Signs of beginning of the end. This was the scene that preceded the fall of Mohamad Reza Pahlavi,Shah of Iran, Doc Duvalier of Haiti, Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand. In the case of Marcos, he and the family all left together.
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
IsraelNationalNews.com
The plane also reportedly carried Gamal’s daughter, the Akhbar Arab website reported. It also said a Twitter account was blocked to prevent a social network campaign to urge the ousting of Mubarak, who is over 80 and is reportedly is suffering from cancer.
Dozens of Twitter messages have been sent saying that Mubarak’s wife Suzanne was identified at Heathrow Airport in London, where she and her son and granddaughter arrived in a private jet.
In Egypt, calm has returned to the streets but authorities have arrested hundreds of protesters. Three people – two of them demonstrators — were killed in Tuesday’s rallies that spread throughout the country.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Frantic exodus from Egypt (culled from several news reports)
CAIRO — Cairo’s international airport was a scene of chaos and confusion Monday as thousands of foreigners sought to flee the unrest in Egypt and countries around the world scrambled to send in planes to fly their citizens out.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Janice Jacobs has said it will take several flights over the coming days to fly out the thousands of Americans who want to leave Egypt.
About 220 Americans had flown out of Egypt on two planes before 10 a.m. ET, Jacobs told MSNBC. The embassy hoped to transport a total of 900 Americans on seven charter flights on Monday and about 1,000 on Tuesday, she said.
There are some 10,000 Filipinos in Egypt. Overseas Workers Welfare Administrator (OWWA) chief Carmelita Dimzon said, “there is no need to evacuate our nationals, walang imminent danger at their lives at the moment.”
Dimzon clarified, however, that once their people on the ground recommend immediate evacuation, all government agencies are ready for the quick action.
“The important thing is, if push comes to shove now, we have P50 million on the ground,” Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos said.
The officials said many countries were working to evacuate their citizens, with Turkey sending four flights, Israel and Russia sending two planes each and the Czech Republic one. They said those additional flights had helped ease the airport’s swelling and restless crowds, but those gains were likely to be short-lived as other foreigners and Egyptians poured in.
Hundreds of Indian nationals were evacuated, with 316 arriving Monday in Mumbai on board a special Air India flight and another 275 expected to reach Mumbai later in the day.
China sent two planes Monday and was sending two more charter flights Tuesday to help pick up an estimated 500 Chinese stranded in Cairo. It issued a travel warning and requested that its citizens not travel to Egypt, according to the Chinese Embassy in Cairo, which also handed out food and water to Chinese at Cairo’s airport.
The foreign ministries in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark on Sunday advised against all nonessential travel to Egypt and tour companies canceled trips to the country until Feb. 23.
Britain’s Foreign Office estimates there are around 30,000 U.K. tourists and long-term residents in Egypt, but it said Monday it has no plans to evacuate British citizens. Foreign Secretary William Hague has advised against all but essential travel to Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor and Suez and recommended that people currently in those cities leave on commercial flights when they can.
Oh dear… as predicted as early as the early 90s, … middle east will be in flames; welcome extremists! That said, Mubarak was a despotic in the extreme.
Fall of the “Roman empire” begins. Took 300 years or so for the roman empire to fall though but may not take that long for the western civilisation to fall. Bound to happen because we or the Western inspired civilisation has become somehow lackadaisical, lazy and no longer willing to send their sons to fight; the west, in spite of the battles here and there have lost the stomach to fight and wants nothing but to enjoy their “bourgeoisie” lifestyle. Political correctness has left the West and the Western inspired civilisations vulnerable. (But in fairness to the Islamists, Dubya precipitated the fall of the Western brouhaha.)
First Tunisia, then Egypt, next will be Morocco and then then Jordan and then the domino is no more. The Islamists will spread to the West (which they are doing now…)
Oh well, what goes round comes round…
NWO, hahaha!
at least 97 boxes lang..kay Imelda noon ilang kahon ba ang dala nila? at si putot, noong umalis siya sa palasyo ilan ang bitbit niya patungong Pampanga?
..malungkot talaga ang nangyayari…hindi naman seguro sisirain ang pyramids at ang museum…
The Marcoses brought daw with them 300 CRATES with them to Hawaii. 😛
I just hope that whoever replaces Mubarak, it doesn’t get into the “wrong” hands.
I hope that the government of UK will also do what Canada promised the Tuinisians…to freeze the Assets of the Former Leaders Family who fled to Quebec,while their country is on the process of filing extradition or whatever legal proceeding available…whatever assets they brought it is still not legally their own, until they can prove beyond any doubt…it is still Egypt’s…
Ellen,
Just watching BBC World News tonight — seems Mubarak is still in Egypet and does not want to step down.
Yes, he is holding on to power. Just like other tyrants, they become isolated from reality.He is just prolonging his end.
But unlike other tyrants, exiled Baby Doc Duvalier went home to Haiti just recently and announced his desire to participate in the reconstruction of the devastated country he led for 15 years. He hasn’t been arrested despite his brutal reign.
What’s his game plan?
The protest is becoming so bloody. The outcome is so uncertain.
It is so difficult for the WEst to side with anybody (the leaders). It is just safe to side with the Eyptians. Whoever emerges as the new leader will not be alienated in the western world. He/she can still be befriended.
The good thing about this protest is, the US and the European Union need not send troups and spend trillions of dollars to oust a leader that is hated by the people. The Egyptians themselves are taking the job of ousting their over staying leader. In the Philippines, the Filipinos would rather take the abuses rather than protest on the streets. They got burned twice and they don’t like to take chances again. Kaya tiis na lang ng tiis.
PSB,
The EU would never have sent troops to Egypt in any which case.
just tiis is a Filipino “virtue”..nawala na ang mga rally..a good sign of a peaceful country? sana nga..
Mubarak’s stubborn refusal to step down and leave the country reminds me of then Marcos and Erap. What if Erap refused to leave Malacanang then? He has many followers and loyalists too. Madugo ang laban kapag nagkataon noon. I was told that his PSG was willing and ready to fire at the people but then was restrained by Erap. Kung nauna ang gulo sa Egypt sa nangyari kay Erap, baka nagmatigas si Erap noon at wala nang Edsa Dos. But then, Erap did not have the support of the US at that time.