Egypt’s pro-democracy protesters, who have so far rejected the idea of storming the presidential palace, are now planning to force Mubarak out of power on Friday.
The declaration was made by Dr Mohamed El Baradei, whom the protesters and opposition groups designated as their spokesperson.
Egyptians have marked Friday as “Departure Day,” El Baradei told the media last night after thugs hired by Mubarak savagely attacked peaceful protesters while the army looked on without any attempt to intervene.
In a hand-to-hand combat the lasted several hours, the protesters succeeded in chasing away Mubarak’s thugs.
On Thursday morning, as Mubarak’s thugs regrouped and returned, the army moved for the first time to stop the fighting.
The protesters, hundreds of thousands of them, are now planning to head for Mubarak residence following prayer on Friday morning. It is not clear whether the army will try to stop them. If they army remains neutral, the protesters can easily overwhelm the presidential guards.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi.
5 thoughts on “Friday is set as D-Day for Egypt’s dictator”
Manesh Bale Samint?
Some of my friends who belong to the ruling ethinic group are taking their vacation and went to visit their grandparents whom they never visited before….Is there something. Or the grandparents of all got sick together…or died together….
In a futile attempt to abort the people’s revolution, Mubarak unleashed his “Janjweed-like” thugs. Determined Egyptians are fighting back and will topple Mubarak, because he is shaken to his core. “Birile keneqa ayhonim eqa”. He is now like a disposable object. If it is his wish to die in Egypt and his umblical cord to be buried in the Egyptian soil, that is his choice. But, first thing is first. Step down first gracefully.
Go brave Egyptians, go!! Mubarak’s one foot is already in the grave.
Death to all dictators and their backers!!
Egyptian army isn’t neutral. The only reason why they act as they do is only to avoid military aid suspension and sanction. 1.2 Billion dollars in military aid from the U.S. is not peanut. Tomorrow if the protestetors try to storm the palace then they will find out that the army isn’t neutral but will take action on the protestors.
The advisable thing isn’t storming the palace but to continue the protest and attract international attention. Then they will succeed. If they try to storm the palace then it will be the end of this great nile revolution.
Twenty years ago, certain American Jewish men led by Herman Cohen, who interestingly wrote a book titled, Ethiopia: Layers of History since, bent minds and twisted arms to install Meles Zenawi, who used those twenty years to devastate the country. Now with the Arab World on the eve of toppling their despots yet Nuclear-shunning leaders, Cohen and co. must review the last two decades and wonder if the strategic alliance in the Horn with such a man they financed, encouraged and paved his way with literally reconnaissance satellite feed, paid fair dividends in the end. As they say, What goes around comes around.
The would be protesters in Ethiopia need to arrange picks ups loaded with rocks in different locations. In case the people are attacked by the enemy, the youth can save the lives of thousands by throwing these rocks at the enemy. Not saving only, but they can make them retreat too.