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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The culture is either going down the
tubes or just flatly petrified.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=galliher@illinois.edu href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">C. G.
Estabrook</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ewj@pigs.ag
href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag">E. Wayne Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=brussel@uiuc.edu
href="mailto:brussel@uiuc.edu">Morton K. Brussel</A> ; <A
title=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net
href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace Discuss</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:16
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Peace-discuss] Mubarak
Clings On... What Now For Egypt?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV> When I hear the word culture, I reach for my petri
dish.<BR><BR><BR>On 2/11/11 10:21 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4D556226.3080004@pigs.ag type="cite">I was poorly
prepared, overlooked the parasiti, and elided and eluded the critical
i.<BR><BR>the plan is clear though (if you read a little
further)<BR><BR>-<I> inpinguasti in oleo caput</I>.<BR><BR>fry 'em in
margarine till they're "Kaput".<BR><BR>in polite company they call that
"marginalizing the opposition".<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On 2/11/2011 10:58 PM, C.
G. Estabrook wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4D554E99.70805@illinois.edu type="cite">I had to look
up Quorum Sensing to see how clever this punning is.<BR><BR>Fisk's
original use of "bacillus" implied a disease-causing organism (hope he's
OK), so I hope you noticed the continuation of the image in the next
line of the psalm:<BR><BR> <I> Virga tua et baculus tuus, ipsa
me consolata sunt: parasiti in conspectu meo mensam adversus eos qui
tribulant me.</I> <BR><BR>"Your rod and your staff have comforted me" -
bacillus means a little rod, and Fisk says Mubarack was "sealed off from
his (staff) like a bacillus" - <BR><BR>"but the parasites in my view are
those who make trouble for my Smart Guy" [mensam - I suppose that
means Suleiman]...<BR><BR>The complaint may be more general, so to speak,
if "mensa" be taken as "organizational chart" [see "staff,"
above]... --CGE<BR><BR><BR>On 2/11/11 3:14 AM, E. Wayne Johnson
wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4D54FDF3.2080204@pigs.ag type="cite">"<SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>sealed off from his ministers <U><B>like a
bacillus</B></U>" <BR><BR>(like a bacillus???)<BR><BIG><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><BR>Not sure that I can verify the
verisimilitude of the simile but it is worth a
smile.<BR><BR></FONT></BIG></FONT></SPAN><BIG><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><SMALL>Mu
Barak always did remind me of some sort of single cell lifeform but I
would have <BR>thought him more like an Amoeba or maybe a
Giardia.<BR><BR></SMALL></FONT></BIG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000><BIG><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">This
probably accounts for the lack of Quorum
Sensing?<BR><BR></FONT></BIG></FONT></SPAN><BIG><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><SMALL>"</SMALL></FONT></BIG>Virga
tua et baculus tuus ipsa me consolata sunt.<BIG><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><SMALL>"<BR></SMALL><BR></FONT></BIG><BR><BR>On
2/11/2011 11:05 AM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:07E8DE96-1E00-49DF-87E2-53826F83FE77@uiuc.edu
type="cite">Here is Fisk's report of the happenings on Feb.10, 2011.
He says "<I><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana>Yet for
Mubarak's opponents, today will not be a day of joy and rejoicing and
victory but a potential bloodbath."</FONT></I>
<DIV>Everyone is holding their breath.
