Revolution in the balance: Thousands on Tahrir await election results (PHOTOS)

June 24, 2012 05:04

Tensions is high in Egypt as thousands have flocked to Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation of the country’s presidential election results. The country remains in a political deadlock amid fears the results could trigger a fresh bout of violence.

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JJ (unregistered) 24.06.2012 14:46

It's so nice these people are going to put the person in power the people want
and not who Israel, Hillary Clinton, Obama and the Zionists want, LOL this
is great, I love you Egyptians.

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Ancient Briton (unregistered) 24.06.2012 14:43

Why don`t the CIA carry on running Egypt like they have for Israel for over sixty years using trillions of dollars of US taxpayer`s dollars?
I know why. Wikileaks and others have exposed what is going on there and Americans want to know what they have been paying for and why their media and politicians have lied to them?
Of course the reason is obvious. The whole western world has been bankrupted to pay for Israel and now the truth is coming out.
I wonder if whoever runs America and the CIA cares about the Israelis or just use it as an excuse to make profits by running the Middle East region as an unstable battle ground to sell armaments to and control the oil wells and keep the the Suez Canal open.
What reason would the multinationals and their CIA secret police have for interfering in the region and spending our tax money if Israel was not there?

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The Beak (unregistered) 24.06.2012 12:55

This move by the Egyptian military Junta is a repitition as it was done by the Czar Nicholas 11 in about 1918. In the end he lost his head and his family. Now after 80 years Tantawi and company is expecting the failed remedy of the Czar in Russia will work in Egpyt. It is said History repeates itself. Egypt need another Nasser the great and all that when with him. Nasser was a proud Egyptian and NOT a western vassal as SCAF where money and power rules. They must be destroyed and Egppt's pride must be installed in power regardless.

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Claudia Wädlich (unregistered) 24.06.2012 11:36

Thousands on Tahrir Place are not the inhabitants of whole Egypt. Cairo has more than 17 millions. Where are these ? These People there are organized, represent only Muslim Brotherhood, supported by USA and Great Britain. Their aims ( Yinonplan ) are totally bad for future. This will be no democracy and fundamentalistic threats ( Brezinski ). IWF was responsible for the economic desaster of poor people in Egygt.
President Mubarak was extorted by the USA by the attack of Luxor in 1997, which I survived, to overgive them interior politics. Habib al- Adly was the covered marionette of US-government.
Mubarak refused to join africom and he aspired to a peace in the whole region. This was against the plans of american oilcompanies in conflict with China.China planned to invest in Middle Egypt. And Suez, Red Sea, Bab el Mandeb were militarized after the attack of Luxor. This seaway is the most important strategic field for the Americans, to get China out.

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BlackWell (unregistered) 24.06.2012 08:15

Egyptians think that if they went to the square then the problem will be solved, which is really silly. You can't change your top military officers with some shouting and singing in the square.

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George (unregistered) 24.06.2012 01:10

The crazy Islamists cheated and became the majority in the parliament! Then the first legislations were1- marriage age dropped to 14 years old for girls, 2- allowing men to sleep with their dead wives corps, 3- allowing men to cut their daughters clitoris to prevent them from having any sexual pleasure all their lives.  Now how barbaric, retarded, cave men mentality is that? Would any sane person support such misfit being in power? Well, beside Hiliray Clinton, and Barak Obama ?

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Billy Spudd (unregistered) 23.06.2012 23:32

The Egyptian Military Command is being very short-sighted and stupid.  Granted, they are caught between the old regime and a new one, but their insistence on holding all the cards and acting as the unelected leadership of an Egypt that has overwhelmingly rejected their antecedents (who placed the military brass in power), only means that a broadbased political group like the Muslim Brotherhood, now with a show of massive support by Egyptian voters, can engage in moving less senior officers to stage a mutiny against the main generals and establish themselves that way.   It would be better for the Egyptian military to allow the Muslim Brotherhood has won, restore the parliament the people elected and seek to modify more extreme policies and views from within the goverment.  This current way, will only end in more violence within the military and dishonor.

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justnfree (unregistered) 23.06.2012 21:28

US backed military junta has stuck, they don't want to declare the muslim brotherhood candidate as president and they won't dare make millions of Egyptians angry by declaring the fake old Mubarak lackey as president.
US backed dictatorships are facing a tsumani in middle east, there is no way standing against it.

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The Monk (unregistered) 23.06.2012 20:14

"Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi scramble to beat-up who they claim is a thug". Just that one picture alone draws attention to the fragile state of "Democracy" in Egypt. One can only wonder what they mean by "Thug". Was he a criminal...a protester they they do not want heard...a military supporter...a supporter from the losing side??? You see much praying, which can be a good thing ( we see alot of praying at USA political rallies ) but it can be exclusive if used as a weapon against others. Is one side holier than the other? Do they feel that Allah is only on their side? Even in the USA, we grapple with the role religion should and does play in politics. It reminds me of a winning sports player who thanks G_D that he won....does that me that the others are not liked by G_D ???

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