Tahrir Square at Night - Poetry and Performances. Foreign residents become tense amid rising xenophobia in Egypt | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt. US envoy's business link to Egypt - Americas, World. Mr Wisner's astonishing remarks – "President Mubarak's continued leadership is critical: it's his opportunity to write his own legacy" – shocked the democratic opposition in Egypt and called into question Mr Obama's judgement, as well as that of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The US State Department and Mr Wisner himself have now both claimed that his remarks were made in a "personal capacity". But there is nothing "personal" about Mr Wisner's connections with the litigation firm Patton Boggs, which openly boasts that it advises "the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and has handled arbitrations and litigation on the [Mubarak] government's behalf in Europe and the US".
Oddly, not a single journalist raised this extraordinary connection with US government officials – nor the blatant conflict of interest it appears to represent. So why on earth was he sent to talk to Mubarak, who is in effect a client of Mr Wisner's current employers? Quatorzième jour de mobilisation en Egypte, l'administration bloquée par les manifestants | Tribune de Genève. Live blog Feb 7 - Egypt protests. From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo and Alexandria. Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3 - Feb4 - Feb5 - Feb6The Battle for Egypt - AJE Live Stream - Timeline - Photo Gallery - AJE Tweets - AJE Audio Blogs (All times are local in Egypt, GMT+2) 10:07pm Wael Ghonim, head of Google's Middle East operations, has been released by Egyptian security forces. He spoke to Egyptian On TV about his ordeal.
First of all my sincere condolences for all the Egyptians that lost their lives. 9:33pm Al Jazeera's Gregg Carlstrom reports on how the people of Egypt found community amid Egypt's chaos. 8:44pm Ahmad Nagib, one of the organisers of the protests in Tahrir Square told Al Jazeera: "We are not scared of being martyred, but we don't want to be shot at the back by state security. " We will continue to protest in Tahrir Square until he [Mubarak] steps down. Only he knows what he's going to do.