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Bombshell: Mubarak not stepping down
HotAir ^ | 4:05 pm on February 10, 2011 | Allahpundit

Posted on 02/10/2011 1:18:35 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

He’s still speaking as I write this and the translation is rough, but it surrrre sounds like he’s planning to serve out his term until September. A money line: No outsiders can give him orders The country’s Information Minister denied earlier (see the 8:03 p.m. update) that he had agreed to step down, but everyone assumed that that was a formality while arrangements were being made for him to leave.

He did say that he’s passed some of his duties to Suleiman and vowed that the much-loathed emergency law will be lifted — but even there, he didn’t give any firm commitments.

After all the media hype of the past several hours, I assume the crowds in Tahrir Square are about to go berserk. And once that happens, given Suleiman’s threats yesterday about a crackdown, the tanks are going to roll. Stand by for updates; all hell’s about to break loose.

Update: Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey says people in the street are “going crazy.” Here we go.



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1 posted on 02/10/2011 1:18:36 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Update: Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey says people in the street are “going crazy.” Here we go.

"Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!"

2 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:18 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Win The Future = Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He will give Obama the finger, tell Egyptians he is a victim of foreigners trying to drive him out of power and sow chaos in Egypt, and play the nationalism card.


3 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:24 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

RE:going crazy.

That page no longer exists.

Is what I get.


4 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:27 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

RE:going crazy.

That page no longer exists.

Is what I get.


5 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:27 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Gee the MSM and the Obamaites are going to be mad, because they’ve been saying all day he was leaving. They got punked.


6 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:30 PM PST by Harley (Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hosni to DumBO: FUBO!


7 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:30 PM PST by depressed in 06 (The only thing the ZerO administration is competent at is bad ideas.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

When does Obama have something to say? Looks like he bet on the wrong horse.


8 posted on 02/10/2011 1:22:53 PM PST by Third Person
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You LOSE again, DUh-bama!


9 posted on 02/10/2011 1:22:53 PM PST by RasterMaster (We the tax-payer subsidize DUh-bama's failures)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

As usual Leon Panetta and the Obummer admin step in another pile of dog crap. They really are the gang who can’t shoot straight. They should keep their mouthes shut and let things unfold in Egypt. Every time Barry, Biden, Hildabeast, and now Panetta open their mouth, they make matters worse.

Mubarak took a shot directly at Obama when he said he was not going to listen to foreigners tell him what to do. Obviously he meant it and now who knows what the consequences will be. If Bush’s admin had been this incompetent about handling a foreign crisis, the MSM would be going apesh!t.


10 posted on 02/10/2011 1:23:03 PM PST by milwguy
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Probably a stub...where he will add something...

Fox Cavuto is showing the scene as well as CNN and CNBC.

Bloggersphere is a bit behind on this one.

11 posted on 02/10/2011 1:23:19 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sandmonkey has been deleted.


12 posted on 02/10/2011 1:24:54 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Bombshell?

He’s going,
He’s not going,
He’s going,
He’s gone,
He’s not gone,
He’s going,
He’s not going........


13 posted on 02/10/2011 1:25:29 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Why do we send Mubarak 1.5 billion a year in military equipment to suppress the Egyptian people? This really is tragic.


14 posted on 02/10/2011 1:25:29 PM PST by Benchim
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To: tet68
They moved an earlier thread into breaking news....and replaced this...search sucks.

See this:

Mubarak On Now! [LIVE thread] (staying in office)

15 posted on 02/10/2011 1:27:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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16 posted on 02/10/2011 1:27:37 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The rumor was a strategically place, how do we say it?, LIE to elevated the emotions and expectations of the mob in hopes Mubarack would be intimidated into leaving. Now just who do you think would fabricate such a story.

Hint. Obie sure did seem johnny on the spot with remarks about this...

17 posted on 02/10/2011 1:29:27 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I am proclaiming 2011 as the year of ME!)
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To: PGR88

That would be fair, since it is mostly true.
Iran was too slow. Obungler was already a laughingstock who can be ridiculed and ignored by the time they attempted this coup.

Soros likely ain’t happy.


18 posted on 02/10/2011 1:29:32 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Has Mubarak just signed his own death warrant? I doubt the MB will take this lying down. All it takes is one disloyal bodyguard. Scary times indeed.


19 posted on 02/10/2011 1:31:26 PM PST by Clink (Conservatives believe it when they see it. Liberals see it when they believe it.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What will Obama say NOW.... ?


20 posted on 02/10/2011 1:31:26 PM PST by traumer
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