ISAIAH 19:1-15
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.(ETHNIC TRIBE AGAINST ETHNIC TRIBE)
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.(THEY WILL SEEK MEDIUMS-OCCULTISTS)
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? (THESE LAST VERSES SEEM TO SAY THAT EGYPT IS DECIEVED BY THE ISLAMIC RELIGION TO ME)(VERSES 11-14)
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.(NO WORK-THATS WHY THESE RIOTS IN EGYPT NOW)
WELL NOW WE FIND OUT MUBARAK SET FREE THE CAPTIVES FROM JAILS THE LAST FEW DAYS AND YESTERDAY THEY CAME RIDING ON CAMELS AND HORSES TO THE SQUARE AND STARTED BEATING AND WHIPPING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS.THIS WAS A TYPICAL FALSE FLAG EVENT SO EGYPTS CITIZENS WOULD CALL ON MUBARAK TO SAVE THEM FROM THE MUBARAK SUPPORTED CRIMINALS. UNFORTUNATELY FOR MUBARAK THIS FALSE FLAG NEVER WORKED AND EGYPTS CITIZENS STILL WANT HIM OUT IMMEDIATELY.
AND WHILE WERE ON THE ODDITY OF HORSES AND CAMELS BEING USED AS WAR CHARIOTS OF WAR AGAIN.HERES A FEW SCRIPTURES ABOUT TRIBULATION HAPPENINGS.AND GUESS WHAT THE HORSES SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT.MUSLIM COUNTRIES...SURPRISE...SURPRISE.AND ALL THE ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES MENTIONED IN THESE SCRIPTURES ARE CURRENTLY OR ON THE VERGE OF BEING OVERTHROWN.PROPHECY IS LITERALLY COMING TO PASS QUICKLY.
REVELATION 9:7-10
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
EZEKIEL 38:4-7
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
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IF THE CIA AND MI5 IN BRITAIN ARE IN CONTROL OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LIKE JONES CLAIMES.THEN OBAMA IS SETTING UP ALL THESE MUSLIM COUNTRIES UP TO FALL AND GET CONTROLLED BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WHICH IN TURN WILL TEAM UP WITH RUSSIA AND ALL THE MUSLIM-ARAB COUNTRIES AND WILL THEN GO AGAINST ISRAEL LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WILL HAPPEN.IF JONES IS RIGHT ABOUT THIS.OBAMA WANTS ISRAEL DESTROYED BY A DECEPTIVE MEANS OF BRINGING IN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO CONTROL ALL THE ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND THEN ALL ATTACK ISRAEL.IF THIS IS OBAMAS PLAN IT WILL BACKFIRE ON HIM AS AMERICA WILL BE NUKED BY RUSSIA.THIS WILL BE GODS WAY OF GETTING BACK AT AMERICA FOR SETTING UP FALSE DEMOCRACY MUSLIM-ARAB NATIONS TO ELIMINATE ISRAEL.OVIOUSLY RUSSIA WILL GO WITH OBAMA AT THE BEGGINING AND LEAD THE ARAB-MUSLIMS AGAINST ISRAEL.BUT BECAUSE OF OIL,GAS AND MINERAL RICHES IN ISRAEL.RUSSIA WILL BACKSTAB AMERICA AND NUKE IT ON THE WAY TO ISRAEL.WE KNOW 5/6TH OF THE RUSSIA-ARAB-MULIMS DIE ON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL.SO AMERICA AND RUSSIA WILL BOTH BE DECIEVED TO GO AGAINST ISRAEL ONLY TO COME TO THEIR DEMISES AT THE HAND OF ISRAELS NUKES LEAD BY GOD.REMEMBER WORLD YOU CAN'T TOUCH ISRAEL AND NOT EXPECT TO BE DESTROYED.WE HAVE A KING IN WAITING READY TO TAKE HIS THRONE IN JERUSALEM(KING JESUS)AND RULE FROM THERE FOREVER.SO JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED SCHEMERS AGAINST ISRAEL AND HATERS OF GOD(KING JESUS) AND ISRAEL.
