Mubarak shuts down Al Jazeera's Cairo station office

[malaise]

Too late Mubarak - fuck you!!

Subject changed based on additional info

[dipsydoodle]

1. Its the office station which has been closed

As long as they keep the battery packs recharged they'll be OK out in the street using satellite links.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Plus they can Tweet from their smartphones...

...until Mubarak shuts down the cell network.

[malaise]

3. Thanks

Corrected

[dipsydoodle]

5. I've got a feeling

that the US and the UK use different main offices anyway.

Bit like Cuba getting CNN World Pacific Edition instead of what we get in the UK where they have their own office.

:hi:

[Dennis Donovan]

4. From Al Jaz's live blog page:

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/29/live-blog-301-egypt-protests

1:35 pm: For more on the closure of the bureau in Cairo, Al Jazeera's producer in the Egyptian capital reports:

Just spoke with staffer at the Cairo bureau. While our correspondent and other staff were out, security forces (not army) entered the office and demanded filming permits and press IDs. They were told that all the recently arrived staff hadn't had time to get their paperwork in order and so didn't have any. They ordered our bureau staff to take down the camera doing live shots from the balcony and threatened to take it if we didn't. So now we're just showing "latest pictures".

[dipsydoodle]

6. The view from the window

was getting a bit boring anyway.

[malaise]

8. LOL

I like this view. :fistbump:

[dipsydoodle]

18. I've figured it out

You get the Washington Bureau and we get London.

London is currently showing , poor ,live pictures of the crowd gathering in the square and it must be satellite job : looks more like Farmville.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. Sadly, I have a feeling it is about to get more interesting...

Mubarak met with his military chiefs today. What he told them is a mystery, but I doubt it was a pep talk. :(

[dipsydoodle]

11. Do you mean

the Army or the CSF ?

[Dennis Donovan]

14. Possibly both?

:shrug:

[dipsydoodle]

15. I would doubt that

More likely the CSF.

I don't think he's too popular with the army who fortunately outnumber the CSF by 5 : 3.

[Dennis Donovan]

16. I hope you're right...

[malaise]

13. The problem for Mubarak is that

1.3 billion of the 1.5 billion in US loans go straight to the military. Obama has already warned them about violence. Those greedy fuckers know who is buttering their bread - they know Mubarak is history. The army appears to be listening to its financiers and not the collapsing regime.

On the other hand, Mubarak and his goons have already unleashed the goon squad - police, prisoners and their foot-soldier thugs - to frighten the middle class supporters of the uprising. Ordinary Egyptians are exposing them - they are no longer afraid.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. K&R here's your 5th rec

[dipsydoodle]

12. That's means

others are unreccing.

Weirdos. :(

[Catherina]

10. Rec'd n/t

[Very_Boring_Name]

17. Don't worry guys! He's not a dictator!

:sarcasm::sarcasm: