Friday 28 January 2011

Protesters across Egypt defy curfew

The protests on Friday marked the first time the military
was deployed onto the streets of Cairo [AFP]
Last Modified: 28 Jan 2011 19:35 GMT


Thousands of protesters in the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez have defied a nighttime curfew and continued with demonstrations demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year presidency.


Military armoured vehicles rolled onto the streets of the capital on Friday night in a bid to quell the protests, but buildings have been set alight, and violent clashes continue after a day of unprecedented anger.

A building belonging to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) was torched, and reports of looting have also emerged in numerous government buildings. According to the Associated Press, thousands of protesters had also stormed the foreign ministry.

Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Cairo said that several police vehicles were also set ablaze, and firefighters did not appear to be on the streets.


Friday's demonstrations involving tens of thousands of people were the biggest and bloodiest in four consecutive days of protests against Hosni Mubarak's government.

Correspondent Rawya Rageh, reporting from the port city of Alexandria, said that protesters there were also defying the curfew.

At least 870 people were wounded during Friday's protests some in a serious condition with bullet wounds, medical sources said.

Police officers were also wounded, but numbers were not immediately clear, the sources told Reuters news agency. There was no official confirmation of the figures.


As darkness fell, tracked armoured cars took up positions in key cities.

"The armed forces started to deploy forces in the governorates of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez as a first stage in implementing the decree...imposing a curfew starting from 6pm," state media reported.

Some 2,000-3,000 people thronged around a military vehicle near Cairo's Tahrir square, a Reuters witness said. They climbed on it, shaking hands with the soldiers, and chanted: "The army and the people are united" and "The revolution has come".

Buildings set ablaze


Shots were heard near parliament and the headquarters of the ruling party was in flames, the blaze lighting up the night sky.

In the eastern city of Suez, site of the strategically crucial canal, armoured cars deployed in front of the charred remains of a police station, a Reuters witness said.

Dozens of protesters climbed on the military vehicles in Suez. They talked to soldiers who attempted to wave them off.

The unrest was triggered by the overthrow two weeks ago of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in an uprising that has also inspired anti-government protests in Yemen and elsewhere.
In Washington, secretary of state Hillary Clinton said the US government was "deeply concerned" by the violence used by the security forces against the protesters and she urged the government to restrain them. Protesters should be allowed to express themselves peacefully, she said.

Friday evening marked the first time the army had been put onto the streets. It was not immediately clear what role it would play or how troops would react to the protesters.

"The army is a respected establishment in Egypt, and many feel they need their support against what they see as excessive force by the police and security forces," Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin said.

However, Hosni Mubarak ordered troops to back up police as they struggled to control crowds who continue to flood the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities.

But in a sign of escalating tensions, fires and thick black smoke have been seen across parts of Cairo.


Protesters often quickly dispersed and regrouped.

Some held banners saying: "Everyone against one" and chanted "Peaceful peaceful peaceful, no violence." Others threw shoes at and stamped on posters of Mubarak.

As clashes intensified, police waded into the crowds with batons and fired volleys of tear gas.
Government crackdown

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog and an opposition leader in Egypt, was briefly detained by police after he prayed at a mosque in the Giza area but he later took part in a march with supporters.

The countrywide violence has so far left seven people dead.

In response, the government had vowed to crack down on demonstrations and arrest those participating in them. It had blocked internet, mobile phone and SMS services in order to disrupt the planned demonstrations.


Before Egypt shut down internet access on Thursday night, activists were posting and exchanging messages using social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter, listing more than 30 mosques and churches where protesters were to organise on Friday.

It is far from a foregone conclusion that the protesters will force Mubarak out. They face two key challenges, said Amon Aran, a Middle East expert at London's City University, told Reuters news agency.

"One is the Egyptian security apparatus, which over the years has developed a vested interest in the survival of President Mubarak's regime. This elaborate apparatus has demonstrated over the past few days that it is determined to crush political dissent," he said.

"Another obstacle derives from the fact that, so far, the protesters do not seem to form a coherent political opposition.

The popular outcry is loud and clear, but whether it can translate into a political force is questionable."


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Thousands of protesters in the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez have defied a nighttime curfew and continued with demonstrations demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year presidency.

Military armoured vehicles rolled onto the streets of the capital on Friday night in a bid to quell the protests, but buildings have been set alight, and violent clashes continue after a day of unprecedented anger.

A building belonging to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) was torched, and reports of looting have also emerged in numerous government buildings. According to the Associated Press, thousands of protesters had also stormed the foreign ministry.

Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Cairo said that several police vehicles were also set ablaze, and firefighters did not appear to be on the streets.

El Baradei shows his true intentions

El Baradei just declared on al-Jazeera that the main thing now is to "maintain continuity".
That figures....

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2 comments:

ravenise said...