<DIV>
<DIV>--mkb</DIV>
<DIV>
<H1><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"
class=Apple-style-span>As Mubarak Clings On... What Now For
Egypt?</SPAN></FONT></H1>
<P>The fury of a people whose hopes were raised and then dashed</P>
<P class=byLine><SPAN id=date>February 11, 2011</SPAN> <BR><BR>By
<B>Robert Fisk</B> <BR>Source: Independent <BR><BR><A
href="http://zcommunications.org/zspace/robertfisk"
moz-do-not-send="true">Robert Fisk's ZSpace Page</A> <BR></P>
<DIV><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>To the horror of Egyptians and the world, President
Hosni Mubarak – haggard and apparently disoriented – appeared on state
television last night to refuse every demand of his opponents by
staying in power for at least another five months. The Egyptian army,
which had already initiated a virtual coup d'état, was nonplussed by
the President's speech which had been widely advertised – by both his
friends and his enemies – as a farewell address after 30 years of
dictatorship. The vast crowds in Tahrir Square were almost insane with
anger and resentment.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Mubarak tried – unbelievably – to placate his infuriated
people with a promise to investigate the killings of his opponents in
what he called "the unfortunate, tragic events", apparently unaware of
the mass fury directed at his dictatorship for his three decades of
corruption, brutality and repression.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>The old man had originally appeared ready to give up,
faced at last with the rage of millions of Egyptians and the power of
history, sealed off from his ministers like a bacillus, only
grudgingly permitted by his own army from saying goodbye to the people
who hated him.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Yet the very moment that Hosni Mubarak embarked on what
was supposed to be his final speech, he made it clear that he intended
to cling to power. To the end, the President's Information Minister
insisted he would not leave. There were those who, to the very last
moment, feared that Mubarak's departure would be cosmetic – even
though his presidency had evaporated in the face of his army's
decision to take power earlier in the
evening.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>History may later decide that the army's lack of faith
in Mubarak effectively lost his presidency after three decades of
dictatorship, secret police torture and government corruption.
Confronted by even greater demonstrations on the streets of Egypt
today, even the army could not guarantee the safety of the nation. Yet
for Mubarak's opponents, today will not be a day of joy and rejoicing
and victory but a potential bloodbath.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>But was this a victory for Mubarak or a military coup
d'état? Can Egypt ever be free? For the army generals to insist upon
his departure was as dramatic as it was dangerous. Are they, a state
within a state, now truly the guardians of the nation, defenders of
the people – or will they continue to support a man who must be judged
now as close to insanity? The chains which bound the military to the
corruption of Mubarak's regime were real. Are they to stand by
democracy – or cement a new Mubarak
regime?<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Even as Mubarak was still speaking, the millions in
Tahrir Square roared their anger and fury and disbelief. Of course,
the millions of courageous Egyptians who fought the whole apparatus of
state security run by Mubarak should have been the victors. But as
yesterday afternoon's events proved all too clearly, it was the senior
generals – who enjoy the luxury of hotel chains, shopping malls, real
estate and banking concessions from the same corrupt regime – who
permitted Mubarak to survive. At an ominous meeting of the Supreme
Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Defence Minister Mohamed Tantawi
– one of Mubarak's closest friends – agreed to meet the demands of the
millions of democracy protesters, without stating that the regime
would itself be dissolved. Mubarak himself, commander-in-chief of the
army, was not permitted to attend.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>But this is a Middle Eastern epic, one of those
incremental moments when the Arab people – forgotten, chastised,
infantilised, repressed, often beaten, tortured too many times,
occasionally hanged – will still strive to give the great wheel of
history a shove, and shake off the burden of their lives. Last night,
however, dictatorship had still won. Democracy had
lost.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>All day, the power of the people had grown as the
prestige of the President and his hollow party collapsed. The vast
crowds in Tahrir Square began yesterday to move out over all of
central Cairo, even moving behind the steel gates of the People's
Assembly, setting up their tents in front of the pseudo-Greek
parliament building in a demand for new and fair elections. Today,
they were planning to enter the parliament itself, taking over the
symbol of Mubarak's fake "democracy". Fierce arguments among the army
hierarchy – and apparently between Vice-President Omar Suleiman and
Mubarak himself – continued while strikes and industrial stoppages
spread across Egypt. Well over seven million protesters were estimated
to be on the streets of Egypt yesterday – the largest political
demonstration in the country's modern history, greater even than the
six million who attended the funeral of Gamal Abdul Nasser, the first
Egyptian dictator whose rule continued through Anwar Sadat's vain
presidency and the three dead decades of
Mubarak.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>It was too early, last night, for the crowds in Tahrir
Square to understand the legal complexities of Mubarak's speech. But
it was patronising, self-serving and immensely dangerous. The Egyptian
constitution insists that presidential power must pass to the speaker
of parliament, a colourless Mubarak crony called Fatih Srour, and
elections – fair ones, if this can be imagined – held within 60 days.
