In Pictures: Tahrir Square protests continue

[ArcticFox]

A massive protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square against continued military rule of the country was violently broken up by Egyptian police and army officers early on Monday morning.

The police fired tear gas canisters and charged demonstrators in Tahrir Square as darkness fell on Sunday, temporarily sending protesters fleeing.

On Monday morning, security forces fired tear gas and attacked a makeshift field hospital, while protesters broke up pavements to hurl chunks of concrete at police.

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See the pictures. Prepare yourself for the future.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2011/11/2011112204442154369.html

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Seventh photo is 37mm 150yd-range CS gas smoke grenade.
Made in Jamestown, PA in the good old US of A. Hee Haw.
Bought with the $1,300,000,000 you and I give to Egypt,
Every year; for military purchases such as this.
So they will repress their people.
For us?




http://www.less-lethal.com/
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5309.htm

[Aerows]

1. Considering how badly our police officers over-react

If protesters here started hurling concrete, they'd probably send in drones and fire at will.

[joshcryer]

2. 32 Egyptians Killed, 1,750 Injured in Protests Against Military Rule

http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/11/21/tahrir_square_under_attack_32_egyptians

I really don't have a comment I'm willing to make on your statement. Egypt is getting bad. There were chants calling for insurrection and to turn Egypt into Libya.

[Aerows]

3. I'm not trying to minimize what is happening in Egypt

It IS bad. I don't blame them for rising up and fighting for themselves.

[riverwalker]

4. love this one from Tahrir

[Fumesucker]

5. +10

[xchrom]

6. As crowds swell in Cairo, military in crisis talks

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-11-22-09-42-25

CAIRO (AP) -- A swelling crowd of tens of thousands filled Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday, answering the call for a million people to turn out and intensify pressure on Egypt's military leaders to hand over power to a civilian government. The ruling military council held crisis talks with political parties across the spectrum to try to defuse growing cries for a "second revolution."

The military head of state, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, was expected to address the nation as protests in Cairo and other major cities carried on for a fourth day. Security forces stayed out of Tahrir itself to lower the temperature. But there were clashes on side streets leading to the square - the epicenter of the uprising that ousted longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak in February.

The new wave of protests and violence around the country that began on Saturday has left 29 dead and has thrown Egypt's politics into chaos less than a week before landmark parliamentary elections were to begin.

"If the elections don't happen, there could be a clash between the army and the people. That's what we're afraid of," said protester Mustafa Abdel-Hamid. He said he wanted a clear timetable for the transfer of power.