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People around the globe watched Egyptians rise up in an unarmed insurrection. They looked on, gobsmacked, as the Mubarak dictatorship crumbled on camera. Even the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 didn’t quite have the same hypnotic pull and roller-coaster suspense this was a long vigil that carried a constant threat of mass violence in high definition. And when the end came on Friday, it was peaceful and so abrupt that American television put on its own kind of five-second delay. All the cable news channels were focused on Cairo from early morning; broadcast networks interrupted their regular programming to go live to Cairo when the news hit. Some anchors seemed uncertain about what had just happened. There was no hesitation on the English-language service of Al Jazeera, which covered the uprising 24 hours a day and provided an up-close, almost personal experience of populist revolt. Calling Mr. Latest Updates on Day 14 of Egypt Protests. On his Twitter feed, Sultan Al Qassemi, a columnist for The National, an Abu Dhabi newspaper, just provided a long summary of remarks made by Wael Ghonim, a blogger and activist, in an emotional interview on Egypt’s Dream TV.
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But our discomfort paled in comparison to the dull whacks and the screams of pain by Egyptian people that broke the stillness of the night. In one instance, between the cries of suffering, an officer said in Arabic, “You are talking to journalists? You are talking badly about your country?” A voice, also in Arabic, answered: “You are committing a sin. CNN Rises to the Top in Egypt Coverage. CNN’s ratings usually lag behind the more excitable competition, but they went up significantly this week, and for good reason.
It was Wolf Blitzkrieg: even the more spirited CNN talk show hosts like Piers Morgan and Eliot Spitzer scrapped their planned shows (Kathleen Parker called in sick) and stayed on the news in Egypt, and viewers stayed with CNN. Plenty of other news organizations, including MSNBC and Fox News, are providing analysis and live reports from seasoned correspondents who risk beatings and arrest to report the latest developments. CNN manages to do it all without raising its voice or cluttering the screen with ideologues and deskbound rabble-rousers. Comedians like Stephen Colbert sometimes mock Anderson Cooper of CNN as a war zone glamour boy and glory hound, but he hunkered down in an undisclosed location on Thursday night and did his job in semi-darkness. Even while being roughed up by mobs attacking journalists earlier in the day, Mr. Quiet Acts of Protest on a Noisy Day. White House Scrambles as Mubarak Is Pushed to the Exit.
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CAIRO The United States and leading European nations on Saturday threw their weight behind Egypt’s vice president, Omar Suleiman, backing his attempt to defuse a popular uprising without immediately removing President Hosni Mubarak from power. American officials said Mr. Suleiman had promised them an “orderly transition” that would include constitutional reform and outreach to opposition groups. “That takes some time,” Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton said, speaking at a Munich security conference. “There are certain things that have to be done in order to prepare.” But the formal endorsement came as Mr.
Nor has Mr. Clinton Urges Egyptian Dialogue. U.S. Military Urges Egyptian Army to Use Restraint. The relationship between the Egyptian and American militaries is, in fact, so close that it was no surprise on Friday to find two dozen senior Egyptian military officials at the Pentagon, halfway through an annual week of meetings, lunches and dinners with their American counterparts.
By the afternoon, the Egyptians had cut short the talks to return to Cairo, but not before a top Defense Department official, Alexander Vershbow, had urged them to exercise “restraint,” the Pentagon said. It remained unclear on Saturday, as the Egyptian Army was deployed on the streets of Cairo for the first time in decades, to what degree the military would remain loyal to the embattled president, .
Egypt Protests Continue as Government Resigns. Scott Nelson for The New York Times Egyptian protesters prayed Saturday in front of a military vehicles in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on Saturday.
More Photos » As street protests flared for a fifth day, Mr. Mubarak fired his cabinet and appointed Omar Suleiman, his right-hand man and the country’s intelligence chief, as vice president. Mr. That, in turn, raised the prospect of an unpredictable handover of power in a country that is a pivotal American ally — a fear that administration officials say factored into ’s calculus not to push for Mr. The appointments of two former generals — Mr. Protests Continue in Egypt - Photographs.
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