EPHESIANS 2:2-3
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,(SATAN)the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:(NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES)
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
EPHESIANS 5:6
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.(NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES)
MATHHEW 13:49-50
49 So shall it be at the end of the world:(AGE OF GRACE) the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire:(WICKED)there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Obama quietly builds ties with Muslim Brotherhood Back-door talks with movement vowing end of West, rule of Islam February 01, 2011 9:02 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein 2011 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – President Obama and top administration officials have an extended history of reaching out to the organization representing the main opposition now in Egypt's unrest, quietly building ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and its worldwide allies. Even today, as throngs are flooding the streets of Egyptian cities targeting the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, the White House seemingly has been championing the protests.The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to spread Islam around the world, in large part using nonviolent means. Hamas and al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots.Muslim Brotherhood members reportedly were invited to attend President Obama's 2009 address to the Muslim world from Cairo. Khaled Hamza, editor of the Muslim Brotherhood website, confirmed at the time that 10 members of the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc received official invitations to attend Obama's historic speech.Also in 2009, the Egyptian daily newspaper Almasry Alyoum ran a report claiming Obama had met with U.S. and European-based representatives of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood that year According to the report, the Brotherhood members requested that news of the meeting not be publicized. They expressed to Obama their support for democracy and the war on terror.
The newspaper also reported Brotherhood members communicated to Obama their position that the Muslim Brotherhood would abide by all agreements Egypt has signed with foreign countries, implying that if they took power in Egypt they would continue that country's peace treaty with Israel.Besides contact with the Muslim Brotherhood itself, there have been multiple reports the past two years of behind-the-scenes contact with Hamas, which was founded as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas maintains a close alliance with the Brotherhood; in fact, the Brotherhood's new leader, Muhammad Badi, serves as a de facto lead spiritual guide for Hamas.
Multiple top leaders of Hamas in Gaza claimed to WND several times they passed messages to Obama through dignitaries who visited the Gaza Strip, including Jimmy Carter and Sen. John Kerry – both of whom have a close relationship with the White House.Kerry, for example, reportedly accepted a letter for Obama from Hamas leaders in Gaza during a February 2009 visit to U.N. installations in the coastal territory.
Karen Abu Zayd, the U.N. relief agency chief in Gaza, told the BBC the Hamas letter had been received by his agency and passed on to an unnamed American official.In November 2008, WND first quoted Hamas officials stating they would be sending a letter to Obama.Immediately after that month's elections, Ahmed Yousef , Hamas' chief political adviser in Gaza, called Obama's win a historic victory for the world and told WND that Hamas was sending a letter of congratulations to the president-elect.
Obama ties to Brotherhood’s U.S. allies
It is not just Obama's reported contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood and the group's allies in the Middle East that have raised questions.The Obama administration also has evidenced a working relationship with several U.S.-based Islamist organizations that are listed by the Brotherhood as likeminded organizations.One such group is the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, a radical Muslim group that was an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas.ISNA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document – An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America – as one of the Brotherhood's likeminded organizations of our friends who shared the common goal of transforming countries into Muslim nations.The White House relationship with the ISNA began even before Obama took office. One week before the presidential inauguration, Sayyid Syeed, national director of the ISNA Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, was part of a delegation that met with the directors of Obama's transition team. The delegation discussed a request for an executive order ending torture.ISNA President Ingrid Mattson represented American Muslims at Obama's inauguration, where she offered a prayer during the televised event.Mattson also has represented ISNA at Obama's annual Ramadan dinners, including the last such event in which Obama announced support for the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.
In June 2009, Obama's top aide, Valerie Jarrett, invited Mattson to work on the White House Council on Women and Girls, which Jarrett leads.That July, the Justice Department sponsored an information booth at an ISNA bazaar in Washington, D.C.
Also that month, Jarrett addressed ISNA's 46th annual convention. According to the White House, Jarrett attended as part of Obama's outreach to Muslims.It was an ISNA-sponsored event that held a February 2010 question and answer session with Obama's top adviser on counter-terrorism, John Brennan, who came under fire for controversial remarks he made at that session, which was addressed to Muslim law students at New York University.Another Muslim Brotherhood likeminded organization that was welcome at the White House was the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
Egypt blames White House for fomenting uprising
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters today thronged Cairo's Tahrir Square ahead of a million man march protest due to take place later in the day to mark seven days of anti-government demonstrations in the country.WND quoted a senior Egyptian diplomat stating the Egyptian government suspects elements of the current uprising there, particularly political aspects, are being coordinated with the U.S. State Department and Obama administration.The senior Egyptian diplomat told WND the Mubarak regime suspects the U.S. has been aiding protest planning by Mohamed ElBaradei, who is seen as one of the main opposition leaders in Cairo.ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief, has reinvented himself as a campaigner for reform in Egypt. He is a candidate for this year's scheduled presidential elections.ElBaradei arrived in Cairo just after last week's protests began and is reportedly being confined to his home by Egyptian security forces.
