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Kissinger praises Obama’s handling of Egypt, gives Mubarak ‘months, at most’
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a highly controversial figure in US politics, suggested this week that President Barack Obama’s handling the revolution in Egypt “correctly,” despite objections from Israel. “We have been acting correctly,” he told Bloomberg TV during a Tuesday broadcast. “We have been playing catch-up, but so…
Anderson Cooper ‘punched in the head’ 10 times by pro-Mubarak thugs
UPDATE: CNN aired shaky footage Wednesday of reporter Anderson Cooper’s camera crew under attack during the protests in Cairo. The footage showed what Cooper said were pro-Mubarak counter-protesters trying to stop the crew from filming. Cooper had said earlier he was hit 10 times by protesters, the video only shows…
Internet restored in Cairo after revolt blackout
CAIRO – Internet services were at least partially restored in Cairo on Wednesday after a five-day cut aimed at stymieing protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, Internet users said. Egypt’s four main Internet service providers cut off access to their customers in a near simultaneous move overnight last Thursday, two…
Pro and anti-Mubarak protesters clash in Cairo
CAIRO – Thousands of supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clashed violently with opposition protesters after marching into an anti-regime rally in Tahrir Square on Wednesday, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said. Protesters from both sides threw stones at each other in the divided square, the epicentre of opposition…
Obama: Change in Egypt ‘must begin now’
President Barack Obama called in a televised address Tuesday night for an “orderly transition” in Egypt to “begin now,” signaling the administration’s acceptance that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s days are numbered. The president’s call for immediate change may have been a challenge to Mubarak, who announced in a speech several…
Live video: Mubarak addresses nation
This live video event has ended. Additional live coverage of Egypt’s revolution is available here.…
US ambassador talks to Egypt’s ElBaradei
WASHINGTON – The US ambassador to Egypt spoke to the country’s top dissident Mohamed ElBaradei Tuesday as mass protests built in Cairo, in another apparent sign Washington is looking to the post-Mubarak era. Ambassador Margaret Scobey spoke to the former globe-trotting diplomat for the first time since he flew back…
Egypt President Mubarak announces plan to retire in Sept.
Watch and chat live, here UPDATE II: Mubarak still fighting Protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square rejected President Hosni Mubarak’s concession to not seek another term in office, as evidence mounted overnight that the embattled Egyptian leader was keeping up the fight against calls for his immediate resignation. “Leave, leave,” protesters…
Bolton: If Mubarak falls in Egypt, Israel should bomb Iran
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the ouster of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would speed the timetable for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Do you think that the Israelis are going to have to strike — they are going to have to take action?”…
Mubarak’s new deputy linked to CIA rendition program
WASHINGTON — The man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects abducted by the CIA in a secret program condemned by rights groups. His role in the controversial “war on terror” illustrates the ties…
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