Saturday, January 29, 2011

A good source of live Egypt information

For movie buffs
 
Sharif Kouddous is senior producer at Democracy Now and is right on the scene and tweeting his merry heart out. Follow him by clicking right here. Here's a print out of his last hour....special stuff:


Sharif Kouddous
sun is setting. Crowd's huge in Tahrir. Ppl have climbed all over tanks chanting. Now they stop for a mass prayer. Indescribable.
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My friend sez Mubarak's address sounded like he dusted off speech from 1994. Everyone's sure he'll leave... just waiting for the news.
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People now chanting: "We're not leaving. He's leaving!" Also: "wake up Mubarak, today's your last day."
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Sharif Kouddous
Amazing scene: three tanks roll by with a crowd of people riding atop each one. Chanting 'Hosni Mubarak out!'
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Sharif Kouddous
Muslim Brotherhood chanting Allah Akbar. Crowd stopped them chanting louder: Muslim, Christian, we're all Egyptian
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The police holed up in interior ministry are firing. Three people bloodied carried out. The army is not shooting.
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People running back again toward Interior Ministry
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Sharif Kouddous
Crowd just started running away from interior ministry. Some say they're firing. Lots of confusion,not much fear.
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Sharif Kouddous
In the background of Tahrir, smoke rises from the burnt out NDP party headquarters
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"What is Mubarak waiting for?" My friend shouts. "He should get out."
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There was just a moment where people thought Mubarak had left. A massive cheer gripped the crowd. But it stopped when rumor died.
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Sharif Kouddous
People asking how I'm tweeting from Egypt, we are using a work-around. Internet is still down and I can't send pics
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People are cleaning up trash on the streets. Amazing. I have never seen anything like this.
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People cursing Mubarak's speech last night, that he didn't understand it was over for him
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It's past curfew time and the crowd is only growing.
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People are praying in Tahrir square.
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I have never seen this way. This is not Mubarak's Egypt anymore. And it never will be again.
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Square filled with all kinds of Egyptians. Young, old, men, women, rich, poor.
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Sharif Kouddous
More people keep entering the square. No one is going anywhere.
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Sharif Kouddous
It's curfew. People are not leaving. They say the army won't open fire. But there are some sounds of gunfire.
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Sharif Kouddous
One soldier carried on shoulders through crowd holding a flower. The people cheer him on.
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Sharif Kouddous
There are army tanks & soldiers stationed around the square. People chanting 'the army & the people are one'.
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Sharif Kouddous
arrived in Cairo. Met my cousin & drove straight to Tahrir square. Crowds everywhere. Chanting Mubarak get out.
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RT @: Wow, @ putting up a split screen of its images (Cairo burning) with Egyptian TV (calm cityscape). Amazing