He is seen as an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood.
This past weekend, the London Telegraph reported the U.S. Embassy in Cairo in 2008 helped a young dissident attend a U.S.-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.The Telegraph would not identify the dissident, but said he was involved in helping to stir the current protests. The report claimed the dissident told the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that an alliance of opposition groups had a plan to topple Mubarak'sgovernment.The disclosures, contained in U.S. diplomatic dispatches released by the WikiLeaks website, show American officials pressed the Egyptian government to release other dissidents who had been detained by the police.The White House has been almost openly championing the unrest in Egypt.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Obama both reportedly voiced support for an orderly transition in Egypt that is responsive to the aspirations of Egyptians.Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, speaking in a White House webcast, also urged the government and protesters in Egypt to refrain from violence.Egyptian officials speaking to WND, however, warned the Muslim Brotherhood has the most to gain from any political reform.
Worldwide Islamist revolution
The Obama administration's support for the unrest is strikingly reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's support of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, which marked the birth of modern Islamist expansion now seemingly sweeping the Mideast.In fact, some Muslim clerics already are calling the riots in Egypt simply an extension of 1979's Islamist conquests.Thirty-one years after the victory of the Islamic Republic, we are faced with the obvious fact that these movements are the aftershocks of the Islamic Revolution, said Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, as reported by Iran's Radio Zamaneh. The fate of those who challenge [our] religion is destruction.
Speaking of media and government leaders, Khatami added, They want to highlight the labor, liberal and democratic issues, but the most important issue, which is the religious streak of these protests, [is] being denied.The leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, Hammam Saeed, warned that the unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast until Arabs succeed at toppling leaders allied with the United States. The Americans and Obama must be losing sleep over the popular revolt in Egypt, Saeed said at a sympathy protest held outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman. Now, Obama must understand that the people have woken up and are ready to unseat the tyrant leaders who remained in power because of U.S. backing.And on the Internet, the Middle East Media Research Institute reports, prominent Salafi cleric Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti issued a fatwa in the website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad encouraging the protests in Egypt, claiming Islamist jihadis are now on the verge of a historic moment in the history of the Islamic nation, an earthquake he likened to the Sept. 11attacks in New York City.
Brotherhood declares war on U.S.
Multiple prominent U.S. commentators also have been claiming the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization and denying any Islamist plot to seize power.In November, the Brotherhood's new supreme guide, Muhammad Badi, delivered a sermon entitled, How Islam Confronts the Oppression and Tyranny.Resistance is the only solution, stated Badi. The United States cannot impose an agreement upon the Palestinians, despite all the power at its disposal. [Today] it is withdrawing from Iraq, defeated and wounded, and is also on the verge of withdrawing from Afghanistan because it has been defeated by Islamist warriors.Badi went on to declare the U.S. is easy to defeat through violence, since it is experiencing the beginning of its end and is heading toward its demise.Read more: Obama quietly builds ties with Muslim Brotherhood http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=258397#ixzz1ColDaJkg
Heavy gunfire rings out in Cairo protest square By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press - FEB 03,11
CAIRO – Bursts of heavy gunfire rained into Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Thursday, killing at least three anti-government demonstrators among crowds still trying to hold the site after an assault by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, according to a protest organizer.Sustained bursts of automatic weapons fire and powerful single shots rattled into the square starting at around 4 a.m., and was continuing more than an hour later.Protest organizer Mustafa el-Naggar said he saw the bodies of three dead protesters being carried toward an ambulance. He said the gunfire came from at least three locations off in the distance and that the Egyptian military, which has ringed the square with tank squads for days to try to keep some order, did not intervene.Footage from AP Television News showed two bodies being dragged from the scene. The health minister did not answer a phone call seeking confirmation of the deaths.Throughout Wednesday, Mubarak supporters charged into the square on horses and camels brandishing whips while others rained firebombs from rooftops in what appeared to be an orchestrated assault against protesters trying to topple Egypt's leader of 30 years. Three people died in that earlier violence and 600were injured.The protesters accused Mubarak's regime of unleashing a force of paid thugs and plainclothes police to crush their unprecedented nine-day-old movement, a day after the 82-year-old president refused to step down. They showed off police ID badges they said were wrested from their attackers. Some government workers said their employers ordered them into the streets.
