Egypt

The Guardian live-blog and the Al-Jazeera live-blog of the Egyptian elections are just fun to keep tabs on today. It’s mostly just like “I’m excited to go vote!” So far it’s the feel-good story of the day! And we’d like to keep it that way.

Egypt’s “Enemies of the Revolution”

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Egypt: “The army also assured the ‘honourable’ protesters that they won’t be persecuted by the army when the crisis is over.”

I guess this is a good transitional place??? Eek: “President Mubarak has gone and the army has been entrusted with the republic, it has just been announced.” This is an amazing thing. Just (“just”) 18 days of protests! And now the really complicated stuff begins.

The thugs #AJ keeps reporting at pres palace is group of 30 posh-looking men & women chanting EGYPT. They just want others 2 stop protestingFri Feb 11 13:37:48 via Mobile Web