Egyptian protests get violent - 2 protesters, 1 policeman killed

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Two protesters and a police officer have been killed in Egypt as anti-government demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest against the IsraHell stooge president Hosni Mubarak and his pro-IsraHell and anti-Muslim government. The protesters were killed in clashes with security forces in the city of Suez on Tuesday, and the police officer was killed in a demonstration in Cairo on the same day. On Tuesday, the opposition called on political activists to hold nationwide demonstrations against the government. Some have gathered outside the Supreme Court and the parliament building, calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. The police have fired tear gas to disperse the protesters in Cairo, injuring several people. Over 30,000 police officers have been deployed to the city center to crack down on the demonstrators. Demonstrations have also been held in Alexandria and other parts of the country.

Egyptian protesters gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairowhere some scuffles broke out with police on January 25

Kamal El Helbawy, the former spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that Tuesday's demonstrations have been the largest and most significant in Egypt's recent history. Former Arab League ambassador to the United Nations Clovis Maksoud has said that the ongoing revolution in Tunisia is inspiring the people of the Arab world, who are tired of dictatorial regimes. The revolution "is the prognosis by which many frustrated people in various countries -- suffering dictatorship, poverty, and marginalization, are now being empowered" Maksoud added. Egypt has many of the same social and political problems as Tunisia, like rising food prices, high unemployment, and massive corruption and looting done by the government itself.

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Algerian woman sets herself on fire

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A WOMAN in Algeria became the sixth person in a week in the country to set herself on fire to show her anger against the Zionist puppet regime of Algeria. The woman, in her fifties, soaked herself with an inflammable product and set herself on fire. The attempted public suicide is the sixth in a week in Algeria, where mounting public grievances over rising costs and unemployment as a result of secular pro-zionism regime's massive corruption and looting triggered protests earlier this month that left five people dead and over 800 injured.

An unemployed father-of-six demanding a job and housing was hospitalised on Tuesday after torching himself. Four other Algerians have set themselves alight since Jan 12. They were all following the example set by 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi who died after setting himself ablaze at a protest in Tunisia in mid-December. His death sparked an uprising and led the Zionist Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country after 23 years of looting the nation.

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Sudanese man set himself ablaze

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A 25-year-old Sudanese man was being treated in hospital for second-degree burns, medics said Saturday, in the latest instance of self-immolation in the Arab world. Al-Amin Musa Al-Amin, a laborer from Darfur, poured petrol over himself shortly after Friday prayers and lit it as he stood in Suq al-Shaabi, a market in Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city, eye-witnesses told media. The man was rushed to Omdurman hospital’s intensive care unit, medical officials said.

 

Several young men in Algeria, Egypt and Mauritania have set themselves ablaze since the signature protest of a Tunisian graduate whose action in December triggered a revolt that ousted Tunisia’s veteran president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Widespread economic and political discontent in north Sudan, where the security forces exert tight control, has led to sporadic protests in recent weeks. North Sudan’s economic woes — skyrocketting food prices, weak state finances and large external debts —have been exacerbated by political uncertainty, linked to last week’s puppet-controlled referendum on so called independence for the south, where most of the country’s oil is pumped from. The final results of the plebiscite are set to deliver a landslide vote for separation when in reality the whole Sudanese nation rejected this referendum even before it was held since being Muslims, Islam condemns division of Muslim territory. Rebels in Sudan’s western Darfur region ambushed a small army unit Friday, triggering an hours-long clash that killed 21 people, including 13 rebel fighters and dozens of traitor army soldiers.

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Tunisia ministers quit new (old) govt

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Four ministers have resigned from the new Tunisian government amid widespread public dissatisfaction with the new cabinet line-up. Three of the four ministers were from Tunisia's main trade union whose decision came after the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) refused to recognize the country's new leadership. "We are resigning from the government after a call from our union", said Houssine Dimassi, who had been named minister for training and employment in a transitional unity government. The unity government was formed on Monday, three days after President Zine El Abidin Ben Ali was ousted from power in a historic revolution. Ben Ali's 23-year rule ended after weeks of street protests. His era was marred by repeated human rights violations, massive looting and torture.

Police having clashes with demonstrators in Tunis on January 18, 2011

Meanwhile, fresh violent protests have erupted in the capital against the new coalition government. Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. The protesters demand that Ben Ali's party give up power. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has defended his new cabinet lineup. Ghannouchi, as well as foreign, interior and defense ministers are to retain their posts. Only three opposition figures will join them. The union says the withdrawal is justified by the presence of 12 cabinet members belonging to ousted President Zine el-Abidine ben Ali's ruling party, stressing that the unity government is "a masquerade" still dominated by Ben Ali's supporters. The opposition Islamic party, an-Nahza, has also boycotted the presidential election due in six months.

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Tunisians outraged at new (old) govt

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The announcement of a new 'unity government' by Mohamed Ghannouchi, the Tunisian prime minister, has been met with anger by some protesters, who say too many members of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's party remain in power.

