Video: Fires in Cairo at Night
The Egyptian uprising
The Mubarak regime has instituted nighttime curfews in major cities, but as you can see from this Associated Press video, demonstrators are ignoring them. The possibility of Mubarak fleeing the country is starting to look more real, as reports come in that he doesn’t have the support of the military.
UPDATE at 1/28/11 12:36:37 pm
Images like this are proliferating on the net, a graphic demonstration of the outcome of 29 years of $1.2 billion annual military aid to the Mubarak regime:
Tear gas canisters used by riot police, marked “MADE IN U.S.A.”(h/t Max Fisher.)
UPDATE at 1/28/11 2:13:43 pm
To make it worse, the tear gas used on demonstrators in Cairo had a 2008 expiration date.
Frank says: