Monday, January 31, 2011

Egypt, hunting and military helicopters on the U.S. Embassy, Cairo: Leave the Country

Do not calm down the violence in Egypt, now in the hands of the army. Some fighters and military helicopters flying at low altitude through the Cairo Tahrir Square, symbol of the revolution of January 25, "where the demonstrators gathered today to continue the protest against Hosni Mubarak. The area is manned by sixteen tanks.

Meanwhile, more victims of the provisional budget. Today 14 bodies were found in a mosque near the prison in Cairo. According to Al Jazeera at least the 15th would be the people who lost their lives during the fighting of recent days, but the number is expected to rise. Even as the protests continue to expand throughout the country, Alexandria today after the army arrived in Sharm el Sheikh in virtue of the Israeli produced two days ago when it was deployed to El Arish in northern Sinai.

This was necessary because, under peace agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1979, the Sinai Peninsula is a demilitarized zone. From the United States Hillary Clinton has rejected the work of Mubarak. Activities undertaken by the Egyptian president "only just the beginning" of what the executive expects Obama.

"We want to see an orderly transition - said the U.S. secretary of state - we ask the Mubarak government to do what is necessary to facilitate an orderly transition. This is just the beginning - has added Clinton - during a process which must lead to concrete measures to meet the democratic and economic reforms that we have requested and which Mubarak has spoken in his speech Friday.

" Clinton added that the United States "do not campaign for any political faction in Egypt. Meanwhile, the Egyptian authorities decided to close the editing of Cairo's Al-Jazeera TV qatariota, preventing any connections to the same and withdrawing from Egypt's media accreditation. According to Al-Jazeera reported the same order would be started from the Egyptian government's information minister has resigned, Anas Faqi, not yet having been superseded by President Hosni Mubarak.

You do not appease the devastation to the country's artistic and archaeological heritage. After the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was attacked yesterday and today it fell to the largest museum in the Sinai Peninsula. In the village Al Qantara, 5 km AEST Suez, an unknown number of robbers stormed the local archaeological museum.

The museum contains about 3,000 items, some stolen and some damaged. The police are absent from the city. After that night in the prison in Cairo there was a mass exodus of prisoners, this morning the U.S. Embassy urged U.S. citizens to leave Egypt as soon as possible. The Al Arabiya television reported.

The embassy said in a statement that the flights for the evacuation of American citizens will begin tomorrow, Monday.

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