Live from Eqypt: The Regime Strikes Back.
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Anjali Kamat1 of Democracy Now! joined Sharif Abdel Kouddous in Cairo Tuesday and has been tweeting from there.
Tuesday Feb 2, 2011 [A sampling in chronological order. Anjali’s tweets ‘anjucomet’ are shown with no header. Retweets begin with the original tweeter.]
oh the counterrevolution might get ugly here in #egypt. very sad.
Rpts that pro-Mubarak protesters paid 50 Egyptian pounds ($US 8.50) to show up. Plenty of incentive when people are starving#jan25 #egypt
bloodshed escalates as military stands back & watches #Mubarak‘s thugs create absolute chaos. i’m in local newspaper office around corner.
evanchill Evan Hill retweeted by anjucomet
I can’t believe that yesterday I was watching girls scrawl protest signs with markers in a jubilant Tahrir, and now it’s a war zone. So sad.3arabawy Hossam عمو حس retweeted by anjucomet
Mubarak’s thugs r now throwing molotov cocktails on the Egyptian museum. Our civilization will b turn to ashes by Obama’s allies#Jan25last night #tahrir square felt like a carnival, now its
the site of carnage, a possible massacre. ppl r devastated and furious with#Mubarak
Wednesday 2/3/2011
About 9:AM EST; 4 PM Cairo; 5 PM Makkah
Pro-Mubarakites keep throwing some kind of firebombs at anti-Mubarak groups, who respond with rocks and slingshots #jan25
About 11 AM EST; 6 PM Cairo; 7 PM Makkah
the mood inside tahrir square is getting very tense with the number of pro-govt infiltrators on the rise & growing hostility to journalists
About 5:30 PM EST; 12:30 AM Cairo; 01:30 AM Makkah
staggering compilation of journalists and media people attacked / detained / harassed in #Egypt: http://is.gd/WWmxGV [5:00 PM EST 2/3/11]
5:50 PM EST
my report from #Egypt in today’s edition of The Hindu:http://is.gd/xiL4g6
Rachel Maddow has “The Counterrevolution will be Tweeted.”
1Anjali is from south India, but she has lived in Egypt as well as Jordan.
