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[StephanieVanbryce]

The impossible has now become the 'possible' ...This is the third day that Egyptians
are still demonstrating .. here's a few things ..

What's the latest?

UPDATE 2: Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA), is perhaps the most famous expatriate Egyptian. In the past, he's been cited as one person who could possibly take down Mubarak. Definitive Foreign Policy article on that here: "Egypt's Reluctant Revolutionary." Anyway, ElBaradei just gave a remarkable interview on Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera's Dima Khatib has the key quote:

This is the beginning of an uprising. I will be going back to Egypt soon.

SNIPS ~~

Jan. 27th UPDATE:

* In Yemen, thousands of protesters called for the ruler there to step down.

* With regards to Egypt, the BBC asks the question on everyone's mind: Can Mubarak be toppled? (Sultan Al Qassemi says "#Yes.")

* Protesters in Suez reportedly threw Molotov cocktails (improvised incendiary grenades) at police.

* The BBC reports that ex-IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says he is "ready to lead the transition" in Egypt if Mubarak falls. (He made the comment as he was preparing to leave Vienna for Cairo.)

* Shadi Hamid notes that the US State Department is now using the #Jan25 hashtag embraced by Egypt's protesters, and Bloomberg reports that President Barack Obama is "poised to intensify US criticism" of Mubarak, especially if the Egyptian regime's crackdown on protesters becomes more violent. (Meanwhile, Al Jazeera is reporting that Egyptian authorities are trying to bury deceased protesters quietly so as to not turn their funerals into rallies.)

* The Egyptian Football Association has postponed all games until further notice.

* More than 1,000 people have been arrested so far.

* The Awl notes that "even the Cairo papers" are showing front-page photos of the protests.

* Egypt's stock market has fallen dramatically and trading has been suspended.

* Tom Malinowski, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch, argues in Foreign Policy that WikiLeaks really was crucial to the Tunisian revolution. Here on our site, Evgeny Morozov argues that the internet does not weaken authoritarian power, and claims that Twitter and Facebook and WikiLeaks helped trigger protests across the Arab world are overblown. The Guardian and our own Kevin Drum also have good takes.

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http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained



This photos is being used everywhere every day, It's easy to see why. It is the photo of the Protesters on Jan.
25. 2011..Where the protesters surrounded the parliament building in downtown Cairo.