Topic: Special Intelligence Report: Violence in Cairo

[jpatrickham]

October 9, 2011

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"Violence has broken out in Cairo, beginning today at about 8 p.m. Demonstrators outside the state television station began firing on soldiers patrolling the area, according to reports from government sources. Two soldiers were reported dead and 25 soldiers were reported wounded so far. Other reliable reports say that multiple vehicle fires have broken out and that tear gas is being fired by the police at the crowd. Demonstrations are also under way at Tahrir Square.

Given elections scheduled for November, and the apparent magnitude of the violence, it would appear that this event is highly significant. We expect details and analysis to evolve as the events unfold."

http://www.stratfor.com/countries/egypt?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20111009&utm_term=freecontent&utm_content=readmore&elq=20eea3bc35ac4f88af3e895b3c50679b

[Libertas]

Sounds like somebody is employing terror to influence the coming elections.  I wonder where they got that idea from???

 

[Libertas]

"Tension between Muslims and minority Coptic Christians has simmered for years but has worsened since the anti-Mubarak revolt, which gave freer rein to Salafist and other strict Islamist groups that the former president had repressed."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/us-egypt-copts-clashes-idUSTRE7981Q220111010

[charlesoakwood]

Bolton Rips Obama After He Calls For Restraint From Egyptian Christians As They’re Being Killed By Muslims…(& video)

[jpatrickham]

You got to hand it to Obama, his finger prints have pretty well destroyed the World, and he didn't have to even work up a sweat, like Adolf Hitler!

[Libertas]

Indeed.  Just letting evil have free reign takes little effort, and being evil yourself you don't even have to lie about feeling any remose for the deaths that follow.  If a foreign nation executed star chamber justice on the Dear Leader I cannot honestly say it would shock me at all.

[jpatrickham]

Geopolitical Journey: Riots in Cairo



By Reva Bhalla | October 11, 2011

"The last time I visited Cairo, prior to the ouster of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a feeling of helplessness pervaded the streets. Young Egyptian men spent the hot afternoons in shisha cafes complaining about not being able to get married because there were no jobs available. Members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood would shuffle from apartment to apartment in the poorer districts of Cairo trying to dodge arrest while stressing to me in the privacy of their offices that patience was their best weapon against the regime. The Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist organization, could be seen in places where the government was glaringly absent in providing basic services, consciously using these small openings to build up support among the populace in anticipation of the day that a power vacuum would emerge in Cairo for them to fill. Meanwhile the Copts, comprising some 10 percent of Egypt’s 83 million people, stuck tightly together, proudly brandishing the crosses tattooed on their inner wrists in solidarity against their Muslim countrymen. Each of these fault lines was plainly visible to any outsider willing to venture beyond the many five-star hotels dotting Cairo’s Nile Corniche or the expatriate-filled island of Zamalek, but any prediction on when these would rupture was obscured by the omnipresence and effectiveness of the Egyptian security apparatus.

When I returned to Cairo the weekend of Oct. 9, I caught a firsthand glimpse of the rupture. The feeling of helplessness on the streets that I had witnessed a short time before had been replaced with an aggressive sense of self-entitlement. Scores of political groupings, spread across a wide spectrum of ideologies with wildly different agendas, are desperately clinging to an expectation that elections, scheduled to begin in November, will compensate them for their sacrifices. Many groups also believe that they now have history on their side and the momentum to challenge any obstacles in their way — including Egypt’s still-powerful security apparatus. The sectarian rioting that broke out Oct. 9 was a display of how those assumptions are grinding against reality."

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20111011-geopolitical-journey-riots-cairo?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20111011&utm_term=gweekly&utm_content=readmore&elq=43e70fa9a4f1482cadf420389dfe91b5

[Damn_Lucky]

You got to hand it to Obama, his finger prints have pretty well destroyed the World, and he didn't have to even work up a sweat, like Adolf Hitler!

At least Hitler didn't need a teleprompter.

[jpatrickham]

You got to hand it to Obama, his finger prints have pretty well destroyed the World, and he didn't have to even work up a sweat, like Adolf Hitler! ::foil hat helicopter::

At least Hitler didn't need a teleprompter.

Yep! Hitler said gibberish and made it sound good. Obama needs a teleprompter to say nothing. Something is definitely wrong with this picture.

[Libertas]

More muzzies behaving typically...

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/10/muslims-pelt-funeral-processions-of-murdered-christians-with-bricks.html

Throw bricks?  I'd respond with high-explosives...

[jpatrickham]

More muzzies behaving typically...

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/10/muslims-pelt-funeral-processions-of-murdered-christians-with-bricks.html

Throw bricks?  I'd respond with high-explosives...

Boeing B-52D "Big Belly" BUFF Live Drop

How about 20 or thirty of these little Puppies? That ought to be a pretty good response!

[Libertas]

That's what I call a "good start"!