Mustafa el-Fiqqi, a top official from the ruling National Democratic Party, told The Associated Press that businessmen connected to the ruling party were responsible for what happened.The notion that the state may have coordinated violence against protesters, who had kept a peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square for five days, prompted a sharp rebuke from the Obama administration.If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.The clashes marked a dangerous new phase in Egypt's upheaval: the first significant violence between government supporters and opponents. The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse almost immediately after Mubarak rejected the calls for him to give up power or leave the country, stubbornly proclaiming he would die on Egyptian soil.His words were a blow to the protesters. They also suggest that authorities want to turn back the clock to the tight state control enforced before the protests began.Mubarak's supporters turned up on the streets Wednesday in significant numbers for the first time. Some were hostile to journalists and foreigners. Two Associated Press correspondents and several other journalists were roughed up in Cairo. State TV had reported that foreigners were caught distributing anti-Mubarak leaflets, apparently trying to depict the movement as foreign-fueled.
After midnight, 10 hours after the clashes began, the two sides were locked in a standoff at a street corner, with the anti-Mubarak protesters hunkered behind a line of metal sheets hurling firebombs back and forth with government backers on the rooftop above. The rain of bottles of flaming gasoline set nearby cars and wreckage on the sidewalk ablaze.The scenes of mayhem were certain to add to the fear that is already running high in this capital of 18 million people after a weekend of looting and lawlessness and the escape of thousands of prisoners from jails in the chaos.
Soldiers surrounding Tahrir Square fired occasional shots in the air throughout the day but did not appear to otherwise intervene in the fierce clashes and no uniformed police were seen. Most of the troops took shelter behind or inside the armored vehicles and tanks stationed at the entrances to the square.Why don't you protect us? some protesters shouted at the soldiers, who replied they did not have orders to do so and told people to go home.The army is neglectful. They let them in, said Emad Nafa, a 52-year-old among the protesters, who for days had showered the military with affection for its neutral stance.Some of the worst street battles raged near the Egyptian Museum at the edge of the square. Pro-government rioters blanketed the rooftops of nearby buildings and hurled bricks and firebombs onto the crowd below — in the process setting a tree ablaze inside the museum grounds. Plainclothes police at the building entrances prevented anti-Mubarak protesters from storming up to stop them.
The two sides pummeled each other with chunks of concrete and bottles at each of the six entrances to the sprawling plaza, where 10,000 anti-Mubarak protesters tried to fend off more than 3,000 attackers who besieged them. Some on the pro-government side waved machetes, while the square's defenders filled the air with a ringing battlefield din by banging metal fences with sticks. In one almost medieval scene, a small contingent of pro-Mubarak forces on horseback and camels rushed into the anti-government crowds, trampling several people and swinging whips and sticks. Protesters dragged some riders from their mounts, throwing them to the ground and beating their faces bloody. The horses and camels appeared to be ones used to give tourists rides around Cairo.Dozens of men and women pried up pieces of the pavement with bars and ferried the piles of ammunition in canvas sheets to their allies at the front. Others directed fighters to streets needing reinforcements.The protesters used a subway station as a makeshift prison for the attackers they managed to catch. They tied the hands and legs of their prisoners and locked them inside. People grabbed one man who was bleeding from the head, hit him with their sandals and threw him behind a closed gate.Some protesters wept and prayed in the square where only a day before they had held a joyous, peaceful rally of a quarter-million, the largest demonstration so far.Egyptian Health Minister Ahmed Sameh Farid said three people died and at least 611 were injured in Tahir Square. One of those killed fell from a bridge near the square; Farid said the man was in civilian clothes but may have been a member of the security forces.Farid did not say how the other two victims, both young men, were killed. It was not clear whether they were government supporters or anti-Mubarak demonstrators.