The PM announced that the former defence, foreign, interior and finance ministers will keep their key posts in the new government formed after the public uprising led to the flight of President Ben Ali. Thousands of protesters gathered mainly near Tunis' Habib Bourguiba Avenue to demonstrate against the announcement. Tanks and troops were deployed, and water cannons and tear gas fired against activists who demanded that members of Ben Ali's Constitutional Democratic Rally (CDR) be excluded from the new government. "Who did the revolt? It's the people, those trade union leaders ... they need to find their aspirations in the government. This government does not answer those aspirations," Masoud Ramadani, a workers union activist, told a media correspondent. Ayman Mohyeldin said protesters were "rejecting the possibility that any incoming or caretaker or national unity government could possibly have figures or leaders from the previous regime". "They want the CDR party completely abolished, completely removed from any form of government".

Members of the interim government have defended its composition, however, saying that the zionist members of the incumbent party who have been retained are not politicians. "Members of the ruling party that are in the government are technocratic, they are not political. And we demanded that people who are dirty in corruption and crimes should be evacuated from this government," Ahmed Bouazzi, a member of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), said.

There were no charismatic leaders who could channel the energy from the uprising towards the formation of a new government. In part, this is because Ben Ali tailored the whole state around his persona. The police, the parliament, everything was linked to him. Furthermore, the opposition has been clamped down on for nearly three decades, with most of its leadership either driven out of the country, or spending many years in jail. This is the big question. Who is going to take over, who is going to lead Tunisia into the future?

The new 'national unity' government includes several members of the incumbent party

Ghannouchi announced the country's new interim government on Monday, adding that a number of opposition members will be assigned to ministerial posts. The prime minister named Najib Chebbi, founder of the PDP, which opposed Ben Ali, as minister for regional development. Ahmed Ibrahim, leader of the Ettajdid party, was named minister of higher education and Mustafa Ben Jaafar, head of the Union of Freedom and Labour, got the health portfolio. Significantly, there will be a separation of the state from political parties, meaning that under the coalition government, the collection of parties will not fall under the control of a ruling party.

One of Tunisia's best known opposition figures, Moncef Marzouki, on Monday branded his country's new government a "masquerade" still dominated by supporters of ousted strongman zionist Ben Ali. "Tunisia deserved much more," the secular leftist declared. "Ninety dead, four weeks of real revolution, only for it to come to this? A unity government in name only because, in reality, it is made up of members of  the party of dictatorship, the CRD", said Marzouki on France's I-Tele. According to Ahmed Friaa, Tunisia's interior minister, 78 people have been killed in the country during the recent turmoil, almost quadrupling the official death toll. He also estimated that the unrest had cost the country's economy $2.2 bn as a result of disruption of economic activity and lost export revenues.

Rachid al-Ghannouchi (no relation to Mohamed Ghannouchi), the exiled leader of the Nahdha Movement party, told London-based Asharq Alawsat newspaper that leaders of his party had not been invited to participate in the negotiations in forming the new unity government. He expressed anger at the exclusion, but said his party would consider joining the government if asked to do so. Ghannouchi also announced on Monday that the Tunisian government will investigate anyone suspected of corruption or of having amassed huge wealth under the country's deposed leader. "Anyone who accumulated enormous wealth or is suspected of corruption will be put before a committee of investigators," said Ghannouchi. He also said that there will be "total freedom" for the media in the country, which experienced especially tough crackdowns during the recent weeks of unrest. Additionally, the prime minister said that a ban on the activities of human rights groups in Tunisia will be lifted and that all political prisoners would be freed. "We have decided to free all the people imprisoned for their ideas, their  beliefs or for having expressed dissenting opinions," said Ghannouchi.

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Family of ex-Tunisian president escapes with 1.5 TON Gold Bars

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The family of ousted Zionist Tunisian President Zine El Abidin Ben Ali has reportedly fled the country with 1.5 tons of Gold worth more than 45 million euros. Citing information received form the French secret services, the French newspaper, Le Monde, disclosed on Monday that Leila Trabelsi, the wife of the ousted president, took the gold bars out of the country before the collapse of Ben Ali's regime. Ben Ali's 23-year rule ended on Friday after weeks of street protests all over the North African country. "According to information gathered in Tunis, Leila Trabelsi, the president's wife allegedly went to the Bank of Tunisia for gold bars. The director of the bank refused. Mrs. Ben Ali called her husband, who had also initially refused, but then agreed," the newspaper said.

Ousted Tunisian President the Zionist Zine El Abidin Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi

After receiving the gold bars, Treabelsi flew to Dubai before leaving for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, the paper said. "It seems that the wife of Ben Ali is the party who left with 1.5 tons of gold worth 45 million euros," a senior French official told the daily. Reports also confirmed that Trabelsi had been in Dubai for several days. In the past weeks, there have been massive street protests across Tunisia against what has been described as the theft of Tunisian wealth and lack of opportunities for the average citizen. Many of Ben Ali's family members have left the African country for fear of personal safety.

On Saturday, a day after Ben Ali fled to Jeddah, luxury cars were smashed and shops and homes were looted and burned in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. Ben Ali ruled Tunisia for more than two decades. His era was marred by repeated human rights violations and torture. On Sunday, acting leaders in Tunisia discussed the composition of a unity government as post-revolution unrest continues to grip the North African country.

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