Breaking News - Embassy Hostage Crisis In Cairo ?

Started by mongers, September 09, 2011, 07:12:29 PM

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mongers

September 09, 2011, 07:12:29 PM
Breaking news from Cairo, the Israeli embassy is under seige from demonstrators.

Reports that it might be getting 'out of hand'.

President Obama has spoken to the Israelis in response to a fall from them for help in resolving the situation.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Sheilbh

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September 09, 2011, 07:19:23 PM Last Edit: September 09, 2011, 07:22:33 PM by Sheilbh
They're climbing into the building.  The Israelis had been planning to build a wall around the embassy/office block in response to recent protests.

Sky News are, of course, having talking heads talking about Osborne and Lagarde.  Luckily Al-Jazeera English has live coverage and some commentary.

Edit:  Apparently Israeli embassy staff are at the airport waiting to leave.  The Egyptian PM's called an emergency cabinet meeting.  The building's been broken into and lots of papers thrown from the windows, but it's not clear if they've actually got into the Israeli embassy yet.

Edit again: Apparently the IDF's airplane's already landed at Cairo airport and is ready to evacuate the staff there if necessary.  It also sounds like the people who broke in have left but there's a ruckus between large protests outside the embassy and the police.
Let's bomb Russia!

Grallon

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September 09, 2011, 07:20:23 PM
Arab spring will usher democracy  :lol:





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MadImmortalMan

#3
September 09, 2011, 07:28:06 PM
Egypt under state of emergency?
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

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Sheilbh

#4
September 09, 2011, 07:30:57 PM
Interesting.  Apparently this started with protests outside the State Security HQ and then moved on.  So far the military's keeping out of it and there's generally non-violent crowd dispersion going on - tear gas and the like - though abotu 150 have been injured.  This is in contrast with when the military cleared Tahrir Square (which looks like it's filling up a bit tonight) at the start of Ramadan when people died and it was the army who led the whole thing.
Let's bomb Russia!

Scipio

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September 09, 2011, 07:36:50 PM
Well, Egypt, it was nice knowing you.
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Sheilbh

#6
September 09, 2011, 07:38:55 PM
The stuff at the State Security looks like it was getting quite serious.  There are burning cars, molotov cocktails and the like.  It wouldn't surprise me if the Egyptian police kettled the crowd to the embassy.
Let's bomb Russia!

Legbiter

#7
September 09, 2011, 07:39:16 PM
The new masters of Egypt need a yank on the chain.
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Ed Anger

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September 09, 2011, 07:40:32 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on September 09, 2011, 07:39:16 PM
The new masters of Egypt need a yank on the chain.

by running the assholes over with those M60 tanks.
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Razgovory

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September 09, 2011, 07:41:57 PM
Why are they protesting?
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jimmy olsen

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September 09, 2011, 07:43:20 PM
Quote from: Grallon on September 09, 2011, 07:20:23 PM
Arab spring will usher democracy  :lol:

Isn't this will of the Egyptian people? If Egypt becomes a democracy their foreign policy will be hostile to Israel by default.
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Caliga

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September 09, 2011, 07:43:21 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 09, 2011, 07:41:57 PM
Why are they protesting?
Israel's existence, I assume.
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Sheilbh

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September 09, 2011, 07:43:43 PM
The crowd's apparently in the thousands at, I think, 0245.  The State Security and Interior Ministry are having their security beefed up.

Just saw a guy in a Nasser t-shirt.  I had no idea he was seen in that way :mellow:
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mongers

#13
September 09, 2011, 07:43:54 PM
Al-Jazeera have a rather attractive correspondent in Cairo, Sherine Tadros.  :wub:
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Viking

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September 09, 2011, 07:44:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 09, 2011, 07:40:32 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on September 09, 2011, 07:39:16 PM
The new masters of Egypt need a yank on the chain.

by running the assholes over with those M60 tanks.

Egypt has M1s

First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.
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