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Monday, February 14, 2011

Terkini Dari Dataran Tahrir

(All times are local in Egypt, GMT+2)


6:50pm Robert H, Reid, a Middle East Regional Editor for the Associated Press, examines the Egyptian revolution through Iran's 1979 revolution lens. Read the full article here.
 

Edmund Blair, Reuters bureau chief for Egypt and Sudan, compares Sudan's 1985 military coup to Egypt's revolution. He looks at whether it could provide clues about Egypt's post-revolution future. The full article is here. 

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6:30pm Our correspondent Rawya Rageh reports that hundreds of Egypt's police have been protesting outside the country's Interior Ministry. They are demanding better wages, healthcare, and they want to clear their name often associated with brutality against pro-democracy protesters.  


6:08pm Our online producer Evan Hill writes about how Egyptian minds are opened to a new post-Mubarak era. Read the full article here. 

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6:00pm The Listening Post looks at the Egyptian revolution and the media's crucial role in it. Watch it here. 


5:30pm Egypt Burning - Standoff on the Nile is a day by day account of the last seven days that led to former president Hosni Mubaraks resignation in Egypt. Watch it here.

5:20pm Our online producer Evan Hill posted a video from Cairo highlighting scenes from Tahrir Square, showing the people and the army clearing and cleaning the square.

Wael Ghonim wrote on his Twitter feed: @Ghonim "I am in Tahrir square and can't believe the scene. Its amazingly clean! Am proud to be Egyptian #Jan25"



4:30pm Our correspondent James Bays says the Egyptian military has dissolved the parliament and announced that elections will take place in September.

Egyptian TV read out the communicate, saying that elections will take place in September, and the military will only run the country until September.
This is a very important news, the protesters have been asking for a specific timeline, they wanted to know when this transition was going to take place, and when there was going to be an elected civilian government, and now the military supreme command have answered that.
It is interesting that This military communicate came out shortly after the prime minister spoke to the nation, I think that they are showing where the power is, making it clear that for now the military high command replaces the president in the structure, and the prime minister does what he is told."   

2:50pm: Ahmed Shafiq, Egypt's prime minister, holds his first news conference since Hosni Mubarak stepped down on Friday. He says:
"Our main concern is security, how to restore security to the Egyptian citizens."
Our correspondent, Ayman Mohyeldin, is tweeting the news conference live. Read his tweets here.
2:17pm Our correspondent Sherine Tadros took this picture of police protesting outside state TV this morning saying they want better pay and to come back to work
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1:19pm Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass says eight major artefacts, including two gilded wooden statues of Tutankhamun, were stolen when looters broke into the Egyptian Museum on the "Day of Rage", January 28. Hawass earlier said the heads of two mummies had been ripped off and dozens of pieces damaged.
1:01pm A couple of hundred people are in Tahrir Square. Some groups chant "The people want you to leave the square" and others respond "We're not leaving".
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12:18pm Military has been firing into the air to disperse a protest in front of the interior ministry. A source told Al Jazeera that 500 police protesters had gathered to call for higher wages and to protest against the senior officials of the police force for destroying the credibility and image of the police.
12:08pm Our correspondent Hoda Abdel-Hamid says a small demonstration chanting "the people and the police are one" entered Tahrir Square a short while ago but was booed out by the remaining pro-democracy protesters.
11:35am In Alexandria, a few hundreds of workers at Bank of Alexandria are holding a protest, demanding details be released about the banks sale by the state to the private sector. Also, several hundred workers from the building company The Arab Contractors, used for almost all major construction projects by the state, are protesting in downtown Alexandria demanding better pay.
10:45am The cabinet, appointed when Hosni Mubarak was still in office, will not undergo a major reshuffle and will stay to oversee a political transformation in the coming months, the cabinet spokesman says.
"The shape of the government will stay until the process of transformation is done in a few months, then a new government will be appointed based on the democratic principles in place," the spokesman told Reuters, adding that it was possible some portfolios could change hands in that period.
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Soldiers and protesters dismantle tents in Tahrir [Reuters]

