Egypt's opposition continues on the road. You absolutely want to force the overthrow of President Mubarak. Their first success is that the regime withdrew the police and replace it with the military was. The acclaimed forces give the neutral, but for how long? There is a difference like night and day.
The soldiers are armed to the teeth, they curve around in tanks, pull up barricades of barbed wire in the center of the Egyptian capital. It looks menacing. And yet the men shine in the pale green uniforms from a great calm. They bother no one to yell at anybody, nobody come around. At several of their short set up checkpoints, they provide instead that the demonstrators set up on the way to the protests in the central Liberation Square "neatly in a row.
Then they check their pockets and let them through. Quite unlike the police, who had in the days before trying in vain to suppress the protests. The men were mostly schwarzbehelmten although armed only with batons - but that they sat for an unrestrained. With blows, tear gas and rubber bullets battled the police against the insurgency - and lost the battle.
On Friday evening, they had to make way for the army, the police currently can look as good as anywhere in Cairo. The protesters had exactly such a behavior of the expected and the army on Friday evening, rolling up tanks and personnel carriers cheered wildly. They climbed on the cars, embraced the soldiers, the tanks painted with graffiti, slogans chanted by the unit of the people and the army.
The army said a spokesman, meanwhile, will consider the protection of the Egyptian people always considered his most important task. Also was well received. Whether in Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, in Iran - the armies throughout the Middle East are more popular than the police and various security services that keep the regime.
The reason for this is one over which the German government has just ignored: in all these countries can be considered military service. Every family has even a "Mehmetçik" or "Jundi", a simple soldier, sent to the barracks. The result is a second reason why the people trust their armies rather than the security services: the soldiers are conscripted and mostly do not earn much of their job, they are usually happy to return to their civilian lives.
This may in time of war, as Iraq has shown, press on the morale, in the case of a civil war but also to beat Iraq, it is the simple soldier to whom the people trust. He will end the same thing: security. Nevertheless, in the present crisis the army's role is complicated. For it is at all ostentatious composure, a pillar of the regime - perhaps even, in addition to the ruling party, the decisive one.
President Hosni Mubarak to go for his overthrow the people on the street, was once even Air Force commander. So whose side is the army? You can not tell. For now, she has apparently decided to act as a neutral power. It is conceivable that the generals could muster the necessary pressure, Mubarak own efforts to sell themselves and to take power.
But that is not to assess from the outside without further notice. It seems certain that it has so far been no serious coup attempts from the military out. There is also no general or officer who would be so publicly known and respected that the masses demanded it. Mubarak to power technology, it has long been to let anyone get near him in prestige.
Who is too popular to be fired, as simple as that "The army does not shoot people again," The protesters are in any case convinced that the army will not shoot together, even on the appropriate command Mubarak. "The army does not shoot people again," one demonstrator said on Saturday, and the bystanders duties immediately on.
"Never, these are our brothers, our fathers." Only a few minutes have been an officer protesters spontaneously lifted onto the shoulders and around the "Liberation Square worn. However, there is also concern among some demonstrators. The Presidential Guard, for example, is also part of the army - and is not considered a friend of the people but as a refuge for all in doubt last Mubarak loyalists.
What if the veteran ruler's vorschickt eingeschwnen Garden on him? The generally good reputation of the army has to do, however, not only with the widespread historical misrepresentation in Egypt, appear where ever the army defeats as victories. But also with how the engineer Ahmad points out that the army is known as a force that serves the population.
"Look at the great bridges, new roads," he says. "Almost always you will find a sign that the army has built this." Precarious is the situation of the military but for another reason: the rampant looting and burglaries in residential areas of Cairo shows that after the withdrawal of the police is a security vacuum.
Armed gangs rule and turn, as they want. In virtually every corner of the city is reported to take the criminals through the streets. Vigilante groups have formed, but there was still some looting. "I know that the police have released criminals so that they do exactly that," says Victor, a cafe owner, a short walk from Liberation Square "sits away on a plastic chair in the sun and says the revolt.
"They have told me yourself," he asserts. "The police has this gangster released from prison and told them they should put everything in ruins." Rumor or not, the deteriorating security situation could cause the police are called back. For the army might be the biggest in Africa, for the job, bringing peace to riot, it is not formed.
But at the same time could be a fan of the police retrieving the displeasure of the opponents of the regime certainly continue - after they drove the police just from their streets. Like so much in this revolt is also currently imponderable. Mubarak had their picture taken today during a visit to the military headquarters - an apparent attempt to prove that he has the issue of acting in his hand.
The political leaders of his newly bestallten - Prime Minister and Vice-president - have also emerged from the officer corps. Here, too, hopes to Mubarak, to use the good reputation of the armed forces of its own. So far, that is not caught. On Saturday, the first chants directed at the "Liberation Square" is already against the newly appointed Vice Premier.