After years of tight state control, protesters emboldened by the uprising in Tunisia took to the streets on Jan. 25 and mounted a once-unimaginable series of demonstrations across this nation of 80 million. For the past few days, protesters who camped out in Tahrir Square reveled in a new freedom — publicly expressing their hatred for the Mubarak regime.After our revolution, they want to send people here to ruin it for us, said Ahmed Abdullah, a 47-year-old lawyer in the square. Another man shrieked through a loudspeaker: Hosni has opened the door for these thugs to attack us.The pressure for demonstrators to clear the square mounted throughout the day, beginning early when a military spokesman appeared on state TV and asked them to disperse so life in Egypt could get back to normal.It was a change in attitude by the army, which for the past few days had allowed protests to swell with no interference and even made a statement saying they had a legitimate right to demonstrate peacefully.Then the regime began to rally its supporters in significant numbers for the first time, demanding an end to the protest movement. Some 20,000 Mubarak supporters held an angry but mostly peaceful rally across the Nile River from Tahrir, responding to calls on state TV.They said Mubarak's concessions were enough. He has promised not to run for re-election in September, named a new government and appointed a vice president for the first time, widely considered his designated successor.They waved Egyptian flags, their faces painted with the black-white-and-red national colors, and carried a large printed banner with Mubarak's face as police officers surrounded the area and directed traffic. They cheered as a military helicopter swooped overhead.
They were bitter at the jeers hurled at Mubarak.I feel humiliated, said Mohammed Hussein, a 31-year-old factory worker. He is the symbol of our country. When he is insulted, I am insulted.Sayyed Ramadan, a clothing vendor said: Eight days with no security, safety, food or drink. I earn my living day by day. The president didn't do anything. It is shame that we call him a dog.Emad Fathi, 35, works as a delivery boy but since the demonstrations, he has not gone to work.I came here to tell these people to leave, he said. The mosques were calling on people to go and support Mubarak, he said.The anti-Mubarak movement has vowed to intensify protests to force him out by Friday.State TV said Vice President Omar Suleiman called on the youth to heed the armed forces' call and return home to restore order. From the other side, senior anti-Mubarak figure Mohamed ElBaradei demanded the military intervene immediately and decisively to stop this massacre.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Suleiman to condemn the violence and urge Egypt's government to hold those responsible for it accountable, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.Protesters had maintained a round-the-clock, peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square since Friday night, when the military was first deployed and police largely vanished from the streets.
After celebrating their biggest success yet in Tuesday's demonstration, the crowd thinned out overnight. By morning a few thousand protesters remained. Mubarak supporters began to gather at the edges of the square a little after noon, and protesters formed a human chain to keep them out.In the early afternoon, around 3,000 pro-government demonstrators broke through and surged among the protesters, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.They tore down banners denouncing the president, fistfights broke out, and protesters grabbed Mubarak posters from the hands of the supporters and ripped them to pieces.From there, it escalated into outright street battles as hundreds poured in to join each side. The battle lines at each of the entrances surged back and forth for hours. Each side's fighters stretched across the width of the four-lane divided boulevard, hiding behind abandoned trucks and holding sheets of corrugated metal as shields from the hail of stones.At the heart of the square, young men with microphones sought to keep up morale. Stand fast, reinforcements are on the way, said one. Youth of Egypt, be brave. Groups of bearded men lined up to recite Muslim prayers before taking their turn in the line of fire.Bloodied young men staggered or were carried into makeshift clinics set up in mosques and alleyways by the anti-government side.Women and men stood ready with water, medical cotton and bandages as each wave returned. Scores of wounded were carried to a makeshift clinic at a mosque near the square and on other side streets, staffed by doctors in white coats. One man with blood coming out of his eye stumbled into a side-street clinic.As night fell, some protesters went to get food, a sign they plan to dig in for a long siege. Hundreds more people from the impoverished district of Shubra showed up later as reinforcements.
Wednesday's events suggest the regime aims to put an end of the unrest to let Mubarak shape the transition as he chooses over the next months. Mubarak has offered negotiations with protest leaders over democratic reforms, but they have refused any talks until he steps down.As if to show the public the crisis was ending, the government began to reinstate Internet service after days of an unprecedented cutoff. State TV announced the easing of a nighttime curfew, which now runs from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. instead of 3 p.m. to 8 a.m.AP correspondents Sarah El Deeb, Hamza Hendawi, Diaa Hadid, Lee Keath, Michael Weissenstein and Maggie Michael contributed to this report.
