Steven Cook comes to some similar thoughts to those I posted yesterday about what is going on with Egypt’s regime and the military. He attributes the military’s declaration today that they would not fire on protestors in part to concerns at the elite levels that junior officers would not follow orders to do so. [...]
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Just as a follow-up to what’s below, the more I think about this, the more I suspect the military leadership is seizing the opportunity to install Omar Suleiman now and forestall the possibility of a Gamal Mubarak presidency. It definitely will not be that easy. Many of the protest leaders have drawn lines that [...] Today, Husni Mubarak met with the military: “President Hosni Mubarak, clinging to power despite unprecedented demands for an end to his 30-year rule, met on Sunday with the powerful military which is widely seen as holding the key to Egypt’s future. “Mubarak held talks with Vice President Omar Suleiman, whose appointment on Saturday has [...] The following is a guest post by Noor Khan Basic Egypt facts Egypt has about 80 million people and is the most populated Arab country. It is the 2nd most populated African country. The per capita income is about $5500, but the income gap is very large, with the vast majority of people living [...] Husni Mubarak has tried to defuse some of the protests by redoing his government: “Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has appointed the country’s head of intelligence to the post of vice-president, in a move said to be a reaction to days of anti-government protests in cities across the country. “Omar Soliman was sworn in on [...] I’ve been extremely busy this week, and so am just catching up on things, but the ongoing protests in Egypt represent the most significant challenge ever faced by President Husni Mubarak. While on a research trip to the District of Columbia Tuesday, I attended this panel on Tunisia, and the question arose as to [...] While details of the story have been partially buried the piles of snow blanketing the northeast, the frenzy of attention paid to the State of the Union address and the draw of the potentially paradigm-shifting events in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world, in what should be a newsworthy event, Al Jazeera recently received [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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