Reply #5: Just saw this

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pop up on the Guradian's excellent pngoing coverage the Karyn also linked to above http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/29/egypt-protests-government-live-blog

The US senator John Kerry, who is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, said Mubarak's dismissal of his government failed to address the Egyptian people's concerns and called on the president to go further to deal with their frustrations.

"I think that we have to see how things move today and, obviously, the key here is for President Mubarak to respond to the needs of his people in a way that is more directly connected to their frustrations, much more so than apparently yesterday's speech succeeded in doing," the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee told AP.

"I think he's got to speak more to the real issues that people feel. Dismissing the government doesn't speak to some of those challenges."