{"id":9035,"date":"2011-01-29T06:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2011-01-29T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T16:23:28","slug":"the-egyptian-revolution-day-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/the-egyptian-revolution-day-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Egyptian Revolution: Day Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty minutes after the start of the official curfew &#8212; 4 pm &#8212; tens of thousands of Egyptians are gathering in Cairo&#8217;s \u00c2\u00a0Liberation Square, while the army &#8212; which, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabist.net\/blog\/2011\/1\/29\/the-army-and-the-people.html\">this eyewitness account<\/a>, has a rather sparse presence &#8212; is simply standing by. One tank commander said the tanks in the streets are not equipped with shells: only small arms. The tanks are spray-painted with anti-Mubarak slogans, while the conscripts mingle freely with the protesters, who embrace them.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0A sea of people chanting, holding banners aloft, has taken possession of the square, with more streaming in constantly. Fear\u00c2\u00a0 is banished: the government&#8217;s pronouncements are irrelevent. The dreaded &#8220;anarchy&#8221; has taken hold &#8212; and the world is a better place.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that protesters have overrun police stations all around the country, with the security forces\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; Mubarak&#8217;s dreaded secret police &#8212; have &#8220;melted away,&#8221; in the words of an Al Jazeera reporter. There are also reports of four dead protesters who were killed while trying to storm the Interior Ministry: the body of one was carried aloft by the crowd as a roar of defiance went up.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty minutes after the start of the official curfew &#8212; 4 pm &#8212; tens of thousands of Egyptians are gathering in Cairo&#8217;s \u00c2\u00a0Liberation Square, while the army &#8212; which, according to this eyewitness account, has a rather sparse presence &#8212; is simply standing by. One tank commander said the tanks in the streets are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}