A chronicle of the events live in Egypt, the night of February 10
21:10 pm - Al Jazeera is sending a title that says cubital THE REVOLUTION, while waiting at one-second speech , scheduled for nine, which Mubarak is expected to announce his resignation on television. Tahrir Square erupted in a roar, not long ago, when news came of this next appearance. What will Mubarak, still do not know.
But almost does not matter. In one way or another, will rise by half. That makes this revolution? Is doubtful. What matters is what comes next. I'm afraid it is still early to see if it will work in a "change of faces", Mumtaz Hussein, as provided on this blog, or if you go to a real change.
21:25 pm - For days, the images live from Tahrir Square showing a crowded square, but often with large empty spots. Now the vast open space is all thickly populated by people roaring. "It's the biggest crowd yet," says one interviewee Al-Jazeera. The left square in the phone is crushed in the crowd: who asks if there is fear that comes only a superficial change, replied that the square is full of people you are playing everything and does not intend to accept nothing less than the end of the regime.
21:35 pm - thirty-five minutes have passed, and Mubarak's speech does not come. Titles
Al Jazeera:
- The military announced that Egyptians have taken "to protect the country"
- Speaking of events in Egypt, Obama said: "We are seeing the story that unfolds"
- Obama says U.S. endure a genuine transition in Egypt.
21.45 - Large waving white flags in the crowd, but Mubarak's speech, no sign. Apparently Twitter are circulating all sorts of jokes about why the delay.
h. 21:49 - Mubarak is starting to talk.
Ore 22.20 - Unbelievable! Incredible demonstration of idiocy of Hosni Mubarak. Announces that it does not resign. The crowd exploded in Tahrir square in manifestations of rage, while he was still speaking, many have swung a shoe at the shaking of the rais. In Alexandria, a crowd of thousands of people have just left the square where he had heard the speech and amid a din of screams exasperated, it is direct, it seems, to a military base. The square is empty and the crowd is on its way to compact a very wide avenue. That we go to the shedding of blood?
23:25 - The crowd of Tahrir square, however, has not turned into screaming horde directed to attack this or that building of power, but is still there, but no longer thrilled so agitated. Not long ago, the Vice-President Suleiman has appeared on television and on the giant screen in the square, urging them to unite for the future of Egypt and the crowd to go home and not listen to Al Jazeera. It was not appreciated. None, apparently alludes to leave.
23:35 - Mr. A Malawi, "pro-democracy activist, has just finished speaking speaking on Al Jazeera, claiming that the decision to Mubarak has so inflamed the hearts that at this moment nobody knows what will happen. She says she is rumored to meet tomorrow morning at Tahrir Square to march on the presidential palace, but nobody knows if it will. He adds: "Some people are proposing to march on the presidential palace right now, while I'm talking about." Do not get news from Alexandria.
24.00 - The Egyptian ambassador to Washington said that Mubarak has no more power. It 'obvious that there was now a conflict at the summit that would still not resolved. The military chiefs had gathered in the afternoon with Suleiman in the absence of Mubarak, was born here and waiting for its abandonment. A senior official had spoken directly to the square announcing, you will have good news tonight, all your requests will be accepted. It is unclear whether the position taken by Mubarak was the result of that consultation or, conversely, a reaction against it.
24.20-Mubarak has indeed an incredible dullness: if there was one thing to do to hope to extinguish this fire and save the scheme was to accept that one application that combines all the rebels, resigned. But it was enough that he went to Sharm el-Sheikh, as it was rumored he was going to do, at least to sow uncertainty. Instead, with this reckless move, with this incredibly arrogant speech, he managed to inflame, to unite even more so all his opponents, to alienate the United States permanently, and to seal his fate. Nobody is a prophet, but if it remained in the saddle would be a miracle.
Now Tahrir Square in the crowd are starting to diminish, but continue the choirs and the waving of flags. Egypt has gone one o'clock at night. Maybe for now, at least in Cairo, the bloodshed is averted. Alexandria, nothing new.
February 11
Hours 1:56 - Now there is Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics, he is saying from London, also on Al Jazeera that the decision of the Mubarak and Suleiman risk of further surgery provoke an open clash. They have made angry the square and now it will be difficult to appease. Everything will be decided, he says, in the next forty-eight hours. Tomorrow is Friday, was scheduled as a day of protest. If tomorrow the crowd will march on the presidential palace or the parliament or on television, then the military, which so far have been steering a middle course, must make a decision. The army and the crowds will come face face and that's where you'll see what to expect.
Soon after we learn via Twitter that there is already a gathering of people in front of state television, the military are not hindering, and the protesters are preparing to spend the night there. The news is not verifiable.
It seems that with its "all at home," Suleiman has also played its future.
2.09 - Patty Culhane is announcing that Washington has just released a statement from the White House, with some formulations' tortuous, suggests that this step is not enough and that we need a fast and accurate process of spill from the system. Obama's support in the revolt has become apparent.
2.20 - in Egypt are now past three in the morning and Tahrir Square is still full of people praising, jumping, shouting and shaking fists in the air. An envoy of the square is framed with a demonstrator who says excitedly, "All are very very angry and we just want him to go, otherwise we will go out and dig out from the presidential palace tomorrow."
Hours 2.45 - on SkyNews in English there is an interview from Washington who knows a lot about the secret rooms. He says that Obama can not openly declare he wants the release of Mubarak. But ensures that the telephone calls, particularly from military to military, which have very close relations, the position of the U.S. government was expressed today in no uncertain terms. In America we speak of intelligence of the error committed by the CIA, which at one point became convinced that Mubarak is going to resign. At this point it seems clear what happened. The United States, covered streets, prayed Mubarak to leave: and he refused. "I will not give the willingness of foreign powers," he said in his speech unlikely. The bold move is hardly destined for success.
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