Breaking: Mubarak on TV Demands Cabinet Resignation ("I have asked the gov't to resign.")

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Breaking News: Mubarak on TV Demands Cabinet Resignation ("I have asked the gov't to resign.")

updated less than 1 minute ago
BREAKING NEWS
CAIRO — Embattled President Hosni Mubarak says he has asked his Cabinet to resign in his first appearance on television since protests erupted demanding his ouster.

He says he will press ahead with social, economic and political reforms. He calls anti-government protests part of plot to destabilize Egypt and destroy the legitimacy of his regime.

He is defending security forces' crackdown on protesters.

Protesters have seized the streets of Cairo, battling police with stones and firebombs, burning down the ruling party headquarters, and defying a night curfew enforced by a military deployment. It is the peak of unrest posing the most dire threat to Mubarak in his three decades of authoritarian rule.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41318467/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa

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Al Jazeera Reports on Mubarak TV Speech:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128222033802146.html

"I have been closely monitoring the demonstrations and people's demands."

"I regret the innocent victims and casualities on both sides"

"There is a fine line between freedom and chaos."

"I have ordered the got to step down and I will name new got tomorrow."

[jannyk]

1. It's on BBCWorld but no translation yet !!

[Hissyspit]

2. Live Translation Here:

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[jannyk]

3. BBCWorld now has the AlJazeera feed w/translation

can't watch AJ online am on satellite internet feed - slow as molasses!

[uppityperson]

4. more here

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/201112523026521335.html

[ananda]

5. Watch it here.

It's understandable.

http://www.presstv.ir/live/llnw/?keepThis

[earthside]

6. Sounds like he's staying.

Listening to: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Mubarak thinks he's done a good job.

[DemoTex]

13. Chances are they have the presidential helicopter and jet ready for a getaway.

1. Fuel - check
2. Flight plan - check
3. Loot - check and double-check


Egyptian Presidential GulfStream

[decidedlyso]

7. I listened to his entire speech live. This dude is in another world. He

thinks the people are more free because of him--not less. The protesters need to accelerate their attack, before its too late.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Which is the OPPOSITE of what most say should happen: dump Mubarak, keep

the government.

[oberliner]

10. Mubarak is the government

His party holds the overwhelming majority of seats.

[katty]

9. a joke..Mubarak IS the government of Egypt-he had 30 yrs

and he just doesn't want to go - too bad, he is toast.

[SpookyCat]

11. People can protest because of the freedoms he's given them?

wow. That's astounding. Really, I'm gobsmacked.

[Lorien]

23. He should be a pundit on Fox. nt

[patrick t. cakes]

25. that made me chuckle...

because its true.:D

[katty]

12. Mubarak releases the Egyptian army on the people

in Cairo's central square

[dipsydoodle]

14. He's shutting the door

after the horse has bolted.

Prior to today the turnout was was about 8000 for the protests. Today , after the Muslim Brotherhood told the Immans to encourage their followers to join in after morning prayer, the numbers swelled to 80,000.

This is Iran 1979 revisited - exactly the same happened there : started small with he students and then escalated when Khomeini help swell the numbers.

[bluedigger]

15. He needs to get out before he gets Ceausescu'd.

History is not kind to leaders that overstay their welcome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C5%9Fescu

[HughBeaumont]

19. The people chosen to kill those two idiots didn't even wait for them to get against the wall.

A bloody Christmas present for all of Romania. Deserved for what they did to its children.

[goforit]

16. That is one hell of an EGO. Does he know Rush Limbaugh?

[rabs]

17. Taking the liberty of tweaking

"I have ordered the got to step down and I will name new got tomorrow."

to read:

"I have ordered the government HEADED BY ME to step down and tomorrow I will name a new government HEADED BY ME."

(Not my original, saw it on twitter comment.)

[HughBeaumont]

18. Brass ones, this joker has. I suggest a helicopter for Hosni.

[mvd]

20. Um, the people want Mubarak out

firing the cabinet won't do.

[WestSeattle2]

21. Clueless. He'll be out of the country by Sunday night. Next stop,

Argentina.

[JackRiddler]

22. It will be Saudi Arabia or the US that takes him.

[WestSeattle2]

24. They better not get too comfortable in Saudi Arabia, they're on the

short list to be overthrown by oppressed masses. I'll be surprised if the "House of Saud" still exists in 2015.

[JackRiddler]

27. Maybe.

[ButterflyBlood]

26. OK so fire one batch of your cronies to replace with another batch...

yeah that's a real change that'll qwell things down...

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out Mubarak.

[Skittles]

28. that old fuck is making a fool of himself