How Did The Egyptian Protesters Manage To Get Some Security Forces To Side With Them?

[Turborama]

Apparently, with love:



Poached from here: http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2011/1/28/egypt-and-beyond-liveblog-black-hole-or-another-day-of-revol.html

Where they are also reporting on this...

2000 GMT: A very touching story is developing in Cairo. As the NDP's headquarters burn, there were fears that the Egyptian National Museum, which houses some of the world's most ancient artifacts from the old Egyptian civilization and a beautiful collection of ancient whales fossils, would catch on fire too. There were earlier reports - albeit unconfirmed - that some people were looting the museum.

Now Al Jazeera is reporting that young protesters have formed a human chain around the museum to protect it against looting. It seems for now that this treasure trove of human ingenuity and the natural world's wonders is in no immediate danger.

(I have heard them say it on Al Jazeera English, but no video and nothing written online yet)

[malaise]

1. Lovely

Thanks

And no one loots museums better than Westerners.

[Hannah Bell]

2. doubtful.

[villager]

3. will we be able to do the same here, when the time comes?

:shrug:

[xchrom]

4. lovely. nt

[roguevalley]

5. reminds me of russia. they don't want to shoot their mamas for some

fucking dictator. Mubarek and his mob have lost.