I predict a lot of bloodshed tonight in Egypt

[itsrobert]

All hell is going to break loose.

[bdamomma]

1. this is mubarak's doing.

for 8 days the people were very peaceful and after yesterday after he said he would not step down this is his punishment to the people. this just really sucks. people speak for their own human rights and this is what happens to them, and this could happen anywhere in the world.

[gateley]

3. This is the first fucking thing he does after he says he understands what the people want? NOTHING

has changed.

He should have gotten out when he could have.

[bdamomma]

7. these people did not ask for this.

Mubarak is lashing out at the people with hired thugs, and destroying the museum this is rephrenisible this is their own culture some pieces date back to 3,000 years this is horrible, the army is standing on the roof.

Mubarak is a thug, a desperate man who is doing desperate things to his people.

He is also not complying with the international or EU suggestion of showing restraint. What an a$$hole.

http://www.blogslut.com/blogslut/

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch%5Fnow/

[gateley]

8. I'd love for a Mossad-type extraction. Don't know how else to get rid of him.

He's obviously not influenced by diplomacy or world view.

I have to admit I'm stunned he's so blatantly begun this right after his speech. I read that as his speech was wining down, the thugs were heading out into the streets even then.

[gateley]

2. AC - who has a 'birdseye view" says essentially the protestors are TRAPPED in the Square! nt

[bemildred]

4. Entirely possible. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yep, and a great mistake.

From Mubarak...Friday will be even worst.

[L. Coyote]

6. NOT. There are hundreds of thugs, some paid it seems, around the Square.

But, we are getting a distorted impression by the focus on the conflict front.

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