9:18am Our correspondent James Bays says there have been some "very small scuffles" as troops tried to get protesters to leave Tahrir Square in Cairo.
"I think it reflects a bigger problem," he says. "The military believes that now Mubarak is out, it's time for stability. But some of the protesters think not enough has been done yet. They don't want to clear that square until the army has handed over to a civilian government."
8:39am Soldiers have moved in among protesters still in Tahrir Square, Reuters reports, as traffic started flowing through the square again this morning.
Protesters chanted "Peacefully, peacefully" as the soldiers moved, and a few resisted the line of troops.
"The army is the backbone of Egypt. Their solution is not to remove us from the square. They must respond to our demands," a protester said over loudspeakers.
7:30am Robert Fisk writes in The Independent about how the Mubarak regime used street children in Cairo as pawns during the uprising:
Children interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, however, have also revealed how Mubarak supporters deliberately brought children to the outskirts of Tahrir Square to throw stones at the pro-democracy supporters, how they persuaded penniless street kids to participate in their pro-Mubarak marches. Swarms of other children forced their way into the square itself because they discovered that the protesters were kind to them, feeding them sandwiches and giving them cigarettes and money."
7:20am @ayakhalil's #Egypt "Victory is sweet" cupcakes posted on Twitter:


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6:58am While millions of Egyptians are welcoming in the post-Mubarak era, others, particularly wealthy members of the society, have a lot to lose:


6:15am Crowds in Cairo still euphoric after the fall of Mubarak, many were seen crying, cheering and embracing one another:
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4:35am Another one from The Telegraph: Hosni Mubarak used last 18 days in power to secure his fortune. In the knowledge his downfall was imminent, Mubarak is understood to have attempted to place his assets out of reach of potential investigators. A senior Western intelligence source claims that Mubarak had begun moving his fortune in recent weeks.
We're aware of some urgent conversations within the Mubarak family about how to save these assets and we think their financial advisers have moved some of the money around. If he had real money in Zurich, it may be gone by now.
3:31am An interesting analysis from The Associated Press news agency of what they think happened on Thursday:
Hosni Mubarak was supposed to announce his resignation on Thursday. The Egyptian military expected it. The new head of his ruling party pleaded to him face-to-face to do it. But despite more than two weeks of massive demonstrations by protesters unmoved by lesser concessions, the president still didn't get it.
Mubarak's top aides and family - including his son Gamal, widely viewed as his intended successor - told him he could still ride out the turmoil. So the televised resignation speech the rest of Egypt had expected became a stubborn - and ultimately humiliating - effort to cling to power. It only enraged protesters. On Friday, the military moved decisively.
On Saturday, insiders in Egypt gave The Associated Press an initial picture of what happened in the hours before Egypt's "unoustable" leader of nearly 30 years fell. Some of them spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
1:53am Egypt's new military rulers, who have promised to hand power to civilians, are facing impatient protesters who want swift steps to prove their nation is set for democracy after Mubarak's overthrow. 


The nation will wake up to its first working day on Sunday since Mubarak was toppled, and protest organisers are threatening more rallies if the military fails to meet their demands. The military has given no timetable for the transition but says it is committed to civilian rule and democracy. A cabinet meeting, due later on Sunday, could provide some answers.

12:28am The Egyptian caretaker prime minister Ahmed Shafik announced that Anas El Feki, the minister of Media, has resigned.
12:26am The Egyptian Prosecutor General has banned former prime minister Ahmed Nazif from leaving Egypt along with other ministers.
12:23am Cheers and drum beating is still being heard in Tahrir Square on Saturday night as hundreds of Egyptians continue to celebrate in downtown Cairo.
Children are having their faces painted with the Egyptian colours and jubilant crowds are cheering musicians on stage.
12:00am We continue our live blog of February 12 here.
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