Families stopped to take pictures in front of the tanks, and with the soldiers. A protester also put up a banner on the tank, reading: “No to Mubarak’s Ministers.”
Tag: military
#Jan25 جمعة الغضب ٢٨ يناير: حرق جيب شرطة عسكرية
Following the retreat of the police forces, on the Firday of Anger, to the parliament area, five military police jeeps showed up in Tahrir. Protesters stopped the convoy, searched them, and as soon as they found weapons and live ammunition, the revolutionaries chased the jeeps away, and took control of one, with which they tried to drive into the police troops, before they set it on fire.
#Jan25 Egypt’s local media
Three trends you notice in the local state and private media developing now: a) Continuous praise for the military; b) A cheap attempt to polish up the image of the police following their “protests”; c) Denunciation of the labor strikes, picturing it as “catastrophic” for the country, and “disruptive to the military’s efforts to reach a solution.”