Posted on 01/26/2011 1:09:10 PM PST by Libloather
Egypt president's son, family flee to Britain
Cairo, Jan 26 : Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's son who is considered as his successor has fled to Britain along with his family, US-based Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab reported.
The plane with Gamal Mubarak, his wife and daughter on board left for London Tuesday from an airport in western Cairo, the website said.
The report came as violent unrest broke out in Cairo and other Egyptian cities and hundreds of thousands of people reportedly took to the streets in a Tunisia-inspired day of revolt.
The protesters want Egyptian government to end its 30-year state of emergency and pass a law preventing a president from serving more than two terms, and want the interior minister Habib al-Adly, to resign.
Protests in Egypt broke out after opposition groups waged an internet campaign inspired by the Tunisian uprising. Weeks of unrest in Tunisia eventually toppled president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this month.
A police officer was killed in clashes Tuesday in central Cairo, Egyptian daily al-Wafd reported.
Over 30,000 protesters gathered in Cairo's Maidan al-Tahrir square to take part in the "day of anger", the spokesman for Egypt's '6 April' opposition movement, Mohammed Adel, said.
"Police used tear gas and water canon to break up our protest and they arrested 40 of us, but we don't have official figures on the numbers of arrests across Egypt," said Adel.
Supporters of the '6 April' movement, the opposition al-Ghad party, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the al-Wafd party and supporters of former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed El Baradei took part in the protest.
Al-Wafd daily said police arrested 600 people during Tuesday's protests in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Tantan, al-Mahala, Asiut, al-Bahira and al-Quium. More than 200,000 people took part in protests in these cities.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Tuesday Washington believed the Egyptian government was stable and urged restraint on both sides.
He was run out town along with the Gamel he rode in on.
Check this out..
Interpol issues global arrest warrant for Ben Ali (2nd Roundup)
> Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s son who is considered
> as his successor has fled to Britain
Bad choice. Britain is crawling with barbaric Islamic lunatics.
He may have been better off in ... in ... .. ..
Come to think of it, the entire planet is crawling with Islamic lunatics.
What’s up with countries like Britain and France harboring the worlds most brutal dictators and thugs? If you remember, the Ayatola Khomeni hid in France until after the Islamo-swines took over Iran and ousted the Shah.
Getting out ahead of the coup with the money, I’ll bet. Just like the wife of the President of Tunisia, who flew out a couple of days before her husband with all of their gold.
In the unrest in Tunisia, over 11,000 prisoners have escaped. Wonderful.
This proves why Obama’s apologies and the Left’s guilt over “treatment of Muslim” countries is such BS.
Most Islamic societies have anger at their root. The regimes and their theocratic enablers use propoganda about the USA, Israel, etc... for political purposes. In fact, their citizens know nothing about Israel or the USA and generally could care less. Its their own corrupt societies that they hate.
Given the circumstances, what else was there to do? It ain't Hollywood.
Singin' "Go on, take the money an' run..."
No more Gamelot.
*What’s up with countries like Britain and France harboring the worlds most brutal dictators and thugs?*
Yeah, they also gave solace to Marcos and the Shah.
Wait, what?
*This proves why Obama’s apologies and the Left’s guilt over “treatment of Muslim” countries is such BS.
Most Islamic societies have anger at their root. *
You wouldn’t be angry if your life was impoverished and you had the same “President” for 30 years? Hell, people are angry here and it’s only been 2 years.
Such pusillanimous cowardice is breathtaking. Figures he could always return once the dust settles,coast is clear, claim he went to Great Britain merely to take advantage of soon-to-expire special low rates.
The Arab countries are better off with dictators or kings in charge. Mubarak, Saddam, Shah, and what’s his name in Tunisia are all secular. Now they’re or in the process of being replaced by Islamic leaders.
Makes one wonder what happens when Mubarak is no longer there...I can’t see it being good for the US.
This is very big news.
While most of the MSM was busy gushing over their messiah’s tepid message from on high, the world was getting a whole lot more dangerous.
Lebanon is exploding and it looks like Egypt may too. Neither one is likely to be good for the U.S.
Actually, the Shah was a monarch.
The problem is, these autocrats basically set the populace up for Islamic fundamentalist conversion.
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