re: #3 CuriousLurker

If they feel they’ve been treated unfairly—and surely they have—then why do something suicidally provocative? How will that help? It makes no sense to me at all.

What do you suggest? If they are already being slaughtered, then why not do something that will get more attention.

Not that I think this was a good idea, or that the organizers had any idea it would explode the way it did, but if getting their story out was the plan, this has worked better than you might think. The world is watching Egypt now.