CAIRO - You name it, and you can not call that the "revolution of the web", because it was the generation of blogs, Facebook, Twitter, turn the spark of protest and then to oust the dictator, the power for thirty years in a land with an ancient cult of the powerful. A few minutes after six o'clock in the afternoon when it was already dark on both banks of the Nile, and Cairo was overwhelmed by crowds ever seen in the eighteen days of revolt, the former Lieutenant-General Omar Suleiman, recently appointed vice chairman, appeared on television and in two sentences announced that Hosni Mubarak had finally resigned.
Meanwhile had spread the news that Saddam if he was already gone from Cairo with his family, to get to the summer residence of Sharm el Sheikh, on Egypt's Red Sea. What will be its immediate fate remains uncertain. Germany could be the next target. There has long been receiving treatment for his various ailments.
Suleiman, the secret service man, champion of espionage, and repression of the plots, he said, oozing with anger expression, the surrender of his head. The face excavated, washed, and his eyes half closed, said more than words. And the words announcing the defeat of the regime, Suleiman has not addressed but has thrown in his face to the millions of Egyptians working night and day for three weeks, to cry out in squares, with patience and simplicity, the desire for democracy, and the 'hogra, "the shame of having to live without many basic freedoms.
The square that has humiliated, Suleiman was not able to devote more than two sentences. Yet the announcement was historic. Paying their challenge with three hundred dead, without firing a shot, without violence, the boys of the web dragged along a country of eighty, a hundred million people.
Have forced the military to respect them first and then to follow them, and defeated, with the simplicity and clarity of their protest, the occult power embodied by Suleiman. Above all, they ousted the hated and corrupt dictator, who with his family has accumulated a wealth of sixty billion dollars, one-sixth of national income in a society where four out of ten families living below the subsistence level.
In this rare moment, the truth does not have veils, are cruel, and generosity, due to the vanquished, it is damn greedy. After the small Tunisia, Egypt is a great example, a temptation for the entire Arab world, where he opened a big gap for democracy. It is the army which takes power, keep it open.
It is unclear whether the unpopular Omar Suleiman will as deputy chairman, formally and on a provisional basis, the office of Mubarak. However, there is that he will favor the emergence of the new freedom on the banks of the Nile. Who's in charge in Egypt yesterday, officially and in fact, is the high council of the armed forces.
A body which meets infrequently, in the event of war, and it will work as a military junta. A respected businessman, Naguib Sawiris, will act as a mediator between the military and opposition movements, which do not yet have a leader, or a body to represent them in their entirety. Basically there was a coup.
A putsch liberating. The army controls, manages the "revolution of the Web", which did not promote him, but came as a surprise, like the rest of the system. The crowd now gratefully embraces the soldiers, tanks and armored cars submerged with unreserved enthusiasm. You will see then if the generals of the high council of the armed forces keep their promises and fulfill the aspirations of the people of Tahrir Square.
If they manage to draw a democracy acceptable or slip into a new authoritarianism. At the head of the High Council of the armed forces is Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, until recently Minister of Defence and distinguished officer in the fourth against Israel as the Yom Kippur in 1973. Tantawi now appears as the most authoritative.
He is not considered a man prone to democratic reforms, but is said to have played a decisive role in the final hours, after a chaotic day on Thursday, when Hosni Mubarak delivered a speech on television with the arrogance with which he clarified that it had no intention of resign. And he gave the impression that the army behind him.
In fact, the armed forces were divided. The Republican Guard, or presidential, strong eleven thousand men, remained true to its mission. And Saddam had the same attachment to aviation, in which Mubarak has lived all his military career. Not by chance in the first days of the protest military aircraft flew over at low altitude events, to intimidate, but in truth, with little result.
The army, with more than three hundred thousand men, mostly from lower classes, was the most sensitive to the calls of the opposition entrenched in Tahrir Square. But it is among the officers who have emerged divisions. Often generational. The captains, majors, colonels were impressed and frustrated by the revelations on corruption in the regime, and particularly in the National Democratic Party, the de facto single party, headed by Mubarak's son.
The enormous wealth of the presidential family, largely placed abroad, would certainly enhance the prestige of the dictator in the military. Including some general contact with junior officers, and not tainted by charges in the state bestowed by the President to the soldiers loyal to him and his clan.
In addition, the military had ruled since the beginning of the uprising, to participate in possible prosecution. The soldiers would not have pulled the crowd. The children of workers would not have fired on the workers, peasants, and so the children of the peasants, but even the officers were ordered to fire on the lawyers, doctors, engineers on, the Justices who joined the protest.
And he knew that the Americans, suppliers of dollars and weapons, had threatened to suspend aid if that happens. The generals of the high council were themselves divided over the fate to be reserved to the President. Some believed not to have hurt the military caste forcing the resignation of the dictator, supreme commander of the armed forces.
But as the protests grew, and multiplied the strikes in the country, and thickened the news about corruption, the greater the number of generals determined to oust Mubarak. The divisions, clashes between the pro and cons for the resignation of dictator took until yesterday morning. The substance of the second statement issued by the High Council was still in favor of Mubarak.
While approving the partial transfer of power to Omar Suleiman, the General explains, however, that the supervision of the power belongs to the Council. It was a crucial first step. Field Marshal Tantawi, although not an ardent democrat, even though he does not conceal conservative ideas, he would tip the balance in favor of Saddam un'estromissione final.
The corruption of the presidential family was unbearable, and the major event that was extending to the whole capital, from Heliopolis, where the presidential palace, the building of the television, on the banks of the Nile, revealed the impossibility of maintaining the Mubarak place. The increasingly insistent calls in favor of a rapid transition, the U.S.
counterpart, Defense Secretary Gates, helped persuade Tantawi. So now the former dictator was forced to renege on the speech the night before, was forced to pack up and leave for Sharm el Sheikh. Omar Suleiman has announced the resignation of his head with clenched teeth, giving Egypt moments of pride and happiness. 
