Mubarak resigns, hands power to military

[MNeagle]

By PAUL SCHEMM and MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Paul Schemm And Maggie Michael, Associated Press – 1 min ago


CAIRO – Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday, bowing down after a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands.

A massive crowd in Cairo's central Tahrir Square exploded into joy, waving Egyptian flags, and car horns and celebratory shots in the air were heard around the city of 18 million in joy after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV just after nightfall.

"In these grave circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave his position as president of the republic," a grim-looking Suleiman said. "He has mandated the Armed Forces Supreme Council to run the state. God is our protector and succor."

Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, whose young suporters were among the organizers of the protest movement, told The Associated Press, "This is the greatest day of my life."

"The country has been liberated after decades of repression," he said adding that he expects a "beautiful" transition of power.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt

[chad]

where's the shaw? LOL

[BillBoard]

So no civil war?

[kregener]

Not until the radicals want the power.

[PatColo]

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damn egyptians! :-\

[Buddha]

They are so selfish aren't they? lol

[slvrbugjim]

"The state.... must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may know it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge.... And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space." Diary of Moshe Sharett, Israeli's first Foreign Minister from 1948--1956, and Prime Minister from 1954--1956.

[Hatha Sunahara]

I think we will be seeing more huge demonstrations in Egypt. Whichever new slimeball takes power, he will likely make some small (as in microscopic) concessions to appease the people who are now happy that their pain has eased slightly. They are still slaves, cheering the change in ownership.

Democracy for them is the same as it is for us. Rigged elections, elite owned everything, including media, Paranoid security apparatus. Politically correct speech. Corrupt bureaucracies.

Nothing has changed since they built the pyramids.


Hatha

[midnight rambler]

Not until the radicals want the power.


Can't have a successful Hegelian dialect without the emotions of hate and fear running high.

[Horn]

In Cairo, protesters gathered up against a barbed wire cordon around the presidential palace, about 50 meters (yards) from the palace walls at its closest point. Tanks and soldiers of the elite Republican Guard, responsible for the president's security, surrounded the palace, a Reuters witness said

They finally got a clue & went to where he lived.

[Ponce]

I can only wonder if we were to go to DC and surround the White House if Obama would leave and go back to Kenya........he would probably then would become the president of Kenya.

[PatColo]

So off he and his family goes to live a life of luxury in Sharm el-Sheikh with the billions stolen from the people, along with Tunisia's leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and 25% of his nations gold. Ain't life grand!
On to the next crisis...



Wolf "AIPAC" Blitzer was saying he's been getting emails & tweets that many of the people are making noise about getting Mubarak's $20-70B back-- thus a trial would be a precursor. Makes sense to me, they're ill gotten pilferings after all.

CNN said just now they're in the process of freezing HM's swiss bank accounts right now. I trust HM's got a few tons of gold buried too.

[Ponce]

What is going on now in Egypt takes my mind back 52 years when we won the revolution in Cuba where Batista (the dictator) left the country the night before..........will Egypt choose a civilian as the new president? or will the military stay in power as they have in the past?............the civilians now know that they have the power to change things and if they don't like what the future holds for them they then will march once again....................it looks to me like the WHOLE WORLD are in search of fredoom but for the people in the US.

[Apparition]

I couldn't care less.

This has always been an issue for the Egyptian people to address.

It should've never been an issue here in the U.S. but it has been because of megalomania and egotism in the federal gov't and lobbying from the Zionists.

[SHTF2010]

other countries have now been given ( false ) hope that " power of the people " really works

[madfranks]

"The country has been liberated after decades of repression," he said adding that he expects a "beautiful" transition of power.

He can't possibly be that naive.

[JJ.G0ldD0t]

"The country has been liberated after decades of repression," he said adding that he expects a "beautiful" transition of power.

He can't possibly be that naive.


Nope...


He's just a builder for the social engineers.

Perception management is what they call that building block.


but your statement was rethorical I know