, shoves political dissidents into jails and the news reports calls them "militants" as if somehow bad people are organizing this nationwide coup against an American lackey.

What's happening in Egypt today, Tunisia yesterday and hopefully Yemen, Pakistan, Jordan, Palestine, Sudan and finally Saudi Arabia tomorrow, is the people of those countries are booting out the American and Israeli puppets who suppress the population and stunt the economic development and advancement of vast swathes of innocent lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Timvu9bDUSo

You left out IRAN, Syria, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and a few more.
There are dictators or regimes there who are more violent, oppressive
and cruel that Hosni Mubarak or the ex president of Tunisia. Ruthless and corrupt to the core. 1000 times over.

The only common thread here in all these nations is that they are all
Islamic or majority of the population are Muslims.

Apparently, what matters, is not how badly these rulers mistreat and kick their people. But rather they are pro American or not. ?

[AngelinaTheElf]

You left out IRAN, Syria, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and a few more.
There are dictators or regimes there who are more violent, oppressive
and cruel that Hosni Mubarak or the ex president of Tunisia. Ruthless and corrupt to the core. 1000 times over.

The only common thread here in all these nations is that they are all
Islamic or majority of the population are Muslims.

Apparently, what matters, is not how badly these rulers mistreat and kick their people. But rather they are pro American or not. ?

He was looking for U.S connections,IRAN,SYRIA are not ones,but you are absolutely right,IRAN & SYRIA are more brutal than Egypt!

[DebtDetox]

You left out IRAN, Syria, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and a few more.
There are dictators or regimes there who are more violent, oppressive
and cruel that Hosni Mubarak or the ex president of Tunisia. Ruthless and corrupt to the core. 1000 times over.

The only common thread here in all these nations is that they are all
Islamic or majority of the population are Muslims.

Apparently, what matters, is not how badly these rulers mistreat and kick their people. But rather they are pro American or not. ?

The common thread here in all these nations is that they are being taken over by American/Israeli puppets who then deliberately loot the people of their resources.

What matters is WHOSE ORDERS the puppets follow.

Its not their religion they adhere to, but they have sold out their religion and their people for the cash and protection of the Americans/Isrealis.

These Islamic countries and their people are victims of American/Israeli's goal of global domination.

That's what matters.

In your fantasies, you think its because the rulers are Muslims that this is happening... but in real life, on the ground its because of the crazy Zionists and their Christian-Zionist backers that Muslim countries are being taken over by insane Zionists-Christian-Zionists cabal.

So Muslims in these countries, i.e. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, etc. ARE KICKING OUT THE Zionists-Christian-Zionists cabal, who are the oppressors...

[DebtDetox]

He was looking for U.S connections,IRAN,SYRIA are not ones,but you are absolutely right,IRAN & SYRIA are more brutal than Egypt!

All these countries put together cannot do the damage that America/Britain/Israel has collectively put the world thru.

Iran and Syria are SAINTS compared to the death and bombings brought from America/Israel...