CNN International: Egypt soldiers now on the streets of Cairo

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Source: CNN Twitter

CNN’s Ben Wedeman is seeing Egyptian army presence in the streets of Cairo in the form of troops and armed personnel carriers.

Read more: http://twitter.com/#!/iDeskCNN/status/31005765716156416

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Some on Twitter are claiming that the Army is there to defend the protesters from the police.

[xchrom]

1. well we will see.

the people so far seem happy about it -- let's see if that holds true.

[justiceischeap]

2. Per the Guardian UK

3.12pm: Following up from the previous update, al-Jazeera just showed pictures of protesters jumping and cheering beside what appeared to be an army armoured vehicle in Cairo with the occupants in the vehicle not responding in any kind of negative fashion. It's too early to get carried away but al-Jazeera was suggesting this could be a sign that the army's allegiance is with the people.

Let's just hope the hopes of the people are not misplaced.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates#block-69

[Schema Thing]

3. It's wild; I saw that happen in realtime a half hour ago, on al-Jazeera

[earthside]

4. I'm jealous.

It looks like the Egyptian people just might have enough gumption to kick the authoritarian corporate militarists out of power.

'People power!'

[valerief]

5. Wow. I wish Americans would walk like an Egyptian! nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. ugh!

that was really bad!




:rofl:

[costahawk1987]

7. Terrible

And now I've got that fucking song in my head. lol