: President Mubarak sacks cabinet but refuses to step down

[PermanentSleep]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8290045/Egypt-protests-President-Mubarak-sacks-cabinet-but-refuses-to-step-down.html


Mr Mubarak defended the use of security forces to control protesters in a televised address to the nation last night. He said he had ordered his government to resign and that a new cabinet would be announced today.
Refusing to concede to the demands of the protesters all day that he should leave, Mr Mubarak vowed to bring in democratic reform but stressed the need for stability, stating that while he was “on the side of freedom,” his job was to protect the nation from chaos.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Mubarak arrested the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohammed el-Baradei who was demonstrating peacefully.

NDP is just like Washington DC... elitist politicians that piss off the people with their BS.

Could be a bit of the American/Egyption/Israeli inciters to expose Muslin Brotherhood members to identify and arrest.

[Aratus]

mubarek is 82 years of age...
not since the fall of the ottoman
empire have we seen such a turmoil?

[Stary Hickory]

He needs to give it up, the people he depends on for power have rejected him. They are his masters not the other way around....it's finally starting to dawn on him and the people there.

[pcosmar]

People now chanting against Omar Suleiman.
http://twitter.com/sharifkouddous

The people want Mubarak GONE. They do not want his appointments, or "reforms".
They want him and his GONE.
They want free elections to chose their own.

[pcosmar]

Some Tweets.

Is it me, or does swearing in your spy chief as VP scream "police state" a bit louder than it does "reform"?

Non-voting in Egypt is so quick! Ahmed Shafiq has been sworn is as new Prime Minister

Isn't it! Instant democracy without messy voting