How to BYPASS EGYPT CENSOR تخريب الانترنت الرقيب :

So it looks like they have shut down the DNS servers, and that is all? You can use programs like "TREEWALK" to bypass the ISP DNS server and use the backbone DNS servers of the internet... I'm not completely sure but this program should allow you to get around that problem: http://ntcanuck.com/
With TREEWALK YOU CAN:

1. Your ISP's DNS servers are slow or offline
2. Accurately resolving web sites is a problem
3. You wish to capture or debug DNS routing data
4. You want to custom configure DNS settings and servers
5. You'd simply like faster repeat visits to sites via cached lookups
6. You have poor DNS with your wireless or satellite Internet connection
7. You use Internet Connection Sharing and want to improve surfing speeds


تخريب الانترنت الرقيب :


لذلك يبدو وكأنه لديهم إيقاف خدمة نظام أسماء النطاقات، وهذا هو كل شيء؟ يمكنك استخدام برامج مثل "TREEWALK" لتجاوز الملقم أسماء النطاقات مقدمي خدمات الإنترنت واستخدام نظام أسماء النطاقات خوادم العمود الفقري للإنترنت... لست متأكدا تماما ولكن هذا البرنامج يجب أن تسمح لك للتغلب على هذه المشكلة : http://ntcanuck.com/


مع TREEWALK يمكنك :

1. مزود خدمة الإنترنت الخاص بك دياناس بطيئة أو غير متصل
2. حل بدقة المواقع على شبكة الإنترنت مشكلة
3. كنت ترغب في التقاط أو تصحيح البيانات توجيه نظام أسماء النطاقات
4. تريد تكوين مخصص إعدادات نظام أسماء النطاقات وخوادم
5. كنت ترغب ببساطة تكرار الزيارات أسرع إلى المواقع عن طريق عمليات البحث مؤقتا
6. لديك نظام أسماء النطاقات الفقيرة مع اتصال الإنترنت اللاسلكي أو الأقمار الصناعية
7. كنت تستخدم مشاركة اتصال إنترنت وترغب في تحسين تصفح بسرعة

Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to French ISP (FDN) http://www.fdn.fr/ on +33172890150. LOOKS LIKE IT'S WORKING FINE. FEEL FREE TO USE AND SHARE. PASSWORD & LOGIN : TOTO

ويمكن لمصر استخدام هذا الرقم ليصل الرقم : ('توتو'كلمة السر 'توتو' دخول) +33172890150 -- شكرا لمقدمي خدمات الإنترنت الفرنسية (قوات الدفاع الوطني) على http://www.fdn.fr/ +33172890150. يبدو انه يعمل بشكل جيد. لا تتردد في استخدام ونصيب.

كلمة السر والدخول : TOTO

ravenise said...

IP Address:
Web site addresses are actually a code that gets translated into the actual computer-language address that the site is at. A government can try and disconnect the alphanumeric address (twitter.com) from the real computer language-address (128.242.240.52) but you can still enter it by using these:
for twitter "128.242.240.52"
for google "72.14.204.99"
for facebook "69.63.189.34"

Tor:
Another way to get around any sort of censorship is to route your internet through a series of random servers around the world. This makes it nearly impossible for the government to block your access. (i.e. A hypothetical example is this: Say SF airport wants to stop flights from going from SF to Dallas. But they only control the SF airport. Its a lot harder to stop flights from going SF-Denver-Dallas or SF-LA-Dallas since they can't control those airports. Hope that makes sense.)
So they can get access to it tell folks to download Tor http://www.torproject.org/ which allows them to do this. It is awesome. Its a bit slower but totally designed for this kind of thing.

Hope all is well,
Chris

PS- This info applies to folks in any country to sidestep government censorship- China, Iran, etc.
PS- Protests have started in N. Yemen, citing solidarity with protestors in Tunisia/Egypt

Shorter version for forwarding:


for twitter "128.242.240.52"
for google "72.14.204.99"
for facebook "69.63.189.34"
for all internet (slower and requires download) http://www.torproject.org/

الملكية الفكرية العنوان :
عناوين مواقع الويب هي في الواقع رمز أن يحصل على ترجمتها إلى العنوان الفعلي الحاسوب واللغة التي هي في الموقع. ويمكن للحكومة ومحاولة قطع عنوان أبجدية (twitter.com) من عنوان الكمبيوتر الحقيقي اللغة (128.242.240.52) ولكن يمكنك إدخال أنها لا تزال باستخدام هذه :
عن "128.242.240.52" التغريد
عن "72.14.204.99" غوغل
عن "69.63.189.34" فيس بوك

تور :
طريقة أخرى للالتفاف على أي نوع من الرقابة لتوجيه الإنترنت الخاص من خلال سلسلة من خوادم عشوائي في جميع أنحاء العالم. وهذا يجعل من المستحيل تقريبا على الحكومة لمنع الوصول الخاص بك. (أي سبيل المثال الافتراضي هو هذا : قل سادس مطار تريد وقف الرحلات الجوية من الانتقال من سادس الى دالاس لكنهم لا يسيطرون الا على المطار سادس لها الكثير من الجهد لوقف الرحلات الجوية من الذهاب سادس - دنفر ، دالاس أو سادس لوس انجليس دالاس. نظرا لأنها لا تستطيع السيطرة على تلك المطارات. على أمل أن يجعل من معنى.)
حتى يتمكنوا من الوصول إليها أخبر الناس بتحميل تور http://www.torproject.org/ الذي يسمح لهم بذلك. ومن رهيبة. من أبطأ قليلا لكنها مصممة تماما لهذا النوع من الشيء.

الأمل هو كل شيء حسنا ،
كريس

ملاحظة : هذه المعلومات ، ينطبق على الناس في أي بلد لحكومة الصين وتجنب الرقابة ، وإيران ، وما إلى ذلك
وبدأت الاحتجاجات في فرع فلسطين ، اليمن الشمالية ، نقلا عن التضامن مع المتظاهرين في تونس / مصر

نسخة مختصرة للشحن :


عن "128.242.240.52" التغريد
عن "72.14.204.99" غوغل
عن "69.63.189.34" فيس بوك
الإنترنت للجميع (أبطأ ، ويتطلب تحميل) http://www.torproject.org/