But many believe that Suleiman may choose to rule by some new
emergency law and then push Mubarak out of power, staking out a
timetable for new and fraudulent elections and yet another terrible
epoch of dictatorship. The truth, however, is
that<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>the millions of Egyptians who have tried to unseat their
Great Dictator regard their constitution – and the judiciary and the
entire edifice of government institutions – with the same contempt as
they do Mubarak. They want a new constitution, new laws to limit the
powers and tenure of presidents, new and early elections which will
reflect the "will of the people" rather than the will of the president
or the transition president, or of generals and brigadiers and state
security thugs.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Last night, a military officer guarding the tens of
thousands celebrating in Cairo threw down his rifle and joined the
demonstrators, yet another sign of the ordinary Egyptian soldier's
growing sympathy for the democracy demonstrators. We had witnessed
many similar sentiments from the army over the past two weeks. But the
critical moment came on the evening of 30 January when, it is now
clear, Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the
demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks after flying F-16
fighter bombers at low level over the
protesters.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Many of the senior tank commanders could be seen tearing
off their headsets – over which they had received the fatal orders –
to use their mobile phones. They were, it now transpires, calling
their own military families for advice. Fathers who had spent their
lives serving the Egyptian army told their sons to disobey, that they
must never kill their own people.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Thus when General Hassan al-Rawani told the massive
crowds yesterday evening that "everything you want will be realised –
all your demands will be met", the people cried back: "The army and
the people stand together – the army and the people are united. The
army and the people belong to one
hand."<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Last night, the Cairo court prevented three ministers –
so far unnamed, although they almost certainly inc-lude the Minister
of Interior – from leaving Egypt.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>But neither the army nor Vice-President Suleiman are
likely to be able to face the far greater demonstrations planned for
today, a fact that was conveyed to 83-year-old Mubarak by Tantawi
himself, standing next to Suleiman. Tantawi and another general –
believed to be the commander of the Cairo military area – called
Washington, according to a senior Egyptian officer, to pass on the
news to Robert Gates at the Pentagon. It must have been a sobering
moment. For days, the White House had been grimly observing the mass
demonstrations in Cairo, fearful that they would turn into a mythical
Islamist monster, frightened that Mubarak might leave, even more
terrified he might not.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>The events of the past 12 hours have not, alas, been a
victory for the West. American and European leaders who rejoiced at
the fall of communist dictatorships have sat glumly regarding the
extraordinary and wildly hopeful events in Cairo – a victory of
morality over corruption and cruelty – with the same enthusiasm as
many East European dictators watched the fall of their Warsaw Pact
nations. Calls for stability and an "orderly" transition of power
were, in fact, appeals for Mubarak to stay in power – as he is still
trying to do – rather than a ringing endorsement of the demands of the
overwhelming pro-democracy movement that should have struck him
down.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Timeline...</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">11.00</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> As
demonstrators mass in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the Foreign Minister
warns of a military coup if protests
continue<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">15.15</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> The
Egyptian Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, tells the BBC Arabic Service
that Mubarak may step down<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">15.20</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> The
secretary general of the ruling NDP party, Hossan Badrawy, says he
expects Mubarak to make an announcement that will satisfy protesters'
demands<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">15.30</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> An
Egyptian army commander tells protesters in Tahrir Square that:
"Everything you want will be realised"<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">15.45</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Egypt's
military council releases a statement saying it is in continuous
session and the army will take necessary measures to "safeguard the
homeland", in the clearest sign that Mubarak will be on his way out
soon<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">16.04</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> The
Information Minister, Anas el-Fekky, says Mubarak is in fact not
stepping down and remains Egypt's
President<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">16.15</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Al
Arabiya television station carries an unconfirmed report that Mubarak
has travelled to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with his army
chief of staff<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">17.11</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> A
senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest opposition group,
says he fears the army is staging a
coup<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">20.50</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Defying
expectations Mubarak speaks on state TV, giving no indication that he
will step down soon<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P><FONT
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Source: <A
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-as-mubarak-clings-on-what-now-for-egypt-2211287.html"
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Independent</A><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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