' ... Reports are emerging that Internet has gone down in Cairo and throughout Egypt, only hours before the largest planned protests yet.

According to a report from The Arabist, "Egypt has shut off the internet." ...'

More here: huffingtonpost.com

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I don't usually do politics :P
They've shut down mobiles as well.
They are desperate to keep the country under the current (pro western) government (whatever you think of whether or not Mubarak should be replaced).
You do NOT want Egypt to end up in the hands of an islamistic government. They are the single largest military power there (courtesy of heavy military aid to keep the less pro western countries at bay).
The region is a tinder box ready to explode.
Anybody read Nostradamus lately? :P

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

it appears there are some crackdowns coming. What they don't understand is that you don't need the internet to get info out. any reasonable person could easily slip a video to a news agency like the BBC or CNN

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

What they don't understand is that you don't need the internet to get info out. any reasonable person could easily slip a video to a news agency like the BBC or CNN

It's not about getting information, pictures & videos to the (international) media.

The Internet, Twitter, Facebook, etc. is blocked because the Tunesian people sucessfully used it to organize their revolution. Egypt rulers fear that this will happen in their country as well.

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You do NOT want Egypt to end up in the hands of an islamistic government. They are the single largest military power there

IMHO the single largest military power there is Saudi Arabia: "The United States sold more than $80 billion in military hardware between 1951-2006 ... On October 20, 2010, U.S. State Department notified Congress of its intention to make the biggest arms sale in American history - an estimated $60.5 billion purchase by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ".

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But thank god the Saudi Arabians are our friends.
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Don't think for a minute that we'd sell them anything that we couldnt knock out of the sky or out shoot in a tank battle. Generally speaking these arms sales are for used goods that we have found obsolete

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Don't think for a minute that we'd sell them anything that we couldnt knock out of the sky or out shoot in a tank battle. Generally speaking these arms sales are for used goods that we have found obsolete

Wishful thinking.

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