Meanwhile had spread the news that Saddam if he was already gone from Cairo with his family, to get to the summer residence of Sharm el Sheikh, on Egypt's Red Sea. What will be its immediate fate remains uncertain. Germany could be the next target. There has long been receiving treatment for his various ailments.
Suleiman, the secret service man, champion of espionage, and repression of the plots, he said, oozing with anger expression, the surrender of his head. The face excavated, washed, and his eyes half closed, said more than words. And the words announcing the defeat of the regime, Suleiman has not addressed but has thrown in his face to the millions of Egyptians working night and day for three weeks, to cry out in squares, with patience and simplicity, the desire for democracy, and the 'hogra, "the shame of having to live without many basic freedoms.
The square that has humiliated, Suleiman was not able to devote more than two sentences. Yet the announcement was historic. Paying their challenge with three hundred dead, without firing a shot, without violence, the boys of the web dragged along a country of eighty, a hundred million people.
Have forced the military to respect them first and then to follow them, and defeated, with the simplicity and clarity of their protest, the occult power embodied by Suleiman. Above all, they ousted the hated and corrupt dictator, who with his family has accumulated a wealth of sixty billion dollars, one-sixth of national income in a society where four out of ten families living below the subsistence level.
In this rare moment, the truth does not have veils, are cruel, and generosity, due to the vanquished, it is damn greedy. After the small Tunisia, Egypt is a great example, a temptation for the entire Arab world, where he opened a big gap for democracy. It is the army which takes power, keep it open.
It is unclear whether the unpopular Omar Suleiman will as deputy chairman, formally and on a provisional basis, the office of Mubarak. However, there is that he will favor the emergence of the new freedom on the banks of the Nile. Who's in charge in Egypt yesterday, officially and in fact, is the high council of the armed forces.
A body which meets infrequently, in the event of war, and it will work as a military junta. A respected businessman, Naguib Sawiris, will act as a mediator between the military and opposition movements, which do not yet have a leader, or a body to represent them in their entirety. Basically there was a coup.
A putsch liberating. The army controls, manages the "revolution of the Web", which did not promote him, but came as a surprise, like the rest of the system. The crowd now gratefully embraces the soldiers, tanks and armored cars submerged with unreserved enthusiasm. You will see then if the generals of the high council of the armed forces keep their promises and fulfill the aspirations of the people of Tahrir Square.
If they manage to draw a democracy acceptable or slip into a new authoritarianism. At the head of the High Council of the armed forces is Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, until recently Minister of Defence and distinguished officer in the fourth against Israel as the Yom Kippur in 1973. Tantawi now appears as the most authoritative.
He is not considered a man prone to democratic reforms, but is said to have played a decisive role in the final hours, after a chaotic day on Thursday, when Hosni Mubarak delivered a speech on television with the arrogance with which he clarified that it had no intention of resign. And he gave the impression that the army behind him.
In fact, the armed forces were divided. The Republican Guard, or presidential, strong eleven thousand men, remained true to its mission. And Saddam had the same attachment to aviation, in which Mubarak has lived all his military career. Not by chance in the first days of the protest military aircraft flew over at low altitude events, to intimidate, but in truth, with little result.
The army, with more than three hundred thousand men, mostly from lower classes, was the most sensitive to the calls of the opposition entrenched in Tahrir Square. But it is among the officers who have emerged divisions. Often generational. The captains, majors, colonels were impressed and frustrated by the revelations on corruption in the regime, and particularly in the National Democratic Party, the de facto single party, headed by Mubarak's son.
The enormous wealth of the presidential family, largely placed abroad, would certainly enhance the prestige of the dictator in the military. Including some general contact with junior officers, and not tainted by charges in the state bestowed by the President to the soldiers loyal to him and his clan.
In addition, the military had ruled since the beginning of the uprising, to participate in possible prosecution. The soldiers would not have pulled the crowd. The children of workers would not have fired on the workers, peasants, and so the children of the peasants, but even the officers were ordered to fire on the lawyers, doctors, engineers on, the Justices who joined the protest.
And he knew that the Americans, suppliers of dollars and weapons, had threatened to suspend aid if that happens. The generals of the high council were themselves divided over the fate to be reserved to the President. Some believed not to have hurt the military caste forcing the resignation of the dictator, supreme commander of the armed forces.
But as the protests grew, and multiplied the strikes in the country, and thickened the news about corruption, the greater the number of generals determined to oust Mubarak. The divisions, clashes between the pro and cons for the resignation of dictator took until yesterday morning. The substance of the second statement issued by the High Council was still in favor of Mubarak.
While approving the partial transfer of power to Omar Suleiman, the General explains, however, that the supervision of the power belongs to the Council. It was a crucial first step. Field Marshal Tantawi, although not an ardent democrat, even though he does not conceal conservative ideas, he would tip the balance in favor of Saddam un'estromissione final.
The corruption of the presidential family was unbearable, and the major event that was extending to the whole capital, from Heliopolis, where the presidential palace, the building of the television, on the banks of the Nile, revealed the impossibility of maintaining the Mubarak place. The increasingly insistent calls in favor of a rapid transition, the U.S.
counterpart, Defense Secretary Gates, helped persuade Tantawi. So now the former dictator was forced to renege on the speech the night before, was forced to pack up and leave for Sharm el Sheikh. Omar Suleiman has announced the resignation of his head with clenched teeth, giving Egypt moments of pride and happiness.
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