Via Al Jazeera: The Egyptian army is coalescing around Cairo’s NDP headquarters, as well as the adjoining Museum of Antiquities: with the former practically razed to the ground, a burning shell, the latter is apparently now being threatened. It’s interesting to note that there was a complete lack of fire trucks for many hours around the Museum. Did the regime let the fire in the surrounding area burn on purpose — in order to depict the protesters as destroyers?
The Emir of Kuwait has announced that the government is giving every citizen the equivalent of 1,000 Kuwaiti dinars and free distribution of food staples. How’s that for buying off trouble?
As the tumultuous events of “Freedom Friday” draw to a close, it looks like Egyptians will wake up on Saturday to a country with no government. And the world is a better place.
The Speaker of the Egyptian “parliament” is slated to make an announcement. We’ll keep you posted.
