Monday, January 31, 2011

Anarchy in Cairo: "Mubarak wants to see Egypt burn"

Open prisons, looting, arson: The political protest of the Egyptians threatens to sink into chaos and anarchy. Responsible for this is the regime itself, say the protesters. The images of violence, then you should reproach, discredit the insurgency. The man is afraid for his life. His voice trembles as he speaks in the Egyptian private channel al-Mekhwa.

"I can call my name. You will tear me to pieces when they learn that I have spoken." He had been there, told the policeman, opened in the early hours of Saturday the Tura prison in southern Cairo and 3,500 prisoners were released. Also in the Wadi Natrun, between Cairo and Alexandria, he told colleagues, at least 4,000 prisoners had been freed.


The command of the officials was everywhere to withdraw. "We should go home. I swear to God, exactly what was told us." There are scenes, as she has not seen in Egypt since the popular uprising against the British occupation half a century ago, scenes that have nothing in common with that of moderate and fascinating Egypt, which was to the west, so far as the guarantor of regional stability and millions of tourists attracted from all over the world.

Images of devastated streets, looters and arsonists are more reminiscent of the post-war Iraq, where the mob had control - and not the state security forces. Evidence of involvement of the regime consolidate this case, the evidence that much of the violence was initiated by the regime itself in order to escalate the conflict deliberately.

What initially sounded like a conspiracy theory, is now serious not only for eye-witnesses and analysts, but also by people of the Egyptian establishment confirmed. "It is clear that use the images of violence degenerated to the regime," said Tarek Heggy about a former manager and policy professor who has done many years ago on the side of Mubarak's critics.

"With these images, the President may justify its crackdown on the demonstrators, especially to the outside world. . He gets shipped the best excuse, why should not resign, he "also Emad Gad, an analyst actually pro-government Al-Ahram Center for Political Studies, has no doubts:" I know from a reliable source that gave instructions from the top to arm get to known felons from prison, and she protesters mix.

"If even the attack on the now almost completely burned out party headquarters of the hated NDP, the ruling party of President Hosni Mubarak, have been carried out by provocateurs? The image the still-smoldering tower ruins on the central Tahrir square in Cairo, which goes for days around the world, was for many protesters, first as a symbol of their revolution.

The looters who brings everything from the building, which is not screwed or were nailed down, was initially applauded. Again and again, spectators were in front of the huge, semi flared billboard photograph ("Give the NDP your voice"). "They were paid to start the fire" fast but the atmosphere turned sour when, on late Saturday evening, young Egyptians here were hampered, to eliminate the traces of destruction.

"Let it burn, the people want it so!" shouted some masked men who delivered the blows with other demonstrators. A woman Daily World Buzz also reported that on the night of Saturday fighting vehicles Although waved through, but were hindered in their work. "They were NDP thugs," the woman said.

"They were paid to put out the fire." From an "Egyptian Reichstag fire" - a staged act of government in order to be able to respond with violence - is also a business magnate who named not want to be named. "Mubarak wants to see Egypt burn." After all, no doubt: The fact that even on Sunday smoke clouds from the upper windows of the party headquarters blow and all over the country more and more fires were ignited, provides the foreign television crews impressive material - and the worldwide audience a new reading of the Egyptian Revolution: Look, the protest this Arab is violent and anarchic.

By "highly strange disappearance of the police," said a headline in the opposition newspaper "Wafd" on Sunday, should be the political protest of millions of targeted discredited. "This is a conspiracy of the security services to enhance the scenario of chaos," writes the opposition paper "Misr Al-Yom.

Who at the end again to ensure order and security is clear: the hated, but seemingly essential President Husni Mubarak himself.

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