The soldiers are armed to the teeth, they curve around in tanks, pull up barricades of barbed wire in the center of the Egyptian capital. It looks menacing. And yet the men shine in the pale green uniforms from a great calm. They bother no one to yell at anybody, nobody come around. At several of their short set up checkpoints, they provide instead that the demonstrators set up on the way to the protests in the central Liberation Square "neatly in a row.
Then they check their pockets and let them through. Quite unlike the police, who had in the days before trying in vain to suppress the protests. The men were mostly schwarzbehelmten although armed only with batons - but that they sat for an unrestrained. With blows, tear gas and rubber bullets battled the police against the insurgency - and lost the battle.
On Friday evening, they had to make way for the army, the police currently can look as good as anywhere in Cairo. The protesters had exactly such a behavior of the expected and the army on Friday evening, rolling up tanks and personnel carriers cheered wildly. They climbed on the cars, embraced the soldiers, the tanks painted with graffiti, slogans chanted by the unit of the people and the army.
The army said a spokesman, meanwhile, will consider the protection of the Egyptian people always considered his most important task. Also was well received. Whether in Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, in Iran - the armies throughout the Middle East are more popular than the police and various security services that keep the regime.
The reason for this is one over which the German government has just ignored: in all these countries can be considered military service. Every family has even a "Mehmetçik" or "Jundi", a simple soldier, sent to the barracks. The result is a second reason why the people trust their armies rather than the security services: the soldiers are conscripted and mostly do not earn much of their job, they are usually happy to return to their civilian lives.
This may in time of war, as Iraq has shown, press on the morale, in the case of a civil war but also to beat Iraq, it is the simple soldier to whom the people trust. He will end the same thing: security. Nevertheless, in the present crisis the army's role is complicated. For it is at all ostentatious composure, a pillar of the regime - perhaps even, in addition to the ruling party, the decisive one.
President Hosni Mubarak to go for his overthrow the people on the street, was once even Air Force commander. So whose side is the army? You can not tell. For now, she has apparently decided to act as a neutral power. It is conceivable that the generals could muster the necessary pressure, Mubarak own efforts to sell themselves and to take power.
But that is not to assess from the outside without further notice. It seems certain that it has so far been no serious coup attempts from the military out. There is also no general or officer who would be so publicly known and respected that the masses demanded it. Mubarak to power technology, it has long been to let anyone get near him in prestige.
Who is too popular to be fired, as simple as that "The army does not shoot people again," The protesters are in any case convinced that the army will not shoot together, even on the appropriate command Mubarak. "The army does not shoot people again," one demonstrator said on Saturday, and the bystanders duties immediately on.
"Never, these are our brothers, our fathers." Only a few minutes have been an officer protesters spontaneously lifted onto the shoulders and around the "Liberation Square worn. However, there is also concern among some demonstrators. The Presidential Guard, for example, is also part of the army - and is not considered a friend of the people but as a refuge for all in doubt last Mubarak loyalists.
What if the veteran ruler's vorschickt eingeschwnen Garden on him? The generally good reputation of the army has to do, however, not only with the widespread historical misrepresentation in Egypt, appear where ever the army defeats as victories. But also with how the engineer Ahmad points out that the army is known as a force that serves the population.
"Look at the great bridges, new roads," he says. "Almost always you will find a sign that the army has built this." Precarious is the situation of the military but for another reason: the rampant looting and burglaries in residential areas of Cairo shows that after the withdrawal of the police is a security vacuum.
Armed gangs rule and turn, as they want. In virtually every corner of the city is reported to take the criminals through the streets. Vigilante groups have formed, but there was still some looting. "I know that the police have released criminals so that they do exactly that," says Victor, a cafe owner, a short walk from Liberation Square "sits away on a plastic chair in the sun and says the revolt.
"They have told me yourself," he asserts. "The police has this gangster released from prison and told them they should put everything in ruins." Rumor or not, the deteriorating security situation could cause the police are called back. For the army might be the biggest in Africa, for the job, bringing peace to riot, it is not formed.
But at the same time could be a fan of the police retrieving the displeasure of the opponents of the regime certainly continue - after they drove the police just from their streets. Like so much in this revolt is also currently imponderable. Mubarak had their picture taken today during a visit to the military headquarters - an apparent attempt to prove that he has the issue of acting in his hand.
The political leaders of his newly bestallten - Prime Minister and Vice-president - have also emerged from the officer corps. Here, too, hopes to Mubarak, to use the good reputation of the armed forces of its own. So far, that is not caught. On Saturday, the first chants directed at the "Liberation Square" is already against the newly appointed Vice Premier.
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