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First it was the snow now it's the riots in Cairo. What next?
When my OH was due back from Cairo in December he chose a day when we had blizzards and his flight got diverted from Heathrow to Newcastle and he had to find a hotel then get a train down, it was a nightmare. He was due back from Cairo again today but his BA flight has been cancelled due to all the riots.
Hopefully there will be a flight back soon. It's all very worrying.
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(Bloomin' Fates have all got together and your number came up twice on their Ill Luck List. Bassetts.)
Thinkin' of you, huggythings
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Hope you get in touch with him soon Kateyanne.
He'll be OK though, as long as he stays out of the city centre.
what is the flight plan on BA site looking like?
Thinkin' of you.
So fingers crossed Kateyanne.
He said there were so many people in the airport trying to get home and upset.
Just been out for coffee in the local coffee bar, watching the news on TV, looks horrendous, talk of violence but -oddly, the army not getting involved. What's going on there? It's obvious Mbarak has to go but - what and who will take his place? Will it be any better?
Sorry! so pleased you reunited.
(put the chains back on him for a while, I think ;) )
[quote=dorothyd]the army not getting involved. What's going on there? It's obvious Mbarak has to go but - what and who will take his place? Will it be any better?[/quote]
Protesters have taken over the centre of Cairo this morning.
The police are not on the streets anymore.
There is a heavy military presence in the city, but soldiers are not intervening and citizens have got together their own armed groups to "police" the area.
The government has announced that al-Jazeera must halt operating in Egypt though the channel has said they have not had a formal order yet.
Even though Mbarak has appointed a new prime minister and vice president it doesn't seem likely that the protesters will be content with this. I think Mubarak should have resigned. This forming of a "new" government is just going to inflame matters.
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Thank goodness. A friend's in-laws are still there. They want the grandchildren to leave, but it hasn't happened yet.
It doesn't say they are at war with the West like the Jihadis and it's supposed to be non violent but this has been questioned by Mubarak's government. They accused them of killings in Egypt after WW2 against the British ruling there.
Middle East politics and religion is very difficult for us in the west to understand. There are so many intricate details that are interwoven with culture that you have to live it to understand it. Many who live it don't understand it !
I think toothlight is expressing an opinion so not sure about misjudging the situation.
[quote=toothlight]Anyway, why is there STILL a deafening silence over Mugabe who continues to ignore the so-called sharing of power in Zimbabwe?[/quote]
Is it because the people like Jack Straw who was the Home Secretary at the time don't recognise him without their contact lenses in or when it's dark ? (Controversial handshake in 2004)
Whatever he thinks, there were two occasions when we did fight, once when Mugabe took over and he said he would be a good leader .. (????????????) and the second, a fight which lasted a year, was the entire length of the miners' strike, as I opposed both it and Scargill throughout. He said the miners would win ... I said, anyone receiving a food parcel who was standing on their doorstep smoking did not deserve any support at all. And Scargill definitely did not.
But back to the point raised here, Mugabe did look like the best hope for Zimbabwe, for all of five minutes. Then he showed his true colours and the scene was set for disaster. It has continued to be disaster, too. But without oil or anything the UK needs from Zimbabwe, the government is not going to say a word, is it?
Unfortunately doing what's right rarely comes into it.
Well I totally disagree with Dave on that one and think it was highly irresponsible to have said it in public. Talk about lighting the fuse, he also provided the gunpowder and painted his name on the barrel.
I couldn't agree with you more about the Zimbabwe situation. I feel ashamed that we took people like Saddam to task yet leave Mugabe alone. Hopefully we are entering a new era in foreign policy and that should bring about huge changes in the way we either tolerate or support people we should condemn.
Congratulations to the people who have made this protest.
Let's hope the "new rule" will be democratic and that a new peaceful era for Egypt will begin.
has summat happened in Eygpt only there's a lotof people congregating in Cairo's main square?
